DMac87

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by DMac87 7y ago
For those in the SF Bay Area, you can have significant impact by sharing your time: https://prisonuniversityproject.org/get-involved/volunteer/ http://asi.sfsu.edu/asprograms/project-rebound&#
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by DMac87 7y ago
This. How does one tell whether this affects a particular brand or not?
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by DMac87 8y ago
Even more obviously absurd: 15 million animals saved is how many per employee?
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by DMac87 9y ago
Decreasing the company's cost of equity capital...
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by DMac87 10y ago
Also, the city allows buyers to take what used to be a family home (e.g. 4-5 bedrooms), tear it down and put up a 1-2 bedroom house (more modern, more amenities, e.g. garage, sauna, etc). Why policymakers allow this if they believe there&#
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by DMac87 10y ago
The issue is that the same argument made for programmers can be made for back office & middle office as well, which when added up are much more than 1000 programmers. I agree that the bonus:salary ratio should increase drastically for
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by DMac87 10y ago
It makes sense when you think about their business - because banks are extremely pro-cyclical, they need an 'out' to reduce compensation when their profits blowup or economy turns. Easiest and quickest to drop bonuses.
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by DMac87 10y ago
Isn't this effectively what, e.g., San Francisco is doing - once you rent out for X days, you face more burdensome requirements?
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by DMac87 10y ago
Yeah, I'd imagine the founding fathers would see today's voting populace as quite educated, relative to theirs...
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by DMac87 10y ago
Any tax on wealth would have similar effects: You own a business with notional value $2M? Pay X% of that each year, whether or not the business generates that amount in cash. You are a retiree with $2M in CDs or bonds, generating your ret
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by DMac87 10y ago
How about starting by taxing many people's main part of wealth, their house, at market value (i.e. no Prop 13)? Let's not let perfect get in the way of good..
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by DMac87 11y ago
https://www.barackobama.com/climate-change-deniers/darrell-i...
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by DMac87 11y ago
How so? I understand that doing research on regulation is by its nature political, but that doesn't mean 'ideology driven'. For instance, you may argue from this data that Obama is the most-regulating president in history.
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by DMac87 11y ago
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun...
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by DMac87 11y ago
This doesn't seem that unreasonable - weren't/aren't medallions over $1M in NYC, which is a factor more expensive than labor, fuel, or maintenance of a vehicle...
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by DMac87 11y ago
"Solving Problem X" is not an exciting headline if the community is aware that Problem X has already been solved. The point is that the community may not be aware that tool/approach Y can solve problem X, and might want to
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by DMac87 11y ago
My understanding was that employers have fiduciary obligations to their employees when they setup a 401k plan - does offloading 401k administration remove those obligations or transfer them to Captain401?
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by DMac87 11y ago
Really? Someone who worked at GS probably wouldn't refer to it as "Goldman's"... just sayin'
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by DMac87 11y ago
1. RRSP & TFSAs have limits much lower than the assumed contributions, so there are tax differences between the two alternatives. 2. Even slight tweaks to your assumptions (e.g. reduce investment returns to 6%, increase condo returns to
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by DMac87 11y ago
The assumptions made by the author are ridiculous, namely: - In the 10-year comparison, rents paid are not factored in at all. - In the forward-looking comparison, condo prices are assumed to be flat, mortgage rates go up (why? can't t
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by DMac87 11y ago
The problem with this reasoning is that while new buildings / tenants may be marginally beneficial to the city, if the rate new condos pay is significantly lower than existing buildings, then fairness issues arise. To me, this is anal
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by DMac87 12y ago
> City's deal with their homeless populations in different ways, but if any city is overly generous it quickly gets swamped. Further, cities can export their homeless by being overly draconian. I doubt the issue is as simple as I be
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by DMac87 12y ago
Is there a way to track & regulate these? e.g. if drone operators are breaking the law by flying too low, then do police have the means to cite violators? If so, I don't see what the issue is - they're not enforcing their ow
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by DMac87 12y ago
Even if true, I don't know what to make of such a statement - needless interventions for ALL diseases/causes may kill a lot more than any ONE single, narrowly defined disease/cause - that says more about the classification&#x
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by DMac87 12y ago
This is an area of research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_theorem_proving
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by DMac87 12y ago
This and many comments seem to miss the facts, at least as presented on the ABC conjecture's wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc_conjecture : - An error was found in 2012 and was just recently (Nov 2014
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by DMac87 12y ago
These comparisons are almost meaningless - e.g. Apple is worth about the same as Korea's stockmarket, almost as much as China's.
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by DMac87 12y ago
This rung a bell - the Container Store pays its retail workers extremely well (at least if you believe their numbers): http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/10/three-equals-one-contain... If they're really investi
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by DMac87 12y ago
#Zeno's_paradox #infinitedivisibilityofmoney
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by DMac87 12y ago
Why Vanguard Total Stock Market? Why not SPDR S&P 500 ETF? Why not include international stocks, or bonds, or real estate? Choice of index is a hugely important decision, and can't be waved away so easily...

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