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by kogus 5y ago
For those interested in the actual reasons behind the myriad eccentricities of English vocabulary, grammar, and spelling, there is an excellent podcast on that subject called simply "The History of English Podcast" [1]. The short
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by kogus 5y ago
Passed through Washington, NC many times on my way to another dupe, Plymouth, NC. The locals call it “Little Washington”.
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by kogus 5y ago
When was the last time you were able to lobby congress to write laws to your liking, or create trade agreements, or author a bill to advantage your financial interests? That's exactly my point. Corporations have all kinds of p
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by kogus 5y ago
In theory, that's income to a US Corporation, which is subject to US corporate income tax. In practice, Amazon will find a way to offset that "income" with some tax-deductible claim of loss or investment and pay little or no
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by kogus 5y ago
User jdasdf already responded with an excellent resource on the economic arguments. I can add this link as well, which you may find interesting: https://www.europeanceo.com/finance/zero-corporation-tax-the... In shor
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by kogus 5y ago
Virtually every item on the list is categorized as a "tax abatement", "tax deferral", or "tax exemption". I think it's misleading to call those 'subsidies'. As always, the existence of such taxe
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by kogus 5y ago
I'll thrown in my personal favorite, Paletton. I am not affiliated with them in any way, just a happy user. https://paletton.com
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by kogus 6y ago
This article is full of basic self-contradictions. The very first sentence: It’s difficult to conceive of the internet we know today —with information on every topic, in every language, at the fingertips of billions of people — wit
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by kogus 6y ago
This intimidation is veiled as thinly as the skin of those in Congress. The misinformation and disinformation that is excreted from Fox, NewsMax, etc. is not nearly as repugnant as lawmakers who demand an explanation from private companies
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by kogus 6y ago
Surveillance in China is completely ubiquitous to an extent that most westerners don't realize. There is an excellent book on the subject, "We Have Been Harmonized" by Kai Strittmatter that discusses it. As an example, if y
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by kogus 6y ago
It is not a myth. About a quarter of developers do not have a degree. Source: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#education
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by kogus 6y ago
This is tangental, but I want applaud the mindset that produces the phrase "the opportunity to run into those sorts of issues".
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by kogus 6y ago
In some states, all you need is a federal EIN, which you can get free on the IRS site in about five minutes. https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe... I live in SC, and you don't even have to
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by kogus 6y ago
Ah, I misunderstood. Thank you.
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by kogus 6y ago
I think I'm missing something - I don't see any John Piper or Timothy Keller books in Paul Graham's list. As a fan of Desiring God (Piper), I'd love to hear PG's take on it. But I don't see it (or any of his
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by kogus 6y ago
I've often thought the WHERE clause should be required. You could just say WHERE 1=1 if you really meant all rows.
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by kogus 6y ago
Good to know. BBCRM?
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by kogus 6y ago
I believe this incident affected only customers who use classic RE hosted by Blackbaud. RE NXT is hosted in Azure and wasn’t affected.
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by kogus 6y ago
Maybe so. In this case the breach occurred at a third party software vendor. You’d need to write a similar guarantee into any contracts you signed with vendors.
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by kogus 6y ago
A flip side of this is that cloud systems can mask performance problems in code by making it seem fast. Badly written code running in a cloud service might seem performant, because those services will magically cover for you by spinning up
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by kogus 6y ago
The US rate for murder is five per 100,000. So yes, one order of magnitude higher than that of Switzerland (assuming your number is accurate). Source: https://usafacts.org/data/topics/security-safety/crime-an
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by kogus 6y ago
Recently, some VPN providers that advertised themselves as log-free turned out to by lying about that. Source: https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/17/ufo_vpn_database/ Aside from "we trust Mozilla&
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by kogus 6y ago
I think your second point is incorrect. I work closely with several universities, and the current situation has increased, not reduced, the pressure on their budget. IT infrastructure upgrades, producing training materials, the loss of re
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by kogus 6y ago
I don't think it's as black-and-white as you suggest. This link seems to support the narrative that FCA has greatly improved, and it also agrees that Subaru and BMW, in spite of their high quality stereotype, statistically suffer
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by kogus 6y ago
It sounds like you are saying that this survey is meaningless because it disagrees with your anecdotal experience. If the survey is conducted in a rigorous and valid way, then it's the perception, not the study, that needs to be suspe
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by kogus 6y ago
It would be really interesting to take brands that have improved dramatically over the years, and do a thorough analysis of what internal processes they changed to achieve that result. You know that there are QA folks within each company d
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by kogus 6y ago
This is a fun quote, but I don't think it's accurate. Source: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/helicopters-...
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by kogus 7y ago
The only feedback I've seen has echoed my own sentiment: "Good". What is the opposing point of view? Is there anyone out there who is willing to defend touch-screen interfaces in vehicles? What's the advantage to the
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by kogus 7y ago
If I am at the end of a long code block in C# or JavaScript, I might see this: ...lots more code up here... return result; } } } return -1; } What's that next-to-last "}" for?
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by kogus 7y ago
Good point. Yes, there is government housing, where the rent and utilities are subsidized or free, based on need. I was thinking of low-income folks who live in their own homes.

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