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by eadmund 2y ago
> She's in the category of people who were all over the place in my childhood, then disappeared and never aged in my memory, and suddenly she's nearly 80 and now dead. Yup. Seemed like she was in everything, and then … she was
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How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File(sqlite.org)
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by eadmund 2y ago
Retitled from ‘Lisp vs. golang’ because ‘golang’ instead of ‘Go’ is akin to ‘LISP’ instead of ‘Lisp.’ His substantive comments are generally correct, but I think it’s important to note that Go’s not really meant for clever code like functio
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Lisp vs. Go(funcall.blogspot.com)
4 points by eadmund 2y ago|1 comments
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The Debanking of America(thefp.com)
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by eadmund 2y ago
Which is really getting out of hand, to the point that some English speakers are starting to sound positively French: ‘cweam’ instead of ‘cream’ the same way the French turned ‘rex’ into ‘wa.’ I blame the EU.
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by eadmund 2y ago
It would also be a republican form of government for the state legislatures to be elected by cities and/or counties.
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by eadmund 2y ago
> It's the Vice President, who is elected by the people No he’s not: the Vice President is elected by the Electoral College, or if they do not do so then by the Senate (see the Twelfth Amendment). Neither is the President elected by
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Or he can borrow 100 million from any bank and they will accept the shares as collateral. He does not pay capital gains at this point Nope, but when he does sell those shares, he will (except for the step-up in basis rule on death). An
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by eadmund 2y ago
> You have gained income from your capital at this point. No, one has moved money from a debt account into a cash account. For every dollar the cash account increases, the debt account decreases. Income, on the other hand, is final
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by eadmund 2y ago
> How is it not realized? Because of the definition of what realized income is. Borrowing is not income. You mention below that you own a Washingtonian condo and a Virginian home. Let’s imagine that they are both $100,000 and that you
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by eadmund 2y ago
The issue is the step-up in basis, not borrowing against assets. The step-up in basis really is a giveaway. I think that it would make a ton of sense to transfer the basis rather than step it up.
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by eadmund 2y ago
Why should it be illegal? It’s not a realised gain. It has to be paid off … with money which has to come from somewhere (and be taxed as income or realised gains or whatever). What reason do you have for wanting it to be illegal, other th
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by eadmund 2y ago
> If you produce less value than the [minimum wage] , companies that employ you still have to pay you True enough, I suppose, but … if one produces less than one costs, a company will not employ one . Why would a company employ someon
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by eadmund 2y ago
> This is something people love to rage about, yet it's not one with an obvious fix. Removing the step-up in basis seems like an obvious fix. Record the basis at the time of transfer, then charge taxes when or if it is sold. Adjus
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by eadmund 2y ago
Well, roughly a third of pre-WWII Poland ended up in the USSR and remains part of Russia today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
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by eadmund 2y ago
> What input method are you using such that this is even possible? ibus. In my X settings the physical Caps Lock key is turned into Compose, and then I can easily type ‘ with Compose <' (and vice-versa), ’ with Compose >&#x27
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by eadmund 2y ago
It’s less about wanting to see all the caches, and more about excluding all the caches, e.g. from backups. Likewise, there is one directory for machine-independent configuration which you might share, and another for machine-specific sta
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Unicode has only one apostrophe. The same one as ASCII apostrophe. The problem here is people using right single qoute as a "fancy" apostrophe when they should be using a font that renders apostrophe in the desired way. No, t
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by eadmund 2y ago
HSAs can be wonderful, but you absolutely have to have a good one. Some of them still pay less than 1% interest and charge monthly fees. The ones which can be invested and have no fees are an amazing savings tool.
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by eadmund 2y ago
Switzerland has a private insurance model IIRC. Israel and the Netherlands, too, according to Wikipedia.
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by eadmund 2y ago
The original quote in the article was about alcoholism: "That is a recipe for alcoholism." I think maybe you moved the goalposts here.
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Are you saying that defining half of 7-14 (or 3.5.7) drinks per week as heavy seems insane to you? Yes. I assert that drinking 3½–7 drinks a week sounds moderate. One or two drinks a week is light. Heavy drinking would be something
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by eadmund 2y ago
> drinking 1-2 glasses of wine per day > the astounding thing is that one of the guidelines is that you should drink every day at twice the NHS heavy drinking guidelines. That is a recipe for alcoholism. Say what? The article implies
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by eadmund 2y ago
I think the issue is distinguishing between bad faith and simple ignorance. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar!
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by eadmund 2y ago
The inhabitants were planters and their workers (originally slaves imported in the 1700s); no-one is native to the islands. And the poor folks who were expelled (and their descendants) were not even consulted this time around — this is pure
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by eadmund 2y ago
Very sad for the United Kingdom, I think. Back in 1982 Queen Elizabeth II refused to give up the Falklands at gunpoint; in 2024 King Charles III gives up the British Indian Ocean Territory without even a shot being fired.
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by eadmund 2y ago
> The courts had not found Hans guilty of any crime, but unless he chose to appeal the verdict, he was required to turn himself in to Henrietta Schimmelmann within 15 days. The court does not seem to have noticed that, as a strategy for
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by eadmund 2y ago
And in fact modern Egyptians are more Arabs — the Copts are closer to, but still very far from, the ancient Egyptians.
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by eadmund 2y ago
You forgot 7: the men with caps and pipes are no longer there because of the smoking ban. It’s just not a proper pub if there’s not some smoke spiralling up to the ceiling.

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