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by frmersdog 5mo ago
>The buyers would be only those that can make efficient enough returns to offset this tax Or people who aren't wealthy enough to have to pay it.
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by frmersdog 5mo ago
You could also just... not pay. And then lawyer-up when the IRS comes after you. (They will not come after you, because they know you've lawyered-up and aren't going to make it easy.) IIRC this is part of how they avoid taxes in g
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by frmersdog 5mo ago
Boy, that's going to suck for people whose credit situation has shut them out of most traditional housing situations. Or people who rely on what other people don't consider food for sustenance, for whatever reason (protein powder?
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by frmersdog 5mo ago
Yeah, "It won't affect the 99%," is the wrong framing. The entire point is for it to affect the 99% (by undoing the effect disproportionately high wealth among the wealthiest and disproportionately low wealth among the middle
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by frmersdog 5mo ago
In a globalized society, all of this is downstream of a dysfunctional economic system, which itself is downstream of the misplaced priorities of the countries with the most power. Speaking out of my ass, but I'd bet that the amount of
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by frmersdog 5mo ago
People figure out things to say about topics they care about. But the kind of person who comes to HN doesn't care about the DRC, so yeah, not much commentary. Not surprised, just disappointed. If such people also dislike being called o
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by frmersdog 5mo ago
As good a time as any to remind people that the Southern Strategy was never really all that Southern: https://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/052815watchingtvracia... https://www.mediamatters.org/le
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by frmersdog 5mo ago
>Zero comments half-an-hour later, despite being on the front page That tracks.
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by frmersdog 5mo ago
That's strange, I was just asking Claude to write a motion for me earlier, and I've never even taken the LSAT.
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by frmersdog 5mo ago
>Banks I wonder how many months until this suggestion becomes slightly embarrassing. I barely want my banks to know what I buy and to be responsible for my money. I really don't want them knowing everywhere I go online. Especially w
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by frmersdog 6mo ago
Image editing program -> different versions of the image, each with some but not all of the elements you want, on each layer -> mask out the parts you don't need/apply mask, fill with black, soft brush with white the parts y
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Tell HN: I will pay money for a YouTube front end that stops the "Rec Roulette"
1 points by frmersdog 6mo ago|0 comments
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by frmersdog 6mo ago
And this is almost certainly the direct cause of the Dot Com Bubble bursting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcv0600V5q4 We were bamboozled on a massive scale.
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by frmersdog 6mo ago
You need to have a, "Okay, I've tried 10 times, it's not working, what's the answer?" button. That will help not just us rubes who can't understand, but also in the off chance something is broken and even &quot
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by frmersdog 6mo ago
We had a deal and we tore it up. More than once, if you include the inciting incident of undermining a democratically-elected leader who was bringing the central player in the Middle East into the mainstream economic and political global or
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by frmersdog 6mo ago
I dunno about that. At a previous job, we temporarily relocated to a building that featured a series of identical classrooms that were accessible by connecting doors in the back (it was really one long room with heavy dividers that did a go
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by frmersdog 6mo ago
I don't think it's too far to include Earthbound. After all, You cannot grasp the true form of Giygas' attack!
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by frmersdog 6mo ago
https://archive.is/iioaU
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SpaceX Targets More Than $2 Trillion Valuation in IPO(bloomberg.com)
5 points by frmersdog 6mo ago|1 comments
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by frmersdog 6mo ago
There's a business lesson in the longest lived creatures being the ones that move slow, abide small insults, and make themselves generally unappetizing.
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by frmersdog 7mo ago
>When the temporary url dies, it becomes a referral link to cryptocrap. Huh. Good to know. Please don't click it anymore, thanks.
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by frmersdog 7mo ago
IIUC this is how ads on 4chan work. I learned this during my brief foray into targeted merchandising ( https://www.temporary-url.com/9CBFE ). Everyone on a given board at a given time was seeing the same ads.
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by frmersdog 7mo ago
Situational training is a joke (based in part on tactics developed in Israel/Occupied Palestine, i.e., for a literal military occupation), load-outs aren't designed around need but as a hand-out to our arms manufacturing industry
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by frmersdog 7mo ago
Our rent has been ~$300 more than it should be for 5 years. Across just the 2 communities we've lived in since the pandemic started (around 260 units total), that's already about $6 million in extra revenue for our landlords. What
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Deal to stop algorithmic price-fixing of apartment rentals leaves out renters(courthousenews.com)
7 points by frmersdog 7mo ago|3 comments
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by frmersdog 7mo ago
They're trying to avoid thinking (or at least talking) about it because they don't control it. They're hoping that the next downturn (which will almost certainly include a partial collapse of the game industry as we know it)
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by frmersdog 7mo ago
Tent-pole black movies? Basically anything Ryan Coogler or Jordan Peele are involved in. They're a case where the unfortunate stereotype might work out in your favor, if you're looking for a group experience that heightens with sh
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by frmersdog 7mo ago
Go read /r/LawyerTalk and enjoy the horror of the dawning realization that this is a lot of professionals. I think it's an issue that stems from getting too deep into the minutiae of the technical and cultural matters of one&
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by frmersdog 7mo ago
Israel's a democracy the way the 3/5ths compromise promoted democracy.
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by frmersdog 7mo ago
Agreed. http://lifegoesonintehran.com/

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