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by harryh 6y ago
This isn't something that happens unless you've set up your tax withholding egregiously incorrectly.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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That was a majority political position. Majority political positions can still be morally wrong.
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Drugs are currently (mostly) illegal in the US. If the police have good reason to believe that you have illegal drugs in your house they can and will force entry and take the drugs. And arrest you. Sometimes while doing this they end up kil
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The last one about the data scientist tweet got even crazier : https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/white-fragility-raci...
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Indeed, it is entirely possible that Apple is charging too much in some cases and reducing the quantity of interesting apps that might otherwise be built.
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30% is exorbitant for the value offered. The value offered isn't the service of processing the payment or being listed in an app store directory. These are small things. What you're really paying for is the ability to access the
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Yes, potentially. But the potential side effects are scary. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-03/solar-geo...
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Current projections of Earth's population have a peak population of about 11B (only 40% higher than today) towards the end of the century and then declining. It's always hard to know what's going to happen in the future, but
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Highest expected value of future donations This. This is the one. If you view everything Harvard does as supporting this goal, it all makes perfect sense. You don't necessarily want the smartest kids. You want the kids that are most
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Lots of companies enter bankruptcy, are restructured, and emerge from the process without equity being destroyed. There is certainly some chance that happens here.
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Estimate are useful in software businesses for a wide variety of important reasons: - so you can tell the customer when they can reasonable expect to get something they need - so you know when you will need to be ready with the next project
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many of the fears those protesters had were realized over the next two decades Is there a list of these fears somewhere? Ideally as presented at the time.
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It sounds like you don't know what "loss ratio" means in the context of an insurance company. Loss ratio is the % of premiums collected that are paid back out in claims. If the number is below 100%, then your core insurance b
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I think you might have meant Dorn (as in David Dorn, the ex-cop who was recently killed during looting in St Louis) not Dorner.
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That's a fair point and I will confess to not being up to speed on the machinations of the Reddit BoD. I wish Alexis had been more clear about the issues in his statement.
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I think that resignation as a form of protest can be powerful when you are a junior member of a team and you think senior members are doing the wrong thing. But when you are on the board of directors, you are the boss. In that case resignat
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You can have a financial system without a stock market. It would be constituted with public banks or various kinds of credit unions. Not really. A financial system that only consisted of debt and not equity would not be able to support an
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Thinking of the stock market as merely "a way to provide retirement plans" is wrong. It costs money to serve meals, put people in housing and invent technologies. Where does a lot of that money come from? Our financial system (of
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Ya, it's certainly more nuanced than I was going to get across in just a few sentences. Mainly I wanted to push back against: "the field contributes nothing to society, and has only negative externalities"
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HFT has significantly lowered trading costs for all investors. Here's a statement from the CEO of Vanguard espousing this position: https://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/25/vanguard-chief-defends-high-... Because
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While your statement about the 11 most populous states is correct mathematically, it isn't politically. That group contains states that are quite politically diverse: from Georgia to California. There is no way that a Presidential cand
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How do you reconcile the fact that the US government is as big as it has ever been while at the same time we have made significant progress on racial issues? Further much of that progress was driven by government mandate: The Civil Rights a
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I think that school choice can certainly help but there are limits. District 1 in NYC has a form of school choice but segregation persists and is even driven by minorities in some ways. This article is really interesting: https:/&#x2F
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I think the libertarian suggestions are certainly part of the solution but I don't think they're sufficient on their own. History shows us that racism is remarkably resistant to market forces.
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The major difference is that an individual reddit account could only press the button once and anonymous presses were not allowed. A single person can send an unlimited number of messages to this new website. Given that I would expect this
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The Civil Rights Acts were not bills with misleading names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968
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I'm pretty conflicted on this issue overall, but I don't think it's entirely nuts to hold the President of the US to a higher standard than many other accounts.
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When your politics are to the left of currently enacted Swedish law (and the law of virtually every other country on earth) you're not really a "slightly left-of-centre person in a global context."
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Otherwise, you're suggesting Sweden is somehow the yardstick of the global left I didn't suggest this. You did: "labeling Bernie Sanders far left as opposed to, say, Sweden". You also mentioned Finland. TBH I just pick

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