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by iso1210 6y ago
Does that make the information actionable? Does being an INTJ allow a prediction on anything else other than being an INTJ? What is the point in clustering them? If your team is 75% ravenclaw, 20% Hufflepuff and 5% other, how does that help
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by iso1210 6y ago
Interesting. As I came into the industry in the late 90s I'm still very warely on Embrace Extend Extinguish from Microsoft. Tax, especially international tax, is hard, especially when Microsoft hide who your customers are. Why are Micr
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by iso1210 6y ago
Why? If you like a stock, buy it, and enjoy. If you're gambling, tough. If you're a short seller who lost the best part of a billion dollars today, thoughts and prayers? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-reta
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by iso1210 6y ago
Aus median wage AUD89,000, tax on that seems to be $20,472.00 - 23%, plus $1780 medicare US median wage USD49,764, Fed + CA tax is $9,611.02 - 19% Median wage in Australia is far higher than in America seems more important than the tax rate
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by iso1210 6y ago
So Jeff Bezos has made a site to show how rich he is, but then he wants us to "buy him a coffee"?
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by iso1210 6y ago
Risk of not being able to afford food, rent, or (in the US) healthcare, for the average person: High Risk for Bezos: None
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by iso1210 6y ago
Thousands of people (many on HN) have got rich working for FAANG over the last 10 years.
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by iso1210 6y ago
Do you have any evidence to back up your claim? The US government provides 27% of things in the US (budget vs GDP), about the same as South Korea and Switzerland, more than Ireland (23%), less than New Zealand (32%), UK (33%), Spain (34%),
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by iso1210 6y ago
> The fact that bitcoin mining is profitable inherently means that society has already deemed it useful, no? Not when that mining doesn't account for externalities
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by iso1210 6y ago
There are several cases in the US where courts override parents wishes, while it's true US courts tend to give more rights to the parent than the courts in determining what's best for the child - at least for middle class parents
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by iso1210 6y ago
I'd be interested in how the other systems work with mental health issues. That link says that US Veterans get proper healthcare -- free at the point of use, paid for by the tax payer. Is that right? Last I heard it was controversial (
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by iso1210 6y ago
If it imports carbon from Country B then it uses carbon, so treat it as such.
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by iso1210 6y ago
Australia's tax burden is 27.8% of GDP USA's tax burden is 27.1% of GDP Not an enormous difference.
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by iso1210 6y ago
This is the UK, so the parents would have ended up with a hospital bill of £0 and an ambulance bill of £0.
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by iso1210 6y ago
I don't get this cheating comment. Schools have internal exams sure, but they don't count for much - the ones that count (at high school) are GCSEs, A-Levels, and other external exams. Teachers can't cheat on these as they do
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by iso1210 6y ago
It does limit your flight profiles significantly though, as you have to use the same Lunar injection orbit What's the actual benefit?
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by iso1210 6y ago
In which case they can export electricity at a very low cost. Or are the interconnects full? And all the energy storage facilities full?
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by iso1210 6y ago
Nope, not unless Singapore is covered by the GDPR.
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by iso1210 6y ago
Why can't Texas simply output it's power to neighboring states?
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by iso1210 6y ago
That's why the UK has external sources - both inteconnects with other grids, and stored power - that can be brought up in seconds. My understanding is Texas doesn't even have connections to other grids? Historically the UK had &qu
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by iso1210 6y ago
Boomer generation started in 1946, they didn't leave college until 1968. It was the previous generation that built NASA and landed on the moon. Boomers were the ones who stopped the space program and turned it into a jobs program. Gen
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by iso1210 6y ago
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-wealth-concentration... 0.7% own 45.9% 8.5% own 85.6%
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by iso1210 6y ago
Take this guy https://mobile.twitter.com/GregSchoen/status/702616488117616... Who lamented making $400 instead of $13k back in 2011. Those coins would today be worth about $95m, but there's no way he'd h
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by iso1210 6y ago
Not only did he have the advantages that access to a computer in the 70s had, his dad's lawyer helped him with a good contract, and his mom set him up with the chairman of IBM But the key thing is if he'd failed, he had a cushion
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by iso1210 6y ago
EMACS, a great air traffic controller, but really could do with a good text editor.
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by iso1210 6y ago
The most recent run seemed to start about the same time as GME - presumably people decided to hedge their bets. Maybe they sold GME at the peak and put it into things like BTC, coupled with a lot of new money trying to recover their losses
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by iso1210 6y ago
The US Dollar is backed by 20 aircraft carriers, thousands of nuclear weapons, 350 million Americans who think they have a manifest destiny, and a government with a long history of invading countries that threaten the dollar. What's bi
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by iso1210 6y ago
And Bitcoin isn't a currency
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by iso1210 6y ago
> save regulatory capture somehow forcing the rest of society to buy into it. That's what happens, some little scheme gets too big to fail, so the taxpayer bails it out. Those that are in the schemes win, those that felt the scheme
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by iso1210 6y ago
That number will only ever increase - bitcoin not only fails to grow in size with productivity and population, it actually shrinks. It's massively deflationary, which is a terrible thing for a currency.

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