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by proxyon 5y ago
> Being 'underweight' is associated with significant excess death; being 'overweight' is associated with a lower death rate than 'normal' BMI: This is nonsense. In many medical deaths such as cancer (and esp
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by proxyon 5y ago
> I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because I was the only person who would say hello to the cleaning lady as she meekly made her rounds around us when we worked late. Everyone else had a long habit of ignoring anyone
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by proxyon 5y ago
You're missing the point hard. You can still tax the corporation by taxing everyone who earns income from it. You just don't tax the business entity itself.
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by proxyon 5y ago
The thing is the assertion that corporate taxes are bad is incredibly mundane. Not in a pro-pro-big business kind of way but in a pro-everyone kind of way. The problem with corporate taxes is that they are easily dodged via the most mundane
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by proxyon 5y ago
Workers at conservative think-tanks breathe oxygen. Ergo, breathing oxygen is wrong.
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by proxyon 5y ago
> That is a very, very bold claim. Please provide bold evidence or reasoning. No it's not. This is common knowledge in the economics world. Corporations can dodge taxes in ways individuals mostly can't.
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by proxyon 5y ago
Is this an honest assessment though? I'm usually running 5+ electron programs (IDE, Slack, Discord, etc), multiple browser tabs, test runners (Jest, Detox), IDE plugins (eslint, auto import, gitlens), an emulated terminal (iTerm2), mul
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by proxyon 5y ago
I think you're right on this. I've also been irritated at the "eGPUs / dGPUs are no longer necessary" crowd. If an SoC GPU with the performance / size of an RTX could fit into a notebook we'd actually have
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by proxyon 5y ago
He's well known for almost torpedoing Lerna by committing an insane proprietary license where he called ICE and Palantir fascists who aren't allowed to use Lerna, and included into that any companies who ever do work for ICE or Pa
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by proxyon 5y ago
I'm a senior eng in Typescript at a tech company. I will always advocate against adopting this project. Jamie is a perfect example of the toxic attitudes and activism destroying OSS and tech. Lerna or Babel are fine, but then again, th
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by proxyon 5y ago
My hypothesis is that Americans are both hypersexual (due to media, porn abuse, etc) and thus deprived of good sex as a result of the over stimulation toward faked, idealized, porn-ified sex. I have no evidence for this, it is merely a hunc
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by proxyon 5y ago
> open borders No thanks. Feel free to go conduct extreme social experiments with your own life, not mine.
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by proxyon 5y ago
It reduces the novelty of real sex and thus the arousal for it. Lots of studies on this.
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by proxyon 5y ago
I'm not sure who this is supposed to appeal to. At first glance it feels like the 0.000001% of the population who exclusively consume Twitter ragebait. You're writing spiteful, angry creeds, buying entire domain names and angrily