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by lhc- 11y ago
The US tax rates are vastly lower than that, and we still have enormous amounts of tax evasion (legal and illegal). Looking at the language from much of the US's rich, and they're basically stating that any tax is too much, so I&#
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by lhc- 11y ago
Facebook's M is powered by Wit.ai (who they acquired a while back), which basically does what you're talking about. They translate natural language into machine readable data structures. Honestly, its interesting tech and being ab
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by lhc- 11y ago
At least in the US, most employees can do the latter two. Turning down customers will probably get you fired though, which is pretty much the same as will happen with Uber.
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by lhc- 11y ago
So you posit that the top 1% of wealthy americans are "better" than everyone else?
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by lhc- 11y ago
So these genuinely bad people, you feel the solution is to lock them up for life? Whats the threshold to indicate when they should no longer be allowed to participate in society? A lot of "bad people" succeed in the outside in pol
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by lhc- 11y ago
By patenting though, you reveal your technique (that's the whole point: you get exclusive rights in exchange for disseminating knowledge). Once you file and receive your patent, you've basically published your results and everyone
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by lhc- 11y ago
I was involved with another company that used to operate in the same space, and they had a big problem with that. Movers would show up, offer the client a slightly lower rate if they paid cash, then both parties would cancel with the compan
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by lhc- 11y ago
To be fair, most of the things they deleted were also unpalatable to the vast majority of users, not just advertisers, and many were actively detracting from Reddit as a whole. Why shouldn't Reddit be allowed to do what is best for the
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by lhc- 11y ago
So, the only way to improve the world is to wait for rich people to exploit something and try to pick up the scraps? I don't think I can agree with that one.
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by lhc- 11y ago
I'll admit I was guilty of that when I first saw it, as a kid. It took a while before I realized it was actually a critique.
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by lhc- 11y ago
Wisconsin doesn't test any cars older than 1996, because they would need dynos for it. Much cheaper for them to just only test ODBII cars.
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by lhc- 11y ago
The database maker's docs have said that their database provides Snapshot Isolation though, which suggests the user should be able to do what Aphyr did without a problem. That's pretty clearly not true, which means it isn't f
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by lhc- 11y ago
Pretty sure CrossFTP supports talking to S3 stores (I use it at work to connect to our internal Ceph Object Store, basically S3)
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by lhc- 11y ago
Why would it be harder for a student from an elite boarding school to get into an Ivy than someone from a rural school? I would say the opposite, in no small part based on the evidence that at least supports a strong correlation.
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by lhc- 11y ago
Wait, the advice is "ignore your past knowledge and experience and start from nothing" ? That strikes me as terrible advice.
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by lhc- 11y ago
It sorta spits at the idea of social mobility ("the american dream") though. The biggest rewards are only really available to those who can take risks like starting a business, and if you restrict that to only those who are alread
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by lhc- 11y ago
Except the stockholders never gain a conscience, and the CEO is beholden to them, so there's no incentive to stop behaving like a sociopath and stop exploiting employees. Time and again evidence has shown that rich companies are never
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by lhc- 11y ago
A $215 meal at a restaurant is a far cry from a Bugatti. I'm a software dev in the Midwest and I've eaten at Alinea, which is comparable in price and quality. You don't have to be a banker or hedge funder manager to enjoy goo
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by lhc- 11y ago
That's the theory, but then you have things like wage-fixing scandals as seen recently in Silicon Valley that conspire to prevent workers from capturing their fair share of the value.
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by lhc- 11y ago
This article isn't really arguing what you're arguing though. Productivity (in the US specifically) has continued to grow at a brisk pace, but wages have not. This does not mean that the US has slowed its ascent, and the third wor
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by lhc- 11y ago
I think he meant, unions are the first to point out and fight to stop unsafe practices (what your linked article states).
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by lhc- 11y ago
So, you said elsewhere "Generally you can expect a Gigster project to be way cheaper (we've seen 10X in some cases) ", and yet your devs are making 10-20k? That does not add up.
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by lhc- 11y ago
This expectation is often emphasized and reinforced by LEOs themselves. Witness any time an officer refers to "civilians", as though they themselves are some extraordinary power outside normal society.
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by lhc- 11y ago
Warren was not a senator while the ACA was being drafted.
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by lhc- 11y ago
The thing is, we grow far more food than is required to feed the world on aggregate today. Distribution is a huge problem though, and growing more food without improving distribution strategies really doesn't help anyone.
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by lhc- 11y ago
On beer, craft beer is still far from outselling Bud. According to their own trade group[0], they hit 11% of total US sales last year, their highest ever by far. By comparison, so-called domestics (A-B Inbev, Miller Coors) control a vast ma
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by lhc- 11y ago
We know for a fact that its going to be less profitable for at least three months, unless they were already making zero dollars.
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by lhc- 11y ago
Other than, you know, a position in the US Senate.
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by lhc- 11y ago
Do they have an obligation to ignore the law because it's very difficult for citizens to enforce it? Because that's closer to what the parent is describing.
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by lhc- 11y ago
This article is about current lawsuits, in the US, for exactly this reason.

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