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by akgoel 4y ago
My favorite one was that methane clathrates had formed when the shut-in pipelines stopped flowing, and then were improperly de-pressurized to prepare for capitulation from Europe.
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by akgoel 4y ago
My 13 year old daughter has an Apple Watch. It allows her to send and receive texts even though her phone has to be put away, and the teachers haven’t stopped that. Yet.
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by akgoel 4y ago
Joe Biden is one the greatest oil traders of our time. We bought this oil at $30-$40, and are selling at $80-$100 per barrel.
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by akgoel 4y ago
While individuals do not have income tax, businesses do. Texas businesses are subject to property taxes, income taxes (the franchise tax), and taxes on total assets (business personal property), as well as sales taxes on services.
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by akgoel 4y ago
In this context, it’s like paying your taxes with stocks, since the transfer of your crypto to this intermediary will generate a taxable event itself.
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by akgoel 4y ago
I have invested in a fund that invested in blockfi in 2019, and they came back to ask for a follow-on a couple weeks ago, probably to bail out their last two funding rounds.
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by akgoel 4y ago
My VC funds tried to raise a down round 2 weeks ago, and I got upset because nowhere did they discuss the possibility of imminent bankruptcy.
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by akgoel 4y ago
Because BTC kept going up fast, and your 4X BTC bet meant you got keep borrowing more to plow back into BTC.
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by akgoel 4y ago
My problem with calipers is that there are three separate measuring modalities (outer, inner, depth) that can each require different zeroes as they get damaged.
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by akgoel 4y ago
2008 great financial crisis
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by akgoel 4y ago
For most families, the majority of their wealth is the equity in their house. In most states, we tax homeowners on the current unrealized value of their house, even if their mortgage makes them underwater. It is a de facto wealth tax. Here
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by akgoel 4y ago
The Odd Lots podcast from Bloomberg just did an episode on the Foreign Dredge Act. As a Houstonian, I was shocked to learn that the Port of Houston is being hobbled by our inability to dredge properly, limiting container vessels to once a w
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by akgoel 4y ago
This isn’t completely true. There are 2 types of gas fees - the first is the type you are discussing. The 2nd is the inherent fee of executing the smart contract. $100MM of the fees went to contract execution, over half of which could have
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by akgoel 5y ago
If you don’t show losses, and the loan was forgiven, it becomes taxable revenue. As a C corp, Trump got those taxes down to 21%, so it was only mostly free.
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by akgoel 5y ago
I’ve owned a CNC machine shop for 40 years. As we’ve added automation, so have our competitors. All gains from automation have been competed away - there are no gains going to the owners of the capital, as we are all competing. Meanwhile, t
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by akgoel 5y ago
The Diablo 3 real-money auction house was better implemented than most NFT schemes. At least that involved an actual transfer of virtual goods.
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by akgoel 5y ago
I am in a Fintech boot camp, and it’s clear that doing ML/DL requires very little math, as the math is all abstracted away.
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by akgoel 6y ago
Both WC 1 and 2 depended on processor speed, but WCII had a slowdown feature (I believe it was Ctrl-+ and Ctrl--) that allowed you slow it down.
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by akgoel 6y ago
If you short, you are borrowing a stock from Alice, and selling it to Bob, hoping to buy it back later from Bob at a lower price. But, you can then borrow again from Bob and sell to Charles. Ad infinitum.
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by akgoel 6y ago
My 7 year old daughter has stopped asking for (very pricy) American Girl accessories, and now asks for Robux. The coding schools around us are advertising Roblox Studio classes for kids. I'm not so pessimistic as you on the model, but
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by akgoel 6y ago
A Super-Target selling groceries was still allowed to sell toys, linens, and everything else in their store. A stand-alone toy store could not be open.
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by akgoel 6y ago
When I go to a meat-heavy diet, I do not have bowel movements for 10-14 days. And I don't feel constipated. Your mileage may vary. I don't recommend it though.
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by akgoel 6y ago
Even bullet 4 has assets and expenses multiplied by -1. Completely .... wrong. Maybe this might work for a bank where assets and liabilities are sort of flipped from a non-bank business?
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by akgoel 6y ago
This really becomes a question of leverage. If she only put down 20%, then her return on invested capital is 10%.
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by akgoel 7y ago
No ribbon. No special folders, so you always know exactly where you are on disk. Actual buttons, instead of the flat theme.
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by akgoel 7y ago
I have a third child, and getting outnumbered was even harder still. But I do recommend getting the children as close together as possible, because the longer you wait between them, the more years the sleep deprivation lasts.
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by akgoel 7y ago
Do not forget that "capital" purchases can also subject to local property taxes (called business personal property). You can imagine a large farm that pays property tax based on the farm size, but a manufacturer with large capita
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by akgoel 7y ago
This basically sounds like WinHelp, which was a compiled format of RTF, prior to the availability of HTML.
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by akgoel 7y ago
In Houston, the property tax rate is 3%, and inflation is roughly 2%,so for property to be a net gain, it has to increase in value at over 5%, which is faster than the overall economy, and hence gets less affordable over time
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by akgoel 7y ago
I've gotten several flats over the past 6 years on my Model S. I take it to Discount Tire almost every time. Only time I really to take it to Tesla is when I hit a pothole so hard I had to replace a rim. Even then, I could take it to a

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