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New comment by jackmaney in "Don't Lower Corporate Taxes, Abolish Them"

jackmaney — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:04:58 +0000

Don't bother sending me more spam. I've already filtered any emails from hn@ycombinator.com to be deleted upon receipt.

If you're going to ban me, just ban me.

New comment by jackmaney in "Don't Lower Corporate Taxes, Abolish Them"

jackmaney — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 18:10:42 +0000

Either corporations are people--and will therefore be taxed as such--or they're not--and thus have no rights.

Which is it?

New comment by jackmaney in "Sweden proposes ban on ride-sharing services that make profits"

jackmaney — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 21:51:32 +0000

Five months is not "now [sic] time".

New comment by jackmaney in "Sweden proposes ban on ride-sharing services that make profits"

jackmaney — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:24:03 +0000

Oh, and another thing:

> The only thing I would really need medical insurance for is a rare emergency procedure like an appendectomy.

If you need an appendectomy, then you do not have time to fiddle around and comparison shop for medical insurance. If an appendix needs to come out, then it needs to come out ASAP (otherwise, the appendix could burst, causing sepsis). And there's no insurance provider on the planet that will take on a new customer and cover a procedure done before the customer's policy goes into effect.

Let me guess: you also think car insurance is a sham, and that you shouldn't be required to have it. And if, heaven forfend, you get into a car accident, you can just call up State Farm (or whoever) and get them to retroactively approve a claim for the accident. Am I right?

Sorry, my eyes can only roll so much...

New comment by jackmaney in "Sweden proposes ban on ride-sharing services that make profits"

jackmaney — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:12:56 +0000

> Re: roads, I agree that not all roads are toll roads. The good news is that roads are relatively inexpensive to build and maintain (for example, the federal transportation budget is only 2.3% of total yearly spending, 28 billion dollars).

Wow, so you have an extra half-billion or so just sitting around? ($28 billion x 0.023 = $460 million) How fortunate for you!

Beggin' your pardon, M'Lord, but the peasantry doesn't consist of multi-millionaires. And they need to use roads to live their lives in a modern, industrialized society.

So, no, you can keep your libertarian dystopia where everyone has to build their own roads, hire their own police forces, etc. Go build your own civilization, away from ours.

New comment by jackmaney in "Sweden proposes ban on ride-sharing services that make profits"

jackmaney — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:14:13 +0000

And exactly how many people do you think have $1,500 laying around? (Hint: not many)

New comment by jackmaney in "Sweden proposes ban on ride-sharing services that make profits"

jackmaney — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:00:35 +0000

You must be fortunate not to have any preexisting conditions or to not need any medical procedures that, without insurance, can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars.

New comment by jackmaney in "Amazon Athena: Query S3 Using SQL"

jackmaney — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:54:42 +0000

> Q: What data formats does Amazon Athena support?

> Amazon Athena supports a wide variety of data formats like CSV, TSV, JSON, or Textfiles and also supports open source columnar formats such as Apache ORC and Apache Parquet. Athena also supports compressed data in Snappy, Zlib, and GZIP formats. By compressing, partitioning, and using columnar formats you can improve performance and reduce your costs.

https://aws.amazon.com/athena/faqs/

New comment by jackmaney in "Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads"

jackmaney — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 01:27:05 +0000

Not only do I not see a problem with this, but I don't think Twitter went anywhere near far enough. They should have suspended Trump's account well over a year ago.

New comment by jackmaney in "A One-Line Proof of the Infinitude of Primes"

jackmaney — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 19:54:11 +0000

> Almost all of the informational input to a Dedekind cut for a randomly chosen real couldn't be written, remembered, or specified in any way by a human being.

Well, yes. The reals are uncountable.

New comment by jackmaney in "A One-Line Proof of the Infinitude of Primes"

jackmaney — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:52:01 +0000

Uhhhh...no. Take a look at Dedekind cuts.

New comment by jackmaney in "A One-Line Proof of the Infinitude of Primes"

jackmaney — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:03:46 +0000

How does the periodicity of the sine function depend upon the infinitude of primes?

New comment by jackmaney in "The Real Lesson in Grubhub CEO Telling Trump Supporters to Resign"

jackmaney — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:00:07 +0000

How am I supposed to show inclusiveness to someone that wants to trample on my civil rights and endanger the lives of my family?

New comment by jackmaney in "Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S."

jackmaney — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 17:10:09 +0000

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=trump+keep+out+muslims

New comment by jackmaney in "Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S."

jackmaney — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 16:58:49 +0000

Your President-Elect disagrees with you, and has called for the deportation of all Muslims--full stop.

New comment by jackmaney in "Tech firms shell out to hire and hoard talent"

jackmaney — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 20:48:39 +0000

That's a fair point. I wasn't thinking of contractors when I wrote my reply above. Hmmm, in that case, are there protections other than an NDA that are employed to minimize the risk of exposure of company data to a contractor's personal systems?

New comment by jackmaney in "Tech firms shell out to hire and hoard talent"

jackmaney — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 20:46:22 +0000

They take a cut from your employer. The employer pays the recruiter above and beyond what they are paying you.

New comment by jackmaney in "Tech firms shell out to hire and hoard talent"

jackmaney — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:36:21 +0000

No, they still took the cut directly from your pay. Sorry, but you were scammed.

New comment by jackmaney in "Tech firms shell out to hire and hoard talent"

jackmaney — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:47:59 +0000

Reputable recruiters charge employers, not candidates. Any so-called "recruiter" who takes their cut directly out of your salary (as opposed to charging the employer a percentage of a candidate's salary in a lump sum payment) is a con artist. Period.

New comment by jackmaney in "Tech firms shell out to hire and hoard talent"

jackmaney — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:45:33 +0000

Who the hell works for a company (remotely or not) and uses their own equipment? I'm not a lawyer, of course, but a developer exposing their personal system to company data could be a significant liability risk to the company.

In particular, my last employer gave everyone the option to use an app[1] for easy access to email on their personal phones. I refused to install it, since it gave my (then) employer the ability to remotely wipe my phone at the press of a button.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.good.andro...