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by beefield 7y ago
Do you have a source? (Not trying to be snarky but seriously interested. Haven't seen any technical details anywhere...)
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by beefield 7y ago
Not sure why it should be the case that you are allowed to defer these taxes?
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by beefield 7y ago
> A few years ago, shortly after the birth of our first child, our financial advisor recommended $350k. Amazing. Land of the free seems to be quite keen to come up with innovative ways to enslave its citizens...
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by beefield 7y ago
I'm convinced they will be declared dangerous goods in no time and allowed only in checked in luggage...
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by beefield 7y ago
If there is one thing that confuses me, that is productivity. You start doing the thing you were doing twice as fast earlier, thus your productivity doubles. Kind of, assuming that the price of your product does not change due to your incre
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by beefield 7y ago
What stops the cars being charged at the parking lot at work or shopping/errand locations? One could imagine a distributed model where you have a small battery home and you not only shop your groceries but also the electricity and brin
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by beefield 7y ago
Yep. Eventually. Meanwhile Buffett's tax rate on his (and his companies) income is within the distance of epsilon from zero. Can you estimate when Buffett is going to need the bulk of the money from his compankes to buy a new house? Ho
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by beefield 7y ago
Personally, I find that stupid. If you want a chance to win, do not play against Tiger woods but play against your peers at your club and have different tiers so that the better players seek to not play in the games where the not so good on
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by beefield 7y ago
It's not that difficult if there is a will. Just let big tech know that if they break this law, they are going to be fined all the way to bankrupty without hesitation. Once shareholders have lost their money, government as the biggest
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by beefield 7y ago
Can you also use google search without ads & tracking? I do not claim that it would be good business from big tech. Vice versa. That's why they would need to be regulated to offer that. To me, it would not even matter if it was pre
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by beefield 7y ago
This is one of the more important regulations big tech should be subjected to in my opinion. Let me pay for the services I use, with believable guarantees that my data is not used or sold in any way by the service provider. And regulate the
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Brad Gobright Dies in Accident in El Potrero Chico, Mexico(rockandice.com)
2 points by beefield 7y ago|0 comments
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by beefield 7y ago
That's as easy as !g
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by beefield 7y ago
No knowledge, but at least for my searches it has a definite edge against ddg. (I am European.) What I especially like is that in many cases qwant returns nothing if there is no exact match of my query (typically I made a typo.) I kind of
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by beefield 7y ago
Don't know if it is Europe vs US thing, but I have been more happy with Qwant.com than ddg.gg. (And to add one of my pet peeves: why none of the search engines let me easily blacklist domains from my results?)
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by beefield 7y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to make a whitelist blocker instead of just blacklist? I mean, if a certain domain is in the whitelisted list, you show only responses from whitelisted subdomains. If not, you fall back to blacklist. By poss
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by beefield 7y ago
Funny. Article discussing hard problems of crypto and ignoring the elephants in the room. There is still no actual and relevant use case for crypto outside illegal transactions and gambli^H^H^H^H^Hinvestment purposes. The second elephant is
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by beefield 7y ago
> That is the goddamned ugliest vehicle I've ever seen. Let me try to beat that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Multipla#/media/File:Fiat...
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by beefield 7y ago
> Forbid advertisements But... Ads are useful . I remember once maybe ten years ago when I noticed an ad about an event in a nearby library that was absolutely amazing and without ads I would not have been there. (This is sarcasm. The
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by beefield 7y ago
Co-ops.
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by beefield 7y ago
This. I have never heard a remotely sensible discussion from crypto folks around following points: 1. If fractional reserve banking is bad, what or who is going to stop the appearance of that in bitcoin world? You need to understand that li
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Xkcd: Machine Learning Captcha(xkcd.com)
17 points by beefield 7y ago|0 comments
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by beefield 7y ago
> There seems to be a fundamental flaw of in the mental model of everyone predicting that diamond prices will crash. It would be interesting to hear a theory on why it never happened. I would guess the flaw is the same as in the theory t
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by beefield 7y ago
If I one day have lots of spare time, I think I want to build a neural network and a browser extension that will replace all clickbaits with something. Not sure if it was better to translate them into proper language or just make them even
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by beefield 7y ago
To be honest, I have spent way more time in developing countries[1] than in US. Even some time in the least developed counties to understand that the developing/least developed countries are a really diverse group. As is US in my humbl
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by beefield 7y ago
> Everything is super different and weird and kinda bad, and nobody seems to notice. I have this a bit uneasy impression[1] that a really significant chunk of US is basically a developing country with bigger cars. [1] Based only on visit
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by beefield 7y ago
To me Alteryx has similar issues than Excel. Both seemt be created to create you an illusion that you know how to use the tool with minimal training/understanding. Which results most people producing utter unmaintainable garbage with t
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by beefield 7y ago
If the other taxes do not decrease, then that means you get some other benefit where the money is democratically being allocated. Tax money generally does not just disappear in a modern relatively free society. (Of course you can argue that
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by beefield 7y ago
> Wouldn’t taxing wealth reduce the real value of properties? Yes. That's almost like magic. You get cheaper properties, the property tax revenue is used to reduce your other taxes so your net income does not decrease (on average, o
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by beefield 7y ago
That's why I think more appropriate way to think about wealth tax is not actual practical implementation, but more like a goal. So no adding together all wealth, but tax the value of real estate instead of the rental income. Tax market

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