rhizome

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by rhizome 5y ago
How do you want your employees to value their stock, then?
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by rhizome 5y ago
> Who the hell says you gotta structure your revenue in order to MAXIMIZE your taxes? I don't think it's about rules ("gotta"), it's about ethics. I wouldn't say that maximizing taxes is anything, but the d
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by rhizome 5y ago
Those are all forms or uses of power. Where English uses one word, "power," the French use two, puissance and pouvoir , referring to "strength/energy" and "influence/control" respectively (and very
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by rhizome 5y ago
Sticking your nose in "where every penny was spent" is not great and I imagine for most people it would lead quickly to micromanagement. What do you know about charities, about running charities? Anything? Give anonymously. To p
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by rhizome 5y ago
Paying as much taxes as they can. And why not more? IIRC the 1040A has a field where you can give the government as much extra money as you want. Oh but it doesn't get spent with your name associated, so that's obviously not a goo
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by rhizome 5y ago
Whether you take advantage of those codes in these ways is a question of ethics. Nobody's forcing them to do this, "do it all for the shareholders" isn't a law and shareholder suits for fiduciary mismanagement against ex
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by rhizome 5y ago
I've taken to calling it anti-American (or anti-whatever country in which they're minimizing their taxes). How better to tell the world that you don't care about the societies that made your success possible than to refuse to
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by rhizome 5y ago
Your 42% is overall, right? The 90% was a marginal rate, the first bullet point at your URL.
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by rhizome 5y ago
As noted elsewhere, broadcast hardware has much higher manufacturing and performance requirements, so it's not an apples-to-apples price comparison. I'm sure there's a market for $600 (or $1000) TVs that don't have all t
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by rhizome 5y ago
That doesn't make sense as far as the point goes. There has to be something more than a tautology.
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by rhizome 5y ago
What did the founder(s) of Little Caesar's Pizza create?
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by rhizome 5y ago
This is basic accepted business principles as far as this dropout can see. First, reduce labor costs. One way to lower wages is to get salaried people to work as many hours for their check as you can convince them to do. This is one place w
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by rhizome 5y ago
By that token, how well can a Boston Dynamics dogbot clean your dishes?
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by rhizome 5y ago
I was part of an aquihire and got screwed every which way. As the acquired's only person in my position and required (almost! I'm not delusional) in order to transition the company, I should have driven a harder bargain when decid
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by rhizome 5y ago
But when it comes to monopolies I just don't see them ever going away now. Too much globalization combined with lobbying power and corporate veils tl;dr: it doesn't cost a million dollars to effect political change with money. I
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by rhizome 5y ago
In what way are those failings?
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by rhizome 6y ago
Oh, I'd say when you're running your own stuff, it's only guardrails. I don't think anybody's gonna say it should be any account's login shell or anything. Sure, there's the idea that attackers could break
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by rhizome 6y ago
Possibly relevant, the bash restricted shell (bash -r): https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Restr...
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by rhizome 6y ago
I feel like a lot more people qualify to do metamoderation in the SO network than ever do it. This is essentially sabotage in the form of benign neglect.
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by rhizome 6y ago
The Statute of Anne is over 300 years old.
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by rhizome 6y ago
find $PATH -regex $FILENAME_REGEX -exec grep $CONTENT_REGEX grep -r [-E] $CONTENT_REGEX --include $FILEGLOB Your bonus case: find $PATH -regex $FILENAME_REGEX \ -exec sh -c "grep [-E] -$NUMBER_OF_CONTEXT_LI
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by rhizome 6y ago
Of course a built-in would be nice, but I think one could get 99% of the way there just with a specialized scanner (that I don't know the name of) that kept its own database, like CTAGs or the old OSX Quicksilver (and probably Spotligh
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by rhizome 6y ago
> The article is right that Goodreads is used as "an organizational tool to keep track of what you've read" (or what you're planning to read). But that's actually a bad thing. Selecting books should have an eleme
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by rhizome 6y ago
> I think most people adopt the "I have nothing to hide, so what does it matter?" attitude. I think when this comes up it's a rationalization when the question becomes personal, "what if YOU had your identity stolen.
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by rhizome 6y ago
But they both result in similar convictions, so it's just another day in the salt mines regardless.
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by rhizome 6y ago
And it's a bullshit length of time to use.
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by rhizome 6y ago
> People by and large don't care enough about privacy Not to play dumb or sealion, but what opportunities are they given to do so? How often have those opportunities been one-and-done, "if you don't do something to protec
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by rhizome 6y ago
> You do know how this happened right? Wifi SSIDs with similar strengths reveal if people are in the same area, then just correlate timestamps and viola! The problem is that someone decided to correlate them, not to mention without ask
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by rhizome 6y ago
The existence of "actual literal sociopaths" does not depend on the words used to describe them. If you use words other than "actual literal sociopath" to describe the actual literal sociopathic acts of a person, that do
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by rhizome 6y ago
You're making a category error, the relationship is not symmetrical. Comparing apples to apples, if the programmer dabbled in artmaking or writing, I'm confident they would get a similar reaction from accomplished artists or write

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