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by lightgreen 5y ago
Unless I miss something, this looks like a solution to nonexistent problem?
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> A reminder that it's OK to not take sides and just support your friends. It is probably more complicated than that. Like if you know for sure that a friend of yours did something completely incompatible with your norms (for me tha
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> I engaged in sexual misconduct with multiple women The term misconduct is used usually in the work environment when one party is in a position of power, like a boss of another. This is not the case here. > This behavior may imply li
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> don't be a creep and treat women like human beings and you'll be fine? You may have your best intentions about women and still slip. Like accidentally calling people "guys" which is considered offensive now. Everyon
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> Twitter is completely to blame here Don't blame knives for killing people, blame people who kill people. I think the issue here is that Twitter came too quickly into our lives, and people did not have time adapt to the new reality
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by lightgreen 5y ago
The opinion of a person with some credibility, like name is N, lives in a city M, occupation is X is valued more than some of anonymous. Because nowadays there are too many fake accounts, even paid trolls, and talking to them (or even liste
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by lightgreen 5y ago
Poor people indeed often make bad decisions (not necessary financial, but like taking college degree they don't need or staying with their parents until they are 40). But realistically it's much easier to save money when your inco
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by lightgreen 5y ago
Super rich pay several orders of magnitude more taxes than you (in absolute numbers).
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by lightgreen 5y ago
What are you trying to achieve?
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by lightgreen 5y ago
This is gross double taxation: they already paid taxes when they earned the money you are investing, and you are suggested taxing them again at high rate.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
Do we tax cars? I though we only tax road use, and this tax income goes into road maintenance, not medicine or whatever.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
You can create 10 accounts if you think you deserve more votes than others.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
I love the modern use of the word “shocked” when used when something slightly unexpected happens. I didn’t take an umbrella and rain started, I was shocked! It is either inflation of meaning of the words, or infantilism of modern people. An
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> since they're low power and generally don't have any moving parts Rather since they don't have a critical mass/configuration which makes them impossible to explode.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
That's what countries and governments are for: people and companies pay taxes so other people and taxes count use the infrastructure. Amazon pays quite a lot of taxes, directly and indirectly. It creates jobs, improves infrastructure e
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by lightgreen 5y ago
There's a lot of trust in financial system. A lot of people invest in stocks and store their pensions in 401k.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> Does anyone honestly care about a million dollar trade by some employee's husband? It is not just random million dollars trade. Money are not created out of thin air, money are taken from someone. In this case, money was taken fro
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by lightgreen 5y ago
What law they violated? I'm curious, I really don't know.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
Great financial advice from a poor guy.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> How many politicians were sent to jail for covid insider trading? What is covid insider trading? > What about the billions Jeff Bezos fleeced in taxes? I believe Jeff Bezos did no violate the law, but that's really offtopic her
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> You have to insider trade a billion so that you’re untouchable. Some source of that? I believe that is not true. Other shareholders don't really want managers to profit from insider trading.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
More correct title would be: algorithm identifies respiratory diseases by the sound of the cough and likely doesn’t make a difference between Covid-19, other coronavirus, or flu.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
Rebase is an operation, stgit is a tool. It's apples to oranges.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
Kind of. I actually started with quilt, and when I discovered stgit (many years ago), it was a huge relief.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> Does stacked git help with this? There's no magic in resolving merge conflicts, stgit helps only to some degree. For example, stgit allows you to not fix all conflicts at once. You have a stack, and you may have first commit in a
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> Why would I use Stacked Git rather than Git’s fixup/interactive rebase dance? Yeah, dance is good analogy. Lot of training, one little mistake and it is ruined. For example, if you need to introduce a change in commit "one th
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by lightgreen 5y ago
I'm extrapolating it from various personal encounters, but I have no data. Vox doesn't have data either. They are stating that government spends money very inefficiently at homeless and assumes it would be more efficient to hand o
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by lightgreen 5y ago
Doing fine with ~50mbps WiFi. The issue is not the bandwidth but latency. Check the 99 percentile of ping, should be within ~20ms for comfortable gaming.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
I wouldn’t call purchasing games investing. Personally I don’t care if they pull the plug: it’s unlikely I’d want to play the same game again, and if I do, I have no problem purchasing it again.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
Perhaps gamers should stop bending to game developers and platforms until they make the game available on their favorite platform. That’s exactly what I do: I picked a platform, and only play games available on it. Game developers and platf

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