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CheezeIt··on Tesla Ordered to Pay Worker $137M for Racism at Plant
At least among those that can land a jury in San Francisco.
CheezeIt··on Open Source Tax Software
No it can’t.
CheezeIt··on Open Source Tax Software
Obviously not, that’s why I specified tax software.
CheezeIt··on Open Source Tax Software
What’s your point?
CheezeIt··on Open Source Tax Software
No way would I ever trust open source tax software not to mess things up somehow. The paid software has a big incentive to get it right.
CheezeIt··on Tanaka Hisashige, builder of the Myriad Year Clock (2016)
He does have an account here.
CheezeIt··on Tanaka Hisashige, builder of the Myriad Year Clock (2016)
swordsmiths. It looks like that typo was fixed.
CheezeIt··on So, this whole “Collatz Conjecture” thing
It’s not even a statistical argument. This doesn’t even make it to the part where there’s a fake proof. It’s just… a bunch of stuff.
CheezeIt··on Why does Craigslist censor rental postings containing gender keywords
What I mean is, the Craigslist section for rooms/shared might allow the word “male” while it’s prohibited in other rental categories. But maybe it’s harsher if the user makes multiple postings, if something like that distinguishes landlords from renters.
CheezeIt··on Why does Craigslist censor rental postings containing gender keywords
Are you doing rooms/shared or apartments? They might have a different filter.
CheezeIt··on FOIA requests show Apple’s emails pitching state agencies on IDs and Wallet app
Making it easier to require people to carry papers is not beneficial.
CheezeIt··on Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or defend democracy (2018)
Tipper Gore and FDR weren’t liberal?
CheezeIt··on What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos
The Soviets were going to do it in a few years anyway. Maybe it would not be as quickly as they got it done. Japan even had a wisp of a program. Everybody knew that an atom bomb program was a thing to do.

At the barest minimum, we would still develop nuclear reactors, and then plutonium would get discovered, and it’s easy to manufacture and purify (compared to U-235), and the bomb is just a matter of time.

CheezeIt··on Child-care workers quitting, a red flag for the economy
Tell it to get a job or go to college.
CheezeIt··on Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong, according to leaked memo
And you’re complaining about what? That the productive 10% are doing useful stuff for each other, making their lives better?
CheezeIt··on Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong, according to leaked memo
They make the world a better place by providing products and services for their customers.
CheezeIt··on How Indian lawyers, scientists gave Sci-Hub its first legal defense team
That’s because there’s case law.
CheezeIt··on U.S. Debt ceiling can be sidestepped by minting a $1T platinum coin
It wouldn’t work if the Democrats didn’t want to spend an infinite amount of money.
CheezeIt··on Watch photos on the Rolex site show the exact current time
The parent is talking about how the market price is above MSRP right now.
CheezeIt··on Watch photos on the Rolex site show the exact current time
The one with the time and running chronograph has drop shadows on the subdial hands and some reflections of the chrono seconds register off the dial, but no reflection of the chrono seconds off the hour and minute hands.
CheezeIt··on Ask HN: What is your strongest argument AGAINST Bitcoin?
It’s a single ledger of transaction history that is public instead of private.
CheezeIt··on The Crime of Curiosity
> Why are people so surprised and or angered by this?

People have self respect and don’t like being bossed around by nitwits and parasites in mega corporations.

CheezeIt··on $1T flowed into stocks in 2021, greater than last 20 years combined
Who’s on the other end of that options trade?
CheezeIt··on Salesforce Will Help Relocate Employees from Texas After Abortion Law
When you’re confused, that means there is something wrong with your model of reality.
CheezeIt··on USA: All government employees will be vaccinated against Covid-19
Those requirements are for seriously lethal or damaging diseases that weren’t going away. COVID-19 has reached its last major peak in late August.
CheezeIt··on A $10k poker win changed how I think
The culture may have changed, but the way I meant was first, with small IPOs is that the founders may expect exponential growth post-IPO, and that gets cut short, and second, it’s much easier to hostile takeover small companies. Whether it’s Amazon or Dunkin Donuts. Instead the company’s older, founders are more tired, the payout’s higher, and (I assume) being more expensive, they’re less common.

I would guess companies now keep voting power among insiders after IPO with special share classes instead of incorporating in odd states, if they’re inclined to avoid a takeover.

When it comes to the modern day version of this sort of drama, the first thing that comes to mind is pre-exit startup founders losing control. That’s still a thing.

CheezeIt··on A $10k poker win changed how I think
One factor here may be that due to Sarbanes-Oxley companies aren’t IPOing at small market caps anymore.
CheezeIt··on IRS Poses as Bitcoin Trader ‘Mr Coins’ in $180k Sting
This is multiply wrong. First, it’s not “worth it” to bring in $100 at a cost of $99. The government is already inefficiently burning wealth when it brings in money at $0 overhead, and now you’re multiplying that by 100. If bringing money into the government were intrinsically good, you could just raise taxes.

Second, this has to be balanced with the taxpayer’s costs of being audited.

What is good and the purpose of tax enforcement is that the system runs as the law defines it and is “fair” in the sense that everybody has to obey the law, without exception.

CheezeIt··on Nevada cops use civil forfeiture to steal a veterans life savings
I don’t know about probable cause for a search, but legally speaking, clamming up to a specific question, as opposed to explicitly invoking the 5th amendment right, currently means something in trial, as ruled in Salinas v. Texas.

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2012/12-246

I don’t see how telling the officer you have $87k is probable cause for a search, anyway.

CheezeIt··on IRS Poses as Bitcoin Trader ‘Mr Coins’ in $180k Sting
It’s not about turning a profit.
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