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by dathanb82 6y ago
I’d be interested in better understanding why Trump didn’t owe more under AM, since most regular deductions don’t apply in that case.
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by dathanb82 6y ago
If you make half the median national household income, you’re making about $30K, and your effective federal tax rate is barely over 14%. Your 20%-30% scenario doesn’t seem to add up.
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by dathanb82 6y ago
It is unusual to pay your children as regular employees and also pay them as consultants, tho.
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by dathanb82 6y ago
> Typically I’m as productive or more productive than my peers. This seems like a case of assuming the conclusion, tho. Whether a text editor-based workflow is as productive as an IDE-based workflow when avoiding feature that advantage t
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by dathanb82 6y ago
I don't think I agree with your definition of "robust" in this context. A bank that only writes loans and doesn't have deposits must be lending out its own assets. In that case, they don't have a reserve, because th
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by dathanb82 6y ago
I sometimes wish I hadn’t learned vim, because it limits the tools I’m happy using. Since I’ve built the vim muscle memory, every other text editing experience feels crippled, so I actively avoid products that don’t support at least basic
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by dathanb82 6y ago
I wonder how much of that is just the lack of really good IDE tooling for Rust? GoLand is pretty good, so I don’t know if similar question applies to Go.
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by dathanb82 6y ago
That’s both awful and awesome.
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by dathanb82 6y ago
This is what clinched my career path for me. When I was 12 I and three of my friends would code on our TI-82’s and share that with each other. Being able to get positive feedback from people I liked spurred me to spend even more time at it
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by dathanb82 6y ago
I was very surprised to click on the llama icon and end up in a web-based port of Winamp.
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by dathanb82 6y ago
I jus discovered vim-wiki a week ago, so it’s on my todo list. I’m on pat leave right now, so not really doing any hard core knowledge management for another couple weeks.
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by dathanb82 6y ago
How’s the vim emulation in VSCode? I always miss being able to use vim in these sorts of knowledge management systems. I’m using Obsidian right now, which has ok, very basic vi emulation, but would love something that lets me use more advan
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by dathanb82 6y ago
Identifying leaking well sites is getting a little more attention in the industry than the article suggests, at least for active wells. See, e.g., Kairos Aerospace’s work in the Permian Basin. You can get a peek at what they’re doing in Mat
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by dathanb82 6y ago
It’s true, the professional backgrounds at my church are much more diverse than any other social group I belong to.
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by dathanb82 6y ago
> stripping fees off transactions with ZERO value add to the consumer... The explosion of online shops made possible by companies like Stripe enabling secure credit card processing without imposing PCI DSS compliance on small businesses
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by dathanb82 6y ago
Maybe so. I disagree with much of Stallman’s platform. But regardless of that, I was just observing that the arguments offered in the article in addition to the rest of the dialogue about free vs proprietary software are mostly based on the
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by dathanb82 6y ago
Huh. I couldn’t find anything about it one way or the other.
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by dathanb82 6y ago
This argument seems to rely heavily on the idea that non-free software is unethical. If you’re already bought into that idea, then clearly schools ought to only use free software. If you’ve not bought into it already, there’s nothing here t
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by dathanb82 6y ago
Vim can be compiled to webasm and run in the browser now, so at least on the text editing front, there’s no reason the web text editor has to run a significant feature deficit compared to desktop. I predict that at some point in the next fi
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by dathanb82 6y ago
How do hydroelectric plants unnaturally cool water going through them?
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by dathanb82 6y ago
The article isn’t arguing against requirements existing, it’s arguing against being bound to de facto requirements because you allowed a client you don’t own to depend on behavior you didn’t specify. (See Hyrum’s Law: https://git
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by dathanb82 6y ago
This is probably solvable with Hypothesis and a custom browser extension. More generally, third-party annotation of web (especially hypertext) resources is an underexplored opportunity. I suspect it’s at least partly because integration isn
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by dathanb82 6y ago
Ditto Ulysses S Grant (though he wasn’t born with that name).
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by dathanb82 6y ago
This doesn't seem like it actually solves the capture problem, though. The most egregious cases I can think of of third-party capture involve taking a project, bundling it with infrastructure, and offering it via a SaaS model (obviousl
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by dathanb82 6y ago
You get maximum performance improvement by distributing equal amount of work to each worker. You’ve used the first-order approximation that equal world means equal-sized slice of numbers. But with your approach, the amount of work to determ
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by dathanb82 6y ago
Frequently acquihires are about opportunity, not cost. I’ve seen acquihires at salaries above what the company would offer to organically recruited employees, because the company is just desperate to recruit. Paying higher salaries can be l
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by dathanb82 6y ago
When asking for help solving a problem, I start writing a question to ask someone, and then as I start explaining what I've tried (to try to be respectful of their time and them not have to repeat anything I've done) more and more
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by dathanb82 7y ago
> There was a player from Utah whose name eludes me now that had a, I think, ~$2B exit but that might be the only one. Are you thinking of Instructure? They're based in Salt Lake City, and Marketwatch gives their current market cap
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by dathanb82 7y ago
When's the last time you checked out IntelliJ? It does incremental compilation these days, plus auto-save-and-compile whenever you switch tabs (not just when you save the current tab, which bit me many times in Eclipse; though I haven&
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by dathanb82 10y ago
A huge sample size does not necessarily mean a good sample. While it's difficult to say what the impact of sampling only from a group of people who self-select into a given population, it's clearly a bias. If a quarter of the popu

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