radix

joined 2 years ago
[–] radix 36 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

The "unexpected" mixing of upper and lower case looks more like a shit explanation of wanting all the letters to be curvy, but the same size.

[–] radix 41 points 2 days ago

Bob Barker only died a year ago. I thought for a long time he had gone in, like, 2010 or so.

[–] radix 4 points 3 days ago

Born and raised in WW and I thought I had heard them all...

[–] radix 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That graph plots gross pay (x-axis) against take-home cash (y-axis). The far left of the graph (in green) shows people making under 20k taking home more than their "earned" pay. At the extreme bottom is somebody making 1,000/year taking home 10,000. The progressive income tax starts at 20,000.

Not labeling the axises does make it hard to read.

[–] radix 17 points 3 days ago

The US doesn't technically have a negative tax, but the EITC accomplishes the same basic thing. Whether it's efficient enough, or needs expansion is another story.

[–] radix 76 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

tldr; the town of 2,000 residents had six officers, who all quit when their gravy train got cut off. The state police then chased the guy head-on into a semi truck "for his own protection."

[–] radix 40 points 5 days ago

Full Self Publishing is only two years away, just like it has been for eight years.

[–] radix 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Answers here:

https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-great-bluesky-migration-i-answer-some-of-your-questions/

Specifically starting with this section:

Bluesky is fun, but won't it inevitably be ruined by horrible billionaires like the other social media websites I've used over the last 15 years?

[–] radix 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's me, ur colleague.

[–] radix 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Reddit content is posted by bots and/or upvoted by related bot farms. No human general morality is involved in what gets popular.

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Just because a 3060ti is technically capable of ray tracing doesn't mean I want you to keep turning it on every time the driver gets an update.

 

More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade, outpacing population growth eightfold.

 

"Don't make a wrong move," the officer said as he pinned the struggling subject to the ground. "Period."

The officer tightened the handcuffs around the subject's thin wrists.

"Ow, ow, ow, it really hurts," the subject exclaimed.

The officer pressed his weight into the subject's small body while school staff watched it all unfold. The person he was restraining was 7 years old.

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