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by whack 6y ago
The federal tax brackets are the same everywhere you go. If you're married and making 350k, most of your income will fall in the ~23% tax bracket. And a small portion will be taxed at 32%. The main variable is state taxes. If you'
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U.S. government spent $660B more in March than it collected in rev (cont)(washingtonpost.com)
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First modern day, placebo-controlled study investigating claims that psyc (cont)(nature.com)
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Amazon Is Helping to Resurrect the Labor Movement – Employees of the Mass (Cont)(bloomberg.com)
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Chicago School Economists Got It Wrong. Strong Antitrust Policy Boosts Th (Cont)(ineteconomics.org)
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by whack 6y ago
I've learnt something new today, thanks for sharing. Looks like I had a naive understanding of how snapshotting actually works. I still think that it's more intuitive to describe commits as diffs, in the context of things like che
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by whack 6y ago
It is shocking that the above comment is being downvoted, but not the comment it is responding to. Proficiency exams in specific subjects like Math/Biology/History/Literature etc are most certainly not IQ tests. Just because
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by whack 6y ago
Sorry, that certainly wasn't my intention, and I'll be more mindful in future
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by whack 6y ago
From a storage perspective, describing commits as snapshots seems like a bad mental model. Suppose I have a directory that is 100MB in size. If I take a snapshot of it, my snapshot would be 100MB in size. If I take a 2nd snapshot of it tomo
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by whack 6y ago
On the one hand, it is ridiculous that one of the main metrics used in admissions is a glorified IQ test. On the other hand, it is ridiculous that we don't have a single commonly used standardized-exam that evaluates proficiency and ex
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Imagination is the sixth sense. Be careful how you use it – Paul Giamatti (cont)(aeon.co)
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The Difference Between Direct and Representative Democracy(outlookzen.com)
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by whack 6y ago
The responsible agency is rightfully embarrassed by this oversight, and has now taken stringent measures to ensure something like this never happens again - Henceforth, all tweets can only ever be sent from a remote-desktop server that has
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How much of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy can you fit on a QR Code?(mbuffett.com)
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Suez Shows Civilization Is More Vulnerable Than We Think: Choke Points Im (Cont)(bloomberg.com)
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Biden's trade chief says US won't be lifting tariffs on China(thehill.com)
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Terminal escape sequences in Git commit email field(twitter.com)
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Students Who Want to Cut Down on Their Drinking Often Feel Forced to Comp (Cont)(digest.bps.org.uk)
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In some cities, the pandemic’s economic pain may continue for a decade(brookings.edu)
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by whack 6y ago
> ...YOU are the one who claimed everyone that was complaining had a legitimate complaint about law and order and enforcement of local codes. Read again. I never claimed that 100% of complainers had legitimate motivations or complaints
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RIP Igor Novikov, founder of sK1, a CMYK-capable free/libre vector graphi (cont)(librearts.org)
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People with “Maladaptive Daydreaming” spend an average of four hours a da (cont)(digest.bps.org.uk)
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An Alternative to Dependency Injection Frameworks(software.rajivprab.com)
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by whack 6y ago
Talk about a strawman. Are there some people who might have complained for dumb reasons? Sure. Are there more people would would have complained because they don't want their residential neighborhood to: - be filled with thrash - smell
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by whack 6y ago
> With that said, I think there are legitimate criticisms about the car club. For one, they absolutely trash the place every Sunday. When I walk down to the lake on Monday, there’s just tons of trash on the ground. I don’t know who pick
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For the more than 42M borrowers with federal student loans, the Co (cont)(wsj.com)
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by whack 6y ago
The following is a great example of how the article cherry-picks its data: > “They have been cut off from society, they are unaware of current affairs, and are desperately in need of our induction programme for freshers where we try to
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by whack 6y ago
Everyone here is decrying how awful this meritocratic system is, and I'm just thinking about how awesome it would be if they made some tweaks to their entrance criteria. Give students a score-bonus for: - Completing a triathlon - Doing
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by whack 6y ago
> However, he continued running the company with new part-time employees, minus original investors and minus the early employees who built the company. Apparently the company succeeded enough that it's now worth $100 million. Early
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Militant optimism: a state of mind that can help us find hope in dark times(theconversation.com)
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