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by fsckboy 3mo ago
i guarantee you it was a stock transfer, that's where the real tax write-offs come in. you give a $200k donation, get a $200k writeoff, saves you about 50% (100K) in taxes you owe, so it's like the government is kicking in $100k a
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> This is why awards need to be based on % of total assets or revenue of the defendant. yes! and we need to add the death penalty to the list of punishments for children, because what matters is not the size of the crime, but the harshn
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> (Emacs 'windows' are actually more like frames in other apps) I dont use your "other apps" enough to know exactly what you mean, but it gives me the urge to point out, "Emacs 'frames' are actually mo
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"current project is a “Diesel punk” vehicle called the Starfield Dragonwing Intergalactic Speedster" https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXfDQb7EmU4/
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> I do not understand what you mean by "overcorrecting WAY too far". you wrote this, and I would call this "attempting to correct any misconception": > This is a byproduct of wild wealth disparity, not because the
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> We are almost two decades into the age of billionaire philanthropy 10 decades, Rockefeller was the first billionaire 100 yrs ago, and also a philanthropist.
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> 700k. Still a ton of money, but very very far off from a billion that 700K is income, but the billion is assets. earning 700K is the income from $10 million in the stock market (although working to earn $700K is in exchange for you t
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> a byproduct of wild wealth disparity, not because the rich are so generous with paying the government you're overcorrecting WAY too far. Tax rate percentages are much higher on high income people, and THAT is why they pay most
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> rarely seen in the US. In Asia they are quite common Here's a recent story of what happens when Asian family sensibilities move into a typical American neighborhood https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12&#x2
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> Nothing I said was meant to imply they represented either the EU or the Netherlands as a government. the sentence you are referring to said (pay attention to the italics ): "I don’t think they represent either the EU or Netherla
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
Ok, we've moved the comments thither, except the ones that are only relevant hither.
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> As the calendar rolled from 1999 to 2000, we entered a new millennium, century, decade, year, day, ... no, that all happened when we rolled from 2000 to 2001. smh, even paedants today aren't what they used to be.
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
you missed the chance to also say hither
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> asymmetric warfare/terrorism is a natural response to violent oppression it always sounds more high-minded to adopt universal/philosophical wording, but it's highly effective, your point is well made. October 7th was vi
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> doesn't match most of my experience splitting firewood can't wait to hear your comments after playing pacman: whoosh
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> The implication that SpaceX will "save us" is quite funny. nobody implied that. some people state the hope for it but that does not include me, I simply explained why OceanX does not satisfy SpaceX's goals. everybody on
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> I feel like maybe we've needed an "OceanX" before a "SpaceX" SpaceX is based on the idea that our planet will someday be uninhabitable, so we need to be ready to colonize other planets. The sooner we start, th
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how are you Gentlemen? you have no chance to survive, make your time
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same number of characters, 386 is more informative than x86
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
fun yesterday, but today there's 3 screens of answering the same questions with ever replay? at least put all the questions on the same screen, this "modern" way is ridiculous
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if you borrow against it and buy shares of stock, the stockmarket generally can be counted on for at least 7% returns, and the borrowing cost would be 5%, so no, chances are the interest would not eat up the borrowing.
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> This didn't matter when humans were the only readers. But now most PDFs end up in an LLM. but it did matter, a lot. the PDF format was originally proprietary and was designed to be proprietary and to disallow casual text extrac
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
wikipedia: "The exception that proves the rule" is a saying whose meaning is contested. Henry Watson Fowler's Modern English Usage identifies five ways in which the phrase has been used,[1] and each use makes some sort of re
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> As someone who works in this space, the headline is a bit of a stretch. The overlap in the locations of Pokemon Go Player data and any active Drone heavy theaters of war is a tiny sliver (or zero?) are you saying that drone training i
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> GDP is not a measure of living standards. if you don't maintain per capita GDP, you will not be able to maintain living standards.
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... and won by 1 vote
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"standing" is a made-up concept with a fairly short history. Remember how we look back at the early part of the 20th century as being filled with virtuous people at every level of industry and govt? me neither: The modern U.S. do
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> The word 'crispy', in my world, has no business applying to pancakes i won't eat pancakes that are not crispy, or that were but were stacked up steaming in a pile till there were enough to serve to everybody at once: no
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the US has a large relatively recent influx of Latino populations, and they play a lot of soccer, and in a number of cultures also baseball
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CP/M was written to do what DEC's minicomputers did with PIP, the peripheral interchange program was designed to create a way for programs to interact with devices (printers, console, modem, etc.) in a generalized generic way. BAS

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