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by toss1 10mo ago
Very cool and helpful - I'll be using this a lot! Interesting I discovered two new-to-me temperature symbols (℃ and ℉), but couldn't find the Alt-0176 ° generic degree sign that shows up on the MS Character Map app. I also found t
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by toss1 10mo ago
YES!! I've long thought the tax rates on cap gains should be extremely progressive with holding time, ranging from 99%+ for sub-second holding (HFT) to sub 5% for decade+ holding periods. This would also effectively eliminate the util
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by toss1 10mo ago
How not; wouldn't it be straightforward to have tax rate tables based on transaction size? E.g., transaction <$10=0, <$100=0.1%, <$10k=0.2%, <$100k=0.3%, <$1MM=0.4%, =>$1MM=0.5%, with restructuring payments to avoid
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by toss1 10mo ago
The solution is to stop taxing human labor/income and to start taxing every financial transaction, from buying a piece of candy, a computer component, a service, a house, a data center, or a share of stock, etc. Just the volume of Eq
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by toss1 10mo ago
A major benefit of a class action, especially for complex cases, is that the costs of prosecuting the lawsuit are spread over many plaintiffs. Pursuing an individual lawsuit in federal court can cost well into six figures, which is not a go
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by toss1 10mo ago
>>he's not the richest man on earth for nothing. He engineers perceptions, finance, and govt funds, not technology. Every report and available evidence shows he is barely technologically astute, nevermind genius; the accomplishme
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by toss1 10mo ago
Perhaps money alone is not a reliable factor, and there are certainly confounding variables, such as poor people having low access to healthcare including contraception and education about options and how to use it. More important than mone
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by toss1 10mo ago
Yes, there will likely be that phenomenon, but will it occur faster than the approx 2% level of optimum inflation? >>The only real solution there is for governments to look at social housing, and also to try to produce A glut of house
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by toss1 10mo ago
Maybe think for a second from the perspective of a couple or woman who WANT to have children. The problems they face in today's economy where both people need to work full-time just to survive are huge, and it seems even crazier to
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by toss1 10mo ago
Yup Evidently, the requirement for democracy in the US to survive is for the people who failed to vote for the only viable alternative to Trumpism must feel the suffering they are happy to visit on others, and so recognize that voting for &
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by toss1 10mo ago
But this is particularly egregious >>"...She asked for an extension to complete her treatment, or at the least a short period to consult with her medical providers about whether and how she might be able to return to work before
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by toss1 10mo ago
>>I doubt we will enter a new dark age But only to the extent that the regime fails to get its way. If the regime continues, they will definitely push us back to a dark age, partially intentionally, partially through not caring about
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by toss1 10mo ago
Yup, thx for the good catch! (But ya, funny error)
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by toss1 10mo ago
Seriously, even on Christmas, Mr. Scrooge? Just because the main purpose of the forum is technical things of interest and intellectual curiosity, doesn't mean we can't be human and show empathy and caring.
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Dutch rental fleet Mistergreen goes bankrupt after betting on Tesla self-driving(guessingheadlights.com)
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Ireland plans to make a $1,500 a month basic income for artists permanent(aol.com)
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by toss1 10mo ago
Makes sense. The more aggressive bears would be more likely to get in fights with humans, which generally turns out badly for the bear, either immediately or from being subsequently hunted down. OTOH, more cooperative bears will more likely
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by toss1 10mo ago
You keep claiming there is a moral problem with giving people enough of a basic stipend to actually live out of the gutter. In the richest most affluent society in the history of the planet. In a society where it is organized so a handful o
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by toss1 10mo ago
Yes. The point is that it started out as a wonderfully explicit and expansive statement. And even THAT explicit and expansive statement was abandoned to the point where the very same company is now a global leader in surveillance capitali
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by toss1 10mo ago
>>since it removes pressure to find a job. NO, it does more than that. 1) It removes pressure to find a job on the schedule and expectations of the overseers . 2) It allows the recipient to start work even at a lower-level job witho
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by toss1 10mo ago
>>you're attempting to parse a random combination of tea leaves and chicken entrails It is exactly the opposite — it is reading the actual language used for its intended meaning. Every CEO is expected to not only understand the i
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by toss1 10mo ago
No, they are accurately observing that the "I don't want to do it" and "feels off mission" statements are FAR weaker than they can be and should be. Such weak statements are either a real mistake or show movement
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by toss1 10mo ago
For sure! Every author should know their audience and write for that audience. An author's word choices can certainly fail to convey intended meaning, or convey it too slowly because they are too obscure or are a mismatch for the the i
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by toss1 10mo ago
>> Just spell it out literally. Spelling it out literally is precisely what the GP is doing in each of the example sentences — literally saying what the subject is doing, and with the precision of choosing a single word better to
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by toss1 10mo ago
Nice, a lovely screed using exactly the same Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt techniques used by tobacco companies to promote cigarettes for decades after they were proven to be the source of mass fatal diseases costing people and society,
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by toss1 10mo ago
If you actually read any of the reports of current research, you would find that combining solar with agriculture improves both the health of the flock and/or crops being produced, and increases output. More shade for the fauna, an
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by toss1 10mo ago
Sure, and none of that amounts to even close to the damage from stripping vast areas of the earth to dig up coal, grinding and transporting it to power plants, then setting it on fire, and releasing tons of CO2, and then disposing of tons o
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by toss1 10mo ago
Great example, but I'm no so sure. The board and shareholders had their chance to dump Musk a few weeks ago; they could have just turned down his ridiculous pay package and he would have left. They didn't so he'll be draggin
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by toss1 10mo ago
Yup Every time I see a CyberTruck out in the wild, I am still just stunned by the crappy design — like a dumpster designed for anti-performance — the wheel positioning and size is all wrong, and the metalwork always looks cheap because the
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by toss1 10mo ago
An excellent article on Kessler syndrome and a relatively unknown method to cause debris to de-orbit. First posted by [emtel] in another HN discussion.

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