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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Another take is to put money in investments with no taxable event (I think that Berkshire Hathaway is one) and live off of savings in the meanwhile. Outright home ownership (as you mention) is another one. Regular and tax deferred savings
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
SEND MORE I LOVE LUCY.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
At least it would be a source of materials on the way there.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Just view light as like being in line at the DMV.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Hey, I like that idea. Maybe it implies that every interstellar mission is just an in-flight rescue mission.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Hah, that's an interesting trap to be in. It's not dissimilar to pushing wages down in order to qualify for high ACA subsidies. The way the system is set up, there's quite a tax cliff...especially for older people (the diff
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
What was the NRE on that pill or the hundreds (thousands?) that didn't work at all? OTOH (or the other other hand), I'll bet that you could make a strong argument for stopping new drug development entirely. Simply sell existing d
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
I'm thinking partly in terms of paying US health professionals what they make in places like France. A certain amount of hilarity would ensue.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Having personally been through the employee vs contractor maelstrom when, for some unknown reason, the state government got a bug up it's ass, I'd have to say that the state requirements become quite arbitrary. What you might thin
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
"whether a company’s dominant position in an industry hurt consumers (ie created higher prices)." Exactly. Thank you. It's a bummer that the rest of the topic turned into some kind of healthcare talkathon (like the topic on
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Honestly, I can't see why California is unable to roll out a single-payer plan. It's certainly larger than many of the countries that have one. In a single-party state, it should be a relatively straightforward thing to do. My g
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
It's a shame that doesn't exist. I've always thought you could make an especially strong argument for licensing for embedded software people, for many of the same reasons that a PE is licensed. It wouldn't be a requirem
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
"Yes, there's some grey area in there." From my experience, I've never seen a software contractor that could avoid being considered an employee if the eyes of the state government fell upon them closely.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
I'm still confused how you can avoid tell someone how to do their job. A SW contractor can't be told which language to use or be connected to company source control or use existing company software libraries? A carpenter can&#x2
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Couldn't you simply require Uberlyft to run potential drivers through a quick course on depreciation, injury risk, opportunity cost? That's really not a bad idea generally. Give them full information and then treat them like adul
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
There's an irony that laws set up to protect workers at the low end mess with workers at the high end. As a SW contractor, I never much cared about insurance/time off/sick leave/etc. and was well paid to not care. From
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
I think you could make an argument for a 'war', but you need to think less like a Roman and more like a Byzantine.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
"Why not put 1/3 of your insane military budget towards..." Heck, why not put 1/3 of the NSA budget towards hardening computers and networks? I'm afraid that given the choice between: . Everyone is surveilled. . No
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
100% agree with the drain on hospital budgets, at least so far as I know. Dunno how 'Medicare for all' will work out if you simply start paying providers what Medicare currently pays. Dictating a price might work in the long run
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
My guess is that the current sweet spot is lower income ACA Silver plans. OTOH, I'd say that the people who got really nailed with the ACA were the middle-class individual policy holders.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Am I missing something here? . Hospital system is a bastard to people who owe them $$$$. . This is an argument for government-run healthcare. . Hospital system is run by the government. I'm certainly not against copying someone else&#x
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
lol. I entered this thread purely to post the same comment.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
So, am I actually going to start laying down track for this new product you hired me to do? or are you going to kidnap me to work on legacy software emergency patches the second I walk in the door? An invaluable question if honestly answer
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
"But after you acquire a grounding in the basic forms like ...rhythm changes" I suppose that anyone who has heard the theme from The Flintstones has already done that.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
To some extent, I think that 'simple' depends on your own listening history. Jazz that sounds like noise to one listener might sound logical to the next once the second guy has internalized all of the cliches that are built into
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
From the article: "There are other reasons why manufacturers keep quiet about their sustainable practices. After 15 years of dedicated effort, a well-known car manufacturer reduced the amount of energy it took to make its cars by 75%:
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
"Moreover, if mankind ever expands into space, it would be rather naive to think that earth's nations would play a role there in the long run." Assuming some sort of breakthrough in cheap propulsion and living systems, I coul
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
It seems to me that any fundamental change in a product line will result in job loss at this point in time, this is on top of a fewer-parts-in-the-car issue. Cleansheet chances to redesign the supply chain and assembly system gives you the
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
I suppose that Amazon, at least the retail sales part of it, is essentially a shipping company. No surprise that it would build out over time, plus you'd be silly to trust them as a single huge customer. One sentence in that article t
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
In the long run? Just another one I think, and smaller than many. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit... (I guess that wikipedia is good for something)

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