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by pwinnski 4y ago
A very high real estate tax with huge discounts for a single primary homestead makes investment less profitable.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Because the issue at hand is the carried interest loophole, and she is the person responsible for that surviving in this bill. The other 49 Senators and the Vice President were all on board with removing the loophole, and Sinema said she wo
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Okay, this is a new category of product that didn't exist when I first shopped for carseats. I suppose now the primary issue is that one might have to plan ahead and buy slim carseats from the beginning, since as I recall it, the proce
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I'm not sure anybody ever makes any decision on the basis of a century ago. It certainly never crosses my mind. I think only: can I afford this? What will I need to give up to afford this? Is it worth it?
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by pwinnski 4y ago
When I was in market 22 years ago, I'm not sure whether these existed, but if so, nobody at the several different retailers I talked to, nor the local fire department, knew about them. I'm glad to hear that at least one option exi
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It's not an issue of lacking anchors, in my experience. It's that there doesn't exist (AFAIK) a car wide enough to accommodate three carseats side-by-side. Carseats are very wide.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Gosh, yes. When my third child was due to be born, I was driving a 1998 Toyota Camry, a mid-sized car, and it was literally impossible to fit three carseats into the backseat. To accommodate a three-year-old, a two-year-old, and a newborn,
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The problem with Reddit is that the sorting isn't by time, so the content order changes. The only solution I can think of for that is to track which individual posts have been shown to which users, which is quite a lot of work to do.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
At which point you're not actually arguing against pagination, you're suggesting a higher page size. I agree, page sizes are usually far too short by default! Especially when I'm on a desktop computer and a fiber connection.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
At least in the US, the opposite is true. The IRS targets small businesses rather than large corporations because the small business are easier targets, while the large corporations have lawyers who fight on every point.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
ACAB, and the FBI are cops. Yes, the timing is... odd. That could be part of a natural cycle of attention, or external influence, or both. Doesn't change the fact that ACAB, and the FBI are cops.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Good. We no longer use ink pens which make it important to avoid lifting pen from paper, so block lettering is more legible and should be what is taught. Sure, we type often and so write much less than we used to, but most of us still write
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by pwinnski 4y ago
In what sense is Doctorow himself causing the same sort of suffering against which he's inveighing? The parallel makes no sense. Doctorow does not sell only on Amazon[0]. He also has a history of giving his books away for free[1], an
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Having a friend who ran a bar opened my eyes to market consolidation in the beer industry, but a quick web search turns up information on market consolidation[0] too. You write as if the concept of the dangers of market consolidation is new
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I hardly think breaking twitter is breaking "the web," especially when the content is also available on the actual web: https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/17/chokepoint-capitalism/#au...
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Writing "approachably," in your case so approachable that the book can serve as a sort of introduction to English, is an underrated and under-appreciated skill. I am not a fan of writers like Dan Brown or James Patterson, who seem
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Apple Pay is using NFC to supply credit card info, but it's still most commonly Visa or Mastercard. Unless you mean the Apple Card, in which case it's a Mastercard.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in every situation, but they're not always compact and portable. Smartphones and tablets work better with touchscreens because portability matters more, and because no two apps have the same inp
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I don't, either, since I have no pets and my youngest child at home is 12. However, when my previous company ran a survey, many parents of younger children mentioned children and pets as reasons they wanted to spend one or more days in
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> You keep harping on about the last point. Which makes me think that you really felt that it hit home with you. Yeah... your communication skill is pretty bad on both ends, it turns out: out and in. I'm a Go developer who has used
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Some of that crop failure is due to heat, which could be mitigated by using solar panels to provide shade. That doesn't work for all crops, some of which require direct sun, but it works for more than I expected.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I work in building A, and for me, that seems true. But my building A doesn't have pets, or children, or other people working in it. It's not noisy, very clean, and has a gigabit internet connection. In short, you've completel
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You took a very specific complaint about toolkits in the embedded systems space and generalized it to an expanded argument about any and all tooling, much of which have requirements that run directly counter to yours. So yes, I don't
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by pwinnski 4y ago
At my last job, I would go into the office one day per month, for the monthly happy hour. Those mornings were easily my least-productive days all month. Nice to talk to people, but very unproductive. My new job is 100% remote, no office in
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by pwinnski 4y ago
If you make enough money, you can get a place to live that has more than one room. I have a room with bookshelves along one wall and a large world map on another wall, and it has a desk which goes up and down at the touch of a button. It&#x
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I just remember, I've got a friend and former coworker who lives a few blocks from me, and he chooses to drive into the office a couple of days a week to work by himself, echoing in an mostly-empty building, because his wife is a real
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I don't think it's your responsibility, but the proposed and in-process change is going to continue to be very disruptive, nonetheless. One way to think about offices is that they are appealing for much the same reason that people
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Given that description, it's completely illogical. You've described no differences at all between buildings A and B! In reality, though, building A might be poorly-suited to work because of children, pets, or other people, or it m
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by pwinnski 4y ago
What a bizarre take. It seems to boil down to: "Tooling should be compiled so it doesn't involve dependencies." If we lived in a world in which most tooling (currently written as python scripts) were actually compiled, we&#x2
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> you ever heard of Regus before WeWork came along? Yes? Maybe I'm just old, but I remember them in the 1990s. Pre-crash articles[0] suggest that WeWork introduced "community" to coworking spaces, which... okay. I guess ti

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