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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> If that relocation involves creating a new state Creating a new state is what the right to self-determination is all about, yes. It sounds like we have some fundamental disagreements on definitions here, though I would be interested in
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
I think there's an interesting argument to be had here about the point at which "self-determination" becomes "colonialism". A group that is sufficiently geographically diffuse does not have a right to self-determin
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> It has nothing to do with anti-semitism. Anti-semitism has nothing to do with the movement to create a homeland for the Jewish people (which then tried to garner the support of various governments, which is where the Balfour Declaratio
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Anti-semitism, including of the extremely violent variety, did not start with WWII. The Balfour Declaration was a response to Jews wanting to get the hell out of a Europe that hated them and liked to go kill them every so often.
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
How many developers do you think a browser engine needs? How much do they cost? But also, the answer to your question is at https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2019/mozilla-fdn-201... and https://a
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
That is a good question. I don't know offhand; it had not come up in the cases I was dealing with.
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
In the US tax handling of employee discounts at least on physical goods is as follows: if the discount brings the price paid below cost, then the below-cost subsidy is treated as income received by the employee. Concrete example: Company se
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
"Tent site" usually means "place for a single tent". If grandparent has the usual usage, it's $60k/tenant, unless people are sharing tents.
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Thank you; I had missed that. As the sibling comment from shkkmo points out, not all prosecuted cases that result in a "not guilty" involve acquittal at trial. But I will grant that it's hard to talk about numbers here with
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
The post said "all the experts are saying may actually be true". The "may" (not "is"!) there is pretty key in making the meaning a lot closer to your (B) than anything like your (A)... Did that comment get ed
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
I would love a citation on where you are getting "above 99%" for the US. What I managed to find easily just now in https://www.justice.gov/usao/reading_room/reports/asr2012/12... page 9 has: &q
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
_Is_ that case egregious by American standards? The 3 years might be (though I'm not convinced for some jurisdictions), but the overall shape of the case is, I think, depressingly common in the US...
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Martha Stewart went to prison for lying to federal investigators and obstruction of justice, not for insider trading. The "insider trading" (not actually a crime; the actual criminal thing in such cases tends to be "securiti
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
The bar for creating a wicg draft is _very_ low. Things in that space are not "specs" that are "approved" in any way.
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> The poor person is likely to starve to death. This is actually _extremely_ unlikely in the US or Western Europe. Social safety nets do in fact exist, and while they have all sorts of problems they do generally prevent starvation to de
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
I suggest talking to some people who actually lived through the pre-perestroika era in the USSR. Yes, there was generally clothing in stores. Whether there was clothing in your size (no matter what size you were; pretty much all normal siz
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
For a start, salary and cost to employer are not the same thing. A $100k salary in the US also means the employer is paying $7650 in payroll taxes, typically some amount of money for health insurance ($0-$30k depending on the employer), may
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
For Wolfram Alpha, I just tried the integral from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contour_integration#Example_2_... and it times out. The by-hand solution is pretty straightforward, if you know contour integration.
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
If a least one browser had used a different backend, the API behavior would have had to actually be defined instead of just saying "behaves like SQLite". And that defined behavior would have to be implementable on top of both SQL
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Privacy Analysis of FLoC(blog.mozilla.org)
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
It's not clear to me that an ocean-going fishing boat would be cheaper than college tuition. Is it? Would love to see some data. https://horizonship.com/ship-category/commercial-fishing-ves... has prices a good
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
It seems to me that you're speaking a bit past heipei's question, which is about the actual consequences, as opposed to the intended ones, of policies. If you have a 90-100% estate tax, then the intended consequence might be &quot
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
The US used to have a lot more "luxury taxes" on things like yachts. They got repealed "because they were hurting jobs in the industry" (e.g. the yacht industry). Leading Democrats at the time led the repeal push... Wh
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That is a thing you can do in the US. It is not a thing you have to do, by any means.
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Not all shares can be sold. Especially at all times (blackout periods, etc.) The problem with the oft-cited options example is that tax is levied on gain of an asset that in fact cannot be legally sold at the time the tax is levied and is
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> Why not pay your income tax when you know - you get your income Yeah, I have no idea why gambiting is not doing that. The rules in the US is that your estimated tax payments have to cover the smaller of 90% of your current-year ongoing
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
At least for the US, any spy or saboteur who wants to enter can do so on a student visa, I am sure. Just have to pony up for tuition at any of a number of schools who are desperately looking for students who will pay.
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
What's the effective tax burden on a self-employed single person making $300k in, say, Massachusetts (5% income tax; not exactly the highest in the US)? Based on 2020 US tax brackets, standard deduction, including the both sides of FIC
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
At 1km/s^2 after one second you would be 0.5 km away. (Average speed over that second is half the final speed, or just memorize s = 0.5 a t^2, whichever is preferred.)
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
If you want to run a specific wpt, you just load the URL. See https://wpt.live/ (which is linked to from the wpt.fyi bits). But yes, if you want to run the full test suite and get overall results there's more work to

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