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You are technically correct, the problem being that the IRS does not define what a "reasonable wage" is.

However, the intention of the law is that true income is taxed as income and not as distributions. When one individual provides 100% of the services of a business, is not reinvesting profits or paying employees, and is the sole full-time worker, they should be treated as an employee and taxed accordingly. Many people abuse the vagueness of this but that doesn't mean the IRS will agree if you choose to pay your Uber earnings as distributions not subject to employment taxes.

You can read a summary of some of the established case law on this topic here: https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2011/aug/nitti-aug2011....
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> If a diverse group of people relied on a test for accreditation, the test would be better applied to that group's diverse learning paths.

The obvious counter argument to that is the incredible mess that is testing for software engineering positions! We've yet to figure that out, and compared to many other fields we have relatively quantifiable requirements!

Of course the real engineering disciplines are much more quantifiable, and they have industry wide certification and licensing programs.
Either Uber runs a legal business, in which case I would expect others can start similar businesses, or they don’t, in which case this is like complaining that you can’t start a local mob legally after the one you worked for kicked you out.

Yes, that may be difficult, but Uber has shown it to be possible; ‘just’ find some investor with a few billion to spare, and you can do it, too.

Returning to the original argument: even if Uber drivers were employees, the argument “Uber can’t kick me out because I can’t get a job as an Uber driver elsewhere” doesn’t hold water, and replacing “Uber driver” by “driver” doesn’t change that.
I'm not really a networking guy, so perhaps this is an obvious question, but why don't you have a failover configuration to send traffic over VPN or the public Internet? I would expect the latency to increase but otherwise still work.

Is it a cost concern, is DC reliable enough that it's just an accepted risk, or is there some other reason?
The “suicide” line was a direct quote from a recent article of his. It just struck a chord with me because that exact phrase happens to be one of the slogans of my country’s alt-right party.

In the article, he mostly talked about the danger of allowing halal food in “our” supermarkets. Since Shiites share their Sunni breathrens’ food preferences, Taleb should maybe take more care to allow his nuanced view of the world to shine through in his shorter works, lest he be misunderstood for an old egomaniac trying to ride the current wave of hatred to one last moment in the spotlight.
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That's not really an honest interpretation.

The part you're ignoring is future earnings. Assuming a company maintains its earnings, you have a bigger slice of the pie next quarter. If the company trades at the same EPS multiple, your stake definitely has gained value. You're totally ignoring enterprise value.

In a vacuum, nothing has changed about a company's future earnings when they repurchase shares.

The kind of bizarre roundabout way to consider it is if Apple bought 25% of itself with its money mountain (they can't, beside the point), your stake in the company goes up because you own shares in Apple, which in turn owns 25% of itself.

You effectively have more equity in Apple when it buys its own shares.
Which is why a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative is a more ethically-defensible way to organize humans.

Or pretty much any business model where all the laborers share in any profits by the collective.
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> he makes the critical distinction between the danger of Salafism/Wahhabism and the benign nature of Shiite Islam.

Pretending that the dangers within Islam are isolated to particular Sunni sects and that there's none of that dangerous religiously grounded violent extremism on the Shi’a side of the divide is, to be sure, a different error than typical “The West is dying” islamophobia, but no less of one.
I'm not even close to suggesting that. I'm only pointing out that the conventional wisdom is biz goes to China for cheap labor. That's barely half of it. It's the lack of reg - esp environmental - that's the draw.

The "bonus" is, politicians in the West can claim they cleaned things up at home. Lol. Oh hell no. When the jobs left, so did the (direct) pollution.
How did you manage to take someone's dislike of value, like Islamaphobia or liking dictators, and decide that meant there was only an issue with the authors style? Style is how you present your views, not the views themselves
College isn’t the issue, it’s the lack of political will to make the political and social objective sustainable.

An English or art history major has a lot to add to the world, both in terms of enlightenment and analytical ability. The problem is that it isn’t worth the debt load, and the incentive structure for tuition guarantees bad outcomes.

My dad went to City College in NYC for free in the late 60s and received a great education. His dad was a widower with 5 kids who ran a neighborhood bar.

The modern version of my dad would be either in the army by necessity or saddled with massive debt even in a public school.

