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I'm reading the IRS website and it says: https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc409 > When you sell a capital asset, the difference between the adjusted basis in the asset and t…

It's not inherently fraudulent to sell something for below market value. If I sell something I bought for $1 million for $1 in an arm's length transaction, I'm realizing a loss of $999,…

Isn't this how dynamic linking works? If you really want to reduce build times, you should be making your hot path in the build a shared library, so you don't have to relink so long as you&#…

I would take synchronized posts with a grain of salt. There are many groups that try to influence reddit politically. One significant strategy involves acquiring control over hobby subreddits to creat…

If you want to extend the analogy, Gus Fring's threat model for RFP contractors at the superlab required flying people into the United States and driving them for days before reaching the final d…

presumably it's because the stressors of poverty forces one to think in the short-term, while Chess incentivizes long-term strategy. If you learn not to take a pawn because 5 moves later you'…

I suppose the tricky thing is knowing when to listen to others and when you know more than everyone else.

The App Store didn't exist for the first iPhone. It launched with the iPhone 3G. The original plan was for everyone to develop web apps; the SDK was added due to external developer demand. https…

Well, yeah. Nix is attempting to be better than containerization. Saying "improvements aren't necessary because we already have 'good-enough' technology" is a meaningful argum…

There's no other nationality in the world where commenting in the subreddit devoted to that country results in being automatically banned from other subreddits.

> The average user... stopped getting automatically banned for joining the wrong subreddits. Still happens, you're just not allowed to talk about it. /r/bannedforbeingjewish (which c…

Ruthlessness is for your competitors, not your employees. Locking people into low-wage jobs doesn't benefit the company, because as soon as you get a competitor, you're screwed! If we'…

For a lot of toxic people, the business views them as "high performers" and their harassment of others as a personal flaw. "Separate the art from the artist". Sometimes, being a go…

Here's a recreation of the Euthanasia Coaster in Planet Coaster if you want a first-person experience on YouTube. https://youtu.be/w_11Ut6unBQ …

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeadlyGame This dates back to at least Ancient Rome, where slaves would fight each other in the Colosseum for the amusement …

I really believe every software engineer should set aside some time and just watch a normal person interact with technology. Don't interrupt, just watch their process. It's mind-boggling how…

Yes, I saw that linked in the top comment. What isn't clear is how this site actually violated that policy, if there was no course slot trading actually occurring. You could describe it as an …

If you look at the GitHub commit history, the repo was created before the blog post from UW, and also never contained actual courses. This is important, because it's the only explicit reference…

You're thinking of the Domesday Book. It is admittedly the same word written in Middle English, but I think context+spelling is enough to distinguish it.

If you're legitimately interested (some are more nsfw than others): https://www.chub.ai/search My favourite one is the duck. https://www.chub.ai/characters/P…

I would say the current lack of editors is a technical issue and not a social one. Most search engines and large-language models discourage readers from going to Wikipedia by hiding the source of the…

Copyright itself is arguably theft sponsored by the state, because information can naturally be freely used/shared by all of humanity. Creating property rights in information reduces the collecti…

It's tricky, as a lot of what makes Wikipedia good is an accumulation of policies and practices that force you to use its features. You can't just install MediaWiki or Confluence and expect …

That sounds like what is happening in the OP. Someone is now directly harming Nintendo's interests by sending fake DMCAs.

It doesn't look like the XML data is freely accessible. If I could get access to this data as a random student on the internet, I'd love to create an open source tool that generates an inter…

I go to university next to a safe injection site. It's very clear what addiction leads to.

As the original commenter said, it is cheaper to pay for childcare than it is to pay money to an employee, have that salary be taxed, and then have that employee pay for childcare with the after-tax s…