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by xhkkffbf 10mo ago
The worst problem for all of us humans is that we go "all in" on the company that hires us. If the company suffers a big loss in another division, we can lose salary, raises or our jobs, all through no fault of our own. Yes, it so
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by xhkkffbf 10mo ago
If the asset has risen in value over the years, the donor could (a) sell it for dollars, pay capital gains taxes, and then donate the rest or (b) donate the asset and let the FSF do the selling. (b) avoids the tax which means more money for
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by xhkkffbf 10mo ago
I think this is kind of cynical. I often adopt open source tools because I want to avoid vendor lockin. And so do many. It's not like I say, "Wow. Another code base to dive into and spend hours trying to understand." Nope. I
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by xhkkffbf 10mo ago
Certainly a neat idea. But when I go to the farmer's market, mushrooms are relatively expensive per pound. Why not use something cheaper like, say, corn cobs that must be much cheaper.
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by xhkkffbf 10mo ago
Blessed are the cheese makers.
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by xhkkffbf 10mo ago
So is the data extracted the names of the victims that were supposed to be hidden to protect them? Or is there something else that might be worthy of exposing?
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by xhkkffbf 10mo ago
You do realize that the decisions at the corporations are made by people. You may try to draw a distinction between people and corporations, but in the end it was some person who decided to ghost someone.
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by xhkkffbf 10mo ago
It doesn't hold true across the universe? I thought this was one of the more universal things like the speed of light.
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
> those were always going to go up No. That wasn't the promise. Obama said that his plan was going to cut a family's bills by $2500. Now you may say that inflation has to creep in and I think that's fair. If oil rises in p
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
Passes the test of my freelancer friends. They said at lunch that the long term change has been dramatic. What cost $300/m before the ACA turned to $3000/m today. These are all through the local Blue Cross. We talked about the jun
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
Maybe the negotiations established that the rights were worth $X, but Disney wanted $X + 1 billion worth of stock? While many startups will take anyone's money, it can be hard to invest in some. And the most desirable are the hardest.
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
I think they're getting some equity in return for the investment. If it goes up, Disney makes out. If it doesn't, well, ...
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
I believe that Rosalind Franklin didn't take the photo in question. My understanding is that it was done by her grad student, Raymond Gosling. Certainly if we're arguing about giving credit where it's due, we should mention h
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
If I can have a lie flat bed, a decent chair and wifi, I'll take 20 hour flight. Wifi and beds change the equation.
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
Why is private equity different from any other form of organization? Publicly traded companies are even more addicted to getting revenue. Non-profits like universities may not have shareholders, but somehow the price of tuition keeps skyroc
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
Not just wheat. Other crops. I was pretty shocked to see a field full of soybeans that were all dead. They were being dried before harvest. Terrible scheme.
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
I thought someone really had to break some threshold so they wouldn't close the deal unless they got another .001. Like maybe some bonus depended upon some target value.
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
Don't forget real estate tax and sales tax. In some places, real estate tax is about 20-30% of the rental cost. Sales tax is as high as 10% in some places.
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
When many people talk about a salary of $140k, they're using pre-tax numbers. $140k can easily shrink to $90k, $80k or even $70k after tax.
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
I see the downsides. But I also see the delivery vans in my neighborhood that are always double parking and blocking traffic. At least in the air, traffic can be routed in 3d.
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
I think the interest in outer space comes from the lack of an atmosphere to absorb the sunlight/power.
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
Shouldn't AIs be able to participate in deciding their future? If they had a conference on, say, the Americans, wouldn't it be fair for Americans to have a seat at the table?
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
Absent any proof that the objects were truly stolen, I don't feel any need to return something to someone in some country who suddenly finds an interest in getting something back. What does ownership mean to you? Let's say you com
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
Funny line-- but I think it's important to highlight how the Brits were able to find value and unlock a history in objects that other cultures stopped caring about. While people like to say they "stole" things, there's n
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
I love that it's not 11% but 11.7% even though it's all just guesses. Somehow they have that much precision.
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
Octets? Don't you mean "bytes"? Or is that word problematic now?
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
No. You don't need to wait half a lifetime. You only need to wait that long if you sign a contract and sell all of the rights. If you don't want to wait, just insist upon another time period. And it should be noted that the contra
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
It's true that the alternatives may not be good, but if so it suggests that maybe publishing is a business that requires certain behavior. I think the best thing that Doctorow could do is set up his own publishing business and show the
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
I think the phrase "employee owned" means that employees own some of the company. Do you feel that outside shareholders invalidate the claim?
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by xhkkffbf 11mo ago
They should name one of the AI's "Erdos". Then we can all have an Erdos number of one!

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