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by ac29 4y ago
> That's not because of their credit risk but because they pay little to no coupon and get discounted through the interest rates. In particular imagine a treasury bond that will pay $100 in 10 years, you wouldn't pay $100 for t
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by ac29 4y ago
Before they started making their own content, weren't they mostly a logistics company? They were in the business of renting DVDs by mail.
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by ac29 4y ago
Not 100% sure about Lyft, but Uber definitely called their subsidies marketing.
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by ac29 4y ago
The article isnt comparing SF to places like Seattle or Chicago (Seattle is actually in their 10 most expensive). They are comparing to places like El Paso or Oklahoma City, which are much less expensive.
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by ac29 4y ago
I do this with a free nextdns account, no VPNs needed. Works very well.
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by ac29 4y ago
Sales tax is remitted to the state, but has both state and local components. There are... a lot of rates: https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/rates.aspx
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by ac29 4y ago
> cause I'm getting downvotes. See below. The point that I'm making is that if this company is acting illegally, then why is it still trading? Is your position that no publicly traded company has ever done anything illegal?
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by ac29 4y ago
I work for a small business in California that ships all our products (no retail) and we are definitely required to charge sales tax based on the location of the customer, not our business.
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by ac29 4y ago
I found this to be completely unnecessary when I moved to a 100Mbit symmetrical connection. Not sure if its the higher speed or having a better upload channel, but I completely got rid of all QoS/traffic shaping on my router and never
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by ac29 4y ago
> The vast majority of PC owners never update their BIOS at all. I wonder if this is true now that Windows will do it automatically. I have been more than once surprised to see a computer updating its firmware after a Windows reboot.
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by ac29 4y ago
Wasnt that the primary factor? They lent their money to the government at very low interest rates. When interest rates rose, the value of those loans fell.
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by ac29 4y ago
Prime age employment in the US is at an all time high: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12000060
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by ac29 4y ago
The article says the shares are expected to be sold as part of the FTX bankruptcy process.
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by ac29 4y ago
The article clarifies later this is not 60 million people, but "62 million tax units, could have accurate returns pre-prepared by the IRS in this fashion. (A tax unit could be a single person, a single parent-headed family, a married c
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by ac29 4y ago
The 1040-EZ hasnt existed in years
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by ac29 4y ago
> I wish brave would focus less on attracting advertisers and more on the use case where people just buy BAT and let their browsers fund content creators from the wallet without having advertisers in the loop at all. Sounds like a tax ni
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by ac29 4y ago
SDNY press release here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-start-ceo-charge...
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by ac29 4y ago
Most bikers are going to be able to average at least 10 mph. Working 60+ miles from where you live is a fairly long commute, even by car.
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by ac29 4y ago
> High interest is killing stock market returns. The stock market (as measured by SP500) is down only 15% from its all time high, and is currently higher than any point before 2021.
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by ac29 4y ago
> Extra-strength Tylenol is a 500mg pill; dosage guidelines are no more than 6 pills in 24 hours, which is 3,000 mg. Its a 500mg pill, but 2 pills (1000mg) is the recommend dose. So, only 3 doses per 24 hours.
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by ac29 4y ago
> This problem exists because the short term risk free rate is too high (which is turn is because government debt is too high). This doesn't make sense. If government debt is too high, they should want the interest rates to be low,
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by ac29 4y ago
Higher interest rates mean lower house values.
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by ac29 4y ago
Choosing to build a giant home in the LA hills with a budget of $2M just for construction is the out of touch rich people thing, not the additional issues with the city.
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by ac29 4y ago
The court order discusses this, and says while the first sale doctrine means IA could resell or lend their physical books, that right does not extend to unauthorized reproductions (such as making an ebook by scanning in a print book).
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by ac29 4y ago
Looks like the Intel version is only using P series processors, which have higher multithreaded performance than the U series but are also more power hungry. Also, DDR4 only which is significantly slower than the DDR5 and LPDDR5 capabilitie
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by ac29 4y ago
He was arrested using a fake passport (or some other falsified document) in an airport. Sounds like the timing was just coincidental.
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by ac29 4y ago
Revenue yes, profit no (though profitability is very close to evenly split).
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by ac29 4y ago
Fees on buying treasuries are zero if you buy them directly from the treasury or any of the large brokers (Vanguard, Fidelity, etc).
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by ac29 4y ago
My guess is they are using Intel CNVi ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNVi ), which moves some of the WiFi/Bluetooth hardware into the CPU/Chipset. It saves money.
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by ac29 4y ago
Mine does. Usually the highest interest rate checking accounts have requirements such as direct deposits and/or linked credit/debit card transactions. But, even the big banks in the US pay more than zero (very slightly more like 0

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