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That's not how it works. Refinancing a mortgage doesn't trigger capital gains tax. Capital gains tax applies when you sell an asset, like a house. While currency fluctuations do play a role, you calculate the gain or loss at the t
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"seamlessly create a VPN server when you initiate a VPN session, and delete the server when you end the VPN session" So it's not serverless. "One license provides you 3 installations" Fifty bucks for a Docker compos
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"live threatmap of live cyber attacks blocked by BunkerWeb instances all around the world" So this sketchy looking thing is also equipped with telemetry that phones home all the time? No thanks.
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You can exploit people for decades before they rise up and murder you. Leaders misinterpret decades of bloodlessness as peace, and as license to exploit even harder. But when the exploiters rig the legal system and the political system to d
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> the dollar is at record highs Compared to what? Other government currencies?
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The inflation rate for chips, memory, storage and networking is negative.
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Millions of people don't have an employer with an HR department they can call on the phone to confirm that an email is legitimate. What if your primary source of income is Uber or Doordash or Etsy or Youtube?
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What happens when you eliminate the independence of agencies like the DOJ and FTC, replace experienced leaders with party loyalists, and tee up opportunities for selective prosecution? Equal justice under law collapses into a race to see wh
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It's a decentralized system that tries to hide its underlying architecture, and the abstraction is very leaky. The UI makes it look like a centralized system. That fiction fails in many subtle and silent ways that make the experience f
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I assumed the numerous too-obvious errors were some form of code for information hiding.
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What if you don't need cups because you don't print anything? Just sudo apt remove cups right? No, because cups is a dependency of the entire graphical subsystem, just removing cups also removes everything from the Nautilus file m
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> You are mathematically guaranteed to lose your money playing roulette. The high-stakes tables in Vegas casinos typically have straight-up bet limits around $5,000 to $10,000. Some tables in Macau have limits of $50,000. If you put $50,
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People have always loved to gamble. But why are scams, rug pulls, pyramid schemes and outright Ponzis so wildly popular when relatively legitimate gambling like blackjack and roulette are available? Why do people flock to skeezy finance whe
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It's quite clear that the question is not whether it is possible that an insignificant number of votes are cast fraudulently, because if we're talking about insignificant events, all things are possible. Certainly the question is
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> An LLM trawling the web could very conceivably come up with a non-truthful answer. LLMs don't uncritically "trawl" the web, ingesting and then blindly regurgitating what they find. 98% of the internet is crap, yet LLM
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The Health and Employment Effects of Employer Vaccination Mandates(nber.org)
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Yes, of course, on a +EV bet, use the Kelly Criterion to size your bet to a percentage of your bankroll. But it's not that simple. There are humongous unstated assumptions that could determine the result of this particular proposition.
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They are selling dollar coin flips for 36 cents(fastml.com)
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If any of your recipients are using Google or Microsoft then they already have your email whether you use Proton or not.
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So 5 in 6 companies do not hesitate to hire recent grads.
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The latest versions of both Android and iOS feel faster on modern hardware than older versions did on older hardware.
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> So the Odyssey was suitable for 2000 years Historically, Homer's epics and other advanced texts were taught primarily to the top 5% to 10% of teenage students, specifically those from privileged social classes, in various classi
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I'm not convinced HN is awash in bots, but there are certainly some inauthentic accounts here. What if you want to change public opinion about $evilcorp or $evilleader or $evilpolicy? You could explain to people who love contrarian nar
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And because it can block ads without infinite permission to read and change every site you visit.
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If you support banning sports betting because it's a zero-sum game that is generally -EV for non-professionals in aggregate, and if short-term trading of stocks is also zero-sum and -EV for non-professionals in aggregate, then do you s
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Jupyter notebooks for every chapter available here: https://github.com/che-shr-cat/JAX-in-Action
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Sports betting is a market. Like any market, those with knowledge and power systematically enrich themselves by extracting wealth from those without. If sports betting should be banned because it exploits those without wealth or knowledge,
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> now have the highest rents This is not proof that rent control causes high rents. It could be that these are highly desirable areas without enough housing to meet demand, and rent control was in response to high rents. It could be th
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It's about flexibility. I can get up early and work an hour, then get the kids ready for school, then work five hours, then take them to my sister's place after school, then work two hours, then have dinner and read them stories b
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Thank you for using numbers in your argument. Too often all the rent-vs-buy discussion is little more than magical aphorisms about "flushing rent money down the toilet" and "at least I'm building equity" and "b

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