FredPret

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by FredPret 10mo ago
You then still have the issue of standardized advertising prices. Right now, a company can say they sell gadget X for $999, which would not be possible if they had to work out item taxes. The other possibility is that they now have to mark
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by FredPret 10mo ago
That would centralize power to the larger taxing authority. Right now, there's a huge number of elected people in the US who wield real local power through these taxes and other rules that they can make. It's a headache but we liv
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by FredPret 10mo ago
The US has too many tax permutations for this to be practicable. Companies would have to make prices a bit higher to accommodate unexpected sales tax increases in some or other jurisdiction. There's a small industry that specializes in
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by FredPret 10mo ago
Until we mass-scan people’s brains, there will never be reliable data on this. Facebook-tier research and anecdote is all we’ll ever have on happiness. When “the larger consensus” is built on nothing but bullshit soft science coming out of
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by FredPret 10mo ago
Not even Erlang can beat Gauss
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by FredPret 10mo ago
> https://xkcd.com/224/ > “My God, it’s full of ‘cars’” Classic
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by FredPret 10mo ago
> “Europeans… so much happier than… Americans” Citation needed, and not to a Facebook Quiz-tier “how happy are you on a scale of ten” questionnaire. My experience is obviously anecdotal, but it is quite varied, and the exact opposite.
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by FredPret 10mo ago
I would add exercise and sunshine. But yeah, our ancestors lived in constant danger of getting eaten by sabre tooth tigers, freezing in the snow, catching maalria, and, in general, watching terrible things happen to their tribe. They had no
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by FredPret 10mo ago
I have learnt to love and embrace the BEAM. Wikipedia says "Originally BEAM was short for Bogdan's Erlang Abstract Machine, named after Bogumil "Bogdan" Hausman, who wrote the original version, but the name may also be r
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by FredPret 10mo ago
This is also the argument against overregulation. A little bit can be very good, a lot can strangle everyone but the biggest players
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by FredPret 10mo ago
That I can agree with. But there’s a lot of daylight between that and fining newspapers with extra taxes because the regime considers their opinions verboten.
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by FredPret 10mo ago
> "You may have noticed that the traceroute progressively loads in lines above the bottom line. Web pages can only load forward. Since I didn’t want to use any JavaScript, I did the hackiest thing possible: every time I update the t
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by FredPret 10mo ago
After the great success of centrally-planned economies over the last century, now comes the next thing they'll try: Centrally planned information environments! It's sure to work great. - "I'm from the government and I&#x
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by FredPret 10mo ago
Almost any problem is better than that solution
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by FredPret 10mo ago
Awesome - are you on an Android? I tried to do something similar on my iPhone, but couldn't get a reliable (or any) way to get an rsync script running. I ended up with pen and paper though, which is best for me all things considered.
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by FredPret 11mo ago
But the multi-pod strategy means you can give the machine soap to use in various cycles. Put some in the little flap, and some just in with the dishes. I'm not sure if my machine even has a hardness marking, but when I used liquid di
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by FredPret 11mo ago
I applaud this man's commitment to dishwashers. But you can buy a large box of generic and very cheap no-bullshit pods at Costco, and simply put two or even three of them in a load. If you're going the multi-pod route, you can put
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by FredPret 11mo ago
1800x turbo? What happens if you fast-forward a whole lot, any easter eggs?
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by FredPret 11mo ago
I thought this would be an article about how ozone is heavier than oxygen and the molecules move slower or something. I found that surprising, but not as surprising as suddenly reading about Rust!
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by FredPret 11mo ago
I always thought that instead of learning to meditate in the snow and brave the cold, or learning to be zen despite a punishing heatwave, is helpful but still greatly inferior to inventing fur jackets, insulation, heating, and air condition
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by FredPret 11mo ago
When I get dividends from US stocks, I pay a US witholding tax before the cash lands in my Canadian account
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by FredPret 11mo ago
This is a good counterpoint, but forcing companies’ hand with investment will at best distort the economy, and slow it down long term. Companies are single-purpose wealth creation machines, let them find their optimal investment mix. Taxing
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by FredPret 11mo ago
Depends on what it gets spent on - capital purchases dont reduce net income. You can write it off, but there are rules limiting how much. So you could have a situation where you have $1m in profit, and you want to buy a $1m machine, but t
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by FredPret 11mo ago
It also takes money away from the corporation, when they should be doing one of these: - spend their profits to try and grow, but fail; thus spreading their capital into the rest of the economy - spend their profits to try and grow, and suc
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by FredPret 11mo ago
Corporate income tax is one of those ideas that are immensely popular politically ("someone who is not me will pay billions to benefit me? yay!") but not supported by economic theory or real economic outcomes. Rent control /
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by FredPret 11mo ago
Criticizing individuals because they're part of a bloodline / ethnicity is: - the exact opposite of criticizing individuals; you're really just going after the group - the definition of prejudice - the foundation of most (all
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by FredPret 11mo ago
To your credit, your original comment didn't mention all Jews, just made heavy allusions to stereotypes about them. But now you've removed all possible doubt about what you meant. Criticize individuals all you want, but don't
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by FredPret 11mo ago
You should make it an app, I would pay for it
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by FredPret 11mo ago
Standard antisemitic trope
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by FredPret 11mo ago
Love this. Especially the opening line: "“What comes with the milk, leaves with the soul” — Russian proverb." I love a good proverb. This one goes hard.

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