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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
I think the long-term historical drop in the ratio of [top marginal rate on individual income] to [tax as a % of GDP] is mainly the result of these factors: 1) increased tax compliance 2) more tax deductions Overall, you’d need to use a mor
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
You also need to include inflation. Tax receipts actually fell on an inflation-adjusted basis in 2018. Absent any changes in government policy, you’d expect expenses to roughly follow inflation plus population growth, and revenues to roughl
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Your link shows the ratio decreasing from 16.97% to 16.16% in 2018 when the bill went into effect. That’s a 5% decrease, which agrees with my above math. Overall your chart shows the ratio has a range of 19.75% to 14.42% in the past 20 year
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
GDP was growing before and after the Trump tax cut, so growth in tax revenue year over year was expected. The Trump tax cuts went into effect in 2018, and according to your link tax revenues increased from 3.32 to 3.33 trillion that year, w
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
To be more correct, it’s a 7% decrease in income over $5,000,000 (if the total tax rate on that income was 50% before and went to 53.5%, the amount remaining dropped by 7%). I think this point is under-appreciated. As the top federal tax ra
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
I’m not sure. If Facebook had been more surgical to send less traffic to clickbait listicles, but more to Prestigious Investigative Journalists, would the outcome have been the same? Did the unemployed listicle authors find their passion an
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Wow, iPad revenue up 31% YoY after being down ~10% in the last few quarters. Similar numbers to a Q1 (holiday season). I guess it makes sense that the tablet form factor is popular when so many people are indoors. Also, services revenue gre
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
I don’t think harming journalists was the motive, but it was the outcome, and in hindsight it seems predictable. At least it should serve as a lesson to anyone who faces a similar decision in the future.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Modifying the news feed algorithm to send less traffic to traditional news sites contributed to a lot of layoffs and general turmoil in the industry. This resulted in major animosity toward Facebook among journalists, which has encouraged t
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
I’m just responding to the common claim that means-testing UBI would be expensive relative to the expenditures of the program (well-illustrated by the quote “appropriating dollars to save pennies“ in the comment I responded to). This is a
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
There’s still a ton of interesting content on YouTube. They have taken down stuff that didn’t deserve to be taken down, but it’s a very small portion of overall content. Other than people who are only interested in watching borderline mater
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
I hear this argument a lot but it makes no sense to me. Suppose UBI is $12k/year. Then as long as it costs less than $12k to identify a rich person, it’s cheaper to not pay the rich people than to pay everyone. In fact, we already have
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
I had internet access since I was about 10, used the internet constantly though my teenage years, and did great in math and science in school (winning contests and the like). I was also interested in computing and thought it would be cool t
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Good point. It’s usually me trying to convince dad to update software, not the other way around.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
I’m not the person you responded to, but I’ve lived with a person who had a case of OCD that I’m confident saying is definitely not adaptive. To give one anecdote among many, this person would spend the entire day in the shower because they
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
It doesn’t sound like the worst way to hire model builders.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
If this is true, why does the share price go up? Who is buying the stock after the short-term play? Is the market just dumb, and the only people who know the truth are the disgruntled-ex management who complain to the media about short-term
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
What is the long term if not the sum of the short terms? “Short term bad long term good” is a convenient argument for management in a dispute with shareholders. It allows them to discard the objective measure of their performance in favor o
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Unfortunately there’s a long history of colonized people being mistreated, so it’s not an easy sell.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
The strategy of asking the oldest employee for advice has worked well for me at Home Depot.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
I think you only need language to communicate, it’s not necessary in order to think. Do you agree that a human that grows up in isolation probably won’t develop a language? Would you say such a human isn’t sentient? I think as highly social
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
My government, along with any other entity with lawyers, can obtain my browsing history from my ISP as evidence that is admissible in civil or criminal court by submitting some paperwork. They can’t do that with my VPN traffic, even if some
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
I don’t understand what you are proposing as an alternative. If the company dies who is going to take care of the employees? Lay off everyone because it would be wrong to only save some? If everyone makes that noble choice all we get to sho
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
What if qualities you might judge in an interview other than “general IQ” and “grit” are even more bias-prone, and using those other qualities is actually worse than measuring “general IQ” and “grit” and applying a corrective factor? In oth
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
How to filter out candidates who are only good at talking? I’ve worked with people like that and it’s miserable.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
In order to get the replacement, I needed to know the serial number of the AirPods but didn’t need to provide any proof of purchase (I wasn’t the original buyer of the AirPods). This suggests to me that anyone who can get AirPod serial numb
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
This happened to me four times in four months. Every time, it appeared one of the microphones was broken, because I would hear a buzzing, rattling, or clicking noise when in transparency or noise-canceling mode. The current set have both be
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
If you shorted BTC halfway to its peak, and managed not to get closed out, you’d be breaking even right now.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Could be that some pyramid scheme victims aren’t good at targeting the ads when they try to recruit people? So they just overbid for generic ad slots.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Do you know any Uber drivers or are you just being paternalistic? I have friends who do Uber, Lyft, Postmates and they are definitely aware of the costs and take steps to optimize them where possible. They need to calculate mileage to do th

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