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by cletus 5y ago
This. To add a little more context to this, the first banks took deposits and lent that money out to borrowers. They would keep a certain percentage of that for liquidity ie to cover withdrawals. This became viewed as overly conservative so
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by cletus 5y ago
This is a work policy. These are things I tend to take pretty seriously (YMMV). So, if the policy doesn't allow that that's the standard I'm going to live by rather than playing the game of "will I get caught?" It&#
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by cletus 5y ago
Argumentative? No. Overly literal? Possibly. :) There's obviously some creative license even hyperbole here. The point is that in the tropics (which I'd count Miami as in), the weather (in the dry season at least) is very stable.
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by cletus 5y ago
Miami. I'm not sure it's hit 90F hit but it's definitely hit 85-88F. So close. I'm not sure how much hotter it'll get but I'm all about it still. I've thought about why this is. Not commuting I think is a
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by cletus 5y ago
Well it's June now. We're pretty close to what summer is. For the record, I'm in the Miami area. I think it's a little cooler here than some places more inland and upstate. Or maybe I'm imagining things. But what a
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by cletus 5y ago
> I also lived in NYC for 10 years, the summers there are magical. Summers in NYC can be quite mild. If memory serves 2016-2019 were all quite mild with only very brief hellish patches. Some earlier summers though were... horrible. For m
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by cletus 5y ago
Speaking as someone who now works remotely permanently, this has been... life-changing. So for 10 years I lived in NYC and--don't get me wrong--there are lots of things I liked about NYC but I'm so over the summers and the winters
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by cletus 5y ago
Here's what we need: if the beneficial owner of a property is not a resident of that state the property tax rate should be punitively high. This includes any corporations or LLCs that own property. It's important that we have prop
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by cletus 5y ago
I go back and forth on Python in this regard, specifically the named vs positional arguments in that an argument can be one or the other. Part of me prefers just using an anonymous object in Javascript. Typescript is also cleaner than that.
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by cletus 5y ago
One thing I’d add to this is that your database schema and your UI data model and/or API are decoupled so you can update your front end to the new representation before you do any database changes. One thing I liked was the chosen exam
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by cletus 5y ago
Here's another way to put it. Up to a certain level you are taxed on what you EARN. Income tax is relatively progressive. Beyond a certain point you cease to be taxed on what you earn. Instead you are taxed on what you SPEND. By this I
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by cletus 5y ago
I agree, but my point is that this is a favourable tax treatment (which it is) because it doesn't have to be that way.
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by cletus 5y ago
There's lot of detail here. I wasn't really surprised at anything. Of course this is going to be a game of whack-a-mole but arguing they'll just avoid it in the end is no reason not to try. I'd focus on three areas to be
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by cletus 5y ago
> The worse tax situation is always the person who makes 500k in a good year What's the problem here? Income tax rates are moderately progressive. They'll pay a higher marginal tax rate and a moderately higher total tax rate in
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by cletus 5y ago
That's an interesting idea. A couple of thoughts spring to mind. First is that the heaviest of the "natural" fusion byproducts is iron. Iron is magnetic. How significant is that? Does that make it more likely iron will form i
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by cletus 5y ago
Here's the best way I can think to describe this. I've found there are largely two kinds of people in the world: those who have experienced something like food insecurity, housing insecurity, poverty or the like and those that hav
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by cletus 5y ago
I'd love to know the story of this "human error" (that led to tank man being censored on Bing). Like... what were they trying to do? Why do they this capability at all? Was it unauthorized removal from Bing search results? If
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by cletus 5y ago
It actually just means that the business needs to charge more for whatever it produces. For a restaurant, for example, the general guideline seems to be that 30% of the costs are labour. So increasing the wages by 20% means costs increase b
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by cletus 5y ago
This article was light on details of what this flight entails. Here is a better source [1]: > Zero-G will begin from the third minute into flight, and then at some point between and the flight’s highest point, or apogee, at four minutes,
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by cletus 5y ago
Fun fact: we have surnames largely as a result of another pandemic, the Black Death in the 14th century. The Black Death killed an estimated 1/3 to 1/2 of the population of Europe at the time (really!) and created a huge labour sh
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by cletus 5y ago
The first proposal of having a minimum corporate tax rate probably doesn't mean a lot because you to then start policing what subsidies governments give to effectively discount below 15%. The more interesting part is what I hope is the
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by cletus 5y ago
Just because someone did something wrong and should be punished doesn't mean they committed murder. Just because a computer was used doesn't mean it was "hacking". The Supreme Court essentially limited the scope of the C
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by cletus 5y ago
That is in fact exactly the problem with strict textualism: It's actually not that strict. I am sympathetic to the criticisms of the "living document" ideology. It's populism masquerading as jurisprudence. Or, as Scalia
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by cletus 5y ago
A policy change by your employer shouldn't lead to the possibility of a criminal prosecution for "hacking" and that's the net result of what you're suggesting and what that interpretation would mean. To me this is t
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by cletus 5y ago
I'm surprised at the negativity here. I agree with this decision. When I saw it was a 6-3 decision my first instinct was "oh another conservative-liberal divide" but no it isn't. I'm actually surprised to find Thoma
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by cletus 5y ago
Yeah I should clarify this. So minor versions have always been able to remove packages (as per PEP 4) but, and perhaps this is just my perception more than reality, it seems like the breaking changes of Python 3.x have decreased the psychol
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by cletus 5y ago
Python 4.0 doesn’t mean anything. Python 3.0 made breaking changes from 2.7. I think any reasonable person can agree that what was done and how it was done was a mistake. Specifically, some people decided that since X was already being brok
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by cletus 5y ago
That's kind of the point: the _small_ ones still exist.
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by cletus 5y ago
> What if some virus evolved to work super intelligently as a hive mind? I'd say that this would make that Hive organism look a lot like a macro-organism. > ... in 1000 years we (assuming we are still recognizably human) will loo
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by cletus 5y ago
I'm usually a skeptic but I don't buy into the idea that we can't reason anything about aliens until we find them. Some things are just physics. Physics places absolute limits on how small or large an organism can be, for exa

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