jonhinson

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by jonhinson 4y ago
Mantis Innovation | Full Stack Rails Engineer (Mid / Senior) | REMOTE or ONSITE (optional) in Houston/Denver/Boston | Full Time | $110-130k+ DOE | https://mantisinnovation.com Mantis Innovation is reimagining faci
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by jonhinson 8y ago
It's a false premise that taxation does not produce a good or service. E.g. USPS, defense contracts, farm subsidies, etc. It's not clear that you're going to end up with lower economic growth. For example, taxing some level o
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by jonhinson 8y ago
What do those bureaucrats do with the money that is paid with taxes? Spend it on economic activity.
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by jonhinson 10y ago
The U-4 (unemployed + discouraged workers) for March was 5.3% as opposed to the U-3 (unemployed) of 5% [1]. 1. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
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by jonhinson 12y ago
How is Common Core, a set of standards that can voluntarily be adopted by states, equivalent to regulation?
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by jonhinson 12y ago
At what rate do taxes cross the threshold of being obscenely high?
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by jonhinson 13y ago
How is this true since ETFs were around several years before electronic exchanges came into existence?
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by jonhinson 13y ago
So much cynicism in these comments. As a 27-year-old, I found myself nodding at almost everything stated by the author. Perhaps I don't fall into the same category as most other HNers. 1. Stay married to the same person. I married my w
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by jonhinson 13y ago
As a native Texan (I've lived in the Houston area for about 26 years), I agree with most of what you say. RE: the clinics, instead of closing, could those clinics continue to offer the other services and simply stop offering abortions?
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by jonhinson 13y ago
I don't think it's a weird thing to do if someone loves what they do or is very grateful for the opportunity they have. However, I'm biased as I have written a thank you note to my CEO before (small company - I was #13 and we
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by jonhinson 13y ago
Evolution is simply the change in allele frequency in populations of organisms over time. This is most certainly observable.
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by jonhinson 14y ago
Similar to sukuriant, I googled the name half of your email in your profile, clicked on your Trello profile, copy&pasted the text from your first entry (I did not recognize the language) into Google. Google Translate told me it was Poli
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by jonhinson 14y ago
My Google-fu leads me to say...Poland.
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by jonhinson 14y ago
I was simply commenting on the semantics of the article. The wording in the title and body claims this bill is the cause of the temporary tax cut expiring. That would be disingenuous. The cause of this "tax increase" is the fact that the or
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by jonhinson 14y ago
The article makes it sound like the bill explicitly raises taxes on 77% of households. This would be false. The bill simply does not extend the temporary tax holiday that was signed into law at the end of 2010. The payroll tax rate goes b
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by jonhinson 14y ago
Netflix's blog post mentions they used two algorithms from one of the Progress Prize ($50,000) winners. The article goes on to say "...you might be wondering what happened with the final Grand Prize ensemble that won the $1M two years later
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by jonhinson 15y ago
You lack imagination.