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by sparky_z 6y ago
No, I'm saying that they wouldn't bankrupt themselves. They would realize assets (or take income) to pay off the loan, and that's when they would get taxed. The story that rich people don't pay taxes because they just
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by sparky_z 6y ago
If the underlying asset goes away and never gets realized then where does the money to pay back the loan come from?
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by sparky_z 6y ago
I'm not knowledgeable enough about corporate finance to run the numbers, but would that sustainable in practice? What's being taxed is the market valuation of the company, which is based on the market's prediction of future
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by sparky_z 6y ago
Yes, everything. But testing is the least gameable (assuming you can prevent actual cheating). So getting rid of it makes admission more gameable overall.
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by sparky_z 6y ago
They'll know exactly when we stopped interacting with their website. Imagine a phone system that didn't make an audible noise when the other person on the line hung up. At some point you realize that they've chosen to stop li
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by sparky_z 6y ago
For one thing, that statement you quoted is completely unsourced. Sentences on either side of it are sourced to a book called "Chinese Whispers" [0]. It's a book about China, not about the etymology of English phrases. The au
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by sparky_z 6y ago
Yeah, that jumped out at me too. What could possibly be the reason for that? Who would enforce it?
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by sparky_z 6y ago
I personally think there's a big difference between on-the-job speech vs off-the-job. That may account for some of the disparity you're seeing.
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by sparky_z 6y ago
I don't think that's the kind of "end" they mean. IBM and HP haven't run out of money either.
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by sparky_z 6y ago
Different credit limit and loan terms.
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by sparky_z 6y ago
Not just cosmetic stuff. Things like knee replacements that serve a real medical purpose are still considered "elective".
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by sparky_z 6y ago
Though that one uses actual English words. It's only gibberish at the semantic level.
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by sparky_z 6y ago
I'm no fan of rent control, but your argument doesn't make any sense to me. Who is this landlord that's only charging more for one of their units because the other units are rent controlled? If they could charge more for a un
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by sparky_z 6y ago
"The fucking article". As in, "RTFA".
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by sparky_z 6y ago
Isn't that technically true, though? I thought Swartz joined them later, months after they had already launched the site.
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by sparky_z 6y ago
You appear to be mistaken. The video we're discussing is by someone called "Bismuth", but you've linked to a completely different person called "Bisqwit".
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by sparky_z 6y ago
Yes, and frogblast is saying that they don't see a privacy issue in the camera picker for Android 10 that needs to be mitigated by removing it in Android 11.
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by sparky_z 6y ago
On the contrary, consider Ralph Steinem [0], who was awarded the Medicine prize in 2011, three days after his death. The news had not yet reached the prize committee. There are a couple others[1,2] from decades past that were nominated be
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by sparky_z 6y ago
Is it not just survivorship bias? Nobel Prizes are often awarded decades after the fact, and (except in a couple edge cases) are never awarded posthumously. Being long lived makes you more likely to receive the prize in your lifetime, not n
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by sparky_z 6y ago
A great source for this sort of question is Wikiquote. It classifies the quote as "misattributed"[0], and says that it "appears to be something Luxemburg could have said or written, but searches for a source have been unsucc
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by sparky_z 6y ago
You seem to have misunderstood me as being in favor of perfect safety. I'm happy to eat a weird berry. This was meant as a joke about the excessively careful warning he put at the end of his post and how it didn't seem to jibe wit
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by sparky_z 6y ago
Your warning at the end doesn't seem to square with your willingness to eat new varieties you've never seen or heard of before. How do you know beforehand that whatever mutation caused that Mulberry tree to produce fruit all seaso
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by sparky_z 6y ago
It's not a Sherlock Holmes case at all. That principal only applies to locked-room style mysteries, with a provably tiny pool of possible suspects that can be eliminated one by one. I.e., fictional situations. In this case, the set of
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by sparky_z 6y ago
Perhaps. I suppose that comes down to matter of taste. But either way, I certainly don't think his formulation sinks to level of mockably bad. Especially since it was spoken off the cuff in response to a question from the press.
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by sparky_z 6y ago
I've never understood why people mock him for saying this. It frequently shows up on lists of stupid political quotes/"Bushisms". But not only is it absolutely true and important for planners to understand, it's sta
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by sparky_z 6y ago
I got "pataphysical".
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by sparky_z 7y ago
As they touch on at the beginning of the video, their goal appears to be to develop a ventilator design that can be built with a completely different supply chain than preexisting designs. That way, they aren't putting further stress o
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by sparky_z 7y ago
No, torque has nothing to do with mass. Even making the level "massless" would not change the applied torque one bit.
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by sparky_z 7y ago
Eh, I don't think it's as big of a deal as you're suggesting. Alyx is pretty much the only choice if they wanted to use a pre-existing character as an action protagonist set between HL1 & 2. And from the trailer, it looks
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by sparky_z 7y ago
But is that superceding another site's affiliate link, or did you just go straight to the website yourself?

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