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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Yes, but not just from the transplant. The immunosuppressant drugs following a transplant also increase your risk of cancer. Dramatically for certain types of cancers.
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
The horse market is like the piano market. Exceptional specimens are exceedingly expensive but at the low end you can probably just find one for free that no one wants anymore.
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Look, this is absurd. Yes, it's illegal but so what? Plenty of people have MMJ cards, have scanned their ID at a dispensary, or have applied for state cultivation licenses. The idea that academia is somehow prevented from engaging in t
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Taxi service regulation in the US are why those systems are unusable. I can't get a taxi if there aren't enough medallions issued. There's no regulatory body preventing me from getting into the car I purchased. It makes no
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Slatestarcodex wrote a fantastic blog on exactly this subject: "The Toxoplasma of Rage" http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
I don't think it's true that "everything helps." I think many of these grandstanding initiatives are received with open mockery and I think they serve to undermine the credibility of the larger environmental effort. Rece
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
If the context here is the development of human history leading up to notions of private employment then our timeline is in the tens of thousands of years and variations within past decades become almost irrelevant. Comparing hunter-gathere
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
The cost of UBI depends entirely on the magnitude of the benefit; your position is indefensible given we haven't established the magnitude. Obviously increasing welfare implies increased taxes. I don't see anything controversial t
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
No, it's not speculation. I have a cite: literally the entire progression of human history and societal development. Steady (and in the last century, enormous) progression toward more leisure time, with more wealth and latitude at our
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
On the other hand, without all this working for others we wouldn't have a system which lets us spend that other half of our lives seeing the things we do get to see. It's a net win overall.
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Your comment reminds me of the paradoxical fact that countries with high "life satisfaction" scores have higher rates of suicide: http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/25/why-the-happiest-state... This
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Yeah. I should say "virtually no one." The tax did apply to a very tiny proportion of high end income.
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
It didn't really, though. That's the marginal income rate, not capital gains -- it's a tax rate for an empty bracket. It was super effective wartime grandstanding which is still fooling everyone decades later. Capital gains -
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
> Yes they are! No, they are not. > The FHA specifically applies to housing ads! As I explained, the FHA applies to certain /kinds/ of housing ads. The determination of whether the FHA applies at all is dependent on a multit
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
It's a strictly incorrect metaphor. Radio stations aren't liable in this scenario. Neither are newspapers with illegal personal ads for discriminatory housing. There's no way they can be liable because they can't know
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
"Worth the time" is relative. Some people really enjoy shows which other people consider to be "junk." I suspect Netflix realizes this. I don't mind them not being suggested, but I'd be really upset if "ju
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
"You're basically anthropomorphizing, thinking that there just has to be a way for humans to screw this resource up because humans are just that icky and gross" I said nothing of the sort. You are, perhaps, confusing me with
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Much of our terrestrial pollution took place in "uninhabited areas" which decades later became inhabited. Your comment is reminiscent of 19th and early 20th century attitudes toward pollution. It's true that it isn't a p
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
"In what preferred reference frame does your "pollution" take place in?" Pollution would be any undesirable side effect and there are plenty to be imagined in these scenarios. Your comment strikes me a bit like a chemist
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
It's strange to worry about a $10k investment while we're both acknowledging the investment by way of accepting a below market salary is an order of magnitude higher. If you can't afford dropping $10k to buy your equity then
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
It depends entirely on the cost to purchase. If it's a fraction of the opportunity cost you're probably crazy not to early exercise. There are major benefits beyond tax savings. If you quit before a liquidity event you can easily
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Your objection is that he earned a 30% return and only donated 5%?
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
It is happening today. We've always had some vanpool-ish type companies, though they haven't always been easy to work with. There are some startups trying to change that, like https://www.chariot.com/ -- I've
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
We know generally what the rates are and the statement above is accurate: "Most people that care get a substantial portion of those fees back (either as cash or rewards)"
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Merchants raise prices to compensate. That is why it is "the poor, the un-creditworthy, and the financially illiterate" who ultimately pay.
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Don't forget to take ride sharing into account. I'd be happy to be in a vanpool picking up a half dozen people as it drives into SF. Six people per vehicle makes even $1.70/mile cost competitive with BART.
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Sure, but that's handled by subrogation. The liable party has little to do with insurance structures. An employer is liable for injuries even if they aren't providing health care insurance.
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Is this because, as I recall, a DIR object is opaque while a FILE is not? Allowing the former to be expanded without breaking the API? edit: Nevermind, that shouldn't matter should it? The important thing is that they're both by r
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Ah yes, I was thinking about the system call interfaces but if we start looking at libc damn near nothing was reentrant until relatively recently (the late 90s and early 00s count as recent right? ... right?) Just take a gander at all those
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
"Unix SMP" is not synonymous with a system threading interface -- processes give parallelism as well and predate the introduction of threading interfaces. The pthread interface came about in the 1990s. The unix interface is broken

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