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by cemerick 2y ago
VOA/RFE operations were actually run by a separate non-profit org that got the vast majority of its operating funds from the feds. So, federal worker protections aren't relevant by dint of the org(s) being set up at arm's len
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by cemerick 2y ago
Insofar as you're tariff-ing everything that moves, the less you particularly care about internal revenue. The endgame is to eliminate the income tax entirely anyway, so why would one want the IRS at all?
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by cemerick 2y ago
"Effective for what?" is always the key question. Various unhinged "proposals" (invading greenland, invading panama, an iron dome-like system to cover basically all of north america to shoot down...whatever Canada and Cu
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by cemerick 2y ago
Ah, indeed, I was sloppy in my wording in that prior message. I should have said is that defense is the largest single category of discretionary spending, by a large margin. The thrust of the point remains.
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by cemerick 2y ago
>> Military spending is the overwhelming majority of non-discretionary spending > > This is so wildly wrong and easily disproven that I really can't take the rest of what you say seriously. sigh https://www.cbo
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by cemerick 2y ago
A bag of leveraged real estate and casino holdings, plus a smattering of dollar store swindles is what denotes entrepreneurialism in the modern HN world? Wild times.
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by cemerick 2y ago
> Surely we all agree on medication and life-saving care for children. That is absolutely not a given. The currently in-power minority earnestly believe that people are only due the level of healthcare they can personally fund and affo
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by cemerick 2y ago
A working link to the book is: https://github.com/barry-jay-personal/tree-calculus/blob/mas... (look for the download button on the right)
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by cemerick 2y ago
The redirect only happens if you aren't logged into to mastodon.social. (Which may well be a misconfiguration ofc)
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by cemerick 2y ago
It's impossible to talk about real numbers in this case of course, and speaking strictly about percentage points or bips doesn't capture the thrust of the change (or situate it accurately vis a vis stripe's continual fee infl
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Stripe increasing "instant payout" fees by 50%(support.stripe.com)
157 points by cemerick 2y ago|101 comments
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You should open source your product(tommoor.com)
10 points by cemerick 3y ago|0 comments
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by cemerick 3y ago
Well, they have the organizational maturity to accommodate enterprise customers, and in contrast to much of this subthread, they don't say things like "just use curl".
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by cemerick 3y ago
As long as they're approximately the only "enterprise" option, that's a moat all by itself. No comment on the valuation, but it makes for a very resilient business.
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by cemerick 3y ago
I'm not comparing e.g. burglaries to car thefts, but the category of property crimes to the category of violent crimes. The former range from unfortunate nuisances to unpleasant material losses (depending on how well you've scope
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by cemerick 3y ago
Your "legitimate question" is insulting to me and to those who actually are autistic. Everyone on HN is so nice. No, I don't think being pickpocketed (or having my car stolen or whatever) is "equally as scary" as
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by cemerick 3y ago
That's great; in general, people should be, and I'm not looking down on them for doing so. However, property crime is absolutely irrelevant when presented with the news of someone's murder, yet so many people here are quick
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by cemerick 3y ago
You're right, "violent crime" is a term of art that involves the commission of a…crime. "Verbal assault" is not assault. I guess if you don't like the vibes in a place, you can go somewhere else, but trying to
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by cemerick 3y ago
The only thing I'm "championing" (just pointing out, really) is that certain populations seem to enjoy using anecdotal tragedy to promote their own quasi-apocalyptic worldview re: some American cities, despite all available
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by cemerick 3y ago
People see homelessness and open drug use and petty property crime, filter it through their ideological lens, and amplify that into feeling that they are themselves somehow less safe. You can assert that that is rational, but it's as c
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by cemerick 3y ago
The story contradicts what so many here took as a given, that Lee was a victim of stochastic violence in SF. The highlighting is in revealing that so many were wrong in applying their biases to the original news, and then using that to leve
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by cemerick 3y ago
What words _would_ you use to describe a city with fewer homicides per capita than almost all other major US cities? Might want to look at some relevant data; https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-crime-rate-bob-lee-sf-vio...
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by cemerick 3y ago
"People like me." Nice. The subject is violent crime. Don't cite a page that lumps property crimes in. Might want to look at some relevant data; https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-crime-rate-bob-lee-sf-vio...
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by cemerick 3y ago
This news really highlights the confirmation bias that was in full bloom throughout the "discourse" around the initial reports of Lee's murder (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35448899 ). Everyone is
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Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech(missionlocal.org)
909 points by cemerick 3y ago|1184 comments
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by cemerick 3y ago
Come on. Further down in the op-ed you linked, he cites evidence in the complaint about Binance being used to launder funds for Hamas and Russia. The feds happened to get Capone on mail fraud; if they see that they can pinch off such launde
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by cemerick 4y ago
That is actually only the case for yaml 1.1; the 1.2 spec (circa 2009!) eliminated this forest of boolean encodings, leaving only `true` and `false`: https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.0/#id2602744
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by cemerick 4y ago
Keepass2 is a piece of cake. Apps on desktop and mobile, keys stored in dropbox or whatever.
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by cemerick 4y ago
My roots are in engineering, and I agree wholeheartedly: zoho one is a no-brainer compared to having to cobble together solutions for standard business functions from a dozen vendors at triple the aggregate cost. Just the savings vs QBO o
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by cemerick 4y ago
If you're open to it, I would love to chat for 20 minutes, compensated as you like ofc. DMs open @ https://twitter.com/cemerick , or chas@pdfdata.com

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