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by scatters 6y ago
The money used to purchase shares has already been taxed as income. A person receiving dividends is enjoying the benefit of their own hard work in the past.
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by scatters 6y ago
> asinine programs (like seeing if zebra fish get addicted to nicotine) Understanding the physiology of addiction in animal models is a step towards curing it in humans. It's anything but asinine.
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by scatters 6y ago
"Good morning" in chat is not a pleasantry. It is a demand for the other person to switch to synchronous communication and attend to their conversation ahead of everything else the other person has to deal with. Respect for others
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by scatters 6y ago
Look at your own body. Half of the nitrogen in your body tissue - in particular, in protein - was clawed from the atmosphere by the Haber process. There is simply no replacement for industrial society.
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by scatters 6y ago
A mirror reverses front and back. Because we are (more or less) horizontally symmetrical, we reduce the discrepancy by rotating the image around a vertical axis, resulting in a left-right reversal. If we were vertically symmetrical we would
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by scatters 6y ago
At -O2 or above, gcc emits Wreturn-local-addr.
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by scatters 6y ago
Why not switch to a keyboard that does have it?
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by scatters 6y ago
It is wrong to want to. To be clear, it is laudable to train for the situation. But to eagerly anticipate it, to hope for enemies to attack your country and community, is abhorrent.
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by scatters 6y ago
That's why grandfathering is necessary. For example, you can have residential property taxes determined by most recent sale price.
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by scatters 6y ago
We're going towards Venus rather than Mars, though. So "veneraforming".
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by scatters 6y ago
A capability model fixes this: the application launches a file chooser which it does not control , which can then return it an fd or other token giving the application the capability to read from or write to a specific file. Of course, thi
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by scatters 6y ago
Western economies? What about the rest of the world? Citation: World Bank. "Poverty and Prosperity 2016 / Taking on Inequality"[1]. 1. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/
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by scatters 6y ago
Wealth inequality is immaterial; what matters is (lifetime) consumption inequality. Income inequality is an imperfect substitute measure.
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by scatters 6y ago
Continues? The world is more equal than it ever has been, at least since the invention of agriculture.
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by scatters 6y ago
It just means that you need to cast via intptr_t, i.e. double casts `(void*)(intptr_t)i` and `(int)(intptr_t)p`. GLib has macros for it if you feel that's useful.
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by scatters 6y ago
If Tesla wanted to hedge against inflation they'd be buying tips. But that wouldn't get them fawning headlines.
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by scatters 6y ago
That's what's meant by medium of exchange. You're willing to trade anything for money because you can trade money for anything.
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by scatters 6y ago
RobinHood is styled like a gambling app. That doesn't put people off; more the reverse.
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by scatters 6y ago
Do the employees enjoy the interaction with you, I wonder?
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by scatters 6y ago
"Discovered" is a pretty flexible term. Geologists will only go out to look for the stuff if there's an expected return on extracting it. Similarly, "reserves" means stuff that (a) we know about and (b) that we thin
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by scatters 6y ago
And it also costs a landlord when a business moves. How likely would they be to find new tenants if the previous tenants mention that they were forced out by an above-market rent increase? You're tilting at windmills.
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by scatters 6y ago
And decreasing household size.
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by scatters 6y ago
And it's available for Visual Studio, so you don't even need to be running Linux.
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by scatters 6y ago
> They require you to identify yourself of course. That's unnecessary; all they need is to know that you have the right to collect the parcel. This can be done with a QR code generated by the sender, potentially alongside proof of a
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by scatters 6y ago
Good question: you can define m↑↑n as: \m n -> n (exp m) 1' where `exp` is Church exponentiation, `flip id`, and `1'` is the Church numeral for 1, that is, `id`. According to pointfree.io this expands to: flip fl
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by scatters 6y ago
> how else would you define multiplication? In Church arithmetic, multiplication is defined as function composition; that is, the dot operator `.` in Haskell-like languages. Addition is considerably more complex; it is defined as `lift (
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by scatters 6y ago
> identify yourself in whatever situation What situation? Other than crossing a border, or maybe appearing in court, I can't think of any situation where I need to prove who I am. I might need to prove my age, or that I have a r
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by scatters 6y ago
For that situation, wouldn't you use voice control? I can say "OK Google mute" in less time than it takes to reach for a remote.
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by scatters 6y ago
A share offering doesn't make existing stockholdings worth less. Usually, they benefit, because it gives the company increased working capital to invest in projects.
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by scatters 6y ago
There may be a flag to "always show full URL"; if it isn't available (in the address bar context menu) you need to go to chrome://flags/, enable the "Context menu show full URLs" option, restart Chr

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