a_c_s

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by a_c_s 10mo ago
Right, but getting fined in this situation means the government is incompetent. They should just tell retailers the "right" thing to do and not fine any retailers that follow the guidelines. The idea that this is complicated legal
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by a_c_s 1y ago
Agreed: If I was working with a human interior designer I would still want them to provide me a curated list of options on what decor to buy. Blindly trusting a person seems risky, a robot even more so.
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by a_c_s 2y ago
A pregnant Irish woman was caught with explosives in her luggage, apparently given to her by her fiancé: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindawi_affair
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by a_c_s 2y ago
Yes, but a large component of worse health outcomes is due to bias on the part of healthcare workers. Overweight people frequently have their problems ignored or downplayed, or given treatments for issues that they aren't experiencing,
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by a_c_s 2y ago
The "registry" is signing your name on a sheet of paper on a clipboard - less than 1% more work for the pharmacy employee's overall job, approximately 0 new jobs created.
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by a_c_s 2y ago
I don't understand the distinction you are making: two couples (4 people) meeting at a restaurant is, to me, equally social as one couple going to another couple's house to eat dinner.
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by a_c_s 2y ago
You aren't arguing against what I wrote: an investor currently pays no tax on their own stock going up. I'm suggesting if an investor in NVIDIA uses their $100 Million in stock that they bought for $10 Million to get a loan they w
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by a_c_s 2y ago
Death already is a taxable event though?
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by a_c_s 2y ago
Not really, nobody goes "ooh, the stock price is up 5% this year, we can hire 5% more employees!" Most stock wealth isn't doing anything for the company. If the stock price of Apple went down by 90% tomorrow for no reason, th
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by a_c_s 2y ago
Why would you earn a credit? You created a tax event and paid taxes on it and you got a loan for x% of $100. If you sell the stock at $80 you'd pay no taxes on the appreciation (-$20). No credits, investing is risky.
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by a_c_s 2y ago
Getting a loan against assets is another way of "using" it, so why not make that a taxable event? Just like now your stock value would not be taxed while it is invested. But now it would be taxed if you use it as collateral for an
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by a_c_s 2y ago
Calling any of this "radical" is rather dramatic and framing it as "obedience" misses the point. If someone says "My name is spelled e. e. cummings" then writing it "E. E. Cummings" is weird. It feels
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by a_c_s 2y ago
Right: most systems with paper ballots are simple enough that the vast majority of the electorate, including those with lower-than-average IQ's (50% of the population), can understand and could participate in if they were inclined. I h
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by a_c_s 2y ago
Right, if you are swimming in multiple events then it doesn't necessarily make sense to swim as hard as you can in the early events if that is going to tire you out for the latter events.
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by a_c_s 2y ago
If you have a decimal then you should store it as a Decimal type, not a float nor an int. This is why Decimal types exist - the fact that most programming languages don't have a native Decimal type baffles me.
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by a_c_s 2y ago
"x is worth more than gold" means the price per unit of weight of x is greater than that of gold. What are you trying to achieve by arguing that a common turn of phrase doesn't mean what everyone else thinks it means?
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by a_c_s 2y ago
Why? That would be expensive and the cars are designed to understand the lights as they are.
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by a_c_s 2y ago
The possibility of "character" is always my biggest dread when getting into a taxi or an Uber. I just want to get from point A to point B without having to make small talk or delicately navigate a political discussion with a stran
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by a_c_s 2y ago
The biggest reason people loose muscle mass as they age is due to lack of use, so a built environment that encourages walking is going to help keep people in shape to walk as they age.
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by a_c_s 2y ago
If we truly listen to the pronunciation of small children they often substitute easier sounds for difficult ones for many years. We just expect that from children so it seems normal.
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by a_c_s 2y ago
Very true when it comes to antisemitic views: only 1 in 10 Russians would be ok having a Jewish friend. "In a Levada Center poll, for instance, 45 percent of Russians said they had a positive attitude toward Jews in 2021, up from 22 pe
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by a_c_s 2y ago
Statistically safe maybe, but speaking for Manhattan the streets have plenty of unsavory and seemingly-unsafe people around. I have a close friend who worked at an office a block away from a methadone clinic (in a busy part of midtown) and
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by a_c_s 2y ago
I'm glad they do: the more people drive electric the cleaner the air is that I breathe.
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by a_c_s 2y ago
Or what if we trained more nurse practitioners and PAs so we needed fewer doctors (proportional to the population)?
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by a_c_s 2y ago
Where do all the trained doctors go though? If 1 person trains 6, then in a few years you now have 7 trained doctors who could either train 42 more or, if given half the workload, could train 21 more. If the training doctors are always over
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by a_c_s 2y ago
Tesla is still years behind Waymo: "FSD 12.3 seems superior to Waymo’s technology circa 2018, it’s not as good as Waymo’s technology at the end of 2020" https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/on-self-d
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by a_c_s 2y ago
What does some people not filling out paperwork before moving to another country have to do with how the society treats 5-year-olds?
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by a_c_s 3y ago
If a non-native English speaking 5 year old said "I goed to school today" people would say they are native level. (Even though they used the non-word "goed" as the past tense of "to go" instead of "went&qu
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by a_c_s 3y ago
I would actually argue that if a child and an adult spent the same amount of time engaged in language learning and were graded on the same metrics the adult would get farther. I don't think there's a magical cutoff where we sudden
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by a_c_s 3y ago
Right, but the parent comment is comparing children to adults. Even a native speaking 3.5 year old actually speaks a language very poorly compared to a native speaking adult.

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