The societal cost of the current situation is awful — wage slave milennials who will never own a home or have a opportunity to accumulate wealth.
“I don’t like to be put in a box and labeled. To prove I’m right, I’ll put a bunch of other people in a box and label them.”
Guess I'll have to use the remote now to stop/pause/play my shows, that's all Alexa seems to understand.
"The Met" isn't just any old museum, it's a main reason to visit new york. I'd pay $100 for an entire day there (or three days, as it is now!). You simply can't see that quality of museum in many parts of the country, let alone the world.
The whole point of the SA article is that you can make people richer by printing money and handing it out.

It's absolutely clear about this. Printing money and handing it out is the best possible strategy if you want a vibrant, inventive culture.

Conversely rationing access is self-defeating. You get a few individuals with giga-wealth and a lot of friction everywhere else, which throws sand in the wheels of future wealth creation.
Compare it to Elite dangerous which started development at the same time. It was made pretty much on schedule. Its been at version 1 for a couple years with many people enjoying an extremely solid game.

Star citizen has been in development hell for years. It looks like theyve reached the Sisyphusian point where X amount of work creates bugs that will take > X amount of time to fix.

Still I would love to be proved wrong and it comes out and is the best game ever of my fantasies. (Elite dangerous is too MMOey for my tastes)
Energy is substitutable, but the raw materials have externalities, yes, in both energy and other costs? If you are using petroproducts, you are perpetuating everything around petroproducts, from the costs of extraction (human, environmental, energy) to their externalities (pollution etc.) to the fundamentally scarce nature of them.

Using more energy in a way that can be ramped into more sustainable sources (if it currently is not sustainably sourced--but, again, Lego seems to be at the least offsetting their energy use in toto) with fewer externalities is not the same thing. There are functional curves to look at here with more variables than what the raw count of joules that the process itself uses.
I don't know but my guess would be anything that isn't core storage - we know they run their own SAN on their own hardware because that was the cause of another outage a month or two ago.

At a guess:

- Bitbucket Pipelines

- Webhook workers

- Front-end web servers

- SSH push/pull workers

Basically anything that's elastic to demand. Presumably the cost of AWS storage makes it not worth it for the Bitbucket team.
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>what you say Facebook did: "Pointing out satire"

>what facebook actualy said: "Repeat offenses will see their distribution reduced and their ability to monetize and advertise removed"

So facebook censors conservatives for the 10,000th time this year, and you poo poo it because its just "pointing out satire". It's pretty undeniable at this point that there is a culture war going on, and you have picked a side.
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It's cause. What you're referring to is the cause of education deprivation. That education deprivation is the cause of the far lower likelihood of reaching higher wealth status.

A chain of things or events can - typically does - possess multiple causes along the pathing. A cause of a cause, is a legitimate, normal and required logical concept. Practically any outcome or condition you can name has a cause, which has a cause.

Alternatively you'd have to claim that there can only be one cause in an entire chain of events. An absurd notion.
There are lots of people who vote against unions that don't care one bit about the "inherent class structure of capitalism".
Let's make the Emacs GC safe and iterative
Engineers are treated like crap at a lot of companies. Not everyone works at a FANG where they are treated like top-tier employees. Most of us are seen as overpriced means to an end.

When companies complain that they "can't find qualified candidates," they really mean people willing to work cheap enough. I've given the okay to my manager on several hires and none of them were actually hired.

Lots of people in our industry deal with hazing and harassment that goes unchecked. And there's no guarantee that the next job will be any better. Personally, my last job was horrible, while several people left due to harassment, those that stayed were the ones that got it the worst and couldn't leave due to being a contractor or an industry specialist.
No dog in the hunt, but the job sounds interesting, while the interview a bit hostile.
Putting under covers inside the bus does little to stop this. If the person keeps things random then it'll be difficult to catch them. Pellet guns can be made damn silent.

