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by Digory 6y ago
If we spent the same money supporting family educational choice and preferred elderly in-home care, I suspect we'd be ahead of where we are. Obviously, some people will need school and care that family can't give, and I'm not
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This is why people call it a pyramid scheme. The breakdown of single-earner families means kids and seniors get institutional care. And there isn’t enough money to socialize care as good as your family.
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> after two years... I wonder why they didn’t just try to monetize what they have, while they have it, on YouTube. That would at least tell you if the content was better than the platform. But, it sounds like they gave creators extraordi
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The core task of a lawyer is risk identification and mitigation. If everything else goes south, the client sues the lawyer — and the best defense is “here’s where I said that might happen.”
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What's measured gets solved. They're measuring flush volume, when they care about water used over time.
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The ideals -- "liberal arts" -- were agreements about what enabled people to live a "free" life. We've lost those as ideals. Instead, we interpret all the liberal arts through racialist-socialist lens, and find th
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The bank has already sold off the loans. You're asking why bond buyers keep buying bonds from banks that promise high returns, without looking at the underlying investments. And that is what hasn't changed since 2008 (or 1929, for
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Surprised no one has mentioned Kansas City’s free transit on streetcars and busses. I think it’s the largest city with entirely no-fare transit. At some point, free Uber /Lyft would be a better deal. But transportation-as-a-basic-ser
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I guess this is the equivalent in NYC.[0] Which, admittedly, looks nicer than my dorm in college, even accounting for the normal difference between advertising and reality. But most of my Manhattan-based friends started off with summer jobs
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Many colleges have old buildings on campus that are cash cows. There's little incentive to cut margins by building new. But recent buildings look better, and the off-campus "communities" in Texas look better than ... most apa
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How does “truth seeker” help, say, with Teacher Unions supporting guillotines for Jeff Bezos?[0] I think our epistemic agreements are gone, yes, but it feels like we’d be polarized today even with epistemic agreement. It is true that Amazon
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by Digory 6y ago
Yes, I hedged because C-Corp taxation sometimes makes sense now. A few years ago it never made sense. Even so, LLC-as-a-C-Corp is usually the winner, not a full-blown Delaware Corporation taxed as a C-Corp.
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Top Federal rate for W2 income: 37% + 2.9% Medicare + 12.6% on the FICA portion. Top Federal rate for dividend/profit distribution: 20% All other things being equal, as the company earns more than your base wage, you want it to be trea
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1. On taxes, a C Corp might be the right choice, but he didn't say enough to reject an LLC that elects to be taxed under Subchapter S. A C Corp taxed under Subchapter C creates the classic "double taxation" problem, where any
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> It's in the government's interest, as an institution, to open things up ASAP. Theories by which it is in a government's interest to delay reopening longer than optimal: 1. The Governor's political interests lie in &
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>ghost towns ...if rents don't fall. And maybe they should.
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Imagine a place in which open carry weapons were mandatory, though, on the chance you’re able to help someone who is attacked. Many would be angry about the overinclusive rule. It would be more about the message to others about safety than
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Any precautionary control of physical appearance and conduct gets a reaction in America. If a school demands a dress code, people go nuts. It's immediately suspected to be unfair, overly broad, racist, sexist, and ableist, probably inv
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Aren't we seeing the bubble bursting right now in academia? Hobby PhDs let you into the college content-creation club, to teach the next generation of content creators.
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Schools will always have to compete for their share of the pie, unless you want to do some pretty bad things. Even in a no-limits, fully-government-paid education system, Tidmarsh Community College is going to have to convince students to c
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Yes, probably a good deal of PR, projection, and reductionism in the headline. On the other hand, what would you have expected to happen to housing starts during a national period of pandemic and racial unrest? An uptick is surprising.
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The logic of the page containing the graphic is this: 1. "Whiteness and white racialized identity refer to the way that white people, their customs, culture, and beliefs operate as the standard..." 2. "Whiteness (and its acc
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Several lawyers picked up on that on Twitter. It's definitely not a correct statement about every kind of "law." But it's right about statutes, sometimes called "positive law." English history gave us a very c
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Athletics are going to be reeling. No announcement yet, but this effectively kills football, no?
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I imagine it passed legal by arguing based on the fair use doctrine, a defense that Aereo didn't raise. Seems like a long study, but I suppose it's nice to have a bigger dataset.
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The fore-mentioned EconTalk recently had a discussion of China’s centralized politics but relatively open economy. Less than 10% of Chinese agriculture employment is in state owned enterprises now, for example. https://www.econta
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Beautiful, but $400 is steep for a monotasker. I'd gladly let students use these in a class, though, as an alternative to notepads. Which probably says something about the rise of keyboards and the fall of handwriting; I get that ASCII
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Roberts is trying to run out the clock on Trump. This decision comes out differently with another President.
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The market for carshare ends up being an awkward market in the US. Ride share solves urban car problems far better than the old taxi services — mostly problems around parking. Carshare tries to solve the parking problem, but for long or com
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Had to go back and check, given the bold assertions of others in the thread. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/do-directors-avoid-empl...

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