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by RhysU 6y ago
The trick in Austin is to remember that 9 months of the year are pleasant not that 3 are awful.
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by RhysU 6y ago
If you are excellent at your job and can get a different one, why would you unionize? The union takes money out of your pocket, reduces your ability to get paid for performance, and slows the firm's ability to innovate. If the firm mis
843.
by RhysU 6y ago
Sure, if we just had stationary, perfect data and perfect objective functions it's only computational, operational, monitoring, and maintenance complexity that holds us back.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Researcher time: Data munging, apples-to-apples model evaluation, identifying and fixing broken assumptions only detectable due to subtle model behavior.
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by RhysU 6y ago
(I don't understand the parent post other than it saying that top notch people can end up at state schools. ) We are...
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by RhysU 6y ago
> sucking billions out of the US economy Nah. Every-hypothetical-body in the US paying you billions is getting more in value from your SaaS product than they're paying you for your SaaS product. Otherwise they wouldn't buy it.
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by RhysU 6y ago
But why not give everyone cash consistently and then allow them to buy equity as they desire, when they desire, by reinvesting in the business at the current prevailing rate? As even Homer Simpson figured out "Money can be exchanged fo
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by RhysU 6y ago
But the person can not buy insurance. Or buy other insurance. Or buy less insurance. When the government forces it there is no choice.
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by RhysU 6y ago
None of those steps changes the fact that unions have innate interests in having more members.
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by RhysU 6y ago
While you held the ETF you would be paying income taxes on the dividends at your marginal rates. If the kid holds it in a UTMA some of those dividends would likely be taxed at the lower kiddie bracket. Agreed, the step up at death on the co
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by RhysU 6y ago
Not true. Realize capital gains each year in a UTMA account up to the kiddie tax limits. File a return for the kids instead of putting their gains on the parent's return. It can be significant over 18 years.
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by RhysU 6y ago
I don't know their motivations. Unions have innate interests in having more union members.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Ha on pulling the rhetorical trick of "when did you stop hitting your spouse?" There are many things employers do that employees dislike. Not all all of them are abuse. A union will attempt to remove the dislikes, abusive or not.
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by RhysU 6y ago
It isn't chump change if Bezos' empire becomes non-competitive vs copycats that avoid unionization.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Yes, if the union is accepted the union gets a cut of the employee's wages via dues.
856.
by RhysU 6y ago
Dunno how I as a taxpayer lose from having a better educated, more productive population...?
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by RhysU 6y ago
The writer lists 11 requirements for the kettle beyond functioning as a kettle. The piece essentially asks "why hasn't capitalism found and manufactured my personal optimum in a high dimensional space for 19.99€?"
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by RhysU 6y ago
> economic productivity will increase to match demand True, but not instantaneously. The lag there is inflation at work. > But the supply for most 'not-rich-man goods' is made of commodities... Desireable housing near good j
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by RhysU 6y ago
You've made this comment a lot in this thread. Suppose, for the sake of argument, UBI is implemented by the pure redistribution of wealth. No debt. No draining some capital reserve. Steady state redistribution. The act of distributing
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by RhysU 6y ago
Does no-brr-UBI that imply that a program would have to be fully funded each year by taxation of some sort?
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by RhysU 6y ago
102% of the premiums for 100% of the benefits for 0 time negotiating with the private market and with guaranteed coverage seems... fair?
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by RhysU 6y ago
But wouldn't one avoid the private insurance market for those months by using COBRA?
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by RhysU 6y ago
There's no gas-blown air there.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Not looking at a report card for multiple years is not a resource issue.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Those companies have one heck of a combined market position and it is all built with software. I would say their software engineers are paid more but I doubt that "overpaid" applies. Think about what your CTO could do in that sett
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by RhysU 6y ago
A "Super Troopers" Mister Sinus Theater presentation featuring a syrup drinking contest is burned in my mind. Three audience volunteers selected before anyone was told for what they were volunteering. The hosts handed out bottles
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by RhysU 6y ago
How is a flat tax regressive? How far from flat does it have to be to stop being regressive?
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by RhysU 6y ago
Also, everyone pays the daycare with post-tax dollars, caveat the spending account deduction, the same way they'd pay the nanny. The nanny is a red herring.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Suppressing intolerant individuals makes one intolerant. The concept is symmetric whenever cancelation occurs.
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by RhysU 6y ago
A minyan requires 10 individuals.

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