Long term capital gains are taxed at half the rate of income. So yes, share based compensation is a way to reduce taxes. There is also a line of thinking that having the leadership's compensation tied to the stock's performance helps align the interests of shareholders and management.

The foundational principle of Israel is the expulsion of Palestinians from Palestine since they are the chosen people and the land belongs to them.

Of which there are thousands in arbitrary detention waiting to be tried in sham military courts.

In math and (theoretical) physics alphabetical is the presumed norm.

So the solution to forced rebooting is to have to suffer through the ridiculous boot times for windows every day?

You're right to leave. One should always reconsider any relationship with someone who requires your adherence to their religion

Part of the success of authoritarian religions is that use the risk of ostracization as a tool of control. It isn't easy to abandon your community, even one that treats you badly. Feeling alone in the world with no support is frightening enough to keep people in line

Or those Dairy lobby ones that talk about how much work they are doing to save the environment. What a crock

In one of my old jobs we had a couple thousand line shell script called something like prod_corrections_adhoc.ksh. It was used to jam through emergency fixes between code releases.

It still has 'adhoc corrections' from 2006

Is there any material difference between Edge and Chrome? I'm forced to use either of them for work and as far as I can tell they perform the same

Personally I prefer the flavour of plant-based alternatives over dairy milk. So I don't see myself having any interest in buying it.

However, if they can engineer milk proteins for cheese production than I am very excited. Casein proteins are biochemical miracles and no plant-based cheeses are able to mimic the protein matrix in cheese properly. Instead they end up relying on starches to set, which isn't the same at all.

Why are we starting new coal mines anywhere?

Generally agree, but damaging gas facilities can have undesirable consequences. An extreme methane leak is worse than combusting that gas

Prejudices against the LGBT community are already present in so many people that you don't need brainwashing. Instead, this is about leveraging and amplifying the existing prejudice for political purposes.

Leaving academia was definitely one of the best choices I ever made for my (physical, mental and financial) health.

I don't regret doing my PhD, but I definitely spent two years too many on the postdoc treadmill.

As we've recently learned it isn't just about oil. It's about maritime trade more broadly. One of the explicit purposes of the US Navy is to defend maritime trade. The Suez canal and the Persian Gulf are two of the most important maritime trade routes.

I definitely do not value having lifetime access to 99.999% of the media I consume enough to have to deal with hoarding physical copies.

Is it maple syrup or a colored and flavored corn syrup?

The article is behind a paywall but...

Wealthsimple isn't even a bank, let alone the next big bank. They are not a deposit taking institution. Their 'savings account' is just an agreement with a number of actual banks to accept deposits from Wealthsimple on behalf of their clients. Wealthsimple is merely acting as an intermediary.

Being a true deposit taking institution comes with a lot more regulation and institutional sophistication. Never mind the fact that deposit taking is only one side of what truly defines banking: aggregating demand deposits to enable lending. I'm sure Wealthsimple is looking to get into that game, but since they aren't deposit taking I'm sure it will just be a pretty wrapper around another actual bank just like their 'savings accounts'.

Is Horizons ETFs the next big bank because of their CASH.TO ETF? Horizons is doing a very similar thing through a different vehicle.

Having said, Wealthsimple has clearly created a competitive product suite. But their ability to offer these products fundamentally relies on other organizations (e.g., Mastercard, Big 5 banks) to do the heavy lifting. Wealthsimple's competitive advantage is in product design and advertising.

In a way these observations cut more deeply into the foundations of cosmology than dark matter. Indeed, I'd argue that dark matter challenges the standard model of particle physics more than the standard model of cosmology.

These discoveries of large scale structures challenge the assumptions that the universe is homogenous at a large enough scale. This assumption, along with isotropy, are what lead to the FLRW family of metrics describing spacetime at cosmological scales. Dark matter and dark energy only come in to the picture once you try to fit the parameters of the FLRW metrics to our observed universe.

Ontario, Canada this year is supposed to be choosing which of 2 proposed storage sites will be chosen for development. Nuclear power is a major part of the grid there, representing something like 35% of capacity and 55% of output. The generation facilities are geographically well situated, with one station being <100km away from a proposed storage site and two others within 250km.

I wonder what kind of risks there are with accidents during long distance transportation. Ships sink, trains derail, and trucks have accidents.