marris

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by marris 1mo ago
I think you may be misunderstanding the post. He is not saying that Meta is prohibited from censorship by the First Amendment. He is saying that the US has free speech norms (not laws) where it is acceptable for people to get together and
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by marris 4mo ago
I will do the pro-social thing of wishing that resources were more scarce so that the resources I hold were worth more.
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by marris 1y ago
Not sure why this obvious fact is being down-voted. The comments above don't mention that the killer feature of private orgs is the ease of exit, and therefore, the enormous risk of failure. This remains the dominant feature of private
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by marris 1y ago
I am not familiar with the DSA. 1. Are companies permitted to charge for badges under DSA? 2. Is there an example of another social media that EU officials have identified as being compliant with DSA?
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by marris 3y ago
The distinction is not as clear nor as useful as some make it sound. For example, is my pickup truck "personal" or "private"? Or is it personal as long as I drive myself and my stuff around, but as soon as I offer to sel
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by marris 4y ago
I first heard about black owner appraisal discrimination almost a year ago, and I tried to find studies of this phenomenon. The closest thing I could find was this study by Brookings ( https://www.brookings.edu/research/
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by marris 4y ago
Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#Matter_con... ) thinks there are 10^80 atoms in the observable universe, which is approximately 2^240. If you only need to assign a unique ID to each atom, th
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by marris 4y ago
MA specifically addresses his education in this interview. He says that he learned most of what he knows via independent reading, that his high school was not high quality (his computer class teacher being a lucky accident that he almost mi
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by marris 5y ago
How big a problem is the possible breakage of C extensions for new code? Is there currently some standard "future proofed for multi-thread" way of writing them that will reduce the odds of the C extension breaking? And maybe also
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by marris 5y ago
If they were evicted and living on the streets, then they would not have accrued a rent liability for those months. So the total liability now would be less. You could argue that the current state of large accrued rent liabilities is bette
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by marris 5y ago
Sure they can. Here, I think some lawmakers probably thought (a) "if someone can use this tool that well, then more power to him", or (b) I don't like it, but it is so unlikely, and I can probably live with it. I don't t
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by marris 5y ago
Sure, if you can reproduce the input and if you agree that it is misuse. This is a scenario where we don't know the formula to create $5B, and and there is no consensus that it ("making an extremely successful investment in a tax
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by marris 5y ago
> Is it in the interest of the US to pay Thiel to put his money in a Roth? How much should the US pay? How many of your tax dollars would you want to go to funding tax breaks for Thiel? I submit that yes, it is in the interest of the US
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by marris 5y ago
When you create a tax shelter, someone always asks "what if someone uses this to create an enormous amount of wealth"? This is not just true for the US tax code, but has been true for probably every tax code in history. When tha
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by marris 5y ago
He could have saved it up from prior years of work. Starting salaries can in fact be lower than $110K.
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by marris 5y ago
I disagree with ProPublica's take. If it was as simple as "pay just fractions of a penny per share... watch as all the gains..." then we would all do it. Not just with Roth IRAs, but with our entire portfolios. The reason w
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by marris 5y ago
If they intended something else, then why didn't they write the rules to reflect "else"? The truth is that they didn't think that any Roth IRA investor would be as successful as Thiel. He showed that he can be. Good for
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by marris 5y ago
I can think of two reasons: (1) It was not his own company when the IRA made the investment. That is, the IRA invests alongside other investors at the founding. Anyone who wants to buy shares at 0.01 is able to do so. He is not dictating so
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by marris 5y ago
Does anyone know whether this kind of tax planning is available to today's startup investors? Are there any administrators which support this kind of illiquid investment?
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by marris 5y ago
The NFT here seems to be a publicity stunt to both raise money directly from the auction and also to raise awareness about the charity. I had never heard of this charity before this stunt, and I probably would not have heard of them without
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by marris 5y ago
https://www.noorahealth.org/donate
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by marris 6y ago
Can you elaborate? All of the examples I can think of where favoring an in house brand is "bad" ultimately end with the consumer being harmed by either paying a higher price or receiving a lower quality product. What are the other
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by marris 6y ago
If you start from "democratically elected governments exist to make the world a better place," then you're going to end up somewhere wrong. Even in the best of times, democratically elected governments exist to give the major
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by marris 7y ago
PP implies that that computation runs for a polynomial number of steps before producing its probabilistic answer. In the article description, the computation seems to be run "until the answer is separated from the noise." And alth
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by marris 8y ago
Dear Mr. Millionaire, As someone with a significant amount of wealth, you have the option to spend it entirely on yourself. For example, you could have consumed all of it already, enjoying non-stop parties, expensive toys, buying the tempor
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by marris 8y ago
From the FDA statement: > This is because both CBD and THC are active ingredients in FDA-approved drugs and were the subject of substantial clinical investigations before they were marketed as foods or dietary supplements. Wow, this is u
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by marris 8y ago
> go out of their way to fix third party programs not working correctly by adapting their platform, it was a very efficient process This kind of thing probably doesn't even scale with itself, since there are only so many acrobatics
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by marris 8y ago
Yup. It's especially disheartening that most of the discussion centers around "privilege" and the supposed ease of coasting into one of these schools if parents pay for test prep. Anyone can get test prep books from the New Y
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by marris 9y ago
Unfortunately, the most likely outcome is a society-damaging overreaction. Angry people will still look for other like-minded people with whom they can share their grievances. The Internet makes it possible for larger groups to meet, talk,
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by marris 9y ago
Thank you for posting this. Overall, I think that the good done by Uber around the world (primarily for consumer surplus, maybe not so much for drivers) totally dwarfs the various complaints I've heard about breaking local regulations.

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