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There is no need for exact numbers. I'm mostly interested in your tax bracket and effective federal and state rates. It sounds like you had a good year with a one-time payment that…

> ...52% tax which is still damn egregious given that I had better roads and most public services in Florida (0% income tax) Hmm, I live in Southern Florida. Full time. It has the …

Oh boy. Tax brackets are incremental. Most people in the 40% bracket will not pay anywhere near 40%. There is a theoretical possibility that someone, who's income exceeds the highe…

> Well positioned to take over VR if it becomes a thing. This is an incredibly generous way to admit that Meta failed their pivot to VR and they will probably never recoup the tens…

Sixty percent is high. So high, that it almost seems impossible. Can you provide some details? What's the breakdown?

> Taxes on corporations, like tariffs, are just passed onto consumers Never heard this argument before - it sounds very implausible. Do you have any studies or source for that clai…

I'm all for the TikTok ban but listening to your last argument a reasonable opponent might notice that: 1. You assume others play dirty by default, even though we never caught them…

> Proponents of small functions argue that you don't have to read more than the signature and name of a function to understand what it does; Although this is often the case, the st…

> Companies are afraid of being left behind in the new arms race... Sometimes it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.

Do you mind me asking, what does the last calculation do: pi=(pi * 100 | 0 ) / 100; EDIT: Ah, nvm. It's truncating the result to 2 decimal places.

The prevailing opinion is that the death penalty was handed down to provide leverage and incentivize restitution.

Are you saying that there will be a large number of Starships on duty for immediate launch to deploy kill vehicles over an arbitrary area in space over and around the US? I'm no ex…

When we moved to the US with two babies last year it was very important for us to buy non-toxic furniture. We ended up buying a sofa and chairs from Medley. Their products are made…

I think it's even more precious that the boy has learned how to learn and has developed a taste for achievement based on a dopamine loop that doesn't employ sugar or special effect…

One can probably say that there exists a level of abstraction where there’s not really a difference between a database and a file system. That's not a lot :-)

Snow?

For much of history (i.e. millennia) the north and the south of Vietnam have experienced different degrees of voluntary and involuntary separation. For hundreds and hundreds of yea…

> Sorry your genetic ancestral memory of the Balkans doesn’t stack up to... Ah, we have a serial West-splainer. I emigrated when I was 24 and I speak for pretty much everybody I've…

It sounds like you are from the West. Thank you for explaining the psychology of my people so clearly to me. I think I understand it better now but it looks like I can use some boo…