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Things you're allowed to do (2020)

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Re: Things you're allowed to do (2020)

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Post by OJFord »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #105
rambambram wrote: post #90

Sometimes people get confused by the law and think: "I have to ask permission", or "does the law allow me to do this?" You are allowed to do anything, until the law forbids it or stuff is regulated in a certain way. Looking at it from this point of view, the world immediately opens up for you.

Or alternatively: it's only a crime if you get caught. A really big and normalized one is tax evasion in the form of paying for items or services in cash without administration. Most if not all people you can hire for jobs around the house - gardeners, cleaners, handimen, plumbers, construction, painting, etc - will take cash instead of going on record. The challenge there is that this takes trust, because you take a…

> The challenge there is that this takes trust, because you take a risk as well / there are no assurances if they do half a job. Make sure you get an address so you can torch their house or business if they mess you about.

In what country is your recourse against a business determined by whether or not the business is paying its due tax?

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Post by yard2010 »

shmde wrote: post #117
makapuf wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely travel, just be responsible of your Carbon impact please.

I have a connection on LinkedIn who works in a leadership position in Microsoft who had recently written a post about why she doesn't send "thank you" email because she wants to save the world by reducing their carbon footprint by reducing the number of emails sent. I am a liberal at heart but I really wanted to comment "Shut up, please shut up, I am begging you to shut up." I want to say the same to you.

I have a couple friends that merged their facebook accounts so they don't take space on facebook

Re: Things you're allowed to do (2020)

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Post by OJFord »

wombatpm wrote: post #60
dudul wrote: post #10

I'm probably a weirdo, but the "write in books" is a massive no no for me. I can't imagine writing in a book (unless it's a total turd, but I assume we're talking about good, insightful books). I do take notes, but always on separate sheets that I keep in the book. Just no way I'll write on the book itself.

I never bought used textbooks in college because they always seemed to come from some sociopath with a highlighter fetish.

I haven't encountered it much (through also largely buying new) but a few times I've had that and been confused by the seeming arbitrariness of what's highlighted. As in it didn't seem important, insightful, or the hardest/least intuitive thing on the page, just nothing. Trolled by previous owner perhaps.

Re: Things you're allowed to do (2020)

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Post by zero-sharp »

rambambram wrote: post #90

Sometimes people get confused by the law and think: "I have to ask permission", or "does the law allow me to do this?" You are allowed to do anything, until the law forbids it or stuff is regulated in a certain way. Looking at it from this point of view, the world immediately opens up for you.

I'm sure there are innocuous ways of implementing this advice, but I think it also leads to a lot of degeneracy. I understand many people prioritize success and that this is probably a common part of business. But that doesn't make the principle "it's ok unless there's a formal reason saying it's not ok" any less awful.

Re: Things you're allowed to do (2020)

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Post by yakshaving_jgt »

rcxdude wrote: post #149
yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about “grad students” implies “foreigner”?

It implies "population most likely to include foreigners on restrictive visas"

I can’t imagine how you arrived at that conclusion, but perhaps there’s something I’m missing.

Re: Things you're allowed to do (2020)

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itissid wrote: post #54

Read the article by atul gawande linke in thee. As a programmer i do wonder what has caused my performance in terms of learning longer, massive subjects to peak. I think as a kid I used to just storm and power through learning things, even though my technique was still flawed. I just applied shear will power to get through hard subjects I had no fucking clue about. I picked and learnt pre modern C++ to build NNets as…

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Re: Things you're allowed to do (2020)

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Post by mi_lk »

BOOSTERHIDROGEN wrote: post #102
itissid wrote: post #54

Read the article by atul gawande linke in thee. As a programmer i do wonder what has caused my performance in terms of learning longer, massive subjects to peak. I think as a kid I used to just storm and power through learning things, even though my technique was still flawed. I just applied shear will power to get through hard subjects I had no fucking clue about. I picked and learnt pre modern C++ to build NNets as…

Which articles?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/03/personal-best
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