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by ebiester 4y ago
This is where our instincts fail us. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/who-bears-burd... at the bottom (Figure 1) shows that the top quintile would have their share of current federal income tax move from 8
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by ebiester 4y ago
Revenue neutral national sales tax would be 22%. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/who-bears-burd...
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by ebiester 4y ago
It disproportionately taxes poor people over rich people. Also, how do you report how much you've spent to the IRS? That seems even harder. Some people have suggested a "prebate" of a payment that people get that helps with t
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by ebiester 4y ago
I remember ads in some of my father's science fiction paperbacks as a kid. As such, it wouldn't be unprecedented.
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Need or else, your career may improve if you can work with a wider group of talented people.
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That's just instacart and the whole foods app and the kroger app and countless others, no?
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I’ve spent long enough in the industry that I am relatively comfortable with many of the accents, I would love a class to exist that teaches non-Indians the dialect.
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This assumes two things: First, it assumes that you will be paid for said productivity. If you are doing piecework or sales or something where your income has direct proportion to your paycheck, this is true. For most people working hourly
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by ebiester 4y ago
I think it's the opposite: the purpose here is to say that pursuing efficiency so that you have more time will not give you more time; it will just give you more work allotted to that time. Instead, you first need to prioritize your go
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What will these typical investments be? Consider capital gains taxation versus dividend taxation in your analysis.
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It's not precise, but it's pretty close when you look at the number of management and support positions to individual contributors in many techinal organizations. It's beyond the scope of this conversation, but the short is t
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This is not the first time, it won't be the last time. The next hype round is only a matter of time because rich people need somewhere to put their money. Until you solve the problem of middle management status being based on the numbe
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by ebiester 4y ago
Here's a small list of studies: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/fat-shaming-makes-thing... . The short of it is that it increases stress, increases depression, eating disorders, and risk of suicide. As for sh
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https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai... Four failed in 2020. Four failed in 2019. None failed in 2022 or 2018. Banks fail fairly regularly, but it's the size of the bank and the t
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This is why engineers need to be on some customer calls. They can be told not to talk at first or be trained in customer etiquette, but nothing makes a difference like hearing this from the users.
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I absolutely have noticed. In interviews, people coming from difficult and stressful positions absolutely radiate this in their interviews! I know that I will feel emotionally drained after an interview with such people. Further, I have exp
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Find someone in the company that’s a second order connection and ask for a warm intro. Most companies still have a recruitment bonus for internal employees and after a short conversation most will tell you they’ll tell the internal hiring m
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Are you in Bangalore, Mississippi, or Edinburgh? All three can talk with those in the same accent and dialect easily but are going to labor when talking with each other. What happens when half of your code uses functional patterns and the o
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What is easy to understand code? What if you have three people in the same code base who write "easy to understand" code for them, but inconsistent with each other? Even if those three all understand each other while writing it, t
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by ebiester 4y ago
For those interested in PKM, that's also how I manage mine but I follow something closer to Tiago Forte's "Building a second brain" method. I use Logseq, and I have a sandbox for the particular day. Using Tagging, I can
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by ebiester 4y ago
I've went looking for these myself. While they certainly might exist, the literature is not easy to find for those in the FOSS community. The other issue is that most people are looking for cross-platform options outside the C/C++
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I think what's interesting here is that the author is trying to build a foundational component upon which other developers can leverage. The author is trying to build something that other GUIs will want to integrate (e.g. Druid and Xil
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I'm reminded of the system that ran on one bare metal application server and one database server (not including backups) that was replaced with 80 services and a 10x ops spend for production. It was also slower than the original system
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Is the author talking about information websites, websites with limited interactivity, or web applications that would feel more at home as desktop applications? I honestly believe that many of the complaints about SPAs as a bad paradigm don
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That works once you are profitable enough that the salaries are enough to cover sufficiency. however, if I am taking on the risk of no salary, I not only need substantial equity, I also need control. It's going to be my company. Now, i
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People were leaving the company, and recruiters were having difficulty bringing great programmers in at the price that they were willing to pay. (I could argue it would have been cheaper to pay programmers a premium to work in the technolog
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I don't even know if it's "fashion" as much as an industry that only knew that java 1.2 wasn't going to be the path forward if you wanted to develop with speed. There was no guarantee python or php were going to be
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I don't remember those as the good old days, especially on true web applications. I remember more bugs than I'd care to recount with the back button and scope and that's not even talking about having to simultaneously think i
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by ebiester 4y ago
I'll add another story. I think the hardest conversation circles around language choice. One problem with choosing innovative languages is that you can end up on a dead end. Zipcar, for example, used Tcl. While I am a fan of Tcl, it be
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by ebiester 4y ago
Honestly, look at Cracking the Cryptic's app. It's all hand generated puzzles so it's much more expensive, but their app is definitely the best.

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