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by kgwgk 1y ago
If they bought 30-year bonds, yielding 8%-9% per year, you may have received only the 5k in the end but what happened with the 13k in coupons?
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by kgwgk 1y ago
GP says that the (uber)rich pay a lower tax rate than the middle class so he wouldn't necessarily agree that the top earners pay the highest tax rate. (And actually GP would only make sense at all as a reply to GGP if he meant lower ta
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> The top 1 percent of tax payers pays the most tax" is a tautology. What does "the most tax" mean? If you mean "most of the tax" how is that a tautology? If everyone paid $1 the top 1 percent would pay 1% of the
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> The first paragraph is the nominal tax rate No, that's the effective tax rate for the top 1% in aggregate: Adjusted gross income: $3,309,589,000,000 Tax paid: $863,631,000,000
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Good question! Is Pierre Menard's Quixote a repetition of Cervantes' or is it a completely different work that just happens to contain the same words?
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> The top 1 percent of taxpayers (AGI [Adjusted Gross Income] of $663,164 and above) paid the highest average income tax rate of 26.1 percent—seven times the rate faced by the bottom half of taxpayers. > In all, the top 1 percent of t
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by kgwgk 1y ago
I highly suggest Borges's "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" as a great story on the topic of authorship :)
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> You can ride in one today. And you could do it in 2020. It seems unlikely that it will be “everywhere” in 2030 unless you give that word a quite restricted meaning.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Living on social welfare now offers a lifestyle as luxurious as working full-time in the past.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
>> Predicting tides was known to the ancients > Good. To which ancients? To the ancients of 1944 for sure.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> Your clock was off. Tides advance ~30 minutes per day. “roughly 12 hours”
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by kgwgk 1y ago
https://archive.ph/By1GZ
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Welcome to the AI Trough of Disillusionment(economist.com)
5 points by kgwgk 1y ago|1 comments
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Trump Appointees Blocked from Entering US Copyright Office(wired.com)
12 points by kgwgk 1y ago|1 comments
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Iron is the most stable atomic nucleus (at least if we don’t consider Nickel-62).
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The Iberian blackout shows the dangers of operating power grids with low inertia(watt-logic.com)
3 points by kgwgk 1y ago|0 comments
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Ok, so we all agree that in most cases the reason to minimize square error is that it’s the appropriate thing to minimize - not that it has an analytical solution, convenience or tradition.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
You’re implying that many things are though.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> Even the anti obesity is an off label use. Off-label for Ozempic - the whole point of Wegovy is the “weight management” indication.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
If we think of “making money” as having more revenue than expenses a lemonade stand makes significantly more money than OpenAI.
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Do you own the word? 2 (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/steal#Verb
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Look up 27b in https://ollama.com/library/gemma3/tags You'll find the id a418f5838eaf which also corresponds to 27b-it-q4_K_M
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Among those "trans people who are assigned female at birth" who "get hysterectomies" how many would you say are doing it because the organ is diseased. (Not that the proposal is practical, of course.)
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> 1 in 1500 births is DSD > trans people Those populations have very little to do with each other - if anything.
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Other content works though: https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> There is no mention of information or communication theory anywhere in his 1927 paper or 1932 book. Young Von Nuemann was doing real physics extending and updating Gibb's entropy. We agree then! John von Neumann’s work on entropy
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by kgwgk 2y ago
For example, it looks nice in Common Lisp: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/overload-AD...
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by kgwgk 2y ago
It’s quite remarkable that in his 1927 paper “The thermodynamics of quantum-mechanical ensembles” von Neumann was extending the mathematical theory of communication that Shannon - who was 11 at the time - would only publish decades later.
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by kgwgk 2y ago
I don't follow you. Whatever you take temperature to mean, for an isolated system in equilibrium that intensive thermodynamic property will have the same value everywhere and the entropy of the system will thus be maximized given the c
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Ah, then I don’t see what’s wrong with “the number of ways in which the system can be non-uniform in temperature is much lower than the number of ways it can be uniform in temperature”. In equilibrium one doesn’t have a gradient of temperat

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