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by mason55 6y ago
> Out of curiosity, what is your basis for wearing a mask? Protecting those around me if I happen to be carrying but asymptomatic. If it reduces the chances of spreading the disease by even 1% then it's worth a slight inconvenien
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by mason55 6y ago
IMO this argument blurs the line between two separate concepts. I think it's fair to say that a company shouldn't be allowed to sue you or have you arrested for doing whatever you want to a device that you have purchased. For exa
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by mason55 6y ago
Wouldn’t all those people leave voicemails?
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by mason55 6y ago
IMO you need to come up with a way to eliminate tax arbitrage. You see it causing issues between US States where there’s a race to the bottom to give tax breaks and as long as companies can go to places like Vanuatu there will be ways for
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by mason55 6y ago
> Want to hate on Eich because he's a homophobe? Go for it. Want to call him out on his homophobia? Get on wit' yo' bad self! But none of that had anything to do with Eich's qualifications or ability to run Mozilla.
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by mason55 6y ago
Yes, the term is intentionally misleading in an attempt to get people to vote against their best interests
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by mason55 6y ago
Just FYI that’s not what right to work is. You’re talking about at will employment. Right to work means they can’t make you join the union.
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by mason55 6y ago
It’s one of the reasons that no one can stay on top forever. Neither companies nor countries. Too many entrenched interests get too much power and then it’s over. Instead of talking past each other (“millennials can’t afford houses!” Vs “b
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by mason55 6y ago
So what is the alternative nowadays?
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Because “recycling” is easy if you just ship it to China and then they dump it in the ocean. Reducing and reusing take real effort and change in behavior. If people had to recycle for real it would be more challenging and then reduce and r
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by mason55 6y ago
There’s a cost to keeping the old code around, it’s just hard to see and quantify because it’s not acute (e.g. it doesn’t cause an outage). At some point the cost of figuring out how to remove the code will be less than the cost of keeping
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by mason55 6y ago
You could do it like the milk men where you put out your old container and they bring you a new one. Instead of refilling it yourself the used one goes back to be refilled at the factory or whatever.
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by mason55 6y ago
I needed a new laptop and while I’d prefer a MBP I don’t want to buy one right now with the ARM cutover on the horizon. Instead I bought a refurb t460 for like $400 and slapped NixOS/i3wm on it. It’ll hold me over until the ARM releas
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by mason55 6y ago
> They do create money effectively by loaning out deposits That's what we're taught in school but it's really backwards. They make loans that they think will be profitable and then figure out how to get the reserves nee
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by mason55 6y ago
This is also the root of the overnight repo market that everyone was up in arms about awhile ago. The bank originates a new loan that they think will be profitable. Then they need to come up with the assets to offset that loan on their bal
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by mason55 6y ago
That’s actually a benefit of TDD imo. One of the most difficult things about software development is specifying how it should work. Once you have that the rest is pretty easy. So if you go to write a test case and don’t know what it should
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by mason55 6y ago
Either way, you really need a better breakdown to understand how good or bad this is. Even something as basic as COGS or gross margin will tell you how sustainable (or not) the business is. Just because the losses are scaling with revenue g
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by mason55 6y ago
This is like giving someone a litter of puppies as a gift and then walking away. Hooray, free puppies. Now you just have to care for them for the next 10 years.
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by mason55 6y ago
Interesting, thanks! I'll have to see if this is allowed under our water laws
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by mason55 6y ago
Yeah! Hugelkultur is on my list of things to explore. Sadly we are not allowed to take the gray water outside or capture any water outside of what falls on the roof, nor are we allowed to divert any streams or anything, so if there's
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by mason55 6y ago
Do you know of any resources for places on water restriction? We’re moving out of the city in a few weeks to an area that allows for zero outdoor water usage other than roof catchment. I’ve got some native wildflower areas planned out but
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by mason55 6y ago
> In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. Yes and on top of the obvious absurdity of this statement, there is a second level. As long as we pu
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by mason55 6y ago
Do you have a link about the better execution rates in the U.K.?
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by mason55 6y ago
I moved out of New York State two years ago. I registered in my new state and have voted by mail in my new state multiple times. New York State still has me on the voter rolls there. I tried to find a place to have myself removed but I
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by mason55 6y ago
It also introduces you to the expression problem pretty quickly and organically :) I agree with the comment though. I learned Haskell and how to write an interpreter at the same time by working through the book Crafting Interpreters. It w
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I think before discussing that it’s worth discussing what’s the point of the stock market. That’s where people will actually disagree but one’s answer to “what’s the point of the stock market” will make clear the answer to “why is a compan
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by mason55 6y ago
This question comes up on every post about a big tech company. LinkedIn in a global company operating commercially in probably almost every country. The "social network for work" part is easy but when you start talking about thi
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by mason55 6y ago
You can see the % of shares held by institutions https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/key-statistics?p=TSLA Compare Tesla at 57.93% to Ford at 55.06%
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by mason55 6y ago
Assuming you are planning to work in the US your income will still be taxed. And based on the rules from the Eduardo Saverin case you won't be able to escape taxes on what you earned before you left. So it doesn't really work.
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by mason55 6y ago
There are limits. Allergan tried some shenanigans with a drug patent[1]. Re: taxes, the US government will make you pay all your taxes. If you pay taxes to a foreign govt then you can get a waiver for what you paid but if the tribe gives y

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