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by endtime 7y ago
I'm a US citizen who does not want the government to run healthcare. I'm also an immigrant from a country where it does. I've seen what my family in my country of origin has to deal with and...no thanks.
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by endtime 7y ago
Pretty sure my kids (4, 4, and 1) don't pay taxes.
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by endtime 7y ago
If you build a new service that uses Spanner, you'd list Spanner as a dependency in your design doc, and maybe even decide to offer an SLO upper-bounded by Spanner's. But you wouldn't list, or even know, the transitive depen
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by endtime 7y ago
I've had a couple experiences getting paid to do nothing for a couple months, one during a summer research project in undergrad and one at a big tech company. I found it far more stressful and less valuable than if I'd had actual
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by endtime 7y ago
I used FreeTaxUSA last year and this year. Very cheap, the free support tier was quick and helpful, and they even saved me some time by prefilling applicable fields from last year.
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by endtime 8y ago
> It angers me that Peter Thiel simultaneously advocates AGI and maintains a hardened bunker. Yes, because if there's one thing that will stop a paperclip maximizer, it's a bunker made of useful matter...
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by endtime 8y ago
FWIW, I just upgraded my Thinkpad for a newer one at work (Google, running GLinux/Debian). Seems great so far.
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by endtime 8y ago
That's why he apologized when he won.
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by endtime 8y ago
As a 32-year-old with 3 kids, my parents are still in their mid-50s and can watch our kids for a week while we go on vacation. My father-in-law passed away last in his mid-70s (my mother-in-law is amazing and is a huge help, but she can&#x
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by endtime 8y ago
I think you might be viewing it backwards. In this case, Amazon is the only one selling but lots of places were buying.
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by endtime 8y ago
That seems like a better metric to me as well. Though solutions which maximize this and also increase inequality are often unpopular (e.g. free markets).
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by endtime 8y ago
Inequality isn't the right measure unless you make some assumptions that have, historically, not held (e.g. fixed total amount of wealth). All you care about is that the poorest people can afford somewhere to live. Toy example: If eve
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by endtime 8y ago
How is not free market for polities to compete for attractive employers?
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by endtime 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Google and am an interviewer. I'm speaking for myself and not my employer, and not citing any internal data, just my own experience. I don't know what our offer rate is, but I think it is probably well below
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by endtime 8y ago
> Redistribution of wealth usually refers to seizing private assets directly, rather than simply creating more taxes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redistribution_of_income_and_w... says: "Redistribution of in
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by endtime 8y ago
This was intended as a serious question in good faith so the downvotes and lack of responses are unfortunate. To elaborate: Hillary Clinton's 2016 platform included increasing the inheritance tax, and she's about as centrist as De
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by endtime 8y ago
Which Democrats don't support redistribution of wealth? I didn't know any such Democrats existed.
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by endtime 8y ago
Socialists generally tend to favor starvation, I believe.
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by endtime 8y ago
Wouldn't a socialist be happy that the laborers are no longer being exploited?
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by endtime 8y ago
The gun owners are typically on the other side of the aisle from those who support redistribution of wealth. Not saying that couldn't change or that desperation can't trump principle, of course.
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by endtime 8y ago
> If most of the workers are making less now, why would they vote to unionize? You seem to be confusing the direction of time...
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by endtime 8y ago
So you think Steve Jobs was a net negative to Apple? They'd be better off if e.g. he'd never come back to run it?
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by endtime 8y ago
We all have justified beliefs about things we haven't personally observed. E.g. I didn't see the moon landing but I believe it happened.
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by endtime 8y ago
> One thing that is true in all successful organizations over time is that for any given person, no amount of genius will make up for being an asshole. Wouldn't Steve Jobs be a counterexample to this? And possibly Bill Gates?
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by endtime 8y ago
FYI, that number is probably at least an order of magnitude too high: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-sch...
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by endtime 8y ago
I met my wife at a meetup, as well as some of my closest friends. Definitely recommend it if you're feeling lonely.
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by endtime 8y ago
Sounds like, in effect, they also deceived the public about Corbyn. Not to say that it isn't pretty well understood what sort of fellow he is...
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by endtime 8y ago
Then why do you expect anyone to value your opinion on what to do with human-race-as-a-whole-scale resources?
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by endtime 8y ago
I don't know the first thing about filmmaking, and my terminology will probably be wrong, but...my uninformed speculation is that creating coherent, consistent, high quality raw material gives the editors (or whoever) freedom to compos
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by endtime 8y ago
Okay, of course, I didn't mean to suggest that I'm a robot - I meant that"Googleyness" is not a conscious criterion. I'm sure charisma etc. can influence me a bit. But when I've asked the same question 50 tim

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