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by skaushik92 4y ago
No; in fact sales tax is what’s shifting the burden in that direction. Income tax on the other hand is a progressive tax that keeps impact more proportional.
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by skaushik92 4y ago
This is not necessarily a bad thing. This incentivizes states and districts to compete on taxation and would likely drive sales tax down nationally.
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by skaushik92 4y ago
I was really confused by this as well because—as a Indian myself (from India)—I was under the impression that this was referencing the stereotype that Indians (from India) are chronically late.
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by skaushik92 4y ago
In my view, it’s a bit more nuanced. In modern development at companies, most of the time trunk-based version management is used and having it called “main” makes sense, but earlier, when got was one of the few VCSs out there for open sourc
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by skaushik92 4y ago
There’s something to be said for the media alerting everyone in their localities of potential Halloween threats. Every time the media alert us of some new threat (e.g rainbow fentanyl) and it’s a false alarm, people ultimately experience a
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by skaushik92 4y ago
I agree; I appreciated the visualization of the Infer button but its not clear at all if this one of the options you indicated. What I found though is that this is likely at least partially service-based. The UI's infer button seems to
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by skaushik92 4y ago
It's definitely true that they don't care directly about it, since they aren't exposed to it at all, but I would say they care transitively about it, as the decisions made to build systems impact the reliability & perform
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by skaushik92 5y ago
Here's the latest (2021) Financial Modeling World Championships (FMWC) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSU11kxxJvc
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by skaushik92 5y ago
The crux of the problem here is overgeneralization to the point of losing meaning and scope. The most blatant signal for this is the else case here. The else case literally calls one of the props with on of its other props passed in. You co
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by skaushik92 9y ago
Given the volume of our users, we do not track the retention rates of our individual users. As a result, we may be unable to address any retention issues with specific users in a timely manner, which could harm our business.
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by skaushik92 10y ago
Here's this comments page within the app itself: https://nx-hacker-news.github.io/story?id=12762530&type=top
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by skaushik92 10y ago
I use https://www.mint.com/ for managing my finances; it allows me to aggregate my information across banks and manage budgets/alarms as well.
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by skaushik92 10y ago
I think OC was being sarcastic.
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by skaushik92 11y ago
Interesting side note... the author must have originally called this something along the lines of: "As Microsoft takes on the feds, Apple and Amazon watch nervously" or something like that, since the link to the article is "a
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by skaushik92 12y ago
Now that Amazon's competing in that space as well ( http://localregister.amazon.com/ ) I wonder how Square will leverage their userbase...
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by skaushik92 13y ago
At what point does this go from plagiarism to creatively modifying another piece of art? For example, epic nation's logo is clever in that by rotation, it changes the EZ logo to EN. Is that necessarily plagiarism? Isn't that more
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by skaushik92 13y ago
Did you use service to find users for your service? Joking aside, including Craigslist in the list of places from which you pull your potential users doesn't sound professional to me, especially in a list with others like LinkedIn; It
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by skaushik92 14y ago
Correlation does not imply Causation http://xkcd.com/552/
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by skaushik92 14y ago
I wish more languages had the right-apply function. It looks similar to piping and sounds great.