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by cheese_van 6y ago
I moved to PA from MD. At the close my career, I chose to move to PA as they do not tax income from retirement accounts like IRA, 401k etc, nor pension accounts. It's quite a bundle. Retired, now in PA I pay no state tax. Honestly my
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by cheese_van 6y ago
I too moved to a less onerous tax state so I can't fault Mr. Musk. I so enjoy living in a country where that is possible, and that, if you have the means, you can follow the jobs from state to state, or if you will, follow the capital.
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I don't fully understand the controversy and so take neither side. However, as I started in IT in in 84, it is curious to me that workforce culture has changed so. I recall the dourly suited IBM guys, all in lockstep, sharing identit
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by cheese_van 6y ago
See a dentist regularly. Even if you're fit and wealthy, bad teeth will make you miserable.
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Perhaps the spontaneous auto assemblage of cell life, and from there, intelligent life is merely time dependent in an absolute sense? In that scenario, all sapient life in the universe evolved at the same time. When we develop the technol
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Most adults have the ability to discriminate between dumb stuff and smart stuff, or fake and real, don't you think? Taking away the public's opportunity to discriminate is in essence, removing our power to exercise that discrimina
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by cheese_van 6y ago
Xi Jinping has a constituency and to a degree opaque to the West, that constituency provides his mandate. Discomfit the constituency, the princes and princelings, in their pockets, and that mandate might be withdrawn. That revolution will
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by cheese_van 6y ago
The current administration appointed a Uighar-American as National Security Council Director of China to advise the president on China issues. However, this appointment was ignored by US media, for reasons we can only speculate. While much
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by cheese_van 6y ago
Sympathetic resonance with the internal cable network I guess. I merely knew enough to be dangerous, but radio, back in the day, was fun. Having random radio people around the world waiting to talk to another random radio stranger was qui
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Some many years ago, I was the source of interference. Newly hired by a federal employer who considered morse code an asset, I practiced in my hotel room. Bored, I decided to go live with a small tune-able antenna inside my hotel room, gro
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by cheese_van 6y ago
The race for effective AI war machines was always inevitable, but portends a horrible future. I don't see how to avoid it. When states see their adversaries researching murderbots, how can they decline to maintain a balance of power b
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The US Foreign Service still enforces mandatory retirement. I purposely retired early to avoid the indignity of being told "you're too old to work for us anymore, here's your hat, there's the door." I didn't
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What might be interesting is a drop of Xi Jinping's authority if Chinese elites see their cash flows drop too precipitously due to HK's possible change in status (and disorder). It's a mistake to think XJP doesn't have
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by cheese_van 6y ago
Restricting immigration may not logically follow the pandemic crisis and associated lockdown but it does track with similar decisions by China, Taiwan, Australia, France and Germany to name a few, and there are many others. Certainly, it se