joelhoffman

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by joelhoffman 7y ago
They certainly do produce something. Performing a service is production. This service could be and often is provided by a private enterprise, and in that case, it's not socialism. When it's paid for by taxes and controlled by elec
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by joelhoffman 8y ago
It's hard to ask the bicycle what its preferred pronouns are.
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by joelhoffman 8y ago
Eh, that's true about Bend but it doesn't explain why that one stayed and the Blockbuster in Anchorage (and hundreds of other similar places) closed. Vacation rentals keeping it in business?
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by joelhoffman 8y ago
The article claims that prospective girls see "men in hoodies coding alone in their basements" as role models. That's obviously not an accurate view of software engineering but is it really the view that teenagers have? If
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by joelhoffman 8y ago
It might have also been this one: http://www.oregonphotos.com/Sitka-Spruce.html -- it was destroyed by a windstorm in 2007, but I believe it did have such a sign before that. Probably all of the "worlds biggest"
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by joelhoffman 8y ago
It's always worth checking the distribution. A 3 star rating with a normal-ish curve is very different than a 3 star rating with a lot of 5s and 1s -- and in that case the reviews will tell you clearly whose preconceived worldview the
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by joelhoffman 8y ago
Maybe so, but I do believe if you're paid in stock (not options) you pay taxes immediately, then capital gains is applied to any difference in value when it's sold. I could be wrong, I have no special expertise here.
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by joelhoffman 8y ago
It seems very unlikely to actually raise much directly. As the article quotes someone saying, > You’d certainly see some people under that system change their behavior to avoid the higher rate, which could significantly impact how much r
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by joelhoffman 8y ago
Eventually you may end up on the list of people who are on a lot of lists? Seems suspicious.
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by joelhoffman 8y ago
GP was probably thinking of Giordano Bruno... Galileo died of old age under house arrest after being convicted of heresy.
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by joelhoffman 8y ago
To whatever distance their relevant relationship to llamas extends, it's deserved.
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by joelhoffman 8y ago
Slaughterhouse is the right word. I'm not sure what you mean by a fishing factory but I suppose it would be a fish packing plant?
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by joelhoffman 8y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I didn't understand your proposal. Are you suggesting prohibiting anyone from serving on more than one board, or from joining a board that already contains someone who is also on a board they're alr
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by joelhoffman 8y ago
> We don't believe falsehoods simply because we think they should be true. That sounds like something you believe because you think it should be true :-)
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by joelhoffman 9y ago
In the case of California specifically, the difference between federal taxes paid and federal money received represents about 7% of the state budget. Foreign aid is about 1% of the federal budget, though. Why would California spend more?
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by joelhoffman 10y ago
Are you thinking of this? http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic...
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by joelhoffman 10y ago
>with a lisp-y syntax it would probably have died a sputtering death Tell that to 30 years of Autocad users.
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by joelhoffman 11y ago
These graphs are pretty compelling. Did you also make the second graph? What's the source of the data?