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by wang_li 6y ago
> Likely it's a tax writeoff. You can take $1 and pay the taxes on it and end up with $0.60. Or you can give away a dollar and not have to pay $0.40 in taxes. But you still gave away a dollar, so you're sixty cents in the hole.
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by wang_li 6y ago
You’re looking for haven[0] but I doubt any cloud provider is going to facilitate you splitting your workload to their competitor. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/shieldi...
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by wang_li 6y ago
> perhaps frequent canvas repaints too; Which touches on something that drives me insane. Browsers are reinventing the OS and they are leaving out all the tools useful for managing one's computer. I should be able to identify which
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by wang_li 6y ago
They definitely did have an idea of people living here who were not citizens. Thus the Naturalization Act of 1790.
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by wang_li 6y ago
Or in 1882 when Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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by wang_li 6y ago
I went to Canada once to pay the import duties on a gift and mail it to my friend on the other coast. When I told the Canadian border guards that that is why I was visiting Canada, they told me to pull over and go inside. I went in, they to
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by wang_li 6y ago
Does apple get 30% of all credit card POS sales processed on an iPad through Square?
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by wang_li 6y ago
They broke too much of the universe in the first season. The second and third books are largely unworkable after the changes they made. Like the envoys being revolutionaries in the show but being ultra competent UN soldiers who terrify plan
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by wang_li 6y ago
A wooden boat with a human crew is about 19,000% more environmentally friendly. Pretty much all of it will decompose when it's reached the end of it's life.
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by wang_li 6y ago
Citizenship and the rights and duties of citizens are all over the constitution. It would be quite the surprise to find out the Federal Government can't keep a list of who is a citizen. I mean we already have social security numbers fo
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by wang_li 6y ago
They could hire one or two 19-20 year old proctors to be in the room with the kids. Would be pretty safe.
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by wang_li 6y ago
They deactivate. But it’s a distinction without value for casual conversation.
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by wang_li 6y ago
A poor driver is an active threat. Fines aren’t devastating to the poor. They don’t pay them, thus this woman.
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by wang_li 6y ago
It would turn into what every review system on the web is: a place to get petty revenge. Make people use their real identity and have criminal liability for lies of commission and omission, then you might have something. But probably just o
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by wang_li 6y ago
How stop and frisk was used in the Guiliani era was a lot different than the Bloomberg era. The practice went to court early on and was found constitutional. During Bloomberg’s stint it was expanded dramatically and that’s when it went back
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by wang_li 6y ago
Most of our money doesn’t go to police. A search online reveals that in 2019 the US spent $300 billion on protection and security, which is police, fire department, and other related services. We spent $1.2 trillion on education.
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by wang_li 6y ago
Go read Microsoft's mouse ballistics from way back, if you can find it, then use a mouse on any Windows desktop since XP for a week. Then come back and try a Linux or Mac with an actual mouse instead of a touchpad. You can fix that. It
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by wang_li 6y ago
You’ll also see that cp, ls, expr, test, and others are still only considered semi-done.
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by wang_li 7y ago
> A webmaster can deny any kind of access they don't want by just not serving to them You’d think that but Microsoft just lost a lawsuit over some company scraping LinkedIn that they tried to block.
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by wang_li 7y ago
Contracts don’t have to be negotiable. https://legaldictionary.net/adhesion-contract/
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by wang_li 7y ago
If Apple acts overly douchey in this fashion, movies can institute anti-commercials in their scripts. >Boss: It looks serious. Those guys are using Macs. >Technerd: No worries. Macs are second rate systems. A bit slow. A bit inflexibl
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by wang_li 7y ago
It doesn't exist, afaik, but a Rocky's Boots would be a nice thing to have on a pi.
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by wang_li 7y ago
They deserve sympathy, but not necessarily the same care. For maximum societal benefit it may be that it's better to spend more on kids in school than schizophrenic meth addicts. We live in a world of scarcity, we can't do everyth
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by wang_li 7y ago
Seattle has more or less given up on drug enforcement. This policy has increased the number of visible drug users on the street.
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by wang_li 7y ago
A homeless person could be drunk, unshowered, and yelling out in the woods by themselves and no one would care. It's the drunk, unsanitary, and loosely coupled with reality around other people that is a problem. No one cares about thes
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by wang_li 7y ago
Things were getting pretty good for a bit with HDMI, but the USB-C, DisplayPort, HDMI mess is a real shitshow. Sure, I don't have to set IRQs on my ISA attached serial cards, but there are still plenty of things that are really unstabl
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by wang_li 7y ago
I dislike when we have two standards of behavior. When someone is not destitute they are expected to conform to a multitude of societal norms, when they are poor every vice and misbehavior is excused. I propose one standard of expectation a
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by wang_li 7y ago
Use base pi and the shortest string of digits representing all of the digits of pi can be written as '1'. This project seems pointless to me. There's no scientific value in knowing this many digits of pi. He used off the shel
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by wang_li 7y ago
Also contracts of adhesion are a thing.
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by wang_li 7y ago
I think the California statutory damages are $4,000. The article gives the impression it's a $60,000 settlement being offered: >The other option to opt for a settlement was not in the cards either, added Tran, who said she could not

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