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by jb775 7y ago
My initial thought with this is that the rich would find loopholes around this tax, the upper middle class would pay it, the struggling middle class and poor would barely be taxed....so basically the upper middle class would be dragged down
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by jb775 7y ago
Yeah that's way more than what I thought you initially meant. I recently bought a car and the max I could pay with a given payment source was $7,500. So even if I wanted to pay cash for the whole thing they apparently wouldn't hav
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by jb775 7y ago
Ok then how about if people went back to writing checks? Eliminates both of those issues without the additional finance charges. That would however provide personal information to the retailer, unless the check was somehow de-identified (li
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by jb775 7y ago
What are the benefits of using a CC for large in-person purchases compared to small?
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by jb775 7y ago
I've been telling myself to pay with cash more often, primarily because I think it's crazy that a finance company gets 3%-5% of every purchase using a CC. Obviously some of that covers overhead, but it's mostly a mafia style
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by jb775 7y ago
Culligan Water is the company I used. Systems like mine are custom built depending on your house layout, the type of filtering you want, etc so the cost could fluctuate.
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by jb775 7y ago
I took it as her basically saying "The great philosophers couldn't figure it out, and I'm not gonna BS you acting like I figured it out"
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by jb775 7y ago
I've seen this issue trending on HN multiple times within the past year, search "PFAS contamination" for more info online. I moved into a new house last year near 2 closed down USAF military bases (known to have been previous
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by jb775 7y ago
That humans are simply animals with highly evolved brains, living in a very complex web of social interaction.
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by jb775 7y ago
mhandley mentioned in a comment that the pattern tracking map is from today. It sounds like the device was returned prior to today, considering this article was published today.
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by jb775 7y ago
At 1:22 of the video it shows a similar pattern being used. I'm assuming that pattern provides an inch by inch accuracy reading. However, they could have just been testing it out in shallower waters near the coast before venturing into
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by jb775 7y ago
High accuracy positioning for deep-sea structure placement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvxeWCoAZPw&feature=youtu.be
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by jb775 7y ago
I don't think it's anything to do with the price. I'd say there are three primary reasons (based on my personal experience using each): 1.) Pin control simplicity - Arduino's bread & butter is basic logic statements
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by jb775 7y ago
I'm not sure the bandwidth will be as limited as you think. If the premium product catches on, further investments will be made to improve the premium product, and those benefits will eventually trickle down to the average user. > H
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by jb775 7y ago
Care to elaborate why?
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by jb775 7y ago
1.) As quantum computing advances, there will be at least one successful 51% attack on a major cryptocurrency. 2.) Tesla/SpaceX StarLink will become a major competitor in the ISP space. Most transmitted data throughout the world will t
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by jb775 7y ago
great idea...I wonder if a 3rd party app could enable this or if that type of access is currently closely held? I'd only consider software that has super low level hardware access so you could basically control electrical access to tha
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by jb775 7y ago
> not something that will definitely happen, or that's going to happen on any certain timescale, but something likely enough to prepare against Gonna use this gem next time my wife asks when my hair will grow back.
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by jb775 7y ago
> My advice is similar: live on your base salary, and save a lot of it To be fair, that comment doesn't exactly align with advising someone against getting a mortgage they can't afford unless they receive a bonus. I'm curr
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by jb775 7y ago
> Doug also (twice) sent GM a formal request under a 2003 California data law to ask who the company shared his information with. He got no reply. I wonder if they are planning to follow up on this? If there's a law in place, GM sho
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by jb775 7y ago
Computer algorithm can identify 99.98 percent of Americans from almost any available data set with as few as 15 attributes, such as gender, ZIP code or marital status. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/health
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by jb775 7y ago
For conversation's sake, what if the victim is a small/mid-size business where the entire business would be destroyed in the event their systems are not unlocked immediately? Do they choose between possible prison time or definite
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by jb775 7y ago
Also, where is the private key stored and when/where exactly is it passed into the decryption algorithm? When/where is the original private key generated and managed? Inside fb software somewhere? I'm sure realistically the U
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Birthday Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by jb775 7y ago|0 comments
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by jb775 7y ago
I feel like this is a perfect example of people trying to apply a "one size fits all" band-aid to a complex issue because it sounds nice on the surface. Obviously, Johnny French-Fry would be better off making $15/hour, but th
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by jb775 7y ago
What was the argument for always creating an array?
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Perlin Noise(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by jb775 7y ago|0 comments
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by jb775 7y ago
The URL id's are different, I don't see any message id's.
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I think Google just hoarded my “deleted” Fitbit data
12 points by jb775 7y ago|5 comments
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by jb775 7y ago
> the Wright brothers waged a prolonged, embarrassing and largely unsuccessful battle against other early aviators over who owned the aeronautical principles that made flight possible Whose to say this wasn't at least partially th

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