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by bzbarsky 5y ago
There are many people (both in the US and in the world in general) who could quite honestly say the same thing about the homeless in San Francisco... This does not make their situation particularly wonderful, in either case.
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> One (or a couple of) cities don't represent the whole country, naturally. Very true. Neither does San Francisco, of course. > But are these in the same quantity/concentration and causing as much trouble and being as aggre
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Last time I was in France (Lyon, a few years ago), there was quite a number of homeless people camping out in the parks. Is France also a third-world country? I agree that the homeless situation is bad. I don't think blanket claims t
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
"Tenet", please, not "tenant".
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
It _really_ depends on your industry. And time period. Studies from 20 years ago (which is when a lot of the studies people commonly cite for this were done) only tell us so much about conditions now. Again, varies widely by industry.
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Ergonomic Brand Checks will ship with Firefox 90(spidermonkey.dev)
2 points by bzbarsky 5y ago|0 comments
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
There are, in my opinion, two ways to look at capital gains taxes, depending on where the relevant assets come from: 1. For assets that come from income you yourself earned, the tradeoff is basically whether you spend the money immediately
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
The obvious first bandwidth issue here is through the optical sensor, which is definitely pre-compression, no?
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Beware of Applications Misusing Root Stores(blog.mozilla.org)
83 points by bzbarsky 5y ago|27 comments
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> Kuwait pays ~$10k per citizen, last I checked That's one of the "from oil revenues" cases I mentioned, indeed. Though are you claiming $10k/month? I'd love a source for that number; the last number I saw was
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A primer on code generation in Cranelift(blog.benj.me)
63 points by bzbarsky 5y ago|7 comments
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> Be real man, no country on earth is taxing their people at 80-100% Sure. Neither is any country providing a $750/month UBI, much less $1500/month, from taxes. (Some countries do provide that sort of thing for citizens from
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
If the suggestion were in fact to double "all federal income taxes", what do you think tax rates would end up looking like? Right now the top "all taxes" federal marginal rate is 39.35%. (2.35% Medicare, and 37% indivi
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> Nor were there any country actually try to help the jews before or during the war. Depending on how you define "country" (as opposed to just "a large fraction or majority of its citizens"), Denmark did in fact help
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Private Fields and Methods ship with Firefox 90(spidermonkey.dev)
2 points by bzbarsky 5y ago|0 comments
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The Honest Troubleshooting Code of Conduct(rachelbythebay.com)
6 points by bzbarsky 5y ago|0 comments
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> A more productive conversation would be to define the minimum quality of life that one should have This assumes that everyone is in a similar situation in terms of trying to support a particular kind of lifestyle on whatever is deemed
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Growing the Bytecode Alliance(blog.mozilla.org)
39 points by bzbarsky 5y ago|3 comments
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
When you initially start at Google, say, you get an RSU grant that vests over 4 years. So for 4 years you are getting your salary and on some schedule also getting stock. The stock can be a quite large portion of your total compensation (
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Thank you for the links; that clears up where the claim is coming from. I really appreciate that. What I don't understand is what the report bases this claim on. The actual questions asked and answers given that correspond to the con
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
What the survey _actually_ says (and what the politifact fact-check does not dig into) is that if you ask people how they would deal with an unexpected $400 expense, given them a list of possible options, and tell them to select all options
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Note that the article only tested V8. V8 did not have the fastest WASM implementation last I checked.... Results may well differ in other engines.
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
The point is, if the resulting prime number is large enough to be in the very public "list of N largest known primes", how do you keep it out of that list, exactly? But also, as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, your hypotheti
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
It circumvented the copy protection on DVDs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Think from the point of view of a tools/productivity engineer at a large company. Yes, you invest some of your time to create the faster tool. Then hundreds to tens of thousands of people all use that faster tool to save time, day in
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
ACA plan costs go up pretty steeply with age, from what I've seen.
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Fwiw, I think you were misunderstanding part of the comment you replied to. It was not saying that the babysitter or contract plumber make $400k but that the local grocery shop owner might, and that both that shop owner and someone truly r
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
> which is firmly in the 1% If the numbers at https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-household-income-percen... are correct, the "top 1%" household income threshold in the US in 2020 is $53lk. $400k is closer to
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
This is also why a VAT is theoretically better than a sales tax, in my opinion: it removes the incentive to vertically integrate to avoid the transaction tax....
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
The set of things that are considered "losses" (i.e. deductible expenses) for personal tax filings in the US is pretty limited. State/local taxes (now up to a cap). Mortgage interest payments (also with some cap). Mortgage

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