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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
> Help me figure out the right messaging for what we should tell Bangladeshis that they shouldn't eat meat now that they're finally getting to be able to afford it. Are you trying to say we shouldn’t save the world from environ
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
The point of the parent comment is that even without the trust fund, each year’s social security taxes will be sufficient to pay 75% of benefits. This makes it clear that claims that the program is bound to disappear completely are overblow
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
I don’t think the math works that way. Suppose your return is 35% after paying the long term tax rate. This implies your pre-tax return was .35/(1-.25) = 46.66. Now instead pay the short-term rate and get 46.66 * (1-.4) = 28%. So the r
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
In response to your last sentence - I completely agree. If you ever notice that there’s some behavior that you often perform in response to some difficult thought or physical pain - carefully consider whether that habit is helping you or hu
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
Isn’t RenTech’s total return something like 35% annually over decades? Seems like tax savings could account for at most one year of that.
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
Well I don’t know what county you’re in, but I’m not surprised a place with no assaults in 5 years has nice cops. I doubt the experience of a person of color there matches the experience where police shootings happen.
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
I’ve had the experience of thinking that I had terrible social skills for most of my live, then getting treatment for depression and anxiety and suddenly finding that socializing is easy. In my case, the problem really was my own fears and
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
The only way is networking. You have to find good people and stick with those people. Only work somewhere if you know someone good who works on that team and likes it.
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
I don’t think that’s true - John McCain was born in Panama. The rule is they have to be a citizen at birth.
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
I don’t know much about physics/astronomy. My rough understanding is that very early in the Big Bang, all matter/energy was condensed into some really exotic form and it turned into atoms and molecules as it expanded. When I read
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
San Francisco politics are controlled by wealthy landowners. Progressive opponents to development make a more sympathetic appeal, but it looks like a Baptist-bootlegger coalition to me.
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
That’s my first instinct too, but things can get really messed up if the “haves” control the political process. What if they don’t like living near the “have-nots”, and ban the construction of multi-family housing near downtown? Now that th
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
Seems average based on what people are posting on Blind.
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
I can look at the salaries of the companies that advertise salary transparency and know for sure that I’m getting a better deal than I would get there.
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
If you are reading this and find yourself in the same situation... consider decreasing your withholding and have the money deducted into a HSA or FSA instead. You can still use the money for health expenses, and you will also get a 20-30% t
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
True, but I believe this is approach only works well in certain cases. For shared/pooled rides, drivers are automatically assigned a chain of rides. In these circumstances probably few drivers would bother to keep another app open that
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
Sounds like Uber and Lyft are both subsidizing your rides - but for a new service to get off the ground would require even more subsidies. There’s a cost to idling and waiting for someone to come along and pay you for a ride. The higher the
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
I’m skeptical about a non-profit service competing with Uber and Lyft. It would take a lot of money-losing ride subsidies to get the substantial market share required to get the necessary network effects.
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
Do you have any details about what those changes in the law were? Sounds interesting.
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
https://www.justice.gov/file/1080281/download This indictment from the Meuller investigation details how GRU agents hacked the Democratic Party and coordinated with WikiLeaks (“Organization 1” in the indictment) t
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
The world is at peril, and full of people who are suffering. I can easily call an oil company evil, because they are burning the earth. I can call a food manufacturer that knowingly puts poison in their products to save a few bucks evil. I
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
If you put a lot of mental energy into organizing your ideology to think of them as evil, sure.
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
Do these attacks require fine control over the input? Eg. if you are scanning a patient’s body, does it matter if the model can be fooled by editing the values of individual pixels? This implies that you have a threat model where the data c
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
If you can tune the specifics-sensitivity curve, you should be able to handle both cases. You have to be willing to refuse to provide an answer when you have low confidence.
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
I think ultimately there’s no good answer to this line of questioning, because an omnipotent god can make whatever he wants happen regardless of what humans do. Claims that someone is thwarting or enabling God’s will are subjective and reli
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
Seems like many of the costs are design and management overhead that would probably be less of an issue at larger scale?
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
Is the resistance to nuclear power mostly at the state/local level or is there also a lot of federal opposition? I wonder if some western state with unpopulated land could make a lot of money by doing a huge nuclear project and sell th
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
He could have put it in a nicer way, but I do think it did a good job explaining how a particular chunk of anecdotal information could be very helpful to the conversation. Many of the above comments about how these people deserve to be reje
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
Sounds like the company failed and Amazon paid the people they wanted to keep. The headline is pretty misleading, as the story details that Eero received > $100M in investment before the sale, so investors lost money too.
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by djakjxnanjak 8y ago
It’s not as though some food is automatically bad for you because it came from Burger King, and even if it were, there is a huge range of how bad it is. I could get 500 calories from a burger or 2000 from a burger with a milkshake and fri

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