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by drdec 10mo ago
> Did big businesses in the West really think “investing” in China would lead to “freedom” and such? Isn’t that framing a bit naive? I think the OP would frame this as the Western governments allowing Western businesses to invest in Chin
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by drdec 10mo ago
> How did you forget that Apple offers alternatives to almost everything Microsoft has, and is one of the world's largest companies? I think the point is to avoid dependence on US based companies as opposed to getting away from Micr
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by drdec 10mo ago
Isn't a wealth tax just an expanded capital gains tax? If last year I had wealth X and this year I have wealth X+Y, I have to pay a wealth tax on the gains, in addition to the the tax on the amount I had previously. So my gains are sti
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by drdec 10mo ago
Did you consider log4js?
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by drdec 10mo ago
> It's a shame that maintaining the web is so hard that only a few websites are "good citizens" It's not hard actually. There is a lack of will and forethought on the part of most maintainers. I suspect that monetiz
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by drdec 10mo ago
My secret agenda is to get gift ideas for my college aged child
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Ask HN: What are young technically minded people reading?
18 points by drdec 10mo ago|28 comments
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by drdec 10mo ago
> How did we go in 20 years from holding these companies to account when they'd misbehave to acting as if they are poor damsels in distress whenever someone points out a flaw? Honestly I think the problem is more a rosy view of the
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by drdec 10mo ago
> Micron is chasing AI glory. Sounds to me like they are using the tried and true method of selling equipment to the people rushing for gold
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by drdec 11mo ago
>> This North Korean world map is centred on the Pacific Ocean, which gives Korea a privileged position on the global stage. > Not going to lie, sometimes it feels that some of the Westerners act like that they don't even thin
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by drdec 11mo ago
You have missed the point. The situation where pennies exist already has all the problems concerning rounding after sales tax. Things are rounded to whole pennies. The same solutions can be applied to round things to whole nickels.
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by drdec 11mo ago
It's the same way with the penny. Tax on a 0.99 item isn't coming out to an exact penny multiple. So stores are already dealing with this situation
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by drdec 11mo ago
I'm pretty sure the OP was talking about a far future where a $100 bill is worth less than the current penny
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by drdec 11mo ago
> Being able to instantly return to where you were without having to navigate apps is probably appreciated by a lot of people. The back button supplied by the OS is perfectly capable of this (at least on Android I have witnessed this)
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by drdec 11mo ago
I don't understand the down votes, I had the same reaction. Other posters have suggested some better resources, check those out
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by drdec 11mo ago
I don't think so. Anecdotally I know someone with aphantasia and they report having an internal monologue.
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by drdec 11mo ago
> Yeah, US hospital billing is based on the idea that the patient has insurance and won't really care about what their insurer gets charged. (The wider implications of this are left to the reader.) Don't leave out the part wher
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by drdec 11mo ago
I say keep the 12 hour clock, it is too ingrained, instead let's have twice as many days. April 42nd anyone?
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by drdec 11mo ago
> I've found that nearly every game in my embarrassingly-large Steam library works fine on Linux. I have on occasion been scared off of buying a package from Humble Bundle when the games are available on Steam but not explicitly mar
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by drdec 1y ago
> which is the longest in pro sports, longer than baseball's season, despite being less than half the games You are clearly referring to calendar time, in which case the NHL season is longer
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by drdec 1y ago
> People voted for cheaper eggs, right? I suppose people who don't understand markets did, yes
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by drdec 1y ago
They recently stepped up their game. So they do the thing where they set breaks to sunset in order to make the bill revenue neutral according to the CBO. Then, later on, when the tax breaks are ready to sunset, they convince the CBO that th
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by drdec 1y ago
> Budgets in the US are supposed to be revenue neutral. To clarify - budgets passed via the reconciliation are supposed to be revenue neutral. The reconciliation process takes away the Senate's filibuster. When the filibuster is i
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by drdec 1y ago
>That seems like a passive-voice way of saying "We could steal from millions of people, pocketing the retirement savings they worked for their entire lives." You brought up cancelling the program. I was just pointing out that
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by drdec 1y ago
> they could cancel the [social security] program entirely and it wouldn't affect the deficit I don't think this is true. During the surplus years the savings vehicle was US bonds. So social security lent the US government mo
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by drdec 1y ago
> Immediately post-college, I shared houses with other 20-somethings. It was always a single lease I did this in grad school BUT they were 100% separate leases (in NY state, not the city though). Not sure if the whole thing was just ill
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by drdec 1y ago
There are plenty of locales where broadcasts cross state lines. I grew up in an area where we got Boston (Massachusetts) and Providence (Rhode Island) stations. NYC stations cover three states. I'm sure there are plenty of other exa
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by drdec 1y ago
They are quick to refund/replace because most of the items sold are returnable and "replace" is just a second order. Basically you have the ability to self service this. So it's a quick way for a CSR to satisfy a custo
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by drdec 1y ago
I would appreciate some links if you have them
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by drdec 1y ago
My take: It should be an auction. The annual salary should match the fee (unless below some minimum).

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