Pyxl101

What's the point in writing something while "not caring" if the reader understands or not? Seems like a false confidence or false bravado to me; it reads like an attempt to project an impression, and not really an attempt to communicate.

Well, that's pretty much how China behaves with respect to foreign companies operating in China. They all need to be joint partnerships with owners in China.

Just curious, how does your company host its email? Documents? Files?

More … peak voltage or something like that?

Yes, but a person can still choose which job to work in order to optimize their happiness, trading off compensation with the work's enjoyment. A person can also invest in themselves and develop new skills to unlock additional types of jobs, etc.

Why should there be a corporate tax rate at all though? Why not just tax income and leave it at that?

All of the money that corporations earn (and would be taxed on this way) will always be taxed as income before it's distributed to an individual, after all, no? Corporate tax never fully made sense to me.

Yes, it can. It provides a feeling of excitement or enthusiasm for whatever you're doing, and can be channeled into working hard for long periods of time. Especially if your job already brings you some satisfaction, then doing your job on amphetamine will provide more. Pilots in the airforce (and possibly other warfighters) are given amphetamine to augment their performance.

I think of it as basically stealing energy or enthusiasm from the future, though. You might feel energized and focused now, but it comes at the expense of less energy and focus when the drug wears off. The withdrawal effect is pretty mild if you take prescription doses of it though, e.g. Adderall (which is amphetamine). At normal moderate doses, taken in the morning, almost all of that energy can be recouped during sleep (though not all). I wouldn't want to take it daily for a long period of time though, otherwise you'll build up an 'energy deficit' that could lead to a crash.

P.S. I know people who have essentially destroyed their lives by becoming addicted to amphetamine or meth. It's a dangerous drug.

> Working with base-10 numbers is so much easier than trying to think in base-60, base-12, and base-24.

In some ways, sure. If you're doing precise mathematical things. Otherwise, if you're doing simple mental math, base-12, -24, and -60 have some advantages.

60 can be evenly divided into 1/2 (halves) or 30 min, 1/3 (thirds) or 20 min, /4 or 15 min, /5 or 12 min, /6 or 10 min, and by 12, 15, 20, 30, and 60.

24 can be divided by 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, and so on for 12. I always assumed this was the reason for the "imperial" unit measures and for time and length. Dividing things into thirds is a common use-case and it's nice to be able to do that evenly.

Agreed. More clarity would help.

Maybe he wanted to start drawing a salary in order to resume working on Processing again, and the board said no. (That isn’t my first guess about what’s happening, based on the highly polarizing content on the foundation’s website but the thought did cross my mind.)

The part about turning off donations via Ethereum due to concerns about “environmental impact” was pretty good too.

(I mean, if a donor doesn’t have Ethereum, then they are probably not going to buy Ethereum in order to donate. If they only have Ethereum, then they need to transact it anyway to get a currency that the foundation will accept… And that’s taking it for granted that Ethereum has some problematic environmental impact, and that the impact is important enough to warrant losing donations for.)

The funding doc reads like an organization that has lost its way and is pursuing various vague social causes (“decolonizing wealth”), or social justice wars, rather than its original mission.

How do two-wheeled segway devices handle this? If you continue to lean forward and try to exceed their maximum speed, they will somehow tilt you backward and slow down anyway.

(Presumably, enough force on the front edge could cause them to over-tilt, but riding normally, it will forcefully tilt you back and slow down.)

If they had taken credit cards, and made fraudulent transactions, maybe they could have made a few purchases in retail stores, but as soon as you detected that fraud you’d call the bank and issue a chargeback - a hassle but you’re not out any money.

Also, banks are smart. If a single CC is being simultaneously used in multiple physical locations, that’s an immediate red flag for fraud. My bank also asks for OTPs when I make online payments at novel/obscure websites.

A scammer who got my full CC number couldn’t make a fake physical card since it’s chip-and-pin; or at least not use it at any mainstream retailer which would require a chip transaction. So they’d be limited to online ones. I suspect the bank might even be passed the IP or other fingerprint details when authenticating the transaction, resulting in OTP requirements when risk is detected (online transaction from foreign country when I live in my country).

As long as you have a couple of CCs (so you can still pay for stuff if one gets deactivated due to fraud), CC fraud will typically be detected by the bank and refunded, along with new card issuance.

My main CC company will also text me randomly asking if any of the last three charges was unauthorized, with their details. Sometimes the card is paused until I respond. This most typically happens when I’m traveling. If I text back that they’re all legitimate then the card works again immediately; if one is fraudulent then they get me on the phone to confirm the details and issue a new card.

The CC companies seem to be pretty good about not having false alarms when you travel any more (though if you’re traveling internationally, giving them a heads up helps avoid issues) - I believe it’s simultaneous use from multiple geos that trips fraud alarms.