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901.
by prepend 3y ago
> folks I was not compatible with in any stretch of the imagination This is really within my control, right? I found being very specific about my interests and requirements. If I’m going on dates with people I have poor compatibility the
902.
by prepend 3y ago
> I think the main reason codebases are ever-growing is that we never ask, in a serious way, the question "could this be much smaller" I think we do ask this question, but code bases grow just like cities grow. We have more stu
903.
by prepend 3y ago
I’ve found that it’s not just the photos but the writing and content on profiles. It was surprising to me how many people had really poorly written profiles or just photos. I’m guessing I’m a 4-5 but have matched with really attractive, and
904.
by prepend 3y ago
> Dating apps at 45 are a literal fucking cesspool. Funny I’m in almost the same situation and have found dating apps really helpful. I’ve been using them for a few months and it’s like a firehose of dates. It’s surprising because they g
905.
by prepend 3y ago
If someone steals my debit card and spends all my money, it’s a pain in my rear end and disrupts stuff. They can steal my credit card all day long and I don’t care. I’m not talking about what should and shouldn’t be in a better world. I’m j
906.
by prepend 3y ago
> but it feels disrespectful to use them for people who want their content deleted I think it’s ok to recognize that the artist and I want different things and that’s ok. But people’s wishes aren’t absolute. And I don’t think it’s disres
907.
by prepend 3y ago
As a consumer, I use credit cards almost exclusively. I pay the balance every month. I do this because: 1) don’t like carrying cash 2) like the security of never giving merchants direct access to my bank 3) chargeback in rare times I need i
908.
by prepend 3y ago
I’d like to see a national law, or addition to state Uniform Commercial Code laws or something, that the price shown is the price charged, inclusive of everything. This is actually two “common sense” laws that I feel are unambiguous enough
909.
by prepend 3y ago
How would you be able to charge an additional amount but not be able to show it beforehand? I get how calculating the fees can be challenging. But I assumed that shops could calculate if they were adding it as a surcharge.
910.
by prepend 3y ago
Good point. I meant “completely” for consumer vehicles in the US. That’s what was pumping out all that lead into the air in the US. The other uses were much smaller.
911.
by prepend 3y ago
That’s not how private property works. The owner doesn’t have to sell to you. Have you ever had a car totaled? Just because the insurance company salvages your vehicle doesn’t mean you get to buy it for that value.
912.
by prepend 3y ago
> analogous to burning your house down for the insurance money It’s very different because insurance pays out to make whole. Taxes are just taxes. It’s the equivalent of burning your house down and then writing off the depreciated value
913.
by prepend 3y ago
It’s not specific for movies. All businesses only pay taxes on profit. And the expenses spent to produce things are a “tax break” to offset revenue. This is done because it’s hard to pay taxes if you don’t make a profit as your money is alr
914.
by prepend 3y ago
They don’t spent the $90M intending to write it off. This is a failure mitigation strategy where they failed and want to recoup as much value as possible. Studios still lose $60M when they write off $90M they are effectively only saving the
915.
by prepend 3y ago
This example doesn’t work. You’d only be able to deduct your cost to buy them, not their potential value. It only works if you pay $1M now and then years later burn them to offset a different $1M in income. But that would still be stupid as
916.
by prepend 3y ago
> If someone buys the Mona Lisa and burns it for the tax credit This is not how taxes work. If I buy the Mona Lisa for $100 and burn it for the tax credit. That would only yield me a $100 deduction so a savings of $46 in taxes (and I liv
917.
by prepend 3y ago
You think that some costs shouldn’t be tax deductible? So companies should pay taxes not only on profit, but revenue independent of profit? I don’t think that would have a positive effect as you imagine.
918.
by prepend 3y ago
How is the tax system abused?
919.
by prepend 3y ago
> It's the tax write off for destruction that's fucked up How so? They aren’t selling it. So its value is $0. If the artist burns the painting, its value is $0. Is it bad because the artist could have sold it and chose not to?
920.
by prepend 3y ago
Not really [0], leaded gas was completely banned in the US in 1996 but really hadn’t been used since the early 80s and had start the phase out in 1996. So you’d probably need to look at people in their 50s who really had an impact of lead f
921.
by prepend 3y ago
I’ve tried both ways and currently just append to the top with a date stamp. I have an existing method for storing receipts and documents for everything so I just put my receipts there and include a link to it.
922.
by prepend 3y ago
This is a nice project, but I like the simplicity and portability of a google docs file that is just a running log. I can just give that file over to a new owner.
923.
by prepend 3y ago
They skipped this in Altered Carbon and it was just a “rule.” Memorizing a GUID wouldn’t work because someone could read it from your memory. Stephenson did this well, I think, in Dodge with the PURDAH as it was an AI trained on every chara
924.
by prepend 3y ago
Part of the way they achieve that knowledge is through the standup though. Maybe you are super fortunate. Standups are just one method too. It’s not like it’s dogma and must be followed. But it’s a useful technique. So saying it’s unnecessa
925.
by prepend 3y ago
It’s not acting like children. It’s acting like humans. If it’s easier to tweak questions or retrain everyone on my team, me included, I’m going with the easier path every time. In this case easy is right because the specific question isn’t
926.
by prepend 3y ago
And kids aren’t doing their job by saying “nothing.” It’s easier to change the questions to improve responses.
927.
by prepend 3y ago
> but in a well-functioning team I think the routine maintenance is key for staying well-functioning. The problem is that once things are not functioning well it may be too far along to fix. So it’s like saying why should married couples
928.
by prepend 3y ago
It is still strange to me that: 1) people think that anything sent on an employer system isn’t visible to the employer 2) people send private DMs from work accounts
929.
by prepend 3y ago
I think they also changed the societal and cultural aspects quite a bit. In the book, everything was accepted and there were weren’t any “downtrodden.” The show changed all this with the meths being super billionaires and then there being l
930.
by prepend 3y ago
I remember this book having the concept of people running at different time scales so people in “the real world” would run at 1x and simulated people would run at whatever fraction they could afford. And they could speed up temporarily to h

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