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by cletus 5y ago
> - If you don't have literally $1M in assets you get taxed zero Oh it's much, much worse than that. The Trump tax "cuts" actually doubled the Federal estate tax thresholds to ~$11m for a singled person and ~$22m for
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by cletus 5y ago
It's no secret that real wages have remained stagnant for most people for over 40 years [1]. I'm of the school of thought that believes that we're at real risk of creating a permanent ruling class and a permanent working clas
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by cletus 5y ago
I've long been skeptical of ITER making any sense given its insane cost. I mean even it succeeds, then what? Here's the truth: there's no such thing as free energy. Even if the fuel is so abundant it's actually or effect
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by cletus 5y ago
I'm genuinely curious about this. My questions are: 1. What do you do for a living in Perth? What I guess I'm really trying to determine is what income bracket you're in. 2. Where in Perth are you looking at renting or buying
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That's kinda my point. It is of course unknowable but I really wonder if Trump could've won the 2016 election if the Supreme Court hadn't handed down that decision. This has happened before. Dubya largely got reelected in 200
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by cletus 5y ago
Some important context here: this applies to probably every Australian city but is particularly prevalent in Sydney I feel. And that is that the notion of what Sydney in keeps changing. So when I say Sydney became unaffordable in the 1970s,
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by cletus 5y ago
While that's an improvement and a welcome one, Sydney (and even Melbourne) seem to still be lagging in cost-of-living terms. But, more importantly, Big Tech senior engineer total comp is rapidly pushing to $US500K+.
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by cletus 5y ago
So, for the record, I 100% support gay marriage and abortion rights. What you have to realize about the US is that the Supreme Court deciding these issues is... controversial. Many view it as undemocratic (although it's worth noting th
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by cletus 5y ago
The central premise of musical chairs is that there are less chairs than people but every round everyone gets an opportunity to get a seat. So in my analogy, the last round ended in Sydney in 1978 meaning if you weren't sitting then th
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by cletus 5y ago
So I'm Australian but from the part no one ever visits (ie Perth). I say this because for most visitors Australia = Sydney, maybe Melbourne. Anyway, I've gone to live overseas a couple of times now. The most recent time was to the
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by cletus 5y ago
This is your daily reminder that any company you use is subject to the laws in whatever jurisdiction(s) it operates in. No amount of marketing and false promises should confuse you about that. On a side note, personally I'd consider it
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by cletus 5y ago
Search is one of those areas where I find people have very strong but very subjective opinions for some reason. It's like every DDG related HN thread always has these comments: - I moved to DDG X years ago and it's [fine|better
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by cletus 5y ago
Tesla is interesting because even they've described themselves as an energy company masquerading as a car company. Put another way: battery tech is Tesla's core business. They just happen to make cars as a way to sell batteries. I
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by cletus 5y ago
Honestly that's my experience with ML in general. And I know any organization that does a lot of ML has things like backtests and holdouts to supposedly measure impact on key metrics but I've seen too many cases where adding X has
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by cletus 5y ago
Co-watching is an interesting space. One I've worked in actually. And yes, I agree it's not "solved". Amazon has taken a stab at this with a watch party on Twitch. I imagine you could have a private stream and do it that
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by cletus 5y ago
I wonder if that commenter meant HBO Go? HBO tech has had an interesting history. First came HBO Go. This was the online streaming for those with HBO as part of a standard cable package. Apparently it was built on a .Net stack and had huge
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by cletus 5y ago
Exactly this. It doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement. Others have pointed to UI issues, for example. It just means the state of the tech probably isn't the top of mind for the C-team and the board.
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Here's the framework I use: "tech companies" are those where tech still plays a significant factor in the growth of the company such that it's important to an executive level. Example: Google is still a tech company. As
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It's been done [1]. [1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/california-city-ghost-town-i...
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It's actually not that surprising. Writing media like paper was extremely expensive. Artists too recycled canvasses. Fun fact: in Italy before the Romans there were people who spoke a language called Etruscan. It remains untranslated t
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by cletus 5y ago
So let's use the article's figure of 140 TWh of power used per year. Let's compare that to domestic energy usage by country [1]. That's more than Argentina and about half of what the UK uses. The whole "wasted energ
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by cletus 5y ago
I'd be more supportive of this if it mattered but it doesn't. Worse, a lot of it is probably virtue signaling. Here's what we really need. We need a blue state to pass a law, the substance of which is this: > No person wit
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by cletus 5y ago
So there's a tweet I've seen where some anti-vaxxer is asking if anyone else has noticed why all these unvaccinated people are suddenly getting Covid like there's some sort of conspiracy. Sadly it'll probably be taken as
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by cletus 5y ago
[Insert Picard meme of "Mild Shock"] This is good but not good enough. Why? Because delayed means it might still happen. What we're aiming for is "cancelled". Scanning your phone and your content is a terrible capab
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These photos are of stunning quality. I'm not sure I've seen any 19th century photos that come close, even with retouching and postprocessing. But also the lighting is incredible. Like it looks more like something associated with
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Ok, so how does the franchisee paying high fees to Taylors for "support" help McD's bottom line? Are they getting a kickback of some kind? Maybe. I'm not sure I've seen any evidence of that.
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I'm honestly shocked McDonalds corporate let this situation fester. Like I've seen the allegation that corporate is incentivized to milk franchisees but honestly I just don't buy that. The McFlurry machines being broken is no
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by cletus 5y ago
Stephenson is definitely about the journey not the destination. His endings aren’t the best. Cryptonomicon is an amazing book. The ending? Meh.
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I'm sorry to say this but your comment reads like some core concepts from Econ 101 were absorbed but the part about how economics theory is largely descriptive not prescriptive was missed. You're not far into your comment before h
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by cletus 5y ago
Paying lower unit price for higher volume customers is literally how the entire economy works. People deal with this every day. It's why jumbo packs in the supermarket are cheaper. It's how Costco exists. It's the one capital

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