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by ineptech 5y ago
That's very different from what I'm describing. CFDs are financial instruments pegged to (real) stock market prices; I'm describing a market that, like Bitclout, is entirely divorced from any objective measure.
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by ineptech 5y ago
Compare this to the stock market. Think of a share of AAPL, for a moment, as being the combination of two things: the ownership of a tiny sliver of Apple, and a bet that Apple will increase in size. The first part, buying a little slice of
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by ineptech 5y ago
> Sell the house after less than five years You need to live there two years, not five[0]. > You showed that there are ways for middle-class homeowners to pay the tax... I said... "on their home". If you move out of it and
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by ineptech 5y ago
You are misinterpreting that part; you can claim the exemption in a house you've lived in for two years. "Two years out of the last five" means you can live in the house for two years, then move out of it (presumably because
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by ineptech 5y ago
Because there's a tax shelter for that case - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxpayer_Relief_Act_of_1997
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by ineptech 5y ago
"Well, this tax might still hit someone at the upper-upper-end of the middle class if they live in the fastest-appreciating real estate market in history" seems equivalent to admitting that it does not hit the middle class general
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by ineptech 5y ago
> Raising capital gains would be a decent idea that forces the rich to pay more. Basically zero support for it. Zero support among whom, the wolves or the sheep? Taxing the rich more is generally popular[0] and this would accomplish tha
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by ineptech 5y ago
I don't think you're describing an obstacle to change, you're describing the mechanism of change avoidance. Compare: "Gosh, every time we try to tax the wolves, it ends up hurting the sheep as well. Why can't our
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by ineptech 5y ago
> I have no idea how any rational person... There's no reason to expect the law to be rational or objective. Why is it a felony when I steal from my employer, but a civil suit when they steal from me? Because that's what the pe
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by ineptech 5y ago
Any change in language could be a tool in constructing a group identity or brainwashing. Learning Spanish, avoiding swearing, using old-timey accents, etc. What on earth makes you think this particular one is?
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by ineptech 5y ago
> Yes, and there is a very good reason English supports both types of claims, which mean substantially different things. Right, and one of them isn't literally true, hence the point of all this. If the ball looks blue to you, it wi
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by ineptech 5y ago
Nothing, unless someone disagrees; once someone argues that the cat isn't furry, stop using 'is' and it will be clearer what you really disagree about. Consider a more realistic example, e.g. "Russia is a dictatorship&
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by ineptech 5y ago
I read about E-prime in my late teens, and while I don't actually use it in everyday language, thinking about the implications has deeply changed the way I think about things. The basic idea for me is that all instances of 'is&#x2
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by ineptech 5y ago
Apparently! But to be clear, the reason I don't see this is because very few senior devs opt to move in to management (even less in to PM, scrum master, etc), not because there are so many management jobs available. And the converse
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by ineptech 5y ago
I just meant the general bureaucratic cost of effecting such a change, but I probably shouldn't have mentioned cost as I don't think it's a big factor in the general opposition to the idea. You're right that it wouldn&#
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by ineptech 5y ago
A motor that doesn't require energy violates the second law by definition; a selectively-enforced barrier that lets hot particles through but not cold particles didn't obviously provably cost energy. If that sounds like a cop out,
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by ineptech 5y ago
I mean, if you don't like programming there are other careers; but I've never heard of a successful senior dev that a) wanted to switch in to management or PM, and b) couldn't do so easily.
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by ineptech 5y ago
> Would Oregon necessarily be against this? Yes, Western/urban/blue Oregon is against this. I don't think there's a simple self-interest-based reason like "we would lose X if they left," but it is considere
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by ineptech 5y ago
All of this sounds like an accurate description of the software industry, and I'm not sure why you think it's unacceptable. You worked hard to become a good developer, you progressed in your career to the point where you can do i
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by ineptech 5y ago
Agreed! The elephants in the room for me are the self-reported hours (Did "hours worked" really increase, or was that time spent changing laundry and running errands that got classified as work time) and the obvious confounder of
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by ineptech 5y ago
What's "reasonable" depends on cost. Suppose I have concerns about eye strain. Is it reasonable for me to demand that my employer install skylights? Probably not. Is it reasonable for me to demand a brighter desk lamp for
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by ineptech 5y ago
At a high level I agree, but monetary policy isn't the only way to affect wealth inequality either. And the question I'm wrestling with is not, "Was/is two decades of relatively easy money a bad policy?" but &quo
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by ineptech 5y ago
See, that sounds scary. But isn't "we printed a whole lot of money and didn't get high inflation" equivalent to "if we hadn't printed all that money, we would've had deflation"? (This is not a rhetor
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by ineptech 5y ago
You misunderstood. Please assume good faith.
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by ineptech 5y ago
I clarified this down-thread but let me say it again here: I don't mean to suggest anyone make anything up, I meant to suggest that being afraid of getting covid is a reasonable reason to want to wfh.
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by ineptech 5y ago
> I'm assuming you're suggesting he just hide behind fictitious ones? I don't think "I'm not comfortable returning to the office for health reasons" implies any medical condition beyond being afraid to get c
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by ineptech 5y ago
> It seems like you've thought about this quite a bit — what would the reasoning be? I have not, no, this is just guesswork, but the reasoning is how much of an unknown quantity the covid risk still is. If Bob's doctor says it
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by ineptech 5y ago
I manage people and have some advice. Start with, "I'd like to be converted to full remote, what's the process for that?" The answer is probably "I don't know but I don't think it would fly." Insist
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by ineptech 5y ago
I don't know why this is limited to game developers. I'm a mgr/dir and it seems obvious to me that secrecy around salaries is consciously perpetuated because it allows corporations to get away with underpaying some people. I
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by ineptech 5y ago
I have tried to gently help my corporate overlords to understand that wfh is something happening that they need to react to, not a decision they get to make. It is 100% not working. The convo goes like this: Them: We understand the concer

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