loopercal

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by loopercal 4y ago
I think this just validates their points. Netflix has more engineers and 8 years of them building and fixing things, so they have fewer issues.
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by loopercal 4y ago
If you told McDonald's to double their number of McRibs produced next year that would be an incredible challenge to meet. They already sell enough that it affects the global pork market, it'd be insane for them to double their dem
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by loopercal 5y ago
I think a lot of people feel "clever" and like what they're doing is, while not expressly allowed, not forbidden either. See a bunch of people in this thread finding out they're probably committing tax fraud by underpayi
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by loopercal 5y ago
Historically, and happy to be proven wrong here, we've never seen a lab-leak of a novel virus cause a widespread outbreak. We have seen zoonotic transmission cause an epidemic/pandemic. So at least for me, I was working off of, &q
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by loopercal 5y ago
1. There's a giant difference between 80% and 30%. 2. That's not reflective of the rental market in Houston (I'm from there and going back for a graduation tomorrow), that's reflective of your landlord charging you for t
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by loopercal 5y ago
>My rent is up 80% since two years ago. There's no major* rental market in the US where this is the case. * - There could be some oil boom in a 300 person town I don't know about I guess.
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by loopercal 5y ago
There's no details about this, however I believe it wasn't a "buyout incentive" it was a "don't talk shit about us" payment given that all the ex employees have only said things like: "After X years I
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by loopercal 5y ago
You remind me of the database guy who, when I told him we'd lost a replica in prod and asked when it would be back online, said, "It's not a high priority for us, there's still another replica."
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by loopercal 5y ago
A lot of the original libertarians were...socialists. The term today has been rebranded to mean strictly anarcho-capitalists but it originally included anarcho-communists and libertarian socialists.
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by loopercal 6y ago
>I think it also means I’m less likely to get hit on, which is a horrible thing that has happened to a lot of young women in fields where there aren’t enough women Do you think my framing is inaccurate given what she said? How would you
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by loopercal 6y ago
The smartest person I know, idolized him since I was a kid, had that same misconception last year when we were discussing top end tax brackets. I feel like every April news orgs should just run segments with accountants doing this example.
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by loopercal 6y ago
>You are a fucking idiot. >If you disagree - then, please explain to me. EDUCATE me. on how I am wrong. Boy howdy if that's how you go about seeking education I can guess a) what you political opinions are and b) how you arrived
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by loopercal 6y ago
>especially my income is at the boundary between two tax brackets Wait, can you explain how tax brackets work because I think there may be a fundamental misunderstanding here. If we have two brackets, 10% for <=$100 and 90% for >$1
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by loopercal 6y ago
I'm not sure of your point. You're scared of being seen as a predator while women are scared of being preyed upon? So wouldn't you want to try and make spaces as safe as possible so that women wouldn't have to be afraid?
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by loopercal 6y ago
>what action would you have people take People can obviously do whatever they want as long as they're aware past performance...blah...blah...don't invest more than you can lose...blah. I've pulled out from everything with
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by loopercal 6y ago
"I re-watched Schindler's List..." According to the movie the shells were all non-functional, so I'm not really sure why you brought that up. "the way I delivered my — and my colleagues delivered their— preferences