Being paid in stock is a form of income, which is taxed when given and which is separate from the additional capital gains tax levied when the stock is sold. Regardless, even if different forms of compensation are taxed…
I probably have a better house in Utah than many Silicon Valley CEOs have in the Bay Area, but they have better weather.
A two millennia old institution rarely operates on the scale of decades. The workers’ rights movement may have become a pressing political issue then, but workers have been around for thousands of years. Most genuinely…
Yes, but the thing causing the pain may still be there
So she died of cancer
The current pope is a little more traditional, but it’s hard not to be more traditional than Francis. However, the cardinals as a whole are more or less on board with the previous pope’s agenda, American bishops a…
European Protestantism and American Protestantism differ in substantial ways. Crudely, European Protestantism went the way of Hegelian dialectics and evolving beyond the Christianity of the Bible. American…
> The church as an institution certainly prefers the more radical conservatives as you go higher up the chain I think right now it’s the exact opposite.
American religions are more like American Indian tribal nations. They have independent jurisdiction and their income is not subject to taxation. Whether or not they engage in politics is completely their prerogative and…
But that kind of recklessness is malice
“In any statutory definition of a crime ‘malice’ must be taken not in the old vague sense of ‘wickedness’ in general, but as requiring either (i) an actual intention to do the particular kind of harm that was in fact…
The Dunning-Kruger effect is not well established. It often doesn't reproduce. Also the effect isn't that people misjudge their knowledge, it's that they misjudge their place within a distribution. Suppose I give an…
Can you elaborate?
At least where I live, it's a requirement in order to operate a business. If you go anywhere and ask for their AED and they don't have one they can be shut down.
The mass of the earth dictates the acceleration of the individual masses towards the earth. However the acceleration of the earth itself towards the masses are dependent on how much mass is falling towards the earth.…
Increasingly, medical history includes genetic information. Because of the nature of genetics, your private healthcare data includes data about your parents, siblings, etc. > Dropping patient history into this thing is…
In a capitalist economy with several major AI competitors, two of which already offers search for free.
> I don’t know how bank stress tests work, but... SVB would have passed stress tests because they did what all banks were supposed to do. They invested in "safe" long term treasuries. The only economic environment…
I don't care if SMS goes away for good, but whatever replaces it should be a different universal standard that can/will be implemented by carriers. I'm not going to purchase a smartphone just so that I can use a fancy…
The irony of the quoted Robert Frost poem > Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. is that Frost's line is sarcastic. He wrote this poem about a…
Being paid in stock is a form of income, which is taxed when given and which is separate from the additional capital gains tax levied when the stock is sold. Regardless, even if different forms of compensation are taxed…
I probably have a better house in Utah than many Silicon Valley CEOs have in the Bay Area, but they have better weather.
A two millennia old institution rarely operates on the scale of decades. The workers’ rights movement may have become a pressing political issue then, but workers have been around for thousands of years. Most genuinely…
Yes, but the thing causing the pain may still be there
So she died of cancer
The current pope is a little more traditional, but it’s hard not to be more traditional than Francis. However, the cardinals as a whole are more or less on board with the previous pope’s agenda, American bishops a…
European Protestantism and American Protestantism differ in substantial ways. Crudely, European Protestantism went the way of Hegelian dialectics and evolving beyond the Christianity of the Bible. American…
> The church as an institution certainly prefers the more radical conservatives as you go higher up the chain I think right now it’s the exact opposite.
American religions are more like American Indian tribal nations. They have independent jurisdiction and their income is not subject to taxation. Whether or not they engage in politics is completely their prerogative and…
But that kind of recklessness is malice
“In any statutory definition of a crime ‘malice’ must be taken not in the old vague sense of ‘wickedness’ in general, but as requiring either (i) an actual intention to do the particular kind of harm that was in fact…
The Dunning-Kruger effect is not well established. It often doesn't reproduce. Also the effect isn't that people misjudge their knowledge, it's that they misjudge their place within a distribution. Suppose I give an…
Can you elaborate?
At least where I live, it's a requirement in order to operate a business. If you go anywhere and ask for their AED and they don't have one they can be shut down.
The mass of the earth dictates the acceleration of the individual masses towards the earth. However the acceleration of the earth itself towards the masses are dependent on how much mass is falling towards the earth.…
Increasingly, medical history includes genetic information. Because of the nature of genetics, your private healthcare data includes data about your parents, siblings, etc. > Dropping patient history into this thing is…
In a capitalist economy with several major AI competitors, two of which already offers search for free.
> I don’t know how bank stress tests work, but... SVB would have passed stress tests because they did what all banks were supposed to do. They invested in "safe" long term treasuries. The only economic environment…
I don't care if SMS goes away for good, but whatever replaces it should be a different universal standard that can/will be implemented by carriers. I'm not going to purchase a smartphone just so that I can use a fancy…
The irony of the quoted Robert Frost poem > Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. is that Frost's line is sarcastic. He wrote this poem about a…