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by awinder 8y ago
Crucially, it’s not just about a large net property holding. It’s about having a a large percentage of your personal worth in property. If you’re making a lot in salary, or you’re passing down millions in wealth, you’ve been offset on the p
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No one in their right mind is moving from New York to Nevada. More likely, in fact much more likely, is that the double taxation policy that was carved out against high-tax-base states is corrected once Republican national losses continue t
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NIH has also kicked in vast sums of capital to help fund that research, though. And actually considering the scale of healthcare spending (3.5T in 2017), you could probably publicly fund drug development outright within the savings window
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I don’t understand the reasoning / appeal of a new national sales tax for half of the new funding, as opposed to making this financed through payroll taxes exclusively. Maybe it’s to emphasize the 8% cost savings right off the bat to g
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The 70/30 split on stocks to bonds is a little suspect. Traditionally what you want to do is start your career with high (probably 100%) stock allocation and slowly move towards more more bond allocation with time. There’s no right sin
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Although there’s a certain segment who would/could react positively to that kind of approach in the second half, I’d just caution anyone reading who finds it demotivating to not get down on yourself about it. I’d personally offer two o
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You’re pretty much paying for convenience and consistency. Juul is not the greatest or cheapest way to vape. But it is the lowest-time-commitment way to vape (pod systems are no fuss, and then juul has both brick-and-mortar footprint along
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This is a bit ahead of the getting started area, but the last time I was interviewing out of state, no one told me this, and I was young, so here goes: Do not let companies set you up for failure with a ridiculous travel schedule. I was fl
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/12/16/police-off...
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The last time I enjoyed using the Firefox rendering engine on a Mac was back in the Camino days. I’d almost say that that browser is a better Mac experience than Firefox is today. I’ve started using Safari and it’s actually pretty OK and th
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https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/awidevelop.html 2018 numbers not reported (obviously), and given this being the first year of the tax overhaul, this year “should” have resulted in a much higher average increase in s
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There’s still 2 unresolved problems (at least) here: 1. running a ping test is a fine start but wouldn’t a more realistic test be to rerun the benchmark? 2. in a multi-az setup you’re going to have to pay for inter-az transfer costs betwe
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M1 has a checking/savings account coming in 2019 Q1, so this seems to be getting into the territory of tablestakes rather quickly. I'm kinda ready to say good riddance to my brick-and-mortar bank, other than maybe maintaining it
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And you know the history of what happens when FDIC doesn’t exist I assume, which was that banks acted the same way and regular people got washed out.
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What part of FDIC do you find to promote irresponsible mortgage lending? And that’s another story from before the regulation was re-targeted to lessen the burden on small banks
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It is when banks handing out shady mortgages crippled the entire economy and resulted in taxpayers having to shore things up to the tune of trillions of dollars. Some people are either too young to remember or too willful to remember, but 2
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Slickdeals.net apparently has a huge untapped market to go advertise to...
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Yeah I should have elaborated a bit. I believe adaptive capacity was announced at re:invent in 2017 and may have released shortly after / maybe early 2018. The feature is getting a lot more press & push from AWS lately though for s
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https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-amazon-dynamodb-ad...
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The author is making the distinction between “remote work”, which has this downside, versus “distributed work”, which would seek to build a culture where being left out due to in-person communication methods just isn’t possible. Distributed
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Most of the big providers (comcast & verizon certainly) bundle tv & internet together at fairly low rates. For instance, FIOS gigabit is $80/month alone, $80/month for internet + 155 tv channels. Certainly not $100/
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https://www.npr.org/2013/10/30/241891800/texas-voter-id-law-...
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Not sure for why you’re getting downvoted, but I think your point (which I would agree with) is that if large majorities were to act in this way, that system would be sustainable for nobody. The reason why FIRE works in this way is that peo
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Go into business for yourself with enough vitriol to gain the attention of the bannons, malkins, and coulters of the world? Join a company like shell, which has been doing “the climate science” for decades? Idk, we live in a great time fo
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Bingo, and to this point, GE had to go to a government program despite great credit ratings to fund short-term debt in 2008, because the financial lending market had seized up that badly: https://www.propublica.org/article&#
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“Millions of policyholders would start moving their life insurance” Is that practically feasible though, there’s a great cost favorability loss in reinsuring in a new policy years / decades after initiating a policy
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They’ve also used taxpayer giveaways to fund stock buybacks which really don’t have any effect on products they’re pushing to market. I don’t think anyone is really arguing that corporations don’t provide value, but there is a very valid to
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The email was definitely a misplay, but the manager response was also pretty rough. Google’s a big place, surely there’s a non-petty solution other than telling someone that they’ve ordained their future manager — in the heated moment with
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Gotcha, that makes sense :-).
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Not sure what you mean by "absorption" of Mandrill, to wit: Mandrill was always an in-house product of the mailchimp company, they just had it as a separate product vertical. My impression is that the effort to maintain the produ

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