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by fjsolwmv 7y ago
Schmidt is like Bloomberg. They aspired to geopolitical power as their ambition exceeded what was available in the business world. Bloomberg had the weird twist of trying to buy his way into British royalty, while Schmidt wants to be "
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https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2016/may/deductibility-... Says software is capitalized over 3-5yrs. The difference is that software dev costs usually grow smoothly year over year but gigafactory launche
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by fjsolwmv 7y ago
Amazon is not a human person. Which human people pay too little taxes for the wealth they receive or consume? That's what matters.
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Only if you set up a corporate tax shelter for yourself.
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You get a personal exemption and a standard deduction for your living expenses. Yes, it's unfairly low compared to Jeff Bezos's deduction for his Gulfstream plane and executive cafe.
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Gifted classrooms are funded by a budget and have a certain number of seats available. In must be a percentile selection (mixed with subjective judgments, diversity, etc)
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by fjsolwmv 7y ago
"Love" is a terribly overloaded word, perhaps because billions of people intentionally abuse its meaning. An aphorism I enjoy is "love is something you do, not something you feel". Also, "love is when you value some
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by fjsolwmv 7y ago
Are arbitrary textbook physics formulas HN worthy? He title didn't even copy the formula correctly, a + is missing.
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by fjsolwmv 7y ago
Anyone can accuse anyone of anything. Guardian loves sexing up their articles with innuendo
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That shows the author doesn't understand the issue well, because every definition is semantics. That's what the word means. The question is why certain semantics are prefered.
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It doesn't matter. An additional element at the beginning of a sequence won't make anyone think you unintelligent, just a bit confused
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When there are 0 good results for a query, Google and most users don't care which bad results are served
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That's good for EU on both counts. Unchecked corporate power is a bad thing.
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"trust" is not the same as "monopoly". Sherman Antitrust is already ahead of you on that.
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It's simpler to make diagionals 1.5 or 1.4 and then round when needed.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Don't be afraid of teaching at a poverty school. Those families need your help and won't be the ones threatening law suits over As. You'll be thankful for the few parents with the energy, knowledge, and interest to make at in
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Time alloted? Why does earning calculus have a 4 month expiration date? Why are we blaming the victims for the oppressive irrational grading system?
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Uber doesn't.
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Greenpeace opposes both coal and nuclear in favor of renewables. Saying they caused coal is ridiculous; they are neutral on coal vs nuclear.
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Death is a large part of life.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Why do you drink so much coffee?
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Little kids naturally wake up earlier.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
> we can't ask society to accept that starting work at 11am is fine. Why? You gave no rationale, just asserted it. What's wrong with sleeping 2-10? Why should society accept that rush hour is acceptable?
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Updating status is beneficial for the individual and the senior engineers.
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1. If you are replaning (?) every day, maybe your project is in chaos and needs some real planning so people can make consistent progress without changing direction every day? 4. Everyone is forced to kill time or disrut schedule so that th
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So you think you would have not been successful as a software developer if your video game time was limited to 2hrs/day? Nor that you might have been able to use that time to develop physical fitness or other life skills?
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It is free and easy to simply not buy your kid a screen, or take away the one you gave them. The main "benefit" to parents of screens is that it's a cheap bad babysitter that shuts kids up.
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That's cool but it's not what the parent poster described ("half a day of Spanish"). It's weird to say that learning Spanish is bad because Spanish speaking kids are getting too much value from learning English, lik
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Those are activities are much healthier uses of time. Video games suck up a lot of time with zero or negative physical benefits and low mental benefits.
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What's wrong with D&D?

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