WetBeardHairs @ WetBeardHairs @lemmy.ml

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Whoa, that force feedback mechanism sounds really cool! It might not be able to force movement but it would provide resistance to movement. I could imagine it as if your player character is walking into a wall and the joystick wont let you push forward.

Or likely threatened with legal action.

I've tried to do that a few times but it's a royal pain in the ass. If you don't mind, which banks/credit cards make that easy?

Those HSA accounts are thinly veiled state legalized theft for political cronies. At least they are in my state.

Money goes in. Administrator determines if money goes out. Money (by law) does not roll-over from one year to the next and the administrator keeps the balance.

Just don't use them.

Anecdote: A coworker of mine secretly had cancer. He was putting tens of thousands of dollars each year into his HSA. They denied him use for his chemo or whatever and it rolled his funds into the wood chipper. Tens of thousands of dollars.

New York isn't like other places - it is quite literally out of available land to build residential structures. NIMBYism may have an affect, but the overwhelming restriction in preventing new construction is that you'd have to raze structures to do so.

Yeah, the GOP in Texas is absolutely going to use this as an example of how righteous and lawful they are - completely ignoring the fact that they campaigned with him and donated to him after he had been indicted for a felony.

May day! May day! We've got socialism over here!

Sorry, I couldn't hear your pleas from my speedboat. Oh, you were busy working because I set your schedule to work on Labor day? Obviously we're of two different classes of people. /s

I don't see anyone mentioning it, but TVs differ from Monitors in one major way: the pixel representation on the TV is downsampled. This affects the rendering of text on the screen, but it is usually just the red channels that do this, so the human eye doesn't pick up on it terribly well in most cases.

Personally, I can tell with Windows font rendering on a TV. Windows already uses that weird blue-red shift thingy to anti-alias the fonts and I don't like that either.

All that said... does it matter? No, not at a distance and with the font size jacked up to 200%.

The carbon expended in producing the fuel is a good example.

Yeah, I dislike the simplification that brings it down to just two sets of brackets. It really just needs to be an easily tuneable continuous function of profits and time. If you make a fuckton of profit, you'll pay a fuckton of tax. If you wait longer, you pay less tax. If the profit is small enough, guess what? No tax. So the middle class day traders wont lose their ass and they can have some fun. But the whales are going to have to fear Captain Tax Man Ahab, regardless of if they wait 6 months or not.

But I dont make the laws. Wallstreet does.

Ever try a TinyMight? I've got one and love it - but I'm curious how it holds up to a collection like yours.

There is. Capital gains taxes are broken into two categories - short term and long term. But stocks transition to long term after only six months and the tax brackets are better than that for normal income.

OK now do foreign ownership of real estate. I'm getting close.

Because math and science are large interconnected fields that you simply cannot learn from a textbook study. You must speak with other people about many different topics so you can broaden your understanding of where your education fits in the world around you.

Have you ever studied a particular subject and wondered "OK... I can solve that problem now. Why did I learn it?" Textbooks are notoriously bad at explaining the why.

Lmao. Nope. I've done both. Online classes are a fucking joke. Maybe some schools do it well, but most treat online classes like a correspondence course.

Using Stripe or equivalent must be used for such a platform. The sellers would just get a check or bank transfer, they'd never need to handle a credit transaction.

I would like to see enforcement and expansion of profiteering guillotines.

Grant money from researchers is a drop in the bucket. That money mostly goes to flesh out laboratories with fancy equipment and pay for research assistants.

It's the facilities costs that have truly exploded in the past couple of decades. Every university is in an arms race to build the biggest, most advanced campus possible. They've forgotten that their goal is to be a place of study and instead they're trying to have world-class architecture so they can woo students. Students would go there so long as the damn programs are well run and they have a good reputation.

Just stop the gigantic capital projects and suddenly you've got plenty of capital. Hmm.