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by mac01021 8y ago
What's the benefit compared to what we have now?
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by mac01021 8y ago
How could they save money, though? The tax code is the same in both cases, and most people's financial lives are not complicated enough to make it any kind of challenge to get the best refund.
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by mac01021 8y ago
No. I am (not having ever published a single book yet).
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by mac01021 8y ago
What nonregular job do you do? What kind of code do you deal with, for what kinds of customers? If you're a freelancer or consultant, how often do you end up revisiting code that you write a year or more later?
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by mac01021 8y ago
But why?
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by mac01021 8y ago
His main thesis here seems to be that modern capitalism, including the financial sector, is not serving the people as well as it should, or as well as it did during the middle third of the 20th century. It sounds like you agree with him, bu
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by mac01021 8y ago
Must it be a crushing burden on the poor? I'm not advocating for a purely consumption based tax system but, if we were to have one, it seems to me that a small amount of ingenuity in the design of the tax scheme could mitigate that p
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by mac01021 8y ago
> we should lobby for thermal if the water supply allows it Why?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Which government policies promoted the growth of the suburbs, out of curiosity?
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by mac01021 8y ago
I actually want to know the details of a candidates position about every issue they have a position on. But only if I also get to know which are the candidate's top priorities, and which the candidate is willing to sacrifice for which
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by mac01021 8y ago
Maybe, but this is not that.
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by mac01021 8y ago
Not sure that's true. In most of the country/world local employer don't have salaries in a publicly available database. And there may not be enough of a tech scene in a city or region to bootstrap such a database easily.(ass
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by mac01021 8y ago
Does anyone buy trash bags that small? Either way, I don't generate nearly enough by trash to keep up with the stream of grocery bags I bring home.
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by mac01021 8y ago
I had a very accommodating boss who let me take 5-6 weeks. People on most other teams in my company end up taking 3ish.
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by mac01021 8y ago
If you get a stream of tiny tasks from your client, maybe hourly billing is the way to go. I'd they present you with a project that you agree to deliver in 6 weeks and then mostly leave you alone in the interim, it's probably a di
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by mac01021 8y ago
Are you saying that food demand is so unpredictable from year to year that we need to produce and extra 40% as a buffer to avoid famine? And that all of that buffer produce has to be harvested, processed, distributed, and sold to end consum
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by mac01021 8y ago
I'd like to know more about what a battlefield intelligence system _does_.
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by mac01021 8y ago
What exactly is the nature of those religious considerations? Is it just that you can use a dumb phone on friday night without violating the sabbath (can you?)? Is there a religious doctrine that explicitly prohibits general purpose computi
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by mac01021 8y ago
I'm no expert on this topic, but a brief google search produced this document which suggested to me that they often do: https://www.nyccharterschools.org/sites/default/files/resour... I do see that this
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by mac01021 8y ago
The dot over the "i" doesn't count?
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by mac01021 8y ago
If that's what you want, don't wait for the institution of a national policy. Talk to your local Board of Education.
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by mac01021 8y ago
> You inaccurately generalized my comment. I thought I might, but was hoping you would respond with a more correct generalization.
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by mac01021 8y ago
What's wrong with non-apt?
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by mac01021 8y ago
What does "9-9-6" refer to?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Never is a pretty strong word. You're asserting that robots will never reach human level performance for everyday tasks?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Sorry if this is too much text, but I feel like I have a decent sense about this, since I've been interviewing recently. Of course, we all live in bubbles, and there may be some tech bubbles extremely different from mine. Your tech st
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by mac01021 8y ago
> I couldn’t provide a family with the same lifestyle my parents gave me (a house, two cars, safe neighborhood, good school district, mother could stop working for several years to raise me) That's true, probably. But you don'
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by mac01021 8y ago
Southern New England, not in a metro area. White male, stubbornly refusing to leave his hometown area for his career. 2009: $25 per hour, contractor, on site at giant pharmaceutical company. Built a web app using jsp and tomcat 2010: $55k p
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by mac01021 8y ago
Similar things have been or are being tried (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project ). But the _precise_ capabilities of a human brain are not actually what we want. For starters, an infant's brain doe
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by mac01021 8y ago
My toddler and I drink a gallon per week between the two of us. Why don't you buy it if you love the taste?

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