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by rqebmm 9y ago
sighs wistfully I still remember the first day I was able to exit vim without looking it up. It's right up there with that one time I wrote a function that compiled and worked on the first try. Good times.
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by rqebmm 9y ago
Carried-interest loophole?
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by rqebmm 9y ago
While you ARE technically correct, the alternative in the wild is progressive taxation. That makes flat taxation a de facto regressive tax, as it will be more regressive than the current taxation regime.
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by rqebmm 9y ago
> Say 4 of the high earners stop working as much (since their marginal rates are so high). I know you're just using this as an example, but it begs a question I've struggled with: is there any actual proof that marginal tax rat
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by rqebmm 9y ago
> Despite all the different changes in the income tax rate/other progressive taxes. This supports an overhaul to the tax code to a more simple, flat tax system. From another data source outside this report, I'd have to find it,
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by rqebmm 9y ago
I've wrestled with it, and settled into prioritizing humanely-raised meat. I have far more qualms about the inhumane treatment of most farm animals than I do about the concept of raising and slaughtering animals for food. The heuristic
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by rqebmm 9y ago
Yeah I was having this thought the other day: Why own a home when you could own a self-driving RV? Obviously there will still be advantages to owning land, but there's some real appeal to having your home drive itself around for you. I
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by rqebmm 9y ago
This was a complaint I heard from several people I work with who took the course.
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by rqebmm 9y ago
Right. People forget that there is no such thing as a truly "free" market. Literally everything we consider a "market" has regulations, from contract enforcement to currency standardization to abolishing violence and the
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by rqebmm 9y ago
Allow me to followup in support: I work for a private VPN company (that coincidentally used to be a dial-up ISP), and the owner/leadership is very active in lobbying state and federal legislatures to pass privacy-oriented legislation.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
My advice would be: Do learn functional programming, don't learn Lisp.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
a) The biggest instigator by far is a dog we adopted at the age of 3 who was abandoned in the street and then spent another 9 months in the dog shelter. Each dog's mileage will vary. b) I've worked with kids for years, and many di
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by rqebmm 10y ago
> These five words are, as far as I can tell, the poison in the pudding of American politics today. In the abstract, you're right, but I feel like it's worth noting that there's nothing exceptionally ignorant about voters
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by rqebmm 10y ago
> I have two young kids - pre-fb age - and they already have some questionable habits on my wife's iPhone - as soon as it comes out, they wanna look at pictures, go on youtube and fight over it. The second they see it... This is al
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by rqebmm 10y ago
I hadn't thought of that, but it would explain the runaway valuation more than any other theory I've heard.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
I'd argue the better analogy is "If you have a great idea, what's more important to get it to market: your first engineer or your first investor?" The next is always going to be "well, do I have enough money to pay
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by rqebmm 10y ago
This sounds more like a mobile security camera than a replacement for a security guard. I'd be surprised if a large chunk is taken out of that employment market anytime soon.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
MY company does hybrid remote/on-site, and one of the best ways to mitigate issues with off-site communication is part-time work from home. Since on-site workers spend some of their time as remote workers, everyone has a good idea of w
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by rqebmm 10y ago
> rather than have inventory, they relist competitor's inventory at lower prices Wow. No wonder Wal-Mart bought them, they're cut from the same cloth.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Well that's because he's publicly backed Trump, who is as un-libertarian as you can get.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
You're right, that's why we have elections every few years to make sure there's an opportunity to make them care about voters, if only for a bit.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
This is a good generalized process for getting better at anything, but it's still awfully subjective and squishy once you try to apply it to a given domain. How do you `Identify what it means to be good`? How exactly do you `Deliberate
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by rqebmm 10y ago
I've found audiobooks (and podcasts) to be great for lighter reading, but I tend to drift in and out. That's not a great system for something more scaffolded like a textbook where you have to thoroughly understand each part in ord
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Sure! Our company has been working on a "whole-house, always-on" product for a while, but it hasn't taken off because of the difficulties involved with having users flash Tomato onto their routers. I'm guessing HN reader
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Full Disclosure: I work for a private VPN company This depends on the VPN provider. Private VPN services share IPs between customers, and the extra layer of privacy they provide comes with high potential for abuse. Some providers care more
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by rqebmm 10y ago
I'm not an economist, but one thing I've wondered is "how much productivity has been added since the 60s purely by adding women to the workforce"? Naively it would seem that almost doubling the available workforce would
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by rqebmm 10y ago
I guess that makes it unsurprising that Sweden, Germany, and Japan are all pretty valued allies to the US these days.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
It also mentioned patient care was improved, which is important because it establishes that the gains went beyond the employees who got two extra hours of free time. That could establish the groundwork for some similar studies in different
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Normally I'm not a fan of clickbait headlines, but the authors totally whiffed on "Apple to decimate iPhone production in the new year"
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by rqebmm 10y ago
You're right that we produce enough raw food, but what alternative solution would you provide for more efficiently distributing it? Once there's sufficient supply all that Capitalism determines is methods of distribution.

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