Right, but getting fined in this situation means the government is incompetent. They should just tell retailers the "right" thing to do and not fine any retailers that follow the guidelines. The idea that this is…
The "registry" is signing your name on a sheet of paper on a clipboard - less than 1% more work for the pharmacy employee's overall job, approximately 0 new jobs created.
I don't understand the distinction you are making: two couples (4 people) meeting at a restaurant is, to me, equally social as one couple going to another couple's house to eat dinner.
You aren't arguing against what I wrote: an investor currently pays no tax on their own stock going up. I'm suggesting if an investor in NVIDIA uses their $100 Million in stock that they bought for $10 Million to get a…
Getting a loan against assets is another way of "using" it, so why not make that a taxable event? Just like now your stock value would not be taxed while it is invested. But now it would be taxed if you use it as…
Right: most systems with paper ballots are simple enough that the vast majority of the electorate, including those with lower-than-average IQ's (50% of the population), can understand and could participate in if they…
If you have a decimal then you should store it as a Decimal type, not a float nor an int. This is why Decimal types exist - the fact that most programming languages don't have a native Decimal type baffles me.
"x is worth more than gold" means the price per unit of weight of x is greater than that of gold. What are you trying to achieve by arguing that a common turn of phrase doesn't mean what everyone else thinks it means?
The biggest reason people loose muscle mass as they age is due to lack of use, so a built environment that encourages walking is going to help keep people in shape to walk as they age.
If we truly listen to the pronunciation of small children they often substitute easier sounds for difficult ones for many years. We just expect that from children so it seems normal.
Statistically safe maybe, but speaking for Manhattan the streets have plenty of unsavory and seemingly-unsafe people around. I have a close friend who worked at an office a block away from a methadone clinic (in a busy…
Where do all the trained doctors go though? If 1 person trains 6, then in a few years you now have 7 trained doctors who could either train 42 more or, if given half the workload, could train 21 more. If the training…
Tesla is still years behind Waymo: "FSD 12.3 seems superior to Waymo’s technology circa 2018, it’s not as good as Waymo’s technology at the end of 2020" https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/on-self-driving-waymo-i...
What does some people not filling out paperwork before moving to another country have to do with how the society treats 5-year-olds?
I would actually argue that if a child and an adult spent the same amount of time engaged in language learning and were graded on the same metrics the adult would get farther. I don't think there's a magical cutoff…
Right, but the parent comment is comparing children to adults. Even a native speaking 3.5 year old actually speaks a language very poorly compared to a native speaking adult.
Why are judges approving such settlements? Either their fee is wrong and they should both have to stop charging it and pay a settlement or the fee is totally fine and Verizon should pay nothing.
This isn't very clear what it is demonstrating and the explanation doesn't help. If I lived on a small sphere and saw a pole in the ground, tied a rope to it, and walked all the way around the sphere I would see the…
This feels a bit like complaining that a tank is badly designed because nobody drives them on the highway... My understanding is that Rust was designed to be a safe(er) language to write low-level system code than…
You're allowed to leave the house on Shabbat! The eruv (string around the neighborhood) is to get around the prohibition on carrying things between a "public" domain and a "private" domain. This prohibition is very…
IQ is neither fixed for a given person over their lifetime nor is it objectively measurable across different populations.
I've never had goals that are project-specific. Some examples of the types of goals I have had: To lead engineering on a project that has at least one other engineer attached to it. Or go review 3 PRs/week from teams…
How does shutting down the office remove PTO obligations? I worked at a company where we had 10 days of vacation + the office shut down for the last week of the year. Nobody had to use vacation time during that 1-week…
This is a rumor, Apple didn't make this announcement. It is not an example of the Osborne Effect.
This is making mountains out of mole hills though: these types of problems can be solved without abolishing tax-deductible accounts. For example, one could tweak the deadline for contributions to those accounts to be…
Right, but getting fined in this situation means the government is incompetent. They should just tell retailers the "right" thing to do and not fine any retailers that follow the guidelines. The idea that this is…
The "registry" is signing your name on a sheet of paper on a clipboard - less than 1% more work for the pharmacy employee's overall job, approximately 0 new jobs created.
I don't understand the distinction you are making: two couples (4 people) meeting at a restaurant is, to me, equally social as one couple going to another couple's house to eat dinner.
You aren't arguing against what I wrote: an investor currently pays no tax on their own stock going up. I'm suggesting if an investor in NVIDIA uses their $100 Million in stock that they bought for $10 Million to get a…
Getting a loan against assets is another way of "using" it, so why not make that a taxable event? Just like now your stock value would not be taxed while it is invested. But now it would be taxed if you use it as…
Right: most systems with paper ballots are simple enough that the vast majority of the electorate, including those with lower-than-average IQ's (50% of the population), can understand and could participate in if they…
If you have a decimal then you should store it as a Decimal type, not a float nor an int. This is why Decimal types exist - the fact that most programming languages don't have a native Decimal type baffles me.
"x is worth more than gold" means the price per unit of weight of x is greater than that of gold. What are you trying to achieve by arguing that a common turn of phrase doesn't mean what everyone else thinks it means?
The biggest reason people loose muscle mass as they age is due to lack of use, so a built environment that encourages walking is going to help keep people in shape to walk as they age.
If we truly listen to the pronunciation of small children they often substitute easier sounds for difficult ones for many years. We just expect that from children so it seems normal.
Statistically safe maybe, but speaking for Manhattan the streets have plenty of unsavory and seemingly-unsafe people around. I have a close friend who worked at an office a block away from a methadone clinic (in a busy…
Where do all the trained doctors go though? If 1 person trains 6, then in a few years you now have 7 trained doctors who could either train 42 more or, if given half the workload, could train 21 more. If the training…
Tesla is still years behind Waymo: "FSD 12.3 seems superior to Waymo’s technology circa 2018, it’s not as good as Waymo’s technology at the end of 2020" https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/on-self-driving-waymo-i...
What does some people not filling out paperwork before moving to another country have to do with how the society treats 5-year-olds?
I would actually argue that if a child and an adult spent the same amount of time engaged in language learning and were graded on the same metrics the adult would get farther. I don't think there's a magical cutoff…
Right, but the parent comment is comparing children to adults. Even a native speaking 3.5 year old actually speaks a language very poorly compared to a native speaking adult.
Why are judges approving such settlements? Either their fee is wrong and they should both have to stop charging it and pay a settlement or the fee is totally fine and Verizon should pay nothing.
This isn't very clear what it is demonstrating and the explanation doesn't help. If I lived on a small sphere and saw a pole in the ground, tied a rope to it, and walked all the way around the sphere I would see the…
This feels a bit like complaining that a tank is badly designed because nobody drives them on the highway... My understanding is that Rust was designed to be a safe(er) language to write low-level system code than…
You're allowed to leave the house on Shabbat! The eruv (string around the neighborhood) is to get around the prohibition on carrying things between a "public" domain and a "private" domain. This prohibition is very…
IQ is neither fixed for a given person over their lifetime nor is it objectively measurable across different populations.
I've never had goals that are project-specific. Some examples of the types of goals I have had: To lead engineering on a project that has at least one other engineer attached to it. Or go review 3 PRs/week from teams…
How does shutting down the office remove PTO obligations? I worked at a company where we had 10 days of vacation + the office shut down for the last week of the year. Nobody had to use vacation time during that 1-week…
This is a rumor, Apple didn't make this announcement. It is not an example of the Osborne Effect.
This is making mountains out of mole hills though: these types of problems can be solved without abolishing tax-deductible accounts. For example, one could tweak the deadline for contributions to those accounts to be…