It's more than likely a scare tactic to get the person to stop doing it.
> To me, "highlighting the power structure," is a critical technique that frames one party as a moral antagonist

That's unfortunate. Exploitation does not imply a moral failure on the part of the exploiter (just as "sexist" and "racist" aren't moral accusations like misogynist/xenophobe) but is a description of a dynamics where all parties can (and often do) have good intentions. It seems like the moral reading is your own interpretation, and it is you who is taking offense. Note that the desire to fight the dynamics also does not imply an assumption of a moral failure on the part of those you wish to fight. For example, much of civilization is about fighting nature, yet this does not imply that we believe nature has an ill intent towards us.
I really liked Black Swan, but I started following Nassim on Twitter and he is really annoying. He's got this superiority complex, and I'm not sure I want to subsidize his ego by buying this book.
By Artificially I mean wither by law, or more by a group colluding together.
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None of this is in any way related to Wing Commander II, a game that came out in 1991.
Yes? Treating obvious satire as worthy of correction makes you look clueless. The linked Snopes fact-check says that some readers took the idea that CNN literally puts "news" in an industrial washing machine, which I find... difficult to believe.
Fault? That's not the right word.

Regardless, the point is, China's env regs are MUCH more lax. So chances are good Product X made in the USA was made with less pollution than the same product made in China.

Yes, pollution is a shared "resources." But some countries are less concerned than others. China is one of those coutries.
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Exactly. It's a non-free market and whenever reforms are enacted - see ACA - they make it a bit more like itself, which is to say a bit less free. And when that doesn't work what's the fix? - more reform. More like itself. More a bit less free.
The headline says "Bitcoin", the speech which included the anonymity claim said "cryptocurrencies".
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This is how I do it as well these days, testing as much of the final product as possible in the normal test run. It's not that I didn't try unit testing and mocking, or don't understand; my experience tells me that it's not a constructive approach. This means that I always test mostly the same code that other people run, which prevents all sorts of mistakes; and I don't waste precious time writing and maintaining mocks. It will creep up on you, but if you keep mocking everything, sooner or later the effort required to change anything will start hurting the project. It's easy to loose track of the goal; which should be preventing as many production errors as possible as effectively as possible, not checking all the boxes of whatever religion.
Absolutely. Even if there is some research question by which this criterion would be useful, it doesn't lead the underlying conclusions that school shootings in general are a rare event, declining in frequency.

Interestingly, according to [1], the criterion used by the FBI to assess mass shooting used to be "at least 4 persons killed or wounded" - until it got changed to "at least 3 persons" in 2013. So the criterion the study uses is stricter than both the old and the new way of counting the FBI uses.

Note also that, according to [2], even though the rate of mass shooting at schools seems to be decreasing, the rate of mass shootings in general is increasing.

See also [3] for more information about the different definitions and ways of counting.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting

[2] https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-study-200...

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/02/anothe...
Setting aside formal debates among politicians, if you want to talk about why discussion of contentious topics by average Joes and Janes has degenerated into its current state of pointless shouting matches, I feel like it has less to do with Fox News, conspiracy theories, fake news, Russian meddling or whatever else is regularly associated with the alt-right. In the run-up to the election and the months following it, a large faction on the left has abandoned any pretense of discussing ideas and policies or of having civilized debate, preferring instead to become very aggressive with insults, wild accusations of racism, white supremacy, misogyny, etc., in order to demonize their opposition. You see it all the time on this forum and others. It's lazy and harmful, and it's being used as a tool to avoid any self-reflection.
Ahh, memories of playing this after work on our owner’s 386 because it ran so much more buttery smooth than on my 286 EGA computer. Calling the ATI BBS in Canada to download updated drivers after hours so the call was cheaper and hopefully Wing Commander ran or ran better.
Not every link you click. Only sites that you grant access to the necessary attack surface. The Web USB API can't be attacked by sites that you haven't granted access to it.
So many people are so quick to downvote things that don't fit their narrative.

I think the word 'allegedly' should have been in the title, at least, until it's been proven.
It feels like vaporware honestly, but I still hope they'll release Linux version eventually (using Vulkan). I never backed them, so it wouldn't be as upsetting if they won't, as to actual backers.
Previous installments in the series were about shrinking the file size. https://lwn.net/Articles/741494/ https://lwn.net/Articles/744507/ https://lwn.net/Articles/746780/ This one is about shrinking RAM usage.
I absolutely loved it, especially the vast array of maps. To once again defend Minas Tirith from the Nazis...

