kingsuper20

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"That is why Madoff ended his life in jail" That's an interesting point and probably true. The identity of your victim matters as much as the crime. It isn't like a serial car thief would receive the same sentence. I&#
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or the $USD.
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It would be fun to do a quick survey of books breathlessly laying out the future of the internet from 20 years ago. Looking back, the evolution of social media/youtube was pretty obvious. Back then, not so much. 1) Begin with anything
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Never'll happen. “Congress shall have power… to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.” As I read it, th
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"You are not dealing with a few thousand trolls." In my own experience, it's the trolls that are rather confounding. Go to any twitter poster with even a slightly political bent. Look for the first shitty person. Look at th
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Any ex-Usenet moderators out there? I don't remember this being such a huge deal, and there was always the alt groups.
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"Realize, when you go for FAANG job you are competing with a lot of younger people, " You know, I think I can understand that simply due to the gigantic amount of in-house legacy code, toolkits, etc. It could be simply that young
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C'est la vie. The disconnect between college and industry has always existed I think. My guess is that what students really want is a lecture in how to get a job, not how to be useful in a job. OJT and fakeittillyoumakeit would then
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..or whether they can even pull a full career out of it. To be fair, practically all people in their 20's go through a pachinko machine of decisions leading God-knows-where.
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I'd say that reversing a binary tree can be solved in two ways. 1. Never having thought about it before, generate an acceptable whiteboard algorithm from scratch while having a person or three bore holes in your back. 2. Throw a canned
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I always get a vicarious scare from that kind of doom porn post. After nearly 40 years of the thrill of the keyboard and accumulating a studio/lab tan, I never had one of those 20-questions interviews. In days of yore, tool kits barel
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"rich-get-richer, poor-get-poorer form of taxation." Is poor-get-richer, rich-get-poorer the purpose of taxation? Why?
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That's why you need to purchase a half dozen doctors.
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It seems to me that that argument could be made for any appreciating asset class. Real estate (especially in Prop 13 California) would go up in value and could be borrowed against. Same with collectibles. I hear what you are saying in tha
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I've run into that with doctors now and again. You'll meet a younger doctor who complains heavily about student debt and how impossible life in the US is. I'll offer to write a check for the debt in return for a negotiated p
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Tax avoidance, and inequality generally, is not a distinguishing feature of US-style capitalism. It appears to be baked into the cake of humanity.
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The high GINI scores in the USSR always cracked me up. The tendency for money and resources (and pretty women I suppose) to pool has never been well dealt with. All large-scale systems for business and government seem to devolve into dogfi
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To be fair, you have to wonder what the point of corporations even paying taxes is. I always thought that they should wait until the shareholders or employees actually received money/goods/services from the Borg. In a highly sim
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Not too different than the concept of precious metals depositories I guess. I don't know what the yearly tithe is in places like Singapore for this service, but one problem would be the physical size of the cash. Maybe they should rei
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"Prop 13 disparately impacts minorities" Well, that's sort of a stretch. I expect to the extent that's true, it's because the state was a lot whiter in 1978, although scarcely any people have owned a house for 42 y
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..or you simply don't pull a permit. 'Round these parts, it's more common than not to simply avoid getting the county involved when possible, although I don't doubt the building department uses satellite data to catch t
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The sweet sweet thing about the comments section is watching all the down voting. Everyone needs their daily dose of irony. Maybe, if nothing else, it lends strength to the Ted Kaczynski notion that people need to have lives filled with dif
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Probably the most forgiving take on the subject. https://www.newsweek.com/coca-cola-facing-backlash-says-less... mea culpa. Here I am, feeding the beast.
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Oddly, the unemployment rate is better than it was in the early 1980s.
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They (SJWs) do seem to have the bit in their teeth as of late, and the stories do make for good rage-bait. Of course, there's not a thing you can do about it besides improve your own lot in life and build productive local relationships