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by zentiggr 6y ago
GP's comment outlines a pretty solid driver for the CG taxes to be driven lower than dividend rates, so yeah, it does address it. If capital gains rates were required to be equal to the rates on dividends, the incentive toward buybacks
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Thanks for identifying yourself as a supporter of repressive political power over freedom to hold governments to account. Or do you think there's not actually a horrible precedent to punish whistleblowers here?
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that's not what David Leigh was doing. Publishing the password was total gross unprofessional incompetent foolishness. Or possibly at that point the Guardian "investigative" unit was already trying to p
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Umm, I believe the US government is in the process of demonstrating that they are indeed above the law. Unless the judge and court in this instance reverse course completely, throw out most of the last two weeks as political maneuvering, an
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I haven't been involved in that for years, but I'd be very curious to see the (presumably) very non-intuitive code that could be generated.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I'll agree with the other comment - "bulk of research ... points the blame" - if there is any credible information that does show this, I'm very curious. My cynical short take is that the insurance/medical industry,
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by zentiggr 6y ago
For someone who doesn't quite have the math background to truly operate at this level, this does seem far more approachable than most of the references to spinors that I've seen before. Looking forward to time to more than skim it
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by zentiggr 6y ago
While there might be emergency conditions that would make this cumbersome, in general that sorry of two person control makes sense. That's why the military uses it for especially dangerous actions or conditions. (Weapons loading on the
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Aside from an easily dismissed hardware-backed GCP case, Google _does_ have a long history of useful and interesting ideas that launch, gain some users, look really useful if some effort is put into it, and get dropped instead. Even if some
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Amoral does no less harm overall than evil, it's just done to 'the masses', not particular targets. No one at Facebook gets to claim they were just following orders if they have _any_ understanding of the possible consequence
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by zentiggr 6y ago
THIS is what someone should be posting in that bug report, and require Mr. Biebl to explain why he is contradicting TC expectations.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
When I'm curious about something that I might have to click through, I DDG it and find source material. It's not overly paranoid, it's been good advice for decades. Telephone charity calls are exactly the same way in my worl
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by zentiggr 6y ago
It sounds an awful lot more like you're trying to find any sliver of "this isn't so bad" and "but they didn't tell ALL the facts so BIAS" when the report goes over many many other stories in detail and sho
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by zentiggr 6y ago
The effect operating on gliders is from thermals - warmer ground heats the air which then rises relative to the cooler air around it. When the glider is in the thermal, it is still gliding downward through that air, but the whole column is
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Looks trolly.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
When I realized I couldn't read anything on Quora without logging in, I deleted my account and I haven't missed a thing. There's probably a core group of users there, but I can only imagine it's a stagnant pool now.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
In the history of site and app developers so far, yes, a very poor assumption. Assume opt-<whatever drives engagement harder>.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Considering it's the ones who hold the largest pools of assets affected who can buy the changes to the tax code to build loopholes to get themselves exempted, that seems about impossible.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Sounds like the bubble would naturally dry up and the "burn the cash, take the payout and run" culture would start to heal. Having startups that grow profitable, useful things at a healthy pace and that give back a small slice of
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by zentiggr 6y ago
And in the ensuing time, those with money and influence built up the class distinctions in the legal and tax codes. The comparison isn't an exact match, but the class distinction IS. Bezos may be contributing to the privatization of s
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by zentiggr 6y ago
The problem with trying to separate money and politics is that accumulating money equates to accumulating leverage/power, and that's what gets politics done. Almost the only thing that could get money out of politics is to make ho
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by zentiggr 6y ago
You can, right up until you get kneecapped by a disgruntled customer.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Is there an option to call an election void if no candidate gets enough votes? Have to rerun a special election, and maybe get a solid percent for a writein who actually has a different plan?
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by zentiggr 6y ago
That still carves them out a protected niche in what otherwise was an independent service, that in no other case provides that level of autonomy. If I were in FAANG's place, I'd tell the AU government to get stuffed by turning eve
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by zentiggr 6y ago
URL bar on the bottom sounds amazing :) I'm all in favor of moving all toolbars, search fields, any sort of interactive controls to the bottom on mobile interfaces. So much easier than having to reach to the top of the screen at rando
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by zentiggr 6y ago
700+ light years of inverse square law says we'll get a noticeable ping but nothing remotely harmful.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
That is one definition of tertiary explosive, set off by secondary explosive, set off by primary flame source... Ouch. I've done shipyard work. A lot of care was taken (on average) to ensure sparks and castoff didn't affect adjac
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by zentiggr 6y ago
It just seems like there's an old guard of administrators that have grabbed onto this huge source of money and are lining their pockets, and nothing substantial will change until enough bodies swap out that the people who actually want
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by zentiggr 6y ago
"Academia progresses one funeral at a time"? Not sure how apt a rephrasing that might be, never progressed past community college.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Clancy did embellish a few things and speculated rather a bit to make an entertaining scenario. All told, a good solid read, and accurate in a bunch of not-quite critical details, but don't lean too hard on the edges of the story. Same

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