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by stult 9y ago
I'd say the causality is more likely to go in the opposite direction. A slowdown in China provokes a slowdown in capital flight via crypto which triggers the crash. It might actually be the canary in the coal mine of a global recession
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by stult 9y ago
Yeah, I felt that way too when I started this work. What I've come to realize is that the tax credit is not about conducting science in the strict, academic sense of the word, a la Karl Popper and the received view. The systematic eval
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by stult 9y ago
I picked those numbers to make the math easy. No one should or will spend anywhere near an hour entering time into a time tracking system, unless it is horribly designed. >People will often start to wonder why they work so hard if the co
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by stult 9y ago
The quality of your data dictates the probability of getting an accurate, audit defensible credit calculated. More detail makes it easier to defend. We can work with "R&D work" level of detail, but it is less defensible and it
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by stult 9y ago
Well I'm in the US, so I can't speak to the UK's regs with much expertise, except insofar as I know most of the world's R&D credits are based on ours. But in the US, most web dev qualifies, including fairly run of th
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by stult 9y ago
>time-tracking by the hour is incredibly important As someone who does the R&D tax credit for a lot of tech companies, let me tell you that it really, really is. It's worth somewhere around 10% of all your developers' salar
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by stult 9y ago
The parent comment was referring to mathematical properties of the voting system itself which tend to give rise to a two party system almost automatically (specifically, the combination of a first past the post voting system and single-repr
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by stult 9y ago
I don't know where you're located, but in the US, the HMIS was intended to serve this purpose. It hasn't for a variety of reasons, but especially because it isn't easy to use so only trained intake specialists use it. Be
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by stult 9y ago
Historically, retail banks made their money off of the spread between their loan interest rate and the rate they pay out on deposits. So they borrow from your deposits at 2% and loan it out at 5%, pocketing the 3% difference. Over the past
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by stult 9y ago
Assuming the tech is in place and there are many otherwise equal firms entering the market, Uber would have a competitive advantage from their pre-existing customer base. Plus already having the tech in place for arranging the trip. Does th
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by stult 9y ago
You're dramatically overestimating the costs. Renting a car only costs $20-40 per day now. Far, far less than $180. It's not going to increase with driverless cars. It may actually decrease because of reduced insurance and wear an
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by stult 9y ago
It's actually unclear whether this prohibits private property, though it probably would because property can't exist without enforcement of property rights by a sovereign government. Which raises something of a difficult question
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by stult 9y ago
I work with a lot of time tracking data in my job (calculating the R&D tax credit). I like this tool a lot. It's simple, responsive, fast, and covers nearly all the relevant data points without any obfuscating clutter. There are a
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by stult 10y ago
They don't want to incentivize the airlines even a little bit to fly with safety issues.
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by stult 10y ago
Sometimes it's just desperation. Sometimes it just actually works. You'd be amazed how much easier it is to pitch buzz word heavy software to non-technical people. Presumably most serious investors aren't that easily fooled,
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by stult 10y ago
If there was an unusually high peak of seasonal jobs just prior to the months in question, that would be an utterly meaningless statistic. If it's a moderate random drop coinciding with the end of a somewhat high seasonal number, it&#x
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by stult 10y ago
That is precisely the scenario that actually would violate the Fifth Amendment, because it forces him to be a witness against himself.
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by stult 10y ago
But is it non-trivial net of the expense of gaining it?
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by stult 10y ago
The law doesn't affect guns people already own, only the purchase of additional firearms. If your mental health is so poor that you require a legal guardian, acquiring additional firearms seems like it should be very low on the prior
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by stult 10y ago
That's not the point of the article at all, nor of Intuit's lobbying. Even with the current complexity of the tax code, the IRS could easily auto file your taxes for you if your income is below a certain very high level and you do
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by stult 10y ago
There's nothing squishy about string theory. The line between currently untested hypotheses and those supported by reliable experimental results is quite clear in physics. You frequently see journalists representing the results of unre
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by stult 10y ago
I imagine it would be easy to have a git-like storage system for this information, where reproduction experiments would be a branch without the actual measurement data.
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by stult 10y ago
I think what you and I are experiencing is the core trend of software development away from purely technical challenges toward domain-specific adaptation of existing technology. Not that there aren't cutting edge coders building innova
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by stult 10y ago
I honestly have no memory of how I first stumbled across HackerNews, though it was sometime in 2014. At first glance, it didn't make much of an impression on me, because of the obfuscating jargon in article titles and the dated site de
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by stult 10y ago
Why not evaluate their arguments on the merits rather than relying on authority (or lack thereof)? And it's not like this is a particularly technical subject anyway.
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by stult 10y ago
It's homunculi all the way down...
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by stult 10y ago
Also necessity is quite a motivator and immersion helps tremendously. I'm terrible at teaching myself languages or learning them in school but can pick them up quickly when I'm living abroad where I am immersed in the foreign lang
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by stult 10y ago
Yeah, and then one of those hobbies becomes essentially full-time, and then you realize it has some marketable value, then next thing you know you're running a start up, completing the cycle of never-not-working-for-long.
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by stult 10y ago
In my business line, we have two kinds of users: the competent ones who have useful complaints but never seem to break anything and the incompetent ones who break everything and have no useful complaints. I try to get a mix when I want feed
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by stult 10y ago
The very next sentence in the article reads: >Even when the researchers controlled for established cardiovascular disease risk factors, they found about a 70% increased risk of ischemic heart disease in the years of followup. Your point

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