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by zibby8 4y ago
> But even then the claim was that prices would come down eliminating most of the cost of the tax (due to no taxes on businesses including payroll taxes) We actually frequently try lowering corporate taxes. What we find is that prices s
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"Socialist" nations also have income tax. The topic of discussion is replacing income tax with a larger sales tax.
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Even if the rate is variable, sales taxes are still regressive. Poor people spend a much larger % of their income on goods compared to rich people. For me, personally, my sales tax would need to be around 1,000% (for every dollar I spend, I
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by zibby8 4y ago
Concepts like “innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt” are more about protecting people’s individual liberties than establishing a baseline about whether or not to believe something.
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by zibby8 4y ago
For those looking for more information / sources for these tweets, this Vanity Fair article provides a lot of background information on the circumstantial evidence implicating the WIV and EcoHealth Alliance as the source of the lab lea
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How is “I licked my paint brush and then my mouth tasted bad” not causal inference?
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by zibby8 4y ago
Is there any evidence Hans Niemann was suspended specifically for cheating? I’ve seen multiple unsubstantiated claims, but no source that definitively states he was suspended for cheating.
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by zibby8 4y ago
Wind resistance increases with the square of speed so going faster than “normal” speed, i.e. the speed they use when calculating range, leads to dramatically less range.
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by zibby8 4y ago
Many Canadian websites end in .ca. This website ends in .com. Not a foolproof method, but likely better than a random guess.
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> No we don’t. Asbestos and others became such an issue because people didn’t notice the damage they inferred it after the fact based on exposure. Isn’t every observation just a causal inference after the fact? Look, you’re free to attem
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by zibby8 4y ago
> You don’t notice the specific genetic damage that actually caused cancer Actually we do notice stuff like that. Which is why it is advised that you don't inhale asbestos particles, wear sunscreen, avoid smoking, etc. My point stil
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by zibby8 4y ago
My point was more that if there was really significant damage being done, then you’d be able to provide a better example than lightbulbs. For instance, a hurricane taking down a street light also destroys the bulb, and a whole lot more. Eve
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You gotta have a better example than lightbulbs. Maybe rail lines buckling?
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Is it really preventable though? Isn’t it pretty much a basic law of nature that resources will be consumed maximally? If you increase the amount of available energy, it too will be used up until a point where people on the fringes are left
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by zibby8 4y ago
iOS supports ad-blockers in Safari.
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If you compressed them using some naive scheme, they would be smaller but they would lose their fast set-wise operations like lookup and union.
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by zibby8 4y ago
Why was Windows a better choice than Android? You mentioned that Windows had “the best shot of competing with Android”, but why was that desirable? The adage, if you can’t beat them, join them comes to mind.
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by zibby8 4y ago
I have no moral qualms about gambling. I just hate that every single advertisement (in the NHL at least) is for sports betting. It’s just nauseating to see so many ads for the same topic, especially when I have no interest in sports betting
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by zibby8 4y ago
Ok, so industrial users buy hydrogen. And then how do you convert the currency they give you into energy when you need it later? If you're just trying to find an economic use for excess power, you might as well mine Bitcoin.
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> The solution is the same: use overproduction to produce hydrogen or for desalination plants. Does anywhere actually do this? Storing hydrogen at scale seems insanely difficult and desalinating water wouldn't let you use the energy
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This is such a ridiculous take I’m having trouble understanding if it’s satire or not.
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What if the list of known malware changes to include a file already on the computer?
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by zibby8 4y ago
It's not just the ratchet that is bulky. It's the shaft that is bulky as well, which is necessary to accommodate the bit at the end. I inherited a screwdriver with this type of shaft, and it just doesn't work for a lot of scr
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People just want something mindless to pass the time. If it also triggers the gambling dopamine response, all the better.
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What if the port is only opened on demand? Like if system service is in state X, it is listening to port Y, otherwise it is not listening to port Y.
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by zibby8 4y ago
> In Japan, it is head-on-head as the most used social app with Line. How is that possible? A lot of people in Japan use Line (86M MAU in 2020). With 40M MAUs in the entire world, Zenly is much smaller than Line. Anecdotally, I've s
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So? LIDAR would be able to detect objects regardless of color.