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by whakim 5y ago
Yeah, this is exactly correct and in line with the legal advice I received when working with GDPR-related features at a previous job. The relevant text is Article 3 of the GDPR ("Territorial Scope"), and if you're not located
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The IRS is a massive social service, because much of US fiscal policy gets done through the tax code via ever-more-complicated tax credits and deductions.
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I was actually typing something like this in addition to what I already wrote, but I didn't think it was totally applicable in the context of the GP's statement. For the vast majority of folks an unexpected bill of $100k and an un
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I'm not sure this holds because humans in general are pretty bad at reasoning about low-probability, high-magnitude events. People will deal with a ~1% chance of $10M very differently to a guaranteed $100k. (To be clear, I also don&#x2
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> Is anybody claiming that it’s sudden? I mean, there are two ex-Googlers in this thread claiming firsthand that search quality was considered sacrosanct as of a few years ago, so it seems like it'd have to have been sudden if indee
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I don't think that's analogous: you'd have to argue that Amazon spent a ton of time and effort on keeping cheap knockoff products off their marketplace and then did a sudden u-turn and decided not to do that anymore. Even the
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To me, it seems crazy that a company would actively try to self-sabotage their bread-and-butter product in search of a bit of extra revenue when they're already making record profits. Not to mention that, as the author of the article p
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It seems weird to me that Google would take "search quality" seriously for 15+ years (including nearly a decade as one of the biggest companies in the world) and then suddenly stop. Are you able to share any of those objective mea
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I don't know the author, but when I read an article by someone who obviously knows something about Postgres (knowing something about Postgres myself), I feel it's much more likely that they made a slight language error.
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I read this as "maybe a few (which are the ones automatically created on primary keys)", as opposed to redundant indices created on primary keys.
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Inflation is super complicated because it depends on what types of assets are held by whom and how susceptible those assets are to inflation. For example, high rates of inflation during/after WWII were a large contributing factor in a
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This presupposes that companies think their products are bad. If you have (what you believe to be) a good product, you definitely want DC Rainmaker to review it. I think this is a reasonably general point across industries - companies want
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I don't think that it's useful for articles like this to try to educate readers on the way that a precision-recall curve works (and how that differs from the statistical definition of accuracy). Honestly, that would just confuse t
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> People like fire fighters. The fire inspector is broadly considered annoying. I don't think it's a binary. I've also shelved a lot of proposals that I believed in, not because I didn't want to fight for them, but be
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I think this has much more to do with the fact that people drive cars and not airplanes. Most people have confidence in themselves and not others (cf. George Carlin's joke: "Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than y
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Don't companies get to deduct their contributions to health care plans from their payroll taxes, which means the government is effectively subsidizing employer coverage (as opposed to individual coverage)?
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I agree with you that there's a balance to be had here (although I will note that there's a pretty big difference in physiological effect between tens of thousands of years of evolutionary history and a few years of writing code).
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I'm not sure I agree with this. One of the elements of a well-designed system (whether we're talking about software libraries or anything else) is that the designer should reward people for doing what they like. If you design some
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> In particular it's a bit difficult to evaluate how much of 通語 was aspirational vs reality. This is definitely a complicated debate with regards to all aspects of the Han, ideas about language included. There was certainly a strong
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> There is an entire Han Dynasty compendium of the vocabulary of various regions that compares it against the official lingua franca. Indeed the title of this work is exactly Fangyan! I would caution against using the existence of the F
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"Rich" is an ambiguous term; there clearly isn't a single definition. That being said, I think most people would agree that an individual who earns a salary of $500k a year (~99th percentile in the United States) is clearly &
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by whakim 5y ago
No one is denying that income and wealth are distributed very unequally. But my point is that well more than 99.9% of individuals primarily earn money via labor and are therefore subject to an income tax, and so it isn't correct to ass
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> Exactly. They tax wealth created by nature and/or the community rather than wealth created by individuals. The land Trump Tower sits on isn't valuable because Trump owns it. It's valuable because all of New York surround
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This isn't true. If you define "income" as the sum of an individual's income from capital plus income from labor, it is only in the top 0.1% of the distribution that capital income dominates labor income. (This percentil
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by whakim 5y ago
The post I was responding to makes the distinction between things we can't create more of (land) and things we can (paintings). I used scarcity as an (erroneous) proxy for this distinction, even though obviously there are scarce things
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So why not tax gold or bitcoin or the Mona Lisa if the main difference between taxable assets and non-taxable assets is scarcity?
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That seems like a bit of a murky distinction, though, right? Taxing land disincentives economic activity a large component of which is in the land value (running a parking garage or hotel in downtown Manhattan, or a farm in a fertile region
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IMO the biggest issue with property taxes, land taxes, or any other similar idea, is that they arbitrarily tax one kind of wealth over others. Why should a person who owns a house worth $500k (and perhaps has a mortgage on it) pay not only
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by whakim 5y ago
I'm not directly disputing what you're saying, just wanted to point out for context that (1) you have to reach some threshold before you have to start paying AB+ to whitelist you (I don't know much about the business of adver
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I think it's at least worth having the discussion about "acceptable ads". While reasonable people can disagree, I personally think that unobtrusive advertising that doesn't harvest your data should be a valid business mo

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