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by jjav 2y ago
> Conversely, one skilled senior can often outperform a hundred juniors using simpler tools, but management just doesn’t see it that way. Management is correct, if that's the question. In some very rare bleeding edge cases it is tru
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by jjav 2y ago
> consistently refer to encryption in transit For cloudflare to refer to encryption in transit is quite something, given that cloudflare is the largest MITM service in the planet. SO much traffic goes through them and they have it all in
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> The USPS is legally required to deliver to every address. What if there is no address? The house where I grew up was very rural, it had no address and USPS definitely did not deliver anything there. The only address we had until my 20s
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by jjav 2y ago
The linked page is margin, not equity backed loans.
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> If you write a covered call, did you "use" the asset? Yes This wouldn't make any sense, you didn't use it (unless the call gets exercised). So you have 200 shares and write 1 call, you'd pay tax on the apprecia
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> ANY usage of unrealized gains makes them realized I don't feel like you're thinking this through. Can you define (precisely enough to write into the tax code) what is "usage"? For example, let's say I go to get
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> My gains are realized each year via property tax assessments :) You are confusing two very different things. You'll realize the gains (and have to pay taxes on) your house value increase only when you sell it. The fact that you we
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> your brokerage will lend you money at a very low rate, secured by the equity I have not found one that will offer a very low rate, have you? For example here are Schwab's rates for a loan against equity: https://www.sch
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by jjav 2y ago
IRC wasn't run by a proprietary company that demanded your phone number to read the channels. So discord is basically the exact opposite of IRC (and everything else in the open Internet).
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> You may be pleased to hear that those kinds of communities are actually alive and well, they just live on places like discord now. But that is exactly what it wasn't. Discord is a proprietary walled-garden like too many others tod
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Maybe I'm not expressing this well. There's nothing un/lucky about, it is the inevitable result of human nature. Your experience in any team in any company will be directly correlated to how emphatic and respectful your immed
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> You can, but not to the same degree. Because it's just a matter of distance and density. Agreed, but you don't actually need the same amount for the suburban demographic. For example where my friend lived in Manhattan (and I
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by jjav 2y ago
While just anecdotal, in my 20+ years in the industry I've never seen these formally aligned. i.e. when I've been in roles where both pay and respect are good, the latter is always because my direct management chain supported it.
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by jjav 2y ago
> When people want to live in big sprawling suburbs with nice homes, you just can't get this. It's not possible. What you call "not possible" is where I live, so clearly it is possible. Trying to shoehorn all solution
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by jjav 2y ago
Let's say there are 500 parking spots. With free parking and a vibrant area, all spots are taken and there are N people circling around looking for parking. Not sure what N is but let's say 50 (seems reasonable). If after the pric
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by jjav 2y ago
> nearly everybody has enough of their own special hobby/interests that they cannot live 95% in their neighborhood Agreed. I did mistype what I was thinking though. Not 95% of destinations one might ever want, but my thought was 95%
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Not sure about far more conscientious, but people do stop at red lights. Seeing someone run a red light is very rare, maybe once every 3-4 years. And even those aren't blatant, they are people trying to get through before the red but f
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A lot less! So we (society) should be promoting cycling as much as feasible. Also bike parking, which is often forgotten. My town is very bike friendly in nearly every way, except there's no secure bike parking which limits which store
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by jjav 2y ago
> Yes, in practice more often than not, the people who respect you enough to pay you well often also respect you enough to treat you well (and the opposite). In practice, these are not the same people. The people who have a direct impact
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> You can safely ignore everything this person wrote. I could say we can safely ignore everything you wrote. Not everyone is driven solely (or even primarily) by money alone. Some/many people are, so your take is one of many valid o
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> Right-wing ideologies, on the other hand, inherently promote individualism Right wing promotes authoritanism, which is pretty much the opposite of individual rights. Right wing governments stand for strict laws and strong enforcement,
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> Everyone who don't own a car have significantly less access to roads than someone who do. Most weeks I spend more hours cycling on these roads than driving.
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> And crossing a 50ft+ wide intersection of a 40mph road (which means people drive 50mph) is daunting even for adults, and simply not advisable after the sun goes down. At least here (California) those intersections have stoplights and p
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> Cars and roads only scale so much before you physically can't move more people fast enough even with more roads and more lanes. Rail scales way better. Before scaling people moving up so much, I'd question why encourage so mu
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> set high enough that around 10% of spots everywhere in the city are free at any given time, so that people who need parking can generally find it conveniently nearby to where they're going OTOH, if there is always that much space
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> Words mean something. Funny you'd say that while arguing the opposite. The word "recall" with respect to cars has a legal meaning with specific before and after procedures. It's not any random update.
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> You have it backwards. The actual question is, how did the majority magically get the power to enforce its will on the minority in the first place? This doesn't answer my question at all. Who should decide those limits, and why th
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> So, before property taxes went up, the landlord could have raised rents by $200/month, but hadn't because..? Because you don't pre-date inflation. It is the same as asking why the supermarket doesn't raise the price
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> Renters do not pay property tax in the US. There's a simple way to visualize why is not true: You're renting a property for $1000/mo. Whatever the owner is paying for property taxes, you don't know. Then, property t
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> therefore we should set constraints on what the majority can do Which inevitably leads to the question: who should get the power to do that and why they, specifically?

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