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by gumby 4mo ago
The taxes are collected one way or another, since places need roads and such. OP might find income taxes to be better than property taxes or sales taxes, depending on where they choose and what they get for their money.
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by gumby 4mo ago
> left California for a zero tax state. Where, pray tell, is this state with zero taxes? Próspera?
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by gumby 4mo ago
I think 0 people will say “I may be suffering but at least my countryman is doing fine.” But I think you’re accidentally arguing a position it doesn’t sound like you support. Macroeconomics has moved into an abstract region where “homo eco
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by gumby 4mo ago
> He instead says that the US has more auto jobs because of the cross-border integration than otherwise. The decline of the US auto industry began very soon after the start of the auto pact. His topic is NA as a large single economy, and
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by gumby 4mo ago
> Also as a Canadian I suspect the new agreement most likely will be even less beneficial to Canadians. I think Carney is unlikely to let that happen. Australia’s most recent FTA with the US was lopsided because AUS still had a policy of
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by gumby 4mo ago
> When I was a kid I was amazed that people like Edison and Tesla had labs not filled with gear from some lab manufacturer, but stuff they built themselves from first principles. Most chem labs re still like this — ours certainly is. Cer
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Appliance and tractor companies lobby against giving military right to repair(404media.co)
1 points by gumby 2y ago|0 comments
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by gumby 2y ago
The reasulting reality of the managerless approach hasn’t been good. As the they say, “if you don’t have any managers you have politics”. I have several friends who used to work at Valve none of them hate the place, they still have friends
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GLP-1 therapy increases visceral adipose tissue metabolic activity(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
105 points by gumby 2y ago|118 comments
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by gumby 2y ago
> Just as "magic spells" use special rhymes and archaic terms to signal their power, the convoluted language of legalese acts to convey a sense of authority, they conclude. This is definitely the case. I've modified NDAs
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by gumby 2y ago
Normally: no agenda, no need to attend. But since our team is currently small, we have a deliberately agendaless meeting every morning. We talk about anything: somebody's daughter got engage, an upcoming vacation, that gnarly enginee
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by gumby 2y ago
Yeah, we only need a distributed chain at the edge, and even there there aren’t “competing” changes in the sense there could be in an implementation of a currency. But it’s a block chain like any other Merkel tree. But it’s to prove chain
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by gumby 2y ago
Every war zone is a testing/advertising zone for weapons manufacturers. Think of the infamous (and hilarious, if it hadn’t meant loss of life) Exocet ad in Jane’s after the Falklands War. And NATO’s role in the war is crucial, of cour
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by gumby 2y ago
Yeah, I moved the paragraphs around and pasted the quote in where it belonged, forgetting that it had been pasted at the top. Too late to edit, though.
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by gumby 2y ago
> Helping a customer solve challenges is often super rewarding, but only when I can remove roadblocks for customers who can do most of the work themselves. One thing I loved about doing technical enterprise sales is that I’d meet people
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by gumby 2y ago
Unfortunately apple autocorrect doesn't know this and I didn't notice until it was too late to edit.
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by gumby 2y ago
NATO is learning a lot from the AFU. When Ukraine eventually joins NATO (or even just after the war ends) their veterans will be eagerly sought out so the AF of other states can learn from them! Note: I am not Ukranian, or even in any way
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by gumby 2y ago
I believe this class of drug also suppress glycogen emission from the liver when exercising or eating.
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by gumby 2y ago
Looks like a nice start! What I miss is good filtering and search within the feeds. Some readers make "smart folders". But usually the searches are pretty primitive: not searching metadata (like starred or read/unread, in o
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by gumby 2y ago
My company actually does have a use case where a blockchain makes sense, and we are proceeding that with it. Unfortunately we have a buzzword trifecta of "blockchain", "AI", and "cloud" so we are careful about
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by gumby 2y ago
> A bit of a cynical take (on Hacker News no less) but after being in the industry for a while, my view is that the best definition of “level” is self-referential: it corresponds to the ability of a person to convince others that they ar
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by gumby 2y ago
> Interestingly, the date line wasn't always where it is now. Different empires defined their own prime meridians (and thus implicitly their date line 180 degrees away) from the ~16th-19th century. Eventually in the late 1800s a co
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by gumby 2y ago
However there is also the loss of prestige for Elsevier. MIT is one the the preeminent universities in the world, perhaps the preeminent one.* The loss of MIT gives permission to other institutions who may be more concerned about reputati
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by gumby 2y ago
Just what can be decteded from the air, in shallow water. But could be a good start. Unlike me they may have access to some capability to actually do it.
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by gumby 2y ago
The fate of journals wax and wane, and for me the apex of el Reg was in the era of Andrew Orlowski and (RIP) Lester Haines (they overlapped). Orlowski knows his computing history and writes really well. Haines wrote not just knowledgeably
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by gumby 2y ago
Just doing the analysis for a plausible plan for a robot company would be expensive. My idea is at the "some guy in a pub" level :-).
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by gumby 2y ago
20 years ago my kid still had to learn up to 12x20. The 12s are pretty handy for a bunch of reasons, and especially if you live in the USA. Using base 10 for the metric system was a mistake.
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by gumby 2y ago
They still teach them in Germany, though I think maybe only up to 10x10 these days. In the US AFAIK they are called "times tables"; in Germany "one times one" („ Einmaleins ‟). It's funny what people emphasize for
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by gumby 2y ago
Prize seems rather low. I imagine a waterproof robotic dog with a huge snorkel, a magnetometer, and a big grapple to hoist (not drag) munitions to shore. Different sizes for aircraft bombs and grenades (from a picture in the article -- I
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by gumby 2y ago
You mean the bonesaw-through-the-chest scene in Reanimator was not accurate?

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