bal00ns

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by bal00ns 9mo ago
This covers federal income taxes only, excluding payroll taxes such as Social Security and Medicare. Including those the top 1% pays ~25% of all federal taxes while earning ~22% of all income.
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by bal00ns 2y ago
Weed in the US is starting to get this way as well. It’s amazing the amount of actually useful drug information you can get from products sold at weed shops these days. Meanwhile you don’t even get nutritional facts or ingredients with beer
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by bal00ns 2y ago
They’re incredibly convenient. It allows smaller groups of people to accomplish more in a shorter amount of time by providing a standardized interface that does a great job of integrating with their existing environment. When translating d
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by bal00ns 2y ago
Do you have a source on this? Most I know are impressed by SpaceX despite Elon’s public image.
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by bal00ns 2y ago
Like you said I imagine it was less effort. Less effort can be very valuable if you’re still producing something useful. Perhaps you could use a simple transpilation approach yourself if you think that’s a good idea.
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by bal00ns 2y ago
> claim that cats (of all animals!) should stay at home at all costs. that's also weird. But these are mostly internet people, I've never found one in real life... I’m one of these people. I swear I’m not just an internet perso
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by bal00ns 2y ago
You seem like you very much actually know what you’re talking about. Do you have any recommendations for books for laypeople for understanding modern agriculture?
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by bal00ns 2y ago
Do you find yourself refusing to read articles or papers unless you’re first 100% sure that everything stated in them is absolutely true? Having to approach something with a certain amount of skepticism is not something that was newly intro
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by bal00ns 2y ago
The common language most often used when people from Japan, China, or South Korea visit each other’s countries is English. All three groups of people are more likely to know English than either of the other two languages. The same can be sa
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by bal00ns 4y ago
Interesting! Sorry if this is getting off topic, but how does the Catholic Church feel about using sex as a method for developing closeness and intimacy with a partner, rather than as purely an avenue for pleasure? I imagine that's sti
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by bal00ns 5y ago
Most people are not able to install a heat pump themselves. I consider myself a fairly technical DIY sort of person but was not comfortable installing it myself. Installation is going to be the majority of the cost for the typical person bu
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by bal00ns 7y ago
That's an imperfect solution for a problem that didn't need to exist in the first place that might even produce its own list of problems.
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by bal00ns 8y ago
I have to agree with this comment. More often than not one-liner rewrites of even trivial functions are unreadable and can't easily be modified, all for the sake of having the appearance of elegance. It's more important to have co
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by bal00ns 8y ago
Don't forget Python - 28 years
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by bal00ns 10y ago
I particularly enjoy how going to http://javascript.crockford.com/ doesn't load any javascript.
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by bal00ns 13y ago
You're right, this article is missing the bigger picture, but I don't think that was ever its target. It's simple, accessible, and piques peoples interest into something much bigger. I don't see it as an attempt to direc
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by bal00ns 13y ago
> But it's a long way off from becoming a sensible alternative Electric vehicles aren't going to flood the market overnight, just as renewable energy isn't going to suddenly become our primary source of energy. These thing
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by bal00ns 13y ago
> the US grid is currently 12.x% renewable Overall US power consumption has gone from 8.9% renewables 10 years ago to ~12.2% today. Vehicles that use fossil fuels as their primary source of energy will always make very little use of rene
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by bal00ns 13y ago
"Electric cars aren't green" is a myth spread by a few op-ed pieces written in the LA Times and WSJ. The production of a battery is a tiny constant in comparison to the lifelong use of fossil fuels. Electric vehicles become m
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by bal00ns 13y ago
If Microsoft markets Windows as a mobile platform I'll compare it to the existing competition. Sure, it might not be fair, but ultimately I'm looking for results, not fairness.
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by bal00ns 13y ago
I've always been curious, what makes Excel better?
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by bal00ns 13y ago
Aside from the bookmarklet, I love it. Without an extension, though, I don't see myself using it. Hopefully we'll see one soon.
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by bal00ns 13y ago
It seems that the 'bigger is badder' mentality has snuck its way into this discussion as well. The Humble Bundle allows its customers to donate every penny they spend and promotes up and coming artists. Why would its success be an