petersellers

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by petersellers 3y ago
> These distributions are then reinvested by shareholders to more efficient purposes. Why do you think this is true (specifically the "more efficient purposes" part)?
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by petersellers 3y ago
Because they'd have more capital to reinvest in their business, as I stated. But even if they don't reinvest it the rest of us still benefit in the form of increased tax receipts.
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by petersellers 3y ago
Right, because Microsoft 100% consists of highly paid software engineering roles located in the US.
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by petersellers 3y ago
You can increase the income taxes of wealthy people considerably (specifically income taxes, not business taxes). A 50%+ marginal rate will help motivate C-level execs to opt for re-investing profits into their business rather than into bu
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by petersellers 3y ago
> OTel _does_ prevent lock-in on the agent side (making it easier to switch vendors) with open source components and consistent schemas, but OTel doesn't enable you to do anything that you couldn't do before with a specific ven
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by petersellers 3y ago
It's also pretty cool that a ton of sailing vocabulary has made its way into common English vernacular. I guess with the UK being the most powerful country in the world at one time (and projecting their power via their Navy) it's
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by petersellers 4y ago
"Our economy's in the toilet, we should start another war to stimulate spending!"
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by petersellers 4y ago
It obviously doesn't scale linearly though. Take the poor family living paycheck to paycheck - they spend practically every cent they earn on the basic necessities. Whereas I find it highly doubtful that your wealthy friends are spe
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by petersellers 4y ago
There have been a number of studies done that demonstrate that a consumption tax (which is effectively what this is) is considered to be regressive because they disproportionately affect poor people. I'm all for simplifying the tax cod
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by petersellers 4y ago
I tried several times and it seemed to miss the point of the article every time.
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by petersellers 4y ago
This is part of what makes political discourse so challenging today. It's really easy to conjure up evidence in the form of poorly written articles with bad sources (or outright fabrications), but exponentially more difficult to go an
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by petersellers 4y ago
> Not to put a fine point on it, but if you want to know what it was like back then, just say something like "I don't think we should finance the war in Ukraine. What is happening in Eastern Europe isn't our problem. Neutr
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by petersellers 4y ago
> Zippydb is honestly one of the best parts of fb infra. It let you select levels of consistency vs latency How is that different from Cassandra's Tunable consistency model? https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/4.1&
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by petersellers 4y ago
The person you replied to mentioned a refund from Sony, so we can assume then that they got the PS4 version. Unfortunately, the last-gen console versions of the game were horrendously broken and had major performance problems. I don'
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by petersellers 4y ago
> If surgery was made "easy" then it would be a one size fits all and anyone with an outlier condition would not get medical care. On the contrary, I think it would be a lot easier to treat an outlier condition because doctors
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by petersellers 5y ago
> in that case USA will ensure that they do not get taken over by a geopolitical adversary in the coming decade How will the USA ensure that?
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by petersellers 5y ago
Yeah, the person you replied to really seemed to be grasping at straws there. How many laptops for sale now have this level of support for external monitors?
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by petersellers 5y ago
Pretty impressive, all things considered. Looks like it's roughly on par with an AMD 5800X, which is a Desktop CPU with 8C/16T and a 105W TDP.
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by petersellers 5y ago
> The pixel 4 is older and much more of a budget device compared to the iphone 12, I am not sure why you are comparing the two. The Pixel 4 and the iPhone 12 both MSRP'd at $799 when they were released. Not sure how the Pixel is co
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by petersellers 5y ago
It's hard to tell whether you are being sarcastic or oblivious with those last few words of your comment.
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by petersellers 5y ago
Honest question - how do you accurately gauge public approval in a country like China?
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by petersellers 5y ago
> If Apple really didn’t care about privacy they’d end e2ee and scan on the server side like Google and Microsoft. It's not black or white. Clearly Apple does care more about privacy than most other tech companies. That doesn&#x27
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by petersellers 5y ago
> NCMEC is an arm of the government. Either they share voluntarily or they get subpoenaed endlessly. A subpoena is a lot different than scanning every single photo on every user's device automatically. > Why do you think all of t
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by petersellers 5y ago
> iCloud Photos can be used on Windows, for example. This scanning only applies to iOS devices. You could use iCloud Photos and not be subject to the scanning. That's great for the <0.001% of people who use iCloud Photos without
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by petersellers 5y ago
The article you linked makes a surprising claim, and it contradicts what the EFF said recently about this here - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-diff... > Currently, although Apple
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by petersellers 5y ago
> You turn it off by turning off iCloud photos, I never claimed otherwise. I just have to point out the ridiculousness of this statement. With your logic any feature in any product can be "turned off" by not using the entire p
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by petersellers 5y ago
Here's the distinction: I used to be able to use iCloud photos without having my photos scanned, and now I can't. So I have to make a choice of either dropping iCloud photos completely or submit to having all of my photos scanned
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by petersellers 5y ago
Please show evidence where the feature can be turned off (without having to completely disable iCloud photos).
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by petersellers 5y ago
Only if you disable iCloud photos completely. So no, you cannot turn off the feature unless you stop using iCloud photos.
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by petersellers 5y ago
There are two different "features" being implemented - Messages scanning for minors on a family plan (which can be turned off) and iCloud Photo scanning (which can't be turned off, as far as I know). So no, you can't ju

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