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by hundt 7y ago
> Whether or not this counts as “selling” strikes me as a meaningless semantic distinction: Either way, the school receives some money up front and an investor shoulders some of the risk of the ISA not paying out. And either way, Lambda
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by hundt 7y ago
Thanks, I enjoyed the exchange as well. I am also curious about the correlation coefficient but could not find any details in the amount of time I had to put into it. I did get the feeling that there is substantial research in the area of w
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by hundt 7y ago
Sure! Here are some things that could cause the rent/value ratio to be significantly different for a single property: - There is no usable building on your property. - There are plans to build a highway through your neighborhood in fiv
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by hundt 7y ago
Yes, I understand this point but the ratio between rents and property values varies wildly. So yes you can compute an average ratio and say it is "equivalent" to a tax on imputed rent if you adjust by that ratio, just as you could
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by hundt 7y ago
Yes, there's a consumption component and a non-consumption component. Of course when either component goes up the total goes up. But the tax is on the total value and therefore it's not a consumption tax.
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by hundt 7y ago
You could make that argument about any property (e.g. art). I guess your definition of "consumption" is "having something someone else doesn't"? But that isn't what most people mean, I think. Edit: I think a ta
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by hundt 7y ago
FWIW if you don't need cgo then CGO_ENABLED=0 is sufficient to get a static binary. The tricky part is getting a static binary while also embedding C libraries. That's what the github issue is about.
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by hundt 7y ago
I think your example actually helps make the case for imputed income, because whether you happen to live in the same house you own has huge tax consequences, which doesn't seem optimal. Without imputed income you are incentivized to li
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by hundt 7y ago
I don't think that's the assumption that it's based on. It's more like, when you own an asset, you get to benefit from the consumption of that asset. You did not "prepay" for the consumption of that asset. You
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HTTP Desync Attacks: Request Smuggling Reborn(portswigger.net)
2 points by hundt 7y ago|0 comments
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by hundt 7y ago
Man, I wish I could have quickly thought of a different example. I tried to avoid starting a housing debate with "assume for the sake of argument," but it doesn't feel like it worked!
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by hundt 7y ago
To me it feels like you are arguing that the guiding principle for whether an action is "antisocial" is whether you are free riding or imposing externalities: getting a benefit at other people's expense. Which is a fine moral
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by hundt 7y ago
> They violate the following moral principle: “If everyone did what I’m doing, what would happen?” This is probably me being stupid but I have a little trouble understanding exactly how to apply this principle in practice. Example: assu
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What if we stopped pretending the climate apocalypse can be stopped?(newyorker.com)
83 points by hundt 7y ago|139 comments
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by hundt 7y ago
I'm not sure I understand your argument. I assume you mean "assault weapons" because actual "assault rifles" (capable of automatic or burst fire) are not generally legal to own in the U.S. But your argument would ap
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by hundt 7y ago
Yeah, that appears to be the "Hacker News wisdom" on this topic and it certainly seems plausible to me. I was just wondering if this is a basically universally held opinion, or if some people with relevant experience have a differ
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by hundt 7y ago
I'm wondering, does anyone have any stories of involving HR in a situation like this (less-than-overt discrimination or harassment from a person more senior/important than you) and getting a positive outcome? At this point wheneve
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by hundt 7y ago
> I've certainly never hit the "Mutually referencing type parameters" issue before. I don't think I have either, but according to that document supporting this use case was considered a minimum requirement for generic
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by hundt 7y ago
You're probably not still looking for an answer, but since I tried to work through this question myself I will answer it, if only for my own benefit: See the "Mutually referencing type parameters" example. [0] Ignoring the is
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by hundt 7y ago
The person you are responding to claims that the situation has changed in the last 10 or 15 years, so I think your comment is not really responsive.
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by hundt 7y ago
> It doesn't represent anything tangible that exists right now. It's realized capital gains, not unrealized paper wealth, that is the proxy for goods and services that could be used to meet peoples' needs in the present. I
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by hundt 7y ago
To answer my own question: I googled that consultant and found a series of articles on his personal blog with meaningful criticisms of DAFs from the perspective of "real" charities (the ones that provide services or advocacy), inc
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by hundt 7y ago
There may be a good case against Donor Advised Funds, but this article doesn't really make it. It argues that DAFs may be "crowding out" contributions to charities, citing the fact that Fidelity Charitable raised more money t
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by hundt 7y ago
> you also have to prove malicious intent, meaning that the speaker knows that what they're saying is false, and is saying it specifically in order to harm someone. I think you're talking about "actual malice" which a
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by hundt 7y ago
> Something that gives some kinda hint as to the storm ahead but doesn't hand out a pre-built bunch of stuff the script-kiddies can fuck your business over with. I am not an expert, but an argument I've heard before is that thi
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by hundt 7y ago
You assumed that the process is done when you click that first Submit button, but it is not. There is an e-signing step that makes it clear what you are doing and what you are signing. [0] https://i.snag.gy/tSf20W.jpg
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by hundt 7y ago
I don't think his point is that the German middle class suffers as a result of their model. I think he is just saying that Germans accept a high (compared the U.S.) level of direct taxes on the middle class to enable their way of life,
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by hundt 7y ago
That's fine as long as you don't mind if the underlying array is modified. As the parent points out, a slice is a view into an array and there could be other views into the same array. https://play.golang.org/p&#x2
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by hundt 7y ago
Sometimes you need to care! https://play.golang.org/p/goL1JtapY7q
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by hundt 7y ago
You can start a container with a shell that shares the PID and network namespaces of the container you want to debug.

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