There is also ET: Legacy, an open source implementation of the game: https://www.etlegacy.com/

But I don't really know if it's any good.

Edit: looking at it I now realise that the game already was released as open source, the ET Legacy project is based on it and fixes bugs and stuff :)
In Poland "gimnazjum" used to be middle school until recently when the 8 year primary school system was restored because of heavy critique.
Slackware came with two 3.5" disks a boot disk and root disk. The root disk contained the root filesystem, he boot disk the kernel. At that time the kernel fit onto a single 3.5", 1.44 MiB floppy disk.
This has nothing to do with the scandalous waste of money this project is. Building a municipal garage shouldn't cost like 3 F-35 fighters.
Notice that Male at the bottom of the cart women are only down 17%. That makes the impact on overall numbers significantly lower. It's also a chart of deaths, what you want to support the idea that treatment is useless is a chart of new cases.

Also, see that huge drop in Prostate and Colorectum cancer. Yea, that has nothing to do with smoking it's almost completely related to better treatment making a huge difference.

And again, we are not looking at equivalent populations. The older the US population the worse cancer numbers look in absolute terms.

So, even the chart you are using to support your argument actually supports mine.

PS: To account for a 25% drop in cancer deaths lung cancers could have hit zero in that cart and it would still not be enough.
That doesn't prove causation. There can be many underlying causes that explain the success of educated people just as well.
For instance, as already mentioned, it might be that kids that are smart or work hard tend to finish a higher education.
It could also be that kids who are born in wealthier families do both get access to better education and get more opportunities afterwards because of their better network.

That last possibility does a much better job at explaining what the Bloomberg article is about: the different chances of success based on the color of your skin. Black students that graduate still have only 6.7% chance of becoming millionaires comparing to 37% for white people.
Has anyone read the paper? What is the effect size? I'm assuming the author means "statistically significant", which is worthless from any decisionmaking perspective (e.g. policy).
As opposed to native desktop apps, which get all the same permissions by default that a web app requires a zero-day sandbox escape vulnerability to achieve?
4 for it! Going to toss https://synapse.ai/ in there as well. :)
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That's a painful way to buy half a kilo of Lego standard blocks though.

Maybe parent poster could buy a couple of kg of Lego from Ebay, then sort and wash it. The wheels, doors, etc can be donated to local charities / goodwill etc.
Except for Chris Roberts and his interest in space games.
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2 words: "At-will employment." I empathize with their situation but sadly there's nothing they can do about this. Kind of naive trying to attempt this in a state like California.
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Cars provide a much more useful function to society.
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Just because it's technically correct doesn't mean it's not a stupid/dangerous thing to do.

For further reading, my favorite tweet of the election: https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/785299709342654465?lang=e...
Yeah. This has been my frustration with the development of social media in general (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

The old conversational style on Usenet/IRC/BBS felt like a group of people talking together. Possibly having parallel conversations with multiple groups of people at a time.

The social media model feels more like having a bunch of individual one-on-one conversations in parallel. It's good for broadcasting a thought or idea, but terrible for actually having a discussion.

There are pros and cons to both, but the latter is a lot more cognitively intensive and makes it really hard to have the kind of conversation/discussion where you learn something new. If you have a controversial opinion it feels like you get dogpiled by 1,000 people all saying the same thing. It's hard to even know where to start and it doesn't feel like people are giving you feedback on your point, it just feels like everyone is trying to attack you. When you're speaking with a group people usually let one or two people make the points and just add on as they feel is needed.

It's a way more manageable conversational flow, and one that's more likely to encourage people to actually talk to each other rather than talking to the caricature of whatever they imagine someone who would say something like that to be. Instead you just get long discussion threads that inevitably devolve into 2 people slinging downvotes and variations on "You're a doodyhead" at each other. In an IRC chat, even if the moderator doesn't shut that down, the rest of the group will tell you to STFU and move on.
It's sort of a weird point which, if it belongs anywhere at all, probably belongs in a different paper. It's a reasonable question to ask whether IRS guidelines that were mostly designed in the context of standard business deductions are really appropriate for driving services where most drivers are buying cars that are optimized for the role.

But it's also pretty much a totally orthogonal point to one about how little Uber drivers make.