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locuester,

Same. Downloading from popular WWIV BBS’s via Zmodem

locuester, (edited )

And since electric leaf blowers often have a much higher pitch, that pitch attenuates at a much greater rate

As the article states, it’s this sound that they got rid of. A 94% drop in the high pitched shrill of the electric leaf blower.

Read. The. Article.

It’s a 2 minute read ffs.

locuester,

So you’re not here to read articles ever? You’re just here to get corrected in comments?

locuester, (edited )

I said 90%

No you didn’t.

EDIT: yeah they did

locuester,

Doh - yeah, they absolutely did. Edited.

iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air (9to5mac.com)

On raw performance might, the M4 really does live up to Apple’s promises, should deliver. Single core is up about 20% compared to all M3 chips and more than 40% compared to M2. The generational computational leap from the previous M2 iPad Pro is at least a 42% jump on single-core and multi-core.

locuester,

Yeah will be interesting, because an Air is what I use for that. I need the keyboard….

I have a powerful PC laptop, then a MacBook Air for days at conferences, airplane, etc.

iPad seems useless for me at least. I have a phone.

locuester,

Hah, yeah a decade ago when I had one, sheet music became its primary use case.

locuester,

All I hear is “I don’t understand git remotes and what radicle does”

locuester,

radicle.xyz

The Radicle protocol leverages cryptographic identities for code and social artifacts, utilizes Git for efficient data transfer between peers, and employs a custom gossip protocol for exchanging repository metadata.

So it has a gossip protocol to spread the repo, and a common format for artifacts (issues, PRs, etc) to act more like GitHub.

I don’t know too much more because I just started looking into it a month or two ago and haven’t done a deep dive. But it’s a layer on top of git to spread repositories peer to peer instead of manually having people add remotes.

locuester,

Thanks for politely asking for more info. I find myself a bit brash sometimes as I live on crypto twitter as my day job. So sorry if the initial message was harsh; I deal with a lot of shit posters.

locuester,

Homelessness jumps 16%

How is that misleading?

locuester,

I have a long history in the financial industry so maybe it’s just experience around terms like that. But saying something jumped X% is pretty normal, even if it’s a percent that jumped (so a percent of a percent).

Jumped to X% is entirely different.

For instance, consider “the percentage of people that owned homes dropped 50%” aka “home ownership dropped 50%”

locuester,

That makes zero sense.

Cali sales tax is 7.25, Texas is 6.25

Poor people likely don’t own property, but yeah it’s about double in Texas.

Income tax in Cali ramps from 1% up slowly to 9% at just 68k/yr. But even lowest income pays 1%. Texas is 0%.

The argument has no merit. None. California appears to have objectively higher tax on most people, and certainly on all those who don’t own property.

What am I missing?

locuester,

They aren’t. There is sales tax too, which is higher in Cali. And property taxes seem moot if we’re talking about poor people, no?

locuester, (edited )

This isn’t comparing taxes. It’s comparing what section of the population shares more of the total burden.

This isn’t saying the people in Texas pay more, just that the distribution is different across income groups. Which makes sense because there is no income tax. Overall, the vast majority (and all non-landowners) in Texas is paying less than they would in Cali.

It’s a misleading graph, possibly on purpose to make people think what you did.

Edit: brain fart. further discussion below.

locuester,

I agree with all this. Not sure it’s relevant.

CA charges almost no tax on its poorest, and the poorest make $0 , so they see no benefit. Same in TX.

locuester,

Ugh I’m sorry. I started trying to make sense of it and then somehow confused myself into thinking it was a % share of total - as if each side added to 100%. Nevermind, I was wrong.

Anyhow, back to the chart - it simply makes no sense in that case. I would need to take a look at the underlying to tell me how the bottom 20% pay 13% of income to taxes in a state with 0% income and 6.25% sales tax. Only thing left is property tax (according to chart it’s those 3).

Yes I realize small local sales taxes may apply, but is a max of 2%.

How much property does this bottom 20% own?!

locuester,

Ok? But that income tax is huge…

I hadn’t considered the fact that some people make money under the table and/or illegally. And this pay not income tax in either state, but a ton of sales tax.

I highly doubt a large amount of that in a 2% local sales tax county is what causes this. If so, that’s crazy.

locuester,

Ok, then we are getting into estimated tax derivatives. Yeah I can’t just make guesses there.

That’s not direct tax.

But I agree there could be something there. It would be minimal I’d assume but I truly don’t know.

locuester,

Not being willingly obtuse, this is a good faith discussion. It feels very obtuse on the other end tbh, and I’m genuinely trying to have an intelligent discussion.

“Other taxes and bullshit” I agree 100% that I’m not taking into account. Thats where I’m looking for some sources of specific info. Not just unsourced opinions.

locuester,

Yeah, starts at 1%, hits 9% by 68k income. I’m not misunderstanding that. Not seeing how 1% < 0%.

locuester,

I did not see the link for some reason, just the quote. Once again, I’m not being willingly obtuse. Thank you for the link and I will read it.

It’s not helpful to the discussion to repeatedly tell people how they feel, unless you just want to dismiss the conversation. And in such a case, no reply at all would be a better option imo.

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