thissuchness

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by thissuchness 2y ago
Can you give an example of a query you find offensive, and how you'd format it better?
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by thissuchness 2y ago
Why wouldn’t it be a tax write off? Profits are taxed, not revenues. If revenues were taxed instead of profits, there would be even more powerful consolidation market forces to vertically integrate every single industry to avoid double-taxi
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by thissuchness 5y ago
Punished him how? Were the schmepublicans not already turning up the drama dial to 11? What further recourse did they have to make things worse for him?
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by thissuchness 5y ago
To transliterate your comment into an equivalent context: I feel like after 12 or so hours of chess I'd figure out how to not hang pieces. From there, how to find the best moves is just a question of dedicating energy into finding them
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by thissuchness 5y ago
Is trying to beat the highest depth of stockfish in chess not competitive? It is a sequence of deterministic, open-information multiple-choice actions.
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by thissuchness 5y ago
Adam Neely has a great video on 432 Hz music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKTZ151yLnk
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by thissuchness 5y ago
They weren't clear with what they meant, but to steelman the argument... Some things that increase wealth inequality are bad, others are good: J.K. Rowling increased wealth inequality by writing Harry Potter, but the world is better of
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by thissuchness 5y ago
More important than profit margins are the return on capital vs. the alternative uses for that capital.
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by thissuchness 5y ago
It's a good thing because while land prices rise with density, rent prices will decrease as housing stock increases. If your neighbor sells his house and it gets replaced with condos, then more people will be able to live there. Maybe
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by thissuchness 5y ago
And how many degrees of freedom went into the choice of metrics to compare? Just because something went 8/8 doesn't mean it will predict the future crashes.
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by thissuchness 5y ago
In my opinion air quality is another big factor in outdoors comfort. This makes L.A.'s solid green line pretty suspect to me, just in case anyone was planning on moving there based on this.
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by thissuchness 5y ago
In my opinion, Argentina should announce that, after $DATE, they will seize such ships and auction them off. Any amount of enforcement afterward should be enough to significantly deter violation of their waters by these fleets.