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by dcosson 9y ago
Didn't the top income tax rate decrease by something like 2.5%? Doesn't seem like a lot of room for it to have decreased but still be "significantly higher" than it ended up at.
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by dcosson 9y ago
Not sure I follow - you mentioned not handling browser compatibility which implies you're not directly writing the html/css for the site. If you're using shopify or hosted wordpress or something, I would think most of those p
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by dcosson 9y ago
This article is complete fluff, does anyone have sources of books or studies (or even better blog posts) on the topic of city subsidies? There are a lot of comments on here saying this is illegal, but it's not at all clear to me why th
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by dcosson 9y ago
Yeah, I've been on that side of it as well and also didn't find anything. Feels like something that could even be formalized into a standard and make things a lot easier and more secure for everyone. IAM in AWS is mostly for inter
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by dcosson 9y ago
I'm surprised not to see my biggest gripe with most services mentioned - half-baked account systems, without proper role or group-based access control. Every startup I've worked at has had some variation of a shared 1Password acco
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by dcosson 9y ago
> There's a huge savings in accepting payments in a form that the buyer can't reverse. Bitcoin just kind of flips the problem, it doesn't solve it. In a world where payments can easily be reversed, sellers take on all the
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by dcosson 9y ago
It seems like there's a couple of possible explanations for the continued dominance of bitcoin: 1. It's being mispriced by the market for some reason and will correct over time (i.e. it will lose valuation compared to other crypto
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by dcosson 9y ago
Why would you want to get a small cluster up and running as a small deployment? I’d rather use google or amazon hosted container services. Agree docket-compose is useful, but that’s an open source standalone program, not something you pay d
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by dcosson 9y ago
> Gold has practical use in industry which puts lower bound on its value. How did that work out for oil a couple years ago? Yes there's some lower bound on gold, but if it turns out it's lower than you thought, or if the supply
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by dcosson 9y ago
alternative take - if you got to the point where you're getting in your car and driving around town for everyday necessities like groceries, pantry items, toothpaste, socks, replacement usb cables, vacuum cleaner filters, etc. with may
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by dcosson 9y ago
I am sensitive to the investment aspect, because it is true what you thought you were buying has changed and possibly in a way that makes it less valuable. Ultimately, it’s not what you actually bought so that’s kind of on you. But I wonder
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by dcosson 9y ago
Depends how you frame the democratic outcomes - if the 4 neighbors all vote on it then a new housing proposal will fail but I don’t see that as particularly democratic. If the entire state of California voted on it (because to a small propo
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by dcosson 9y ago
Sheesh, get over yourself. I'm not trying to be a jerk but this is such an obnoxiously braggy complaint. Yes, companies have complex problems to solve, that require more than a few days or weeks of work at a time. If you want to just w
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by dcosson 9y ago
Are there any plans to integrate IAM roles with the ActiveMQ login portal? It's weird to see a username & password step there, one big benefit of keeping everything within AWS is how easy it is to give anyone on the team access to
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by dcosson 9y ago
Or, you can play the pyramid scheme game in the high cost area and hope you win. For example, buy a house in the bay area before 2010, it'll be paid off by the time you retire and because of Prop 13 the property taxes will never go up
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by dcosson 9y ago
Is there any chance companies could fairly easily adapt to this? For instance, grant 30% more equity per year than they otherwise would and buy back that 30% as it vests to cover taxes. Edit: Now that I think about it those numbers don&#x27
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by dcosson 9y ago
> So in the real world, with limited yearly construction, developers' aims will be to build upmarket housing. I don't understand the line of thinking where this itself is a problem. Who cares what the new housing is, what matte
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by dcosson 9y ago
Except that it does benefit everyone, which is why the Yimby movement is gaining traction at the rate it is. It just wasn't as clear-cut and financially painful to the average person until a few years ago which is why it took so long t
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by dcosson 9y ago
You don't want them, but what you want is entirely irrelevant. This isn't a discussion about what existing landlords do with their own property, it's about not letting them block the new housing that they have absolutely no s
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by dcosson 9y ago
Yeah it will be interesting to see how it plays out. It also doesn't mention anything about clean energy now that I look at it again. If it's just a Phoenix suburb but with really good fiber internet, lenient self-driving car laws
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by dcosson 9y ago
Odd that there's no mention of mass transit for a sustainable city, just a new freeway connecting it to Phoenix.
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by dcosson 9y ago
It's odd that despite the author's hatred of phone calls, he doesn't do pretty basic things to avoid them. I've learned after a while that the first thing you should do when you set up any new account like a credit card,
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by dcosson 9y ago
Do you have any sources for this? I don’t see how it can possibly be true. For one thing I don’t see how you can define areas where everyone is poor. Even looking at a place like North Korea, the top government officials are very well off
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by dcosson 9y ago
So "28-year-old runs a small business that makes millions selling on amazon" would be more accurate than the actual title. But they probably get more clicks phrasing it more like a pyramid scheme ad ("Make 6 figures from home
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by dcosson 9y ago
Yeah it looks nicely simple & modular, but it probably works best in Node.js since your servers can all be in UTC. In general I see the appeal of using a small shim around a standard library thing rather than re-implementing something t
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by dcosson 9y ago
Totally a tangent but, don’t use moment.js! It inherits some of the parsing and other quirks from the awfulness that is the JS Date object, the mutability almost certainly will lead to being bit by a couple of bugs before you actually inter
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by dcosson 9y ago
Huh, I could not disagree more. DAWs are some of the most well thought out, reliable software I use. For a relatively niche product it’s amazing to me that there are something like 10 very different but very high quality options to choose f
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by dcosson 9y ago
> the typical "retail" product results get mixed into the sketchy sellers And sometimes in the same listing! Like some colors will be the regular retail version and other colors are from a different seller and either a no-name
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by dcosson 9y ago
I hesitate to call it the correct setup because I think only a small number of people use it, but the only solution I've found for Virtualbox that 1. does 2-way sync between host & guest 2. Propagates fs events (so you can run an a
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by dcosson 9y ago
> all the interns that have to put up with this sort of crap There are clearly some (such as at the company in the post) but in my experience software internships have gotten really good in the past years since so many companies are comp

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