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by timmg 4y ago
Oh, I didn't realize that. It happens, by policy, every year?
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by timmg 4y ago
> You probably know this already, but I thought I'd pass on a correction to what is a common misconception. If you start making more money and end up in a higher tax bracket, only the amount of income in the new tax bracket is taxed
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by timmg 4y ago
Related (but different): I'm wondering how much inflation will shift tax payers into higher brackets and increase the overall income for the government from those taxes.
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by timmg 4y ago
Those charts look way less dire than I would have expected. June isn't halfway through yet. So I'm not sure what to think of that. But prior to June, they had been doing ~$200M in "fees" monthly -- fairly consistently,
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by timmg 4y ago
> Apple is a minority player in this market. In the phone market? Maybe by units. Certainly not by revenue. Either way, they have a monopoly on "iPhone apps" and their distribution. You can argue whether that's a mark
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by timmg 4y ago
It's not that Apple ships a browser engine that is the problem. It's that they don't allow you to publish apps that use a different browser engine. Big difference.
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by timmg 4y ago
What if he does it without being detected? There are probably a bunch of wallets from back in the day whose owner lost their key. Take some coin out of those. Then no one knows. Sell it. Move on.
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by timmg 4y ago
How “cheap” is it to create new db instances? I can imagine a world where it might be practical to have one master db for all of your customers/accounts. But a separate db instance for each customer’s data. Is that the kind of architec
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by timmg 4y ago
The way you describe it, to me, is one of those “this sounds obvious in retrospect”. Sounds completely elegant and “right”. Congratulations on a great idea. I really hope you pull it off!
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by timmg 4y ago
> I don't get all the bandwagon hate of crypto on this site.. Sure 99% of crypto schemes are b.s and ponzi. To me, it’s strange that you can agree that most cryptos are scams but don’t understand why there is so much hate for them.
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by timmg 4y ago
> I think everyone wins here. One theory I have (and it may be wrong): is that part of the rise we've seen in housing prices is due to WFH and AirBnB. Lots of people I've worked with who were WFH in the pandemic would spend a w
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by timmg 5y ago
My theory: Both Facebook and Netflix have cratered in stock price in the past year after bad earnings. It's earnings season now. Maybe Twitter was going to surprise on the downside. The board knew that without the Musk bid, after ear
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by timmg 5y ago
As someone who also works at Google, I agree that there is a vocal minority who want Google to be a promoter of progressive values, but: I think you nay be exaggerating things here. I've never even heard of any controversy over the wor
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by timmg 5y ago
Archeological sites.
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by timmg 5y ago
I've been interested in the idea of collecting ancient coins for a while. The thought of holding money in your hand that was used to purchase goods a thousand or more years ago is exciting. And seeing what is "printed" on t
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by timmg 5y ago
> By accepting ads, you open yourself up to a malicious vector for malware. This is definitely the common justification for ad blockers. As I said in another comment: ad blockers themselves are a potential vector for malware.
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by timmg 5y ago
> Any ethical qualms I had disappeared when my browser was hijacked by a malicious ad that made it into a major ad network when I was browsing nytimes. Websites can inject malware irrespective of ads. Not to mention that ad blockers, th
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by timmg 5y ago
I guess I'm someone who does not use ad blockers (and never have). To me, it simply feels wrong . I do pay for Youtube premium. And I do have subscriptions for some media sites (NY TImes, Economist.) I don't find ads all that
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by timmg 5y ago
Is there a decent high-level (but technical) overview of how DALL-E works (or how it was trained) that anyone can recommend?
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by timmg 5y ago
> A company is not a bag of potatoes in the market to sell at the whims of the highest bidder. That's exactly what it is. Stocks trade on an open market. Twitter went public. They chose to become a commodity. That's how c
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by timmg 5y ago
I enjoyed this movie. But, if I'm honest, I don't know that it lived up to the high ratings it is getting (for example, on Rotten Tomatoes) in my opinion. I don't want to spoil anything. (So maybe this comment is pointless)
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by timmg 5y ago
I've been using this for personal projects (I use Linux at work -- which isn't yet supported). It's really nice, actually. It just kinda brings the terminal more in line with what you'd expect from a modern application
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by timmg 5y ago
I was going to point this out, too. I thought it also supported cases like: if (foo instanceof Bar) { // foo is typed as Bar in this block } Is that true, or did I get that wrong?
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by timmg 5y ago
Ok, that looks like a nice tool. Thanks!
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by timmg 5y ago
I have a hand-coded backup system for my photo library that writes to S3. It runs every night at 2AM. The one feature I have that's important to me is this: it will figure out what files need to be uploaded and then upload as many as
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by timmg 5y ago
A random google finds this: https://www.brookings.edu/research/preventing-unplanned-preg... > Unintended pregnancies are at an all-time low in the U.S. but still represent about 45 percent of all pregnancies.
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by timmg 5y ago
In Western countries and in Asia, fertility rates are pretty (edit: low) these days. I fear they would collapse with the introduction of a male fertility pill. In some sense, maybe that's not bad. The world is probably overpopulated.
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by timmg 5y ago
Huh. I do use Brew. I guess I never considered that it would have a JDK package, though. No explanation as to why I never thought of it.
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by timmg 5y ago
Dumb question: for home/hobby type coding, what is the best JDK to install on my Mac?
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by timmg 5y ago
> While I agree with this in general, I find that to reall fully understand a problem, I need to attempt to code, or at least formulate, a solution to it. Me too. Sometimes when I don't feel like I really know how to solve a proble

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