rafcavallaro

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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
"Probably going to" is not now. Amazon faces having to collect state sales tax now with no hope that the courts will intervene. I think this does matter to investor perception of amazon.
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
Instead of "Supreme Court to Amazon: 'collect state sales tax,'" we got "Amazon to deliver by drone." Big players, be they commercial or political, know how work the news cycle - thus is just another example.
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
The only thing being ignored here is the fact that this week SCOTUS let stand New York State's requirement that Amazon collect sales tax. This would have been the big news story about Amazon this week if not for the suspiciously well t
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
On the contrary - this fits right in with all the other dreadful presentations of math - it takes so long to load it appears as though the site is off line. It's almost as if the author was at pains to confirm the trope that technical
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
False. Read the letter carefully. They're specifically concerned with false positives and false negatives - these are both very real possibilities - one is documented up thread.
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
Right - PG makes the mistake of talking about what labor is actually worth, but this value is dependent on what the political system will allow - the balance of power between labor and capital. Where labor organizing risks torture and death
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
By the same utility argument there should be no nuclear weapons, an all out push for zero emissions energy, and world peace, but don't hold your breath. There are existing, very powerful stakeholders such as the governments and militar
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
US colloquial usage - where the original, subtle UK usage goes to die; see also "presently," and "beg the question."
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
The rates for east Asia (as was noted in the article) are almost certainly misleadingly low because mental health issues of any kind are so highly stigmatized in these cultures, much more so than in Europe and North Ametica.
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
The US is economically first world but cognitively third world :)
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
It's just that some people's unique opportunity is to be sold into child slavery.
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
Gates's maternal grandfather, a multimillionaire bank president, left him a million dollar trust fund; his mother was on the a United Way board with an IBM exec which is how he got the contract for DOS. The GI Bill had little or nothin
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
Point is, the more fulfilling job often requires much longer hours which certainly do cut into parent-child time. Remember, when highly successful people are asked "if you had it to do over, what would you do differently?" one of
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
This could easily change if laws are passed requiring a online retailers like a Amazon to collect such taxes. The absence of such a requirement now gives Amazon a de facto tax exempt status.
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
The key point is the word "equally" - the observation that Venus showed ALL phases, not just some, required significant modification to the Ptolemaic model - when one model must jump through hoops to explain new data it is not fac
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
I agree - the blog post says that for a time the evidence could support either view but this is false. Galileo discovered (there's that pesky novel factual evidence) that Venus showed ALL phases - new, crescent, gibbous, and full - whi
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
If Amazon loses it's tax exempt status in all jurisdictions it may well also lose profitability - the long term plan of cornering an unprofitable market is still unprofitable.
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
The spiritual baggage comes from the fact that in these traditions meditation is a tool to develop concentration so that the meditator can focus his/her full attention on some form of the question "who am I" - that is, "
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
It's been estimated that their entire lifetime profit is about equal to their tax discount (lower price due to not having to collect and pay state and local tax) - makes one wonder what Bezos's genius is other than taking advantag
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
By other cultures. Example: show a set of color swatches all identical blue with one bluish green. Ask participants to indicate the exception. Speakers of languages with a blue-green distinction get it right essentially instantly (< 1 se
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
I agree. I've been doing professional illustration for print (among other things) since the late 70s. My most recent published project is a book cover illustration. I have access to a huge range of media - gouache, acrylics, oils, past
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
yesandletsgetridofthosepeskypacesbetweenwordstoo!
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
For centuries typographers clearly thought just the opposite, so you may want to consider the likelihood that your preferences are simply the result of relatively inflexible automatic typesetting replacing more expensive but more flexible m
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
Unless you are quite unusual, 4-5 hours sleep per day/night is low enough to be bad for your long term health. see http://www.sleepfoundation.org/article/white-papers/how-much... for details.
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
1. He admits that he has no proof that private firms would take up the slack if government stopped funding basic science research - only his bizarre notion that science is NOT a public good. 2. He says that government has a DUTY to fund def
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
There is no such thing as an inexact science. If it is science, it is exact; if it is inexact, it is simply confirmation bias fodder.
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
Don't confuse olive oil for cooking (commonly purchased in 3 liter tins) with extra virgin olive oil. This article is about extra virgin olive oil. EVOO is usually consumed raw, unheated, with bread, cheese, on salads - it would comple
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
That's objectively false - Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook (among others) have all been at pains to distance themselves from NSA data collection precisely because they understand how bad the NSA's behavior is for their busi
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
You apparently missed the fact that the Obama administration had a full scale Democratic congressional revolt on its hands yesterday - a majority of congressional Dems voted to defund the NSA collection of bulk call records under FISA - the
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
Yup - all the cool kids are wearing stethoscopes!

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