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by madaxe 13y ago
Nah, you only map to a single PTT, and those are then mapped internally to state tax codes. i.e. you say "its diapers" and we then go "it fits in this band in Des Moines, this band in Culver City, this band in Podunk, etc.". As to having to
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by madaxe 13y ago
The trick is largely to learn when to shut your gob, or say one thing and do another. I was repeatedly diagnosed with ADHD and ODD in my year of school in the states - flushed the pills, got expelled (well, forced to leave, as they didn't w
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The Silk Road (the actual road) caused a high degree of intermingling between mesopotamian and asian populations throughout the last 4,000 years. Rather than having the same stem, it's more likely that these cognates snuck in later.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Yes, you can. We maintain a comprehensive list of taxable good types - very atomic, includes stuff like different kinds of tobacco products, children's car seats, different kinds of food and drink. Each product is categorised into one of th
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by madaxe 13y ago
Yeah, but the other possibility is that our tech hasn't lived up to our expectations, and therefore we haven't made the observations and measurements we might have hoped for, which I'd wager is far more likely. "Hot Jupiter" type planets ar
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I could lasso the moon "if I wanted".
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Yeah, that was my first thought too. Sample bias all the way. 1) Things which orbit rapidly are easy to spot as we get lots of observations from occlusion and wobble. You can identify a planet over the course of a few weeks if it has a peri
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by madaxe 13y ago
Sensible folks put together their eCommerce platforms in such a fashion that enacting this legislation is a single config flag. US sales tax is a pain in the ass, however, largely because you end up with (after state, county and city tax) p
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by madaxe 13y ago
Nah, I'm just a cynic at heart. I think they are hinting at it, but I'm probably wrong.
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If I didn't know better, I'd say they're quietly and rightly cautiously hinting at the discovery of extrasolar photosynthesis. Their note about methane levels and the -f datum together draw an interesting picture.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Statistics are derived from crime reports. Men do not report domestic violence against them by women. I went to hospital for "sitting on a shoe" and "tripping and smacking my face on a bannister". Ergo, whatever statistics you're looking at
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by madaxe 13y ago
Yeah, I hear that, and get the same - you can see the shutters come down the moment you say you did your degree in physics, or that you run an IT company. These days I tell people in random social situations I studied golf course management
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by madaxe 13y ago
It is related to interest, but not to genuine interest. I'd argue that the biggest driver which keeps women out of tech is other, non-tech, women. I see my female employees bullied by client female employees simply because they're "geek
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by madaxe 13y ago
I find the whole "threat of physical violence" thing objectionable, personally. Sure, men are generally bigger than women, but culturally, men are trained to not raise a finger against women, whereas women are trained to have no such compun
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by madaxe 13y ago
I've always found it a far more compelling argument that gravity is a side effect of time dilation due to the greater informational and interactive density brought about by matter.
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The goal is to enhance shareholder value. End of story.
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Everywhere, in the near future. Graphene PVs promise to be ultra-efficient, and could double up as very high capacity supercapacitors.
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by madaxe 14y ago
How long before the utilities (likely successfully) lobby to make PV/DER illegal, I wonder. Soon, I'd wager. As I see it, the purpose of this report is FUD, which is usually the opening move of any protectionist initiative. Edit: alternatel
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by madaxe 14y ago
Squares, diamonds, kaleidoscopic esoteria blasting through ones mind. It's caused by the pressure causing your rods and cones to blast static down your optic nerve, and your brain trying to make sense of the noise.
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by madaxe 14y ago
This is pretty much precisely how I think. If I'm considering a complex issue, be it engineering or otherwise, I effectively stop seeing through my eyes and instead maintain a visual image, either literal or abstract, of that which I'm cons
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by madaxe 14y ago
Yeah, but that still basically says "Rank Amateurs", because you should never pick the psychologically obvious point, as otherwise you'll end up in the sell queue behind a gazillion others. Always best to go in a few points below the obvi
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by madaxe 14y ago
The funny thing is that it didn't hit $203, or $201.12, but $200. Whoever is driving this big buys to drive up the price is doing it at very predictable, very specific price points, across multiple currencies. On mtgox GBP, for instance, it
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by madaxe 14y ago
$25k per copy, by my reckoning. I mean, seriously, if it flies in court for them, why not for her? She should/could push for ten figures of punitive damages.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Amicable like they were over simba the white lion ? Disney rip-off left, right and centre. Yes, they aggressively protect their IP, but that doesn't mean they won't trample all over everyone else's. they have a history of this behaviour.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Don't worry, it only gets worse. :)
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I'd wager that their just-terminated employment contracts explicitly prohibit them from doing such a thing.
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Damn. It's always the good guys :(
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Bath, UK. Higher COL than SF. Slightly lower rent, but much higher gas, food, all the rest.
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Oh, I meant the best hope of financial glory - not the general best hope!
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IDK, I'd say software engineering and software engineering are related, but maybe that's just me.

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