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by kgwgk 1y ago
> since my labor is taxed and simultaneously valued as 0 as a volunteer. Simultaneously? You’re taxed for paid labor - you’re not taxed for unpaid labor.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Not in this case, but “the decision to amend the constitution or join a supranational community requires a so-called double majority”.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Wages are taxable income to workers but imputed wages are untaxed. That’s a regressive tax break for people who cook their own food and care for their own children.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
>the Swiss already have a unique digital identifier Digital as in being a sequence of thirteen digits?
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> Define optional? “Les personnes habitant en Suisse et les Suisses de l'étranger pourront demander une e-ID. L'utilisation de cette dernière ne sera toutefois pas obligatoire. En effet, la Confédération continuera à offrir tou
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HSBC unleashes yet another "qombie": a zombie claim of quantum advantage(scottaaronson.blog)
3 points by kgwgk 1y ago|0 comments
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Videogame Giant Electronic Arts Near Roughly $50B Deal to Go Private(wsj.com)
27 points by kgwgk 1y ago|8 comments
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> The company says one difference is that users are not going up against the house but instead trading contracts with other users on the opposite side of the proposition. > "We are simply an exchange. So we sit between people tha
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Even if sport bets or slot machines returned 99% that’s for one play. Play 50 times and the aggregate loss is 40%.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
You’re wrong. See link above. How Kalshi and prediction markets are disrupting sports betting: https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/45377686/kalshi...
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by kgwgk 1y ago
That 90+% has nothing to do with the 97% in the other comment. Betting platforms also return 90+% to players.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> And betting platform is normally both the exchange and the broker. Betting exchanges are different from bookmakers. https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Betting_exchanges Maybe you’re now using “platforms” to r
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by kgwgk 1y ago
A restaurant won’t start selling clothes because if they don’t the customers will go elsewhere to buy clothes and they won’t come back. A stock exchange won’t start holding a book of shares to give “better” prices to customers. What would t
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> If there is an imbalance in your system That’s what the moving price / odds is for, to rebalance the willingness to take both sides of the bet.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> Banks are not funded by depositors money. […] Deposits in current accounts are liabilities from the bank’s point of view. “Banks are funded with deposits” = “Deposits are liabilities for banks”
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Not sure what land is “their” land in the first sentence but the are as many Palestinians citizens of Israel as there are Palestinians living in Gaza - and I don’t think the former fear much more for their lives than other citizens of Israe
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by kgwgk 1y ago
The last paragraph is funny because Turks themselves use the expression White Turks to refer to the modern/secular/Western (as opposed to the Black Turks, conservative/Islamist).
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by kgwgk 1y ago
You have never seen the slogan “from the river to the sea”? https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HHP... Do you think that the long-term answer to the Israel-Palestinian dispute is for
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> To all of that he ads a dash of Islamophobia, citing “Pakistani rape gangs” as one of the reasons for the unrest, repeating a weaponised trope borne from a long since discredited report Were independent inquiries also repeating weaponi
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> Obviously if you have a tailgating idiot behind and you can avoid the collision in front without forcing them to rear-end you That kind of consideration is where having traffic tailgating factors into it. A risk of collision (or a mino
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by kgwgk 1y ago
It’s not like you would expect any inconvenience from being rear-ended or anything so why would you care?
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> Eg, imagine if mazzerati also made a mid-market vehicle With that spelling it sounds much worse that mid-market :-)
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> it is also possible that some use SM loosely I think it’s frequent. For example: https://teach-me-codes.github.io/computational-physics/the_p...
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by kgwgk 1y ago
People have also used “statistical physics” to refer to the former concept since forever. For example Landau. “Statistical mechanics” is also used in a broad sense, just like “quantum mechanics” is often used for anything “quantum”.
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Groq Raises $750M as Inference Demand Surges(groq.com)
5 points by kgwgk 1y ago|0 comments
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by kgwgk 1y ago
A generation of ‘virgins’ is leading America’s next sexual revolution https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/...
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Do you mean from the POV of a particular high risk (or high income) person or from the POV of every individual?
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> there’s nothing grammatically wrong with it. There was nothing in the comment that you reply to suggesting that it was grammatically wrong: "The sentence is framed like a contrast but then instead it says the same thing twice.&quo
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Mistral AI raises 1.7B€(mistral.ai)
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This one is not exactly a “textbook” but it is more advanced and technical than most “popular science” books and follows a historical presentation: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-quantum-cookbook... T

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