ex_ex_nihilo

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by ex_ex_nihilo 6y ago
I would be fucked on my first expense report. "Why did you fly out of Charlotte, NC if you live in Seattle, WA?"
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
That is true, but ending sentences with prepositions still makes you sound like you don't know how to English. "Where are you at?" Just no. Why add the extra word that doesn't clarify anything? "Where are you going
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
When I was in academia, it was considered acceptable for one to alternate between his and her when the gender of the subject is unknown. Using his or her every time does sound stilted, but proper grammar often sounds "weird". My h
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
A couple of years ago I was walking around downtown SF, and I noticed someone had drawn a chalk outline on the sidewalk and labeled it "techie fuck". I had a good chuckle. We are not loved there.
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
And yet it still grates on my ears every time someone uses it in the singular. But the same things happens when someone ends a sentence with a preposition or splits an infinitive, and neither are those consider grammatical faux pas anymore.
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
More power to you! Everyone should find his own preferences and strengths and lean into them, imo.
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
I am a very extroverted person and require social interaction to not become depressed. My job is a little different in that I'm customer-facing and have to travel to customer sites from time to time. I also have a family (wife and 2 yo
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
I would never go back to commuting to the same place every day. It's cool that he does the coworking thing, but I've been working remotely for 6+ years fulltime (and I have other periods of 2-3 years at a time working remotely int
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
We chatted last week and I was sorry to hear you went with another contractor for frontend dev. The bait and switch wasn't my intention, UpWork doesn't really let you present yourself as a team. Best of luck.
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
That's not how option valuation works. They're worth the difference of their strike price to the price of the underlying intrinsically. So if his strike is $110 (which it's not for reasons others have pointed out - he was iss
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
So go work from a coffee shop or take a walk. I'm not sure if anyone has told you, but it's not been normal for humans to go to an office five days a week for 8 hours a day for most of human history.
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
If you were individual 1099, then no there is no advantage really. And you have to pay self-employment tax. If you were B2B 1099, there are ENORMOUS advantages. My average effective federal tax rate on ~$250k/yr is right around 1.8-2.2
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
Yes, if he's married filing jointly the standard deduction is $24k. Meaning he pays zero taxes. If he's unmarried his standard deduction is still most of his salary (~$12k), and the remaining amount would fall into the 10% tax bra
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
So you don't apply VAT to inelastic commodities. We have in fact figured this shit out. Austrian or Keynesian are not the only two choices available to us, despite what some would try to lead you to believe.
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
Most people would hold that offering a bribe is not the unethical action, accepting the bribe is the unethical side. So if you're implying that the companies acted unethically by bribing politicians, I beg to differ. That is like blami
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
Exactly. There is such a thing as fiduciary duty. As a board member, if I find out my CEO is overpaying on taxes because he feels like it's the "right thing to do", his ass is getting canned. Our competition is not going to d
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
Amazon paid no income tax. Amazon paid a shitton in taxes, and will continue to do so. It is probably the case that profitable companies pay too little in tax, but articles like this are misleading as hell.
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
Individuals can only do this for 7 years FYI. Corporate carry forward is much longer (is there even a limit? I'm not sure. I usually don't keep my corporations that show a loss for longer than a few years before dissolving them an
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
Cool thanks, I did not know about that.
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
If you want to sell software, it's good to be situated physically next to the biggest software companies in the world. I work in the Valley (but live on the East Coast), and having your company immersed in that culture can have benefit
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by ex_ex_nihilo 7y ago
Postgres is not an alternative to Mongo, though. Provide a noSQL alternative if you want an alternative. RDBs and non-RDBs seek to address different sets of problems, and sometimes you do not want or need a relational database.
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by ex_ex_nihilo 8y ago
Nothing can make shit and rotting carcasses smell good. A lot of people think weed smells amazing. I love the smell. As another poster said, it's like anything else you enjoy. I like the smell of coffee, beer, freshly-cut wood, etc. Mo
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by ex_ex_nihilo 8y ago
Austin is a midsize city.
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by ex_ex_nihilo 8y ago
It is true and mostly accurate by some back of the napkin math I've done. What stops people from doing 51% attacks is a few factors: 1) If you can pull off an attack for a few hundred bucks, it's probably on a coin that will only
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by ex_ex_nihilo 8y ago
The "owners" of the hardware are private miners. The rent-a-miner business (NiceHash) just connects sellers of hashrate (miners) with buyers of hashrate. The miners don't care what they are mining, and they get paid in BTC re
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by ex_ex_nihilo 11y ago
It's only ridiculous if you don't think about it.
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by ex_ex_nihilo 11y ago
You are a bit confused. The == operator specifically does implicit type conversion. You want to use === to avoid implicit coercion. And you always have the option to explicitly coerce type, as I explain below. Javascript's type coercio
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by ex_ex_nihilo 11y ago
In the above case, Javascript is coercing the strings to numbers. === does no type coercion. You can also coerce types manually. JS is not statically typed, but it is typed.
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by ex_ex_nihilo 11y ago
Javascript is a typed language.
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by ex_ex_nihilo 13y ago
Wow, my school's not even on the list and our graduate program for CS/CE has less than a 13% acceptance rate.

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