SiNiquity (u/SiNiquity)

SiNiquity commented on Prediction that Kyiv falls to Russian forces by April 2022 goes from 90% to 26% metaculus.com/questions/9... · Posted by u/torts

AlwaysRock · 4 years ago

100% this. I remember the USA's "Mission Accomplished" line/speech and the years of American propaganda that followed which said we were doing great things in the middle east. In reality we blew up a lot of people (soldiers and civilians), cities, and spent a shit load of money to accomplish what?

I'm very skeptical of any news coming from either side currently.

SiNiquity · 4 years ago

There's a limit to open mindedness. Ukraine is not "luring [the Russian military] into [its] cities," they're defending their cities from an invading force.

SiNiquity commented on America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cash to the rich economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/pseudolus

akgoel · 4 years ago

If you don’t show losses, and the loan was forgiven, it becomes taxable revenue. As a C corp, Trump got those taxes down to 21%, so it was only mostly free.

SiNiquity · 4 years ago

Uncle Sam done gone shopping again and left his cart at the store.

SiNiquity commented on New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads forbes.com/sites/jackkell... · Posted by u/thebigspacefuck

slt2021 · 4 years ago

There is no way they can get actual paystub data from employer or tax return data from irs.

Most likely they use field Annual Income that you voluntarily provide to banks/cc companies when applying for a loan and that number is reported to Equifax. That number is verified by a lender by inspecting your W-2/paystubs when underwriting car/mortgage/other loan.

So you should never voluntarily provide income info to lenders, because every bit of that info will be sold to other companies and can be used against yiu in the future

SiNiquity · 4 years ago

> There is no way they can get actual paystub data from employer

Depends on your employer. Per https://www.fastcompany.com/40485634/equifax-salary-data-and...

> Surprisingly, Facebook is among friends. Every payroll period, Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle also provide an electronic feed of their employees’ hourly work and wage information to Equifax. So do Wal-Mart, Twitter, AT&T, Harvard Law School, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Even Edward Snowden’s former employer, the sometimes secretive N.S.A. contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, sends salary and other personal data about its employees to Equifax Workplace Solutions.

SiNiquity commented on New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads forbes.com/sites/jackkell... · Posted by u/thebigspacefuck

hellisothers · 4 years ago

Wow, I wonder does this report equity grants? If not then at least you can still hide your total comp…

SiNiquity · 4 years ago

Depends on the employer, but in many cases yes. I have friends that work at Amazon that can confirm their RSU numbers showed up in their report.

SiNiquity commented on New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads forbes.com/sites/jackkell... · Posted by u/thebigspacefuck

Grazester · 4 years ago

How is this legal? Where do they get these numbers? You employer(I dont think so) or your employer's payment role processors?

SiNiquity · 4 years ago

Your employer in many cases. See https://www.fastcompany.com/40485634/equifax-salary-data-and...

SiNiquity commented on New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads forbes.com/sites/jackkell... · Posted by u/thebigspacefuck

shmatt · 4 years ago

For any of us corporate workers, Equifax runs a service called "The Work Number" that has, for a big group of people, every single cent you ever made, who payed it, and when

I only learned about it recently. When I requested a report on my SSN, I saw every bi-weekly payment ever made to me

https://theworknumber.com/solutions/industries/pre-employmen...

> Talent Report™ Income and Employment Provides verification of employment plus verification of a candidate’s income

SiNiquity · 4 years ago

You can also freeze access to it: https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze

SiNiquity commented on Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development dev.lemmy.ml/post/35293... · Posted by u/jasonbourne1901

tetris11 · 6 years ago

Its am easy way to filter bots though, and its similarly easy for actual users to use disposable emails

SiNiquity · 6 years ago

Requiring an email isn't a (good) way to filter bots though.

SiNiquity commented on Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly perl.com/article/announci... · Posted by u/datanut

cutler · 6 years ago

That doesn't add up because today's most popular languages - JS, Java, Python, PHP and Ruby - were also released in the 90s.

SiNiquity · 6 years ago

There's a subtle difference between being released in the 90s and maturing in the 90s.

SiNiquity commented on Goldman Sans design.gs.com/d/story/gol... · Posted by u/rococode

logicallee · 6 years ago

I read the comments here first and expected the O and 0 to be indistinguishable, but for me it's prety easy to tell.

See for yourself - I flipped a 0 and an O on this image, can you tell where? https://imgur.com/a/3hcg3zH

SiNiquity · 6 years ago

I see the O flipped to 0, but the 0 flipped to O doesn't look out of place to me.

SiNiquity commented on A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Older Raspberry Pi phoronix.com/scan.php?pag... · Posted by u/reddotX

abnercoimbre · 6 years ago

Wait, what? So the rule isn't that the pronunciation starts with a vowel sound? Instead it's a more murky thing about how easy it rolls off the tongue?

SiNiquity · 6 years ago

University starts with the 'y' sound, hence "a university." On the other hand, "an unimpressive fact" uses "an" because "unimpressive" starts with the 'u' (vowel) sound.