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by jyounker 3y ago
Paying our taxes could be easy but Turbo Tax profits from it being difficult, and Grover Norquist wants paying your taxes to be painful.
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by jyounker 3y ago
It's not done for two reasons: 1) The tax software industry 2) Libertarian/far right groups want to make it hard for you to pay your taxes. Here's a Planet Money episode talking about this: https://www.npr.org&#x2F
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by jyounker 4y ago
To add to the point above, it's worth understanding that IntelliJ is not an editor. It's a refactoring engine with a very nice structured editor, and the key to using it effectively is to use the higher-level features that it prov
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P4merge from Perforce works even better. It's just a file merge tool, and doesn't require you to use Perforce. I've got a git merge/diff wrapper that falls back from p4merge to idea and finally back to stock diff.
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Or you include the trace ID as one field in the structured log. That ID can be threaded through the log library.
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Those seem like extreme positions. Reality is more like this: 1) Real engineers write systems that accomplish the organization's goals. 2) Most people don't need to write large distributed system, but they will end up writing smal
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Being poor takes a huge amount of mental effort. This would explain in physiological terms why it's hard to make good decisions when you're poor.
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That indicates that a local monopoly exists.
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If you have 15 or 15 different e-mail related functions spread across a whole bunch of files, how do you find the one you need to update?
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Is it that the argument was lost on them, or that there are better ways to mine for zinc and better locations to mine for zinc than the one in question?
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TIL recently: Skunks eat yellowjackets, digging up the entire nest.
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Yes, it is just a band-aid for one portion of the problem. It's not any sort of a long-term solution. At some point we have to stop spewing carbon into the atmosphere, and the sooner we do that the better. The situation is even more di
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And we've just watched this happen with many cryptocurrencies too.
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> In biology the code is the DNA and RNA, whereas the hardware is the proteins. This distinction isn't as clear as you think. The active parts of ribosomes (the machines that translate mRNA into proteins) are catalytic RNA. There ar
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by jyounker 4y ago
The ongoing cost of mining sunlight is nearly zero.
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Different ares of engineering and science use intersecting sets of terminology. This page is a very clear definition of how these terms are defined and what they mean in a particular context around energy production and utilization.
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The referenced study is not about UBI.
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The number one reason for using a credit-card is that your losses are contractually limited. Not only that, they perform automated fraud detection for you. And now you want me to give that up, and take on the responsibility myself? That&#x2
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by jyounker 4y ago
This does nothing for ocean acidification, nor the fundamental restrictions that decreasing O2 percentages have respiration tracheal respiration systems.
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You seem to be overlooking that "well organized militia" clause.
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People eat primates, but they're too smart and violent. Ranching them for meat doesn't make economic sense when you can breed pigs.
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And yet fetuses created one way are entitled to protection and fetuses created the other way are not. Why do you feel this way?
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> Moreover, women who cannot afford or want them should not be risking pregnancies to begin with. Sex makes babies. To make a baby and then try to absolve yourself > To argue that human life is "just a clump of cells" based
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by jyounker 4y ago
>> it's a complicated moral issue > I disagree. Murder of children is wrong; that's as cut and dry as it gets. Consider a pregnant woman in prison. In a "pro-life" state it is easy for her to get an abortion. It
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by jyounker 4y ago
Do you mean no evidence of his motivation, or no evidence that they've been committing miscegenation?
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You don't have a legal obligation to feed your children from your own flesh.
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Small towns are great places for bike paths and bike infrastructure. If you don't believe so, then I suggest visiting the Dutch countryside.
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This is why we need more funding for biomedical research. Some proportion of those additional funds need to be distributed on a consistent basis to long-shot or unexplored hypothesis research. The issue is that politicians have for decade
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That's called 'catnip' :)
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California is far less liberal than you imagine. This is the state of Ronald Regan and B-1 Bob Dornan. Conservatives got to have it their way in California long before, and they left their mark on the state. The single greatest accomplish

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