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by rnk 3y ago
There should be higher limits, but one reason there are limits is so that really wealthy people can't shield all their money from future taxes; we need to let people of more modest means get more gain though. Maybe you could have taxes
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by rnk 3y ago
Who would be coerced if I could run whatever software I wanted? Oh, the precious apple corporation? They are coerced all the time by legal restrictions. I'm just asking them to stop blocking it. I'm hoping anti-trust law will come
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by rnk 3y ago
Actually the web browser is exactly one of the things that microsoft had to change to reduce their enforced market dominance. They made microsoft stop forcing IE down everyone's throat. It's eerie how similar the iphone browser si
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by rnk 3y ago
I disagree. i just want to run firefox or chrome directly and completely without using apple's unnecessary & required piece of safari on ios. Let people run the whole web browsing app, if they want to. I'm skeptical of any sig
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by rnk 3y ago
I think a challenge of pixels and android in general is they don't seem to care about how well older hardware works with new os releases (or even some updates). I have an iphone se and it seems to work just fine after installing multip
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by rnk 3y ago
It would make sense that russia has ability to destroy roads, and airbases, but why aren't they using these effectively when attacking Ukraine? It's a lot smaller than all of Europe, should be easier to figure it out.
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by rnk 3y ago
It means that there will be higher productivity expectations based on using this. If you can't use it very well you won't be as rewarded, you probably won't be compensated as well. We have a long human and also programming hi
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by rnk 3y ago
That's quite surprising. Why would they do this?
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by rnk 3y ago
How long until the UK could stomach a vote to try to go back? The tories won't consider that, but if labor comes back into power, would they want to immediately try to reverse that vote, what a mindfield.
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by rnk 3y ago
Wow, thanks for posting that. I wasn't away RMB was not used that much up to now. US + Euro is 9/12 of that trading on the imf.org link. 9/12, 75%! Maybe a little of that could switch to rmb in trading with china, but as chin
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by rnk 3y ago
I understood the article above saying we could finishing colonizing most of the galaxy in little time, say 1000 years. But the galaxy is much larger than 1000 light years so without FTL travel (impossible afawk), that's why I said you
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by rnk 3y ago
Thanks for that thoughtful answer! I have seen discussions of the energy to go around the solar system (starting with the tremendous energy it takes to get to leo vs go from there to anywhere else) but never heard that Mercury had an advant
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by rnk 3y ago
I like what you say, but I think using the material of Mercury to build these spheres is beyond our technological base. What's not impossible is doing this with some of our asteroids. Send robots, start using the materials on the aster
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by rnk 3y ago
That's a really interesting breakdown. I think we'll be able to build larger and larger telescopes and figure out more and more of what's in atmospheres of planets. I feel like we'll be increasingly seeing more and more
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by rnk 3y ago
I strongly disagree, it's not beyond the dreams of humans to travel a few light years away with generational starships. How are you going to travel all the way across the galaxy without faster than light travel. We could send humans in
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by rnk 3y ago
There's not a magic thing, but you have a sequence of things that need to be addressed. Inexpensive young child care, less expensive schools, time off from your job without penalty to encourage having kids, make it triply so for women.
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by rnk 3y ago
Your comments are so important and correct. Not many people have noticed that this will be increasingly a fact of life in the US. I remember when it was Walmart that destroyed the business districts of small towns when they built on the edg
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by rnk 3y ago
I thought an apple watch identify afib history too.
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by rnk 3y ago
There's no obvious alternative but there's nothing stopping other countries from using other currencies than dollars to do transactions, just the infrastructure that supports it. It feels like the dollar is more stable than other
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by rnk 3y ago
Yes. Be sure to save or print the email trail to protect you.
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by rnk 3y ago
100k, 10 million? Please give us a guess. How many are in known languages, how many unknown languages?
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by rnk 3y ago
This is a real problem. These algorithms are a way for us in the west to experience social credit type scores like we read about from China. I'm sure there's someone here who was unfortunate to have a name that overlapped in some
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by rnk 3y ago
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37500752
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by rnk 3y ago
No, that's not helpful. No one should suggest personal harm.
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by rnk 3y ago
Apple should use financial means to destroy these companies. Working at these companies should be a black mark on the records of the employees. I won't hire someone who worked at one of these companies. I know probably my own governmen
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by rnk 3y ago
I disagree that desirable places aka tech cities are decreasing to the mean on price increases over the last 25 years. But I really need evidence instead of my opinion. I think that in the expensive tech cities (for lack of a better descrip
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by rnk 3y ago
Hmm, we'll probably see you in the people's court soon.
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by rnk 3y ago
It was bad then, today it would probably be different. At least after one big artist breaks that barrier, then people won't care much.
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by rnk 3y ago
I'd actually like to see how to do that. It would be cool to do it.
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by rnk 3y ago
Hey, 40 direct reports is accepted best practice! Remember when google did that? My manager was a poser back 15 years ago, he had only 20 direct reports - I'm not making this up.

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