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by CPLX 1y ago
> I find it impossible to determine the value of my own work. A good starting point is the amount people are willing to pay for it.
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by CPLX 1y ago
> Are you the clothes you wear? No but you certainly are your own skin.
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by CPLX 1y ago
As always in finance the secret ingredient is crime. I wonder to what degree the lawsuit is what got this on the radar of the Indian authorities. Maybe they should have listened to Stringer Bell.
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by CPLX 1y ago
> By that metric the regulatory group in the US is completely bought out since they let 2008 happen. Not sure that makes the point you think it makes.
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by CPLX 1y ago
> The good old days sucked They didn’t suck. Like many situations that were resource constrained they had unique positive attributes even though you have a strong preference for the alternative strictly speaking. Sometimes being constrai
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by CPLX 1y ago
Did this actually happen? My understanding is that this was in one version of the Senate bill but the final one has now passed and I’m seeing no mention of this anywhere which makes me assume it didn’t make the final version. Interested to
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by CPLX 1y ago
Excellent point! His approach worked in practice, but it would never work in a theoretical situation where proving a point is more important than just solving the problem, so it's obviously worthless.
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by CPLX 1y ago
It’s probably somewhat relevant that VC’s are the planet’s most rapacious sociopaths at this point. I admit I don’t really know the cause and effect dynamic here. Is that what makes VC’s successful, or the reverse?
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by CPLX 1y ago
My son was born when I was 45 and I absolutely could not be more happy about it. I am in way better shape than I was at 30, I finally started taking that seriously, and also I am way wiser, more patient, and have more money. So if you hear
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by CPLX 1y ago
Students are future wealthy customers.
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by CPLX 1y ago
This is a theory, but it flies directly in the face of reality which is that nearly every retailer on the planet would prefer more wealthy customers.
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by CPLX 1y ago
It’s not a regressive tax, it’s a fee. Taxes and fees are related but distinct. It’s possible for an overall fee based structure to be regressive, but it’s also possible for it to not be. For example a fee for landing private jets at public
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by CPLX 1y ago
There wasn’t really a “theory” behind all the privatization. The theory was “if we do this we can get more of the government money in our pocket” and the arguments were backwards construction from there.
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by CPLX 1y ago
I mean my bias is that we started with crippling traffic congestion and not enough money for transit and now we have instantly obvious improvements in congestion and more money for transit. And no visible downsides whatsoever. You having to
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by CPLX 1y ago
Well yes if you are in a car on the congestion pricing area it costs money. Of course it does, that the point. Your argument is that there are indirect costs. That’s the part that has to be proven. Some company using it as an excuse to add
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by CPLX 1y ago
> on the rare occasions I do actually need a car or a service that requires a car (plumber, mover, etc.) it costs me more. That's the part you have to prove. I bet your statement is factually incorrect.
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by CPLX 1y ago
The people who aren't driving as much is the large group of well-connected assholes who have been abusing the city's parking placard program for decades. You'd sort of have to live in NYC and observe it first hand to know thi
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by CPLX 1y ago
If we're talking burden of proof then the only real one that matters is the popularity of the program. It's very clearly popular and a success, so here we are.
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by CPLX 1y ago
> It's a bit absurd though. The roads are paid by tax payers from the general fund of the city, but they discriminate on how much it costs to use those roads based on where you live. If everyone entering the zone paid the same then
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by CPLX 1y ago
> 1) It's a regressive tax on everyone living here -- even if you never use a car. Literally everything we buy and use in the city gets more expensive because of this. That's an empirical question, you're going to have to
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by CPLX 1y ago
That was the original criticism, or rather the cynical attempt to block it. It hasn't panned out that way at all however, it's just great for everyone. OK, actually not everyone . There's one very specific group that this su
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by CPLX 1y ago
It's unlikely that a bird strike with dual engine failure would occur without smoke.
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by CPLX 1y ago
> A 787 can still climb with flaps up and two healthy engines Not at takeoff weight with the gear down, this sentence is incorrect.
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by CPLX 1y ago
Do you have a link to that footage? I've seen speculation on this from very blurry video but nothing like proof. On the professional pilot forums the consensus guess is inadvertent flap retraction, instead of gear retraction, leading t
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by CPLX 1y ago
This article has good advice but it’s not really AI advice that’s the important tip. The main observation is you 100% have to manage lawyers aggressively and understand and question what they are doing at literally every step or the budge
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by CPLX 1y ago
Any reasonable 409a will be fully aware of those preference terms and will have factored them in.
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by CPLX 1y ago
> the 409a is only going to show you the maximum possible value While the points about uncertainty of options are quite accurate, this detail isn’t really true. For the most part a 409a is the lowest reasonable valuation the company coul
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by CPLX 1y ago
They understand just fine. They’re the oligarchs.
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by CPLX 1y ago
In acoustics symmetrical and parallel surfaces lead to what are called standing waves, which heavily emphasizes specific frequencies. For the most part in things that are musical (instruments, recording studios) you don’t want that. Except
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by CPLX 1y ago
It might be worth me mentioning that our decision to never prosecute elite and white collar crime might be at the core of all this.

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