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by Veelox 9y ago
Per http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/savings/moving-cost-of-l... If you move from San Francisco to Austin TX, you can take a 45% pay cut and live the same, I don't think this accounts for income tax which
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by Veelox 9y ago
I always get a little chuckle out of the AutoModerator on r/politics "As a reminder, this subreddit is for civil discussion"
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by Veelox 9y ago
There are ways to solve the problem without UBI. Such as making sure the sum of help reduces slower than income increase. With the current system the aid is earmarked for certain items. This prevents one of the issues with UBI where someone
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by Veelox 9y ago
What would you need to be able to afford for it to count as a living wage? I would say enough to cover food, clothing, housing, and healthcare for you and a dependent. One of my issues with setting a national minimum wage is those last two
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by Veelox 9y ago
I missed that you were filling in for someone else, thank you for the explanation.
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by Veelox 9y ago
Just to make sure I understand you, you are advocating counting long-term capital gains as ordinary income?
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by Veelox 9y ago
I am expecting that the good times in the US will continue for 10 more years at which point I will have enough saved up to retire[0]. [0] Assume that I make 150k a year and only live on 50k a year I can put the rest into index funds. In ~10
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by Veelox 9y ago
It is encouraging to see someone as high profile as you taking the time to have a evidence-based debate on the internet.
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by Veelox 9y ago
I closed in December of 2016, as I nice side affect I got a rate that was a little lower then they are now.
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by Veelox 9y ago
Can I get a citation for the large cash infusion from Intel?
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by Veelox 10y ago
> assuming there's a basic level of humanity in those values I am not saying that you are this way, but I have had interactions that lead me to believe that reasoning allows some to wholly reject values I hold dear as "intolera
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by Veelox 10y ago
As someone in the bay area working for a BigCo, I expect to be making making ~250k with 5 years of experience due to internal info, see also https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
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by Veelox 10y ago
Even with your edit I would like to chime in that I got a condo in San Jose that is 3 bed, 2 bath for <500k. It isn't fancy but it is home.
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by Veelox 10y ago
> if someone else started with those premises, they'd also arrive at the same conclusions I like your definition of critical thinking, it also allows me to highlight why I agree with sideband. In the bay area there tends to be less
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by Veelox 10y ago
>This is not to mention the circumstantial evidence, like republican operatives explaining their long term goal is disenfranchisement I am curious, can provide a citation for your comment? I have heard this claim (or something similar) b
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by Veelox 10y ago
I would agree with you that SpaceX is more meaningful than advertising but advertising is not always a zero-sum game. In the Pepsi vs Coke case or Ford vs Toyota then yes it is a zero-sum game (unless you consider the increased competition
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by Veelox 10y ago
One of your premises is that there is nothing wrong with being transgender. I disagree. Does that make me evil? Does voicing that cause my coworkers so much misery that I cannot say it?
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by Veelox 10y ago
I want to start this by saying I think it is wrong for a person to be attacked in any manner for their citizenship in a protected class. At the same time, I think all protected classes should be fair game for critical discussion on the pros
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by Veelox 10y ago
I would say the values that marriage is between a man and a women and that ones gender should match their sex. Something worth noting is that since the election I have seen support of Trump receive similar treatment.
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by Veelox 10y ago
I don't think 19guid has a problem with using a toilet or being an asshole. I think the question is why is dissent from specific political views looked down upon? I have been in Silicon Valley for almost a year now after moving from th