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by wang_li 5y ago
You need to understand that I'm talking about net taxes. Referencing [0], the bottom 20% of households have a median market income of $15,800. They receive $9,600 in transfers and services. Their pre-tax income is $25,400 and they pay
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by wang_li 5y ago
I've not looked for a new edition of the report but the CBO has put out reports that calculates net tax rates and more than half of the country are not federal net tax payers (this includes all federal taxes.) And more than 40% of them
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by wang_li 5y ago
This sounds like a you and your cousin problem. It seems pretty strange that it would be suggested that the government step in to regulate a third party because you and your cousin can't manage to stay in touch.
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by wang_li 5y ago
Can you think of anything that can't be misused? E.g. if a kid eats enough salad they're going to get fat. Does that mean we should "blow the whistle" on lettuce producers and implement dramatic regulations? Or should we
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by wang_li 5y ago
Depending on what your idea of a computer is, the reference carrier board for the Raspberry Pi 4 compute module has a pcie x1 slot. The jetson family of developer kits have pcie connectivity. The 4GB Jetson Nano has an m.2 E key slot which
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by wang_li 5y ago
A 1 Gbps ethernet port has a transfer rate of 125 MB/s. With protocol overhead you would see peak bandwidth measured at around 110 MB/s.
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by wang_li 5y ago
Alcohol itself lowers blood pressure. Alcohol in various types of drinks comes along with other compounds that are variously healthy and unhealthy. There's been a fair amount of research published showing moderate alcohol intake is hea
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by wang_li 5y ago
What are the externalities of extracting fossil fuels? Or are you attributing the consumption of fossil fuels to the extraction companies? How many degrees removed does one continue to be responsible?
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by wang_li 5y ago
>forgetting how much more flows into an industry that is killing us. It's not very much. People who write white papers for their think tank or who want to push a particular agenda like to say that not taxing something or someone is
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by wang_li 5y ago
Is that more or less ethical than artillery, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, nuclear missiles, suicide bombers, ieds, weaponized drones, proxy wars, etc.?
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by wang_li 5y ago
We could address the hospitalization issue by doing a better job of deciding when to hospitalize. It seems that more than half of the cases of those who are taking spaces in hospitals are asymptomstic, mild, or incidental. https:/&#x
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by wang_li 5y ago
The link is for the second sentence. To quote from the abstract: > Overall, our results indicate that mild infection with SARS-CoV-2 induces robust antigen-specific, long-lived humoral immune memory in humans. As far as the reports from
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by wang_li 5y ago
According to data from Israel, immunity from having gotten the infection is much better at stopping the delta variant by a factor of around 7x. Other research shows that natural immunity is long lasting. https://www.nature.com&#x
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by wang_li 5y ago
Yes it’s an issue client side. I’ve never uploaded a photo to iCloud. I have no plans to do so. Getting scanned server side is effectively opt-in. Them putting the scanning client side has measurable, though minimal effects, even if I conti
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by wang_li 5y ago
You also should add “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
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by wang_li 5y ago
I disagree. Imagine everything that goes into the manufacture of an Apple M1 SoC. You have to get the raw materials, the design tools, the invention of the transistor, likely hundreds of thousands of hours, if not millions of hours, of engi
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by wang_li 5y ago
>After all, if some countries benefited a lot from polluting in the past, it would be fair to expect them to pay up too. Largely the entire globe has benefited from the industrial revolution. If the west is obligated to pay a retrospecti
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by wang_li 5y ago
And to get cleared you’re going to have to let law enforcement clone and inspect the content of your phone.
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by wang_li 5y ago
Out of pocket expenses for any individual is capped $8550 regardless of whether they have family coverage or individual coverage. Additionally, those earning less than 250% the federal poverty level qualify for additional cost sharing reduc
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by wang_li 5y ago
The US has universal care, it passed in 2009 and it establishes that everyone does their part and buy insurance. It establishes help for low income individuals. There are caps on annual expenses. You may not like how it’s structured. You ma
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by wang_li 5y ago
The $99 Jetson Nano gets you a computer that is more capable in nearly every dimension than the 1986 Thinking Machines CM-2 super computer. The CM-2 had more RAM, though a lot of it was spread across its 65536 processing engines. The CM-2 i
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by wang_li 5y ago
The climate doesn't care about per capita. It's strictly the emissions. If you want to care about per capita numbers you should also care about human development index numbers. It's not the same thing to put 20 gigatons of CO
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by wang_li 5y ago
What makes it necessary? “Necessary” suggests import. What significant thing comes of this change or what negative thing come of not making this change. It’s only purpose is to create exclusivity that then implies that government, bureaucra
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by wang_li 5y ago
> It should take more than a huge pile of money to put a person in those ranks. It does take more. There are lots of people with huge piles of money and they’re not even part of the subject of this conversation.
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by wang_li 5y ago
NASA has 13 astronauts, the entirety of the 2017 class, who have a combined total time in space that is less than Jeff Bezos has. Which is to say none of them have been in space and when they do go t will be aboard commercial spacecraft. If
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by wang_li 5y ago
Harrison Schmidt, notwithstanding his title being Lunar Module Pilot, never piloted anything. He was a passenger who read some gauges aloud and flipped some switches when instructed. We still call him an astronaut.
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by wang_li 5y ago
One like this seems readymade for the pi. https://www.amazon.com/Resolution-Electronic-Controller-Inte...
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by wang_li 5y ago
I just wish I could find a good series of monitors with matching vertical size and dot pitch but different aspect ratios. My best use case would be a 27" 16:9 primary monitor directly in front of me with a 4:3 secondary on the right or
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by wang_li 5y ago
If I have a program that consists of 5 files each of which is exactly 2000 lines lone and I distribute under GPLv2 or later. You like my program but realize that you have a novel new algorithm that will speed up the core functionality of my
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by wang_li 5y ago
The license sets the terms by which you can redistribute the software, it doesn't allow you to set the terms for the people you distribute it to. The only person/entity who can change the terms of the license is the copyright hold

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