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Xarn posted:I don't see the problem tbh? At least if I give the benefit of the doubt and read the unstated part as "and that is bullshit", rather than "and that's why sw engineers are better".
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The original horrible idea being discussed was forced unpaid work for poor people to pay higher taxes. The idea seemed to be that everyone would pay the same amount of income tax, so lets calculate how that would work: total income tax revenue = $1.5 trillion working age population = 200 million income tax revenue per working age person = $7,500 $7,500 / ($7.25/hr) / (40 hrs/week) = 25 weeks. So if your labor reduced your tax debt at minimum wage, if you were unemployed for an entire year you would have to do forced labor for 6 months just to pay your taxes. Or if you worked the whole year at minimum wage, half your income would go to taxes. Presumably if you were married you would have to work the whole year at minimum wage just to pay your taxes for both you and your spouse. So either you work and all your money goes to taxes and you starve or you have to spend so much time doing forced labor that you can never hold a job. On the other hand, someone who made 100 million dollars would pay a 0.0075% tax income tax rate. mystes fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Nov 16, 2019 |
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lancemantis posted:it’s dumb in so many dimensions beginning with the proposal not even making sense So basically, the average fox news viewer or hn poster would probably like it.
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burtonator 2 hours ago [-] Interviewed at Etsy about a year or two ago and the interviewer was asking me about politically charged topics. How I would handle workplace gender complaints. How they should handle racial diversity in the work place, etc. It was really clear I was giving wrong answers. I told them flat out that I think people should be judged by the quality of their character, not the color of their skin and that the company should just try to be fair and hire the best people. I mean I get that companies want to do the right thing but you can only really do ONE thing well.
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:I think it was shortly after he was posting openly on Reddit about how he didn't really have a job and was using their money to combine two dumbsjit ideas into one
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Every comment on this story about Latin is complete nonsense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21578345 The first comment starts with "Latin is the most powerful natural language I know," and it only gets worse from there.
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I guess dead languages are convenient as a blank slate on which you can impose your own ideas without any pesky native speakers to tell you that you're insane. Also, lol, are there really still places that force everyone to learn latin? mystes fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Nov 20, 2019 |
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klafbang posted:There are
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I think some people just don't really enjoy food. I've had a friend since high school who seems to be perfectly well adjusted and isn't a picky eater at all aside from not liking fish, and he basically never has any opinion or preferences about food whatsoever. He doesn't eat junk food at all, and eating basically seems to be a chore for him. He's always been really skinny, and he started lifting weights a while ago but it seems like he can't eat enough to put on mass at all. I don't think it's the environment in which he was raised, either, because his parents were completely different and always cooked a lot. I have sort of entertained the idea that he has an impaired sense of smell or something, but I don't think that's actually the case. He just doesn't get much enjoyment out of food for some reason. I just find it hard to understand because I really enjoy cooking, eating, and trying new foods. mystes fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Dec 1, 2019 |
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Vomik posted:does he have ADHD/depression and/or take adderall?
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That comment also starts "I think beyond not feeding race in as a feature to any model, this stuff is mostly nonsense," which raises the question of what this person would think about feeding things like zip code data in.
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eschaton posted:sansnomme 4 hours ago | parent | flag | favorite | on: The Higher States of Bromine quote:People can't make educated judgements about stuff like Mercury Thiomersal because that level of organic chemistry understanding isn't covered well by existing resources like Khan Academy... There is no FDA in Africa to bring down the hammer on you making videos on low-cost quality control for orphan drug analogues when people are dying due to corruption, incompetence, and poor medical practices.. The level of biochemistry knowledge on HN is amazingly poor, every thread on CRISPR and gene drives reads like the infamous parable of the blind men and an elephant.
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superkuh 20 minutes ago [-] China following the socially regressive lead the USA has been setting in terms of free speech on university campuses.
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g42gregory 6 hours ago An honest question: How does this compare to the group-think in the climate change/global warming research? Are we similarly rejecting funding to any research that does not fit into the common consensus? The fact that we call some people "climate change deniers" tells me that we have an unhealthy dynamics going on there. Will it take 30 years to get to the same point?
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Maximo Roboto posted:Among the HN labor aristocracy, syndicalists are starting to outnumber libertarians
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Jose Valasquez posted:wruza 11 hours ago [-] Reading through comments I feel like being from completely another world. While an option is to simply stay silent, I struggle to understand how that plot ends up unquestioned by everyone except lawyers. Is it self-censoring in action? Because I feel self-censored. (These comments are both on an article about how "GirlsDoPorn was sued by women who claimed they were coerced into making videos without knowing footage would be online.")
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Xik posted:if it can't be a tweet it's unnecessary
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Jan 5, 2020 04:55
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I like coffee but honestly the idea that drinking coffee for caffeine is good but taking caffeine pills is bad doesn't really make sense.
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After the Tariff Act of 1883 taxed vegetables (but not fruits), produce seller John Nix — no relation to the package manager — sued to get tomatoes classified as a fruit.
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Xik posted:all those slaves throughout history that lived long and healthy lives lmao
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Jan 25, 2020 00:23
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Alternatively just change it to "fuckturd".
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alexandriao posted:Hundreds of years of medical research and science and a random hackernews thinks they can suddenly fix the problem because they're a computer scientist!
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What if we didn't have medicine? I bet people would be really careful about being injured then and the injury rate would go down to zero. Unfortunately we'll never be able to find out.
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fritz posted:the hackers are disrupting 'surplus labor'
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Progressive JPEG posted:my partner is wrapping up a degree remotely and the local library is able to proctor his exams, including receiving the exam from the university and then scanning and emailing back the result, for free
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Feb 23, 2020 00:55
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If only I could go back in time to help develop horrible weapons of mass destruction that were going to be used to kill tens of thousands of civilians. That was truly the pinnacle of engineering.
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Obviously an amateur. To seriously self(mis)diagnose yourself you need to use PubMed.
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"If there is any 'plus' to this situation, its that Coronavirus will rapidly de-age many Western countries. This could lead to large economic benefits in the form of long-term savings on pensions and healthcare, as well as freeing up housing for families."
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josh04 posted:nothing says "not throwing a tantrum" like a plan to leave earth with an imagined legion of smart clever people much like yourself, so you can return with the physical force to prove everyone who laughed at you wrong
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If only there was some way you could just give people money to develop drugs, but I guess that would be communism and we can't have that.
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Myrmornis 38 minutes ago There’s nothing in the article that indicates that cooperating with the enquiry would have been problematic (he appears to have a physical appearance that wouldn’t trigger race-based police prejudices). I do mistrust US police in general, but it must be a bit annoying for them for every good faith investigation direction to be treated adversarially like this.
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Next thing you're going to be telling me that that the 14 words are white nationalism! So illogical!
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I can't think about Jordon Peterson without thinking of the Contrapoints video where Natalie Wynn is lying in the bath with a Jordon Peterson doll.
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DaTroof posted:i don't know what you're talking about and respectfully request we keep it that way
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Arcteryx Anarchist posted:wow somebody just watched teen vampire movies
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May 12, 2020 05:31
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As an elite HN poster, I feel that rather than doings things other people do, more people should do things I do, because things I do are more pure and true (as proven by the fact that I do them) and I don't like doing other things.
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fritz posted:Ask HN: How do I cope knowing people make more than me on onlyfans?
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Should have used /dev/urandom.
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