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by renlo 3y ago
I think PP is saying that the government won't know what deductions to give you if it's a "one-click file" system. Sounds like the proposed solution by the IRS won't be a one-click file system, but something like Tu
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by renlo 3y ago
If China executes prisoners who would be imprisoned in the US, is it a fair to compare the number of incarcerated in the US and China [1]? In the US they get a lengthy prison sentence, increasing the moving sum of incarcerated for the US, i
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by renlo 3y ago
He also crash landed into Los Padres National Park. He's lucky he didn't start a forest fire. The area is very dry and forest fires are not uncommon around there.
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by renlo 3y ago
It's like a thief steals all of the money from your bank account, he gets arrested, you file a claim to get your money back from his accounts, but before you can the IRS swoops in to claim all of the money because the thief didn't
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by renlo 3y ago
I'd argue that land is owned because it's a finite resource, and that without property ownership people would be in conflict with one another. "Creative expression" is not finite, in fact every human possesses it, it&#x2
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by renlo 3y ago
and why should "creative expression" be owned?
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by renlo 3y ago
> Bushwick How was I able to sense that you lived in Bushwick before you stated it? :P . That said, Bushwick only makes sense (to me) if you don't need to commute.
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by renlo 3y ago
My understanding is that "facts" can't be copyrighted. If there's only so many chord progressions that people find pleasing, and music taste is universal and we're born with it, wouldn't that make music more &q
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by renlo 3y ago
Decision tree: * Did you sit at a table and a waiter/waitress took your order, then the waiter/waitress brought the food to you, which you ate at the table, while the waiter attended to your needs? Then you leave a tip * Else: The
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by renlo 3y ago
I sincerely can not discern whether this is satire or reality.
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by renlo 3y ago
$12M affords numerous more-efficacious possibilities
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by renlo 3y ago
It seems that while it's in the public domain, it's not easily accessible, it really only exists digitized on Getty's servers. It sounds like when you download from Getty, their license restricts you from distributing the co
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by renlo 3y ago
Anecdotally whenever I hear a SF resident say the "crime problem is overblown", they almost always live in the nicer areas where there's virtually no crime. I lived on the border of the Tenderloin years ago, and saw things th
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by renlo 4y ago
I was mainly referring to those FTT tokens, but the problem with a meme stock (or similar) is that those buying and selling it are fickle and it's a bubble, it's a liquidity issue in the future not now. Due to the memetic populari
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by renlo 4y ago
Let's conveniently ignore that Tesla and SpaceX are meme stocks, akin to FTT or other illiquid assets.
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by renlo 4y ago
If Musk was the richest person on the planet, then FTX actually had billions in assets holding onto their FTT tokens or whatever made up tokens they had. Is a person actually "the richest person in the world" if there's not e
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by renlo 4y ago
Same, nothing about the verbiage struck me as odd. Perhaps the Germans in here think SBF has poisoned his father?
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by renlo 4y ago
> In other words, there may be some period during which pushing the door close button causes the door to close, but it will be after the end of the ADA-required minimum door time. The button mashers were right all along! I'd always
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by renlo 4y ago
They've allowed "styled-components" to work though, which is pretty nice. I always thought of them as providing a way to parse DSLs directly in your code. For example, a fictional way to generate some config could look like t
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by renlo 4y ago
> Psychological research on the need for cognition has been conducted using self-report tests, where research participants answered a series of statements such as "I prefer my life to be filled with puzzles that I must solve" a
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by renlo 4y ago
If your first language is Java, like mine was, then you're not even taught that there is anything _but_ OOP. It seems to me that OOP is foisted onto newbies who don't know anything else exists (why would they?), by teachers/i
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by renlo 4y ago
Is it just me or do the character-blocks in the logo almost look like Conway's Game of Life patterns?
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by renlo 4y ago
What's a viable alternative to TurboTax for those who are unable to self-file? I know Intuit is an evil company, but whenever it's tax season and I'm confronted with either (a) learning how to file my own taxes or (b) kicking
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by renlo 4y ago
the unfortunate reality is that because it's all bullshit, it's hard to differentiate bullshit from bullshit
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by renlo 4y ago
A curated list of links would not be "search manipulation"; it's protected speech in the US
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by renlo 4y ago
I switched from Angular to React 8 years ago, and I've no interest in Svelte. If I recall correctly the primary problem with Angular was $watch, race conditions, etc, meanwhile with React your state is your state, purely functional and
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by renlo 4y ago
What do you believe licensure would solve?
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by renlo 4y ago
Wouldn't using a lake as a heat/cooling source cause "thermal pollution"? It's probably fine if a couple houses surrounding the lake use it, but if the technology begins mainstream enough to where everyone is using
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by renlo 4y ago
Anecdotally, it seems to me HR employees are akin to "Party Members" / "Card Carrying Members" of a communist country (forgive the analogy). Usually very zealous about the company, usually have drunk the kool-aid, u
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by renlo 4y ago
How smug are Californians that those who always disagree with them always “must be Republicans”? They really said people are leaving the state because of “political reasons” (ie, “they’re Republicans, aka, ‘non-regrettable attrition’”)? Cou

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