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by learc83 7y ago
That's for commercial speech. You're free to tell people all kinds of things if you're not charging for it that you couldn't if you were.
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by learc83 7y ago
First to file in the US still has a 1 year grace period. It's not as robust as under first to invent, but it still exists.
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by learc83 7y ago
There are plenty of companies without open layouts, add remote workers to that and self selection is a big factor. Add to that the possibility that people aren't comfortable complaining to someone who is very obviously pro open layout.
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by learc83 7y ago
Did you ever stop to think that maybe it's because people working in open offices are self selecting to work in open offices?
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by learc83 7y ago
If you have only one poll with an unknown margin of error and it shows Candidate A at 51 and Candidate B at 49, then assuming Candidate A is winning just because it's the best thing we have is worse than just admitting we don't kn
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by learc83 7y ago
>does not make the test itself invalid for comparison across cultures If you can't accurately quantify the cultural component, then yes it does. >Claims that basic pattern recognition is somehow not a valid means of assessment ac
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by learc83 7y ago
>Fedex isn’t just challenging the facts. But they are also challenging the facts, and then refusing to state what facts are incorrect.
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by learc83 7y ago
>IQ tests standardized? IQ tests can't be standardized across cultures. Even something like Raven's Progressive Matrices has a cultural component. https://www.apa.org/monitor/feb03/intelligence Also C
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by learc83 7y ago
The free market works best with lots of competition. Roads by their nature don't have that. What happens when a company buys both routes between town A and town B? What free market forces are going to drive down prices?
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by learc83 7y ago
No one is using either of those directly in aerospace applications. And I can guarantee you that an aerospace company using React instead of Rails or a desktop app for a marketing page or internal app isn't significantly driving down t
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by learc83 7y ago
Napoleon in most of the English speaking world is much more infamous/loathed than admired.
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by learc83 7y ago
Facebook (and other web advertising companies) isn't leading most of the advances in computing power. Moore's law is much older than Facebook. And they certainly aren't developing the software that space agencies and companie
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by learc83 7y ago
Those passengers would already have the car parked at their house, or the restaurant they were at. The Uber driver has to drive to pick them up. Then once they drop them off, they have to drive to the next fare. Sometimes they even circle a
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by learc83 7y ago
The IRS deals with people trying to exploit loopholes like that all the time. The law isn't a programming language.
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by learc83 7y ago
There's studies that show uber increasing congestion. It makes sense when you think about it. Uber drivers are routinely on the road with no passengers. Either waiting or driving to or from picking up a passenger.
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by learc83 7y ago
We're not talking about your normal criminals who have some economic motive, we're talking about people who are already acting against their own self interest and to take revenge. Either way assuming that being armed doesn't
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by learc83 7y ago
I don't think there really is that huge of a problem, but the justification for these special rules seems a bit absurd. If you want to treat retired cops differently and give them special privileges, just say so. Stop positioning as so
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by learc83 7y ago
So the hypothesis is that criminals want to kill retired cops, but they don't because they know the cops still have guns? I'm not buying that. If someone really wants to kill you, and they know where you live, a gun in your house
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by learc83 7y ago
The "Standard American accent" is just vaguely midwestern, and it's not how the British used to speak. There is some support for it being closer than some modern British accents, e.g., they are both rhotic.
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by learc83 7y ago
>Criminals know who they are and where they live, and have for years I'd need to see some stats on how often retited police officers are retaliated against by criminals before I'll buy that this is anywhere near likely enough t
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by learc83 7y ago
1. There's no way to prove that. We aren't a pure meritocracy. There's a huge element of luck to becoming a billionaire. So it's very likely that there are > 600 people out of the 330 million non billionaires who are
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by learc83 7y ago
Look at healthcare as a percentage of gdp over the last 50 years. Costs have been rising at a much slower rate over the last 10 years, and have dropped over the last 3. There's no reason to think the rate will stay constant over 20 yea
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by learc83 7y ago
There's nothing appropriate to suggest. Predicting the rate at which health insurance costs are going to rise over the next 20 years is impossible. I can however tell you that naive extrapolation is definitely the wrong way to do it. L
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by learc83 7y ago
>You don't get to be a billionaire by being bad at managing your money, nor do you get to be a billionaire by investing in less productive investments. Since close to half of America's billionaires inherited their fortunes, tha
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by learc83 7y ago
That's what I meant. Why would you assume it would keep increasing at the same rate. Nothing maintains a steady growth rate long term.
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by learc83 7y ago
Because naive extrapolation based on current growth rate is almost always a bad idea.
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by learc83 7y ago
There are only about 600 billionaires in the US. The top 1% is over 3 million people. Also they'll still be in the top %0.01 with $999 million. You're also making some weird assumptions that transferring money away from billionair
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by learc83 7y ago
>(no way we can keep up the current rate of increases even 20 more years without an actual, honest-to-god revolt Why would you assume the rate of increase would keep increasing at the same rate?
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by learc83 7y ago
Taxing the 1% more heavily isn't really the same thing as eliminating the 1% though is it? And taxing wealth over a certain limit, which is what the person you were replying to is probably getting at, solves your problem taxing income
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by learc83 7y ago
If you're only considering direct first order benefits then nearly all taxes are quite progressive. Even a flat 10% income tax would be progressive using that model because people's direct consumption of government services doesn&

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