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by paconbork 5y ago
This is only the case if you assume that nobody will change their behavior as a result of tax increases. If you're increasing the tax on structures, sure, there's no reason to expect that these costs won't be passed onto rent
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by paconbork 5y ago
210k is the number of McDonald's corporate employees. Franchises (which covers 93% of locations) employ roughly an order of magnitude more people
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by paconbork 5y ago
Couch to 5k? This absolutely worked for me as well. Don't try to do more than prescribed though, you need to have time to adapt to the stresses of running
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by paconbork 5y ago
Though many democrats did want to re-enact an overtly regressive tax break, perhaps some realized that it went completely against their stated principles.
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by paconbork 5y ago
Interestingly I knew about MR but didn't know he had a well-liked podcast
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by paconbork 5y ago
The difference here is that the vehicle in the article is traveling parallel with the wind
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by paconbork 5y ago
I don't think people generally point to tradesmen as someone you don't want to be, but rather the trades are never considered because a four year college degree is seen as an absolute prerequisite for class standing.
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by paconbork 5y ago
I recently tried to buy a nice cream whipper (ISI Gourmet Whip) and figured i would buy from the manufacturer. There's seriously a $50 difference between the manufacturer price and the price on Amazon (in favor of Amazon). And the Amaz
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by paconbork 5y ago
I knew a student in a neighboring lab (very smart guy, postdocing at Stanford atm) who had to look up how to pronounce the word "schadenfreude". Sure enough he found the PronunciationManual video first, eventually leading to a hil
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by paconbork 5y ago
Libra became Novi and is still in active development for what it's worth
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by paconbork 5y ago
They do. They pay employees money
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by paconbork 5y ago
The difference is we don't demand that automobile manufacturers only make "affordable" cars and people with cars can't stop new cars from being made
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by paconbork 6y ago
There's plenty of cities that aren't NYC/SF/LA
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by paconbork 6y ago
That was a really interesting paper, thank you for posting it
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by paconbork 6y ago
Yes, and high-quality free prep solutions exist: https://www.khanacademy.org/SAT Spending 10k on a prep class isn't going to cause your dimwitted child to outperform a bright kid from a disadvantaged background, but it
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by paconbork 6y ago
Far from nothing, companies allow the government to collect more payroll, property, income, capital gains, and sales taxes. Moreover, corporate taxes are a double taxation of which a sizable portion of the incidence falls on labor
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by paconbork 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/2275/
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by paconbork 6y ago
Indiana here, I can get Moderna at most sites nearby, Pfizer at Walgreens/CVS, or J&J by driving to Indy
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by paconbork 6y ago
If you're eligible now, it will probably cost you 2-3 weeks at most to choose the one you want (it only cost me a day to pick pfizer though). It will likely be a long time before you're able to get a different shot, so picking one
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by paconbork 6y ago
If your goal is just to get a vaccine passport then J&J will still be the better option until regulators acknowledge that one shot of mRNA is about as good shrug
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by paconbork 6y ago
I opted for pfizer just because they let you get the second shot a week earlier
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by paconbork 6y ago
This is inaccurate. Any encryption that cryptographers will accept will be semantically secure at a minimum (which FHE is). Briefly, to quote Gentry's paper which first showed the existence of FHE: this means given a ciphertext c that
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by paconbork 6y ago
It's not that straightforward. There's two types of chosen ciphertext attacks: IND-CCA1 (non-adaptive) and IND-CCA2 (adaptive). There are in fact FHE schemes for the former such as https://www.iacr.org/archive&#x2F
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by paconbork 6y ago
One thing these types of interviews do though is select for people who put in the time and effort to learn/relearn/apply these algorithms. Perhaps that correlates with other desirable traits
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by paconbork 6y ago
It's worth noting that numbers of this size are already being factored with existing techniques. RSA-250, a 250 digit (829 binary digit) product of two primes was factored pretty recently: https://lists.gforge.inria.fr/
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by paconbork 6y ago
the "Fanboy’s Annoyance" filter (not on by default) seems to get rid of it
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by paconbork 6y ago
>The incentives are for people to live there and for businesses to set up offices there Clearly not, otherwise people would move there. As it turns out, network effects exist, causing jobs to be near each other and for some reason people
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by paconbork 6y ago
Reminds me of a similar observation with drug side-effects on WebMD: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-... When the side effects for ibuprofen read similarly to those of far more dangerous pre
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by paconbork 6y ago
The main problem was that Kentucky went R+26. Throwing money at a Dem candidate who isn't Manchin, hoping to overcome that difference was an exercise in futility. You'd have better luck trying to primary him. Sure, money can'
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by paconbork 6y ago
It is if you see any available work as beneath you as a consequence

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