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by mcny 4y ago
> Perhaps. Ought that be illegal? I can't really explain why but I think there is a difference between doing something manually and automating it. For example, it is perfectly ok for a police officer to sit behind the bushes in fron
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> The cutoff is "they are getting abuse reports about the IP the machine you rent uses". Most providers (at least looking at my fail2ban lists...) don't give a shit about anything less That was my guess as well. For exampl
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by mcny 4y ago
> But you're still working for a living, and can't retain a fancy lifestyle if you stop. Personally, I’d say if you are a wage slave like me regardless of how much you earn, we can’t afford to have any children. I can’t say you
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> like $4500/mo for daycare Ideally, I’d like to see an end to all silly credits, deductions, and exemptions and things like that. It is absurd to me that you would want to not pay taxes on your daycare expenses. I think the proper
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by mcny 4y ago
The problem isn’t that you are paying too much in taxes. Your taxes are fine. The problem is the super wealthy aren’t paying their share of taxes. Don’t get mad at me. Get mad at the top 0.01% and their cronies. Look at how carried interest
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by mcny 4y ago
Even if I take you at face value and say you paid an effective tax rate of 43.92% on an income of USD 650k+ (or USD 279.5k+ which I still contend nobody does, unless you do some kind of shady math including all your property taxes and sales
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I have a bridge to sell you if you believe the wealthy pay anywhere near 43.92%
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by mcny 4y ago
I would very much like to see the pardon powers be limited by extending it. You should never be able to commute any one person’s sentence or pardon any one person. It should be all or nothing. Want to pardon someone who has been convicted f
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by mcny 4y ago
Thank you for mentioning this. I looked up her Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Dunham Some points: > Lena Dunham > The Dunham family are cousins of the Tiffany family, prominent in the jewelry tra
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by mcny 4y ago
> Why would #7 happen if shareholders get wiped out? Surely, people on the board and other C suite executives are big enough shareholders that they would care if their equity went to zero. I remember reading about something called princi
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Just out of curiosity, are you British?
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From the article: Would it be moral to terraform Mars? The morality of terraforming Mars is a complex and controversial topic that has been debated by scientists, philosophers, and ethicists. Some argue that it would be morally justifiable
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>Some of the messaging community believes that software that is open source is more secure. It is our view that it is not. The more visibility there is into the infrastructure and code, the easier it is to penetrate it. By design, open s
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by mcny 4y ago
archived at https://archive.fo/QMZQw How Much Power Do Autonomous Vehicles Use? A Lot A model of power consumption by autonomous vehicles predicts that once widely adopted, they will consume as much power worldwide as data
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by mcny 4y ago
> Yes. And buy-in doesn't necessarily mean that people will love the chosen tool. Just that they understand and accept the compromises made. I think we are saying the same thing in different words. I don't hate most things.
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by mcny 4y ago
> conspiracy theories No, it is none of those. Show me the money. A voter id card required to vote is akin to a poll tax. If we have a voter id requirement, we have to have all voters have a place to go get this ID. Seven days a w
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by mcny 4y ago
I uploaded a screenshot of the front page of hacker news https://i.imgur.com/aTqN3qA.png
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by mcny 4y ago
> I'm super confused to come here and see people complain about its performance. I can't complain about performance. My profile folder is ~90 GB. I have multiple email accounts connected and a large local folder which contains
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by mcny 4y ago
Does Canada have independent school district funding concept?
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> It was mostly an industry of carriers trying to charge as much as possible, while delivering as little as possible. I remember when carriers upped the cost of text message from 15c to 25c per message. All four major carriers, iirc, ch
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> Is it strange these were not announced during a live event? My conspiracy theory / gut reaction is they want to hide this launch? or at least don't want too many eyes on it? I don't know why I think this but yeah. I hav
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> Twitter originally was done via SMS, that's why status lengths were limited to 140 characters. So, obviously you needed a phone number when it first started. This isn't what we are talking about. We are talking about requirin
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I don't know if something has changed recently but at least as of 2016 when I signed up for a new account, I got immediately placed on a suspicious user list and had to use a phone number to prove I was a human. It was just a prepaid c
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by mcny 4y ago
I believe the meta is to use tree style tabs warning: is for advanced users https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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» I assume it's somewhere in the middle. Sorry but this is not logical. You can't weigh two positions and say the truth is in the "middle". Sometimes one is more true than the other. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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> Currently I'm running my production and staging servers as two Hetzner instances running docker-compose stacks. But I've heard it's not a good solution since docker-compose can't really create a development environm
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Exactly. “first in time, first in right” is absolutely bonkers. It might make sense when the resource is limitless but not when we are running out of water. I think Colorado should just say screw it and keeps all the water for itself if Cal
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by mcny 4y ago
> I would rather render PDF with a native app either as provided by the computer or device or the built in one in Chrome or similar. This is what PDF.js is... > PDF.js is built into version 19+ of Firefox. https://github.co
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I propose another option: unless you can show clear written instructions, the ceo and the board are personally criminally responsible for the acts of their agents, contractors, and employees at the course of their duty. If your branch mana
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Speaking of Samsung I wonder if anyone here has experience with the x cover pro series. Looks like a pretty decent deal for a phone with a user removable back and replaceable battery? Looks like Linux kernel 5.4 Android 12 https:/&#x2

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