fat_pikachu

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by fat_pikachu 5y ago
Upwork
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by fat_pikachu 5y ago
You buy security X for $1000 and sell it for $100. You immediately repurchase security X for $100 and sell it for $1100. You made a net profit of $100 but are taxed on $1000 because you can't write off the $900 loss.
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by fat_pikachu 5y ago
Why is “data driven” policing bad when we’re pretty much striving for “data driven” everything else in government? The EFF argues that the methods here are pseudo scientific, but they seem more rigorous than many of the other “data driven”
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
Ah yes, this sense still eludes me. Her: I had a huge crush on you in high school/college and dropped hints all the time. Me: But you told me you had a boyfriend/were a lesbian/hated my guts.
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
Related HN thread that the other commenter was referencing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7709556
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
This does the opposite actually, it forced the federal government to de-prioritize areas with worse service in favor of areas with good but not as good as 100/100 service. There are parts of the US that don't even have access to 1
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
> This did happen. Netflix was throttled a few years ago and they reached a "deal" with Comcast and a few months later, Netflix rates were increased. 1) This happened prior to net neutrality regulations. 2) This was a peering d
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
Energy prices have outpaced inflation in that time frame despite productivity gains.
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
> This crisis in Texas is also a good argument for why price gouging during a shortage doesn’t work the way anti-regulatory advocates said it would. There's no way to make that judgement until we see some actual metrics instead of a
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
I'm not sure why it's difficult to believe. Universities are more than just faculty. In the past few decades, universities have become full service institutions that provide more than just education and have added an army of cou
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
The things that have seen large price increases are things that aren't scalable i.e. they still require the same amount of human input labor to produce Childcare is constrained by the fact that each childcare worker by law (for better
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
> Your comment, at face value, seems to defend the status quo. The comment is observational, not persuasive. Few people are happy with the current situation we find ourselves in. I'm certainly not. > The author alleges there was
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
The "loopholes" are there for a reason. They allow the government to indirectly further their policy goals without much effort e.g. tax avoidance programs for real estate investors to encourage the building of more housing, tax c
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
This is misguided criticism that lays the blame on financial entities for a decades-long trend in shifting government priorities. Who else remembers Obama's quip in the 2012 debates equivocating buying naval warships with purchasing ho
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
The logic is wrong here. Assuming bitcoin is a deflationary asset I.e. constantly goes up, the value of any bitcoin will be worth more than the energy used to mine it. For example, mining the first bitcoin didn’t create $50K in carbon cost
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
No, GME stock had a higher capitalization requirement than cash.
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
That's irrelevant here. We have the counterfactual study (i.e. what would have happened if the SC decided the other way) that concluded that Bush would have widened his lead. Stating that Gore likely would have won is factually incor
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
> we now know, Gore would likely have won had it continued. This is not correct.
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
> At which side of the setup? To get the data from the neighborhood hub to my computer? To get the data from the start of the ISP's network to the neighborhood? To get the data from you to my ISP's network? > And are you mea
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
> I pay my ISP for bandwidth. WHAT I choose to download with that bandwidth has no impact on their bottom line This isn't true in reality. For example, it's significantly more expensive to deliver video traffic from say, my co
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
LIFO. Thanks, corrected it.
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
It isn't uncommon to find yourself on the losing end of the union contract negotiation with little you can do about it. You give up your agency. The only things that matter are the interests of the existing majority which will often
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
I'm going to be the contrarian here and agree with this definition. I think it's more important that the government prioritizes making access to 25/3 available to everyone before making 100/15 (or whatever the new stand
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
She's using it as a pretext for when they eventually ban or regulate crypto to death, not to genuinely inform anyone.
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
Shootings are up 100% in NYC but murders were only up 40%. Any idea why the difference?
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
I’m seeing a lot of people posting conspiracy theories here and on social media. I wonder what makes this instance exceptional...
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
The fact that we've managed to strangle ourselves in our own bureaucracy has come back to bite us in the ass so many times throughout this pandemic. Everyone is paralyzed in fear over potential fines and lawsuits. Unfortunately, I see
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
Janus was public sector unions only.
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
Take a look at some of the rules surrounding emergency approval of the early COVID-19 tests. They weren’t even 20 years old and we’re already outdated. As I recall, one group was denied approval because they were required to ship a hard dr
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by fat_pikachu 6y ago
Explicit call for violence. Foments distrust in civil authority. Textbook incitement of violent insurrection.

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