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by kevinpet 6y ago
By that logic, why should MA limit itself to taxing employees of MA businesses. Surely there's plenty of revenue potential in people who have never been anywhere near MA.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Salary increases are less effective at achieving the goal. If the company thinks a $5k desk and monitor setup will make me most effective, I might think that with a $5k bonus I'd rather spend it on other things. Stipend + stipulations
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by kevinpet 6y ago
I have an old SE. I'm considering upgrading to the new SE. The SE (which has already been out for months at $399) used to come with earpods and now doesn't, at the same price.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
To me this whole thing is very simple: If you have an office there, you should pay location-based rates at that office. If you have remote employees, you should pay a standard remote rate, regardless of where someone is. Someone working rem
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Agreed. It's the most pedantic claim I've seen on the internet all of 2020. By that logic sugar and gasoline don't get converted to energy either. Edit: actually, this is the worst article I've read on the internet in al
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Simple solution: don't force self isolation. If someone goes to a hospital where staff have been in contact with COVID, then they should take some steps to self isolate. That doesn't mean medical workers needs to stop work.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
That's still lazy writing. Every blog should be written with the assumption it will be encountered by a non-specialist. Expanding abbreviations on first use and offering a brief explanation of jargon is enough to let these readers know
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by kevinpet 6y ago
I believe this is intended to be opposed to "when we make a profit we can start donating to a bunch of causes that we think matter which some people occasionally say.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
"loser pays" also has a significant impact
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Makes me think of salvage operations, and then raises the question of how do people get paid? They're providing a valuable service. I think in shipping there are both conventions and an ability to quickly negotiate that allows contract
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Those emperors paid a lot of sestertii to make sure their bust came out looking like George Clooney.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Comments like "what if I’m flagged and gub’mint makes me isolate home" makes me think of people who object that the problem is idiot users who don't recognize a clearly superior product. If people don't trust the governm
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Because it wasn't going around Las Vegas? Which we know because people haven't been tested for it? And so he shouldn't get tested to see if what he had was covid?
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by kevinpet 6y ago
They may not have ignored it. Maybe it was just Bruce Aylward's poor hearing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wePJF3MaPM
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by kevinpet 7y ago
If you claim "these specific details aren't supported by studies" that's compelling evidence if studies have been done, or would have a reason to be done, or if there's reason to believe the other studies that suppo
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by kevinpet 7y ago
Headline: "might not actually be honey" Article: "adulterated" with no mention of degree It seems likely the whole article was a part of the strategy of the class action lawsuits mentioned near the end. Extremely exagger
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by kevinpet 7y ago
Maybe so, but it would be surprising if it settled on the same instruction set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_codon_table
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by kevinpet 7y ago
Indeed. The level of anatomical detail is something generally only find on the shadier parts of liveleak or a medical journal.
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by kevinpet 7y ago
Like the EPA? https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/glyp... A legal system that allows $2B punitive awards based on factual findings contrary to the official position of the government enforcing that
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by kevinpet 8y ago
Totally different situation. You can't think of this "getting screwed" as employees qua employees getting screwed. These are common stock holders getting screwed while creditors are made whole and preferred shareholders recou
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by kevinpet 8y ago
It's unfortunate for this family, but as long as there are some desperately poor, you'll be able to find stories like this. If the changing face of homelessness is not actually going hungry that often, being given notice when the
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by kevinpet 8y ago
Not if they are already known.
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by kevinpet 8y ago
For anyone else who had to go look it up, LENR is the new name for cold fusion.
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by kevinpet 8y ago
To me, there's a big difference between: If you want to override the defaults of this command line program, create a .programrc file in your home directory. and Thanks for trying out this program, I'll just create a whole director
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by kevinpet 8y ago
The "black swan" story always struck me as ridiculous in confusing a phrase informally indicating rarity with a scientific belief that something doesn't exist or can't happen.
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by kevinpet 8y ago
Simple harassment has always been legal. It's only illegal when some other factors make it so, for example, sexual harassment by an employer or another person in a position of power. It's also legal to fire someone or kick them ou
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by kevinpet 8y ago
Presumably because it's an STD that can't be transmitted through casual contact.
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by kevinpet 8y ago
My internal understanding of Penrose's "hypothesis" is that there are structures in the brain that relate individual quantum events to macroscopic neurological processes, in a way not explained by the usual aggregation of qua
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by kevinpet 8y ago
Seems like the author is talking about the pre-big data version of business intelligence with star schemas and attempts at drag and drop tools, which has been supplanted somewhere around 2010-2015 by open source big data tools. I wasn'
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by kevinpet 8y ago
The problematic aspect of regulation is that you don't just need to comply, you need to _convince the regulators_ that you've complied. A better approach is to create liability for certain specific failures if the company didn&#x2

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