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by boc 4y ago
That's not how it works lmao. You can't just trade your house for $0 to your friend and agree that there's no tax to be assessed. The government has its own opinion on the fair market value that they use. Otherwise EVERYTHING
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by boc 4y ago
Sounds like you didn’t read what I wrote. You can trade crypto P2P blindfolded in underground basements to your heart’s delight, but Uncle Sam will demand his cut eventually once you use that wealth for anything material in the real world.
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by boc 4y ago
To further clarify: 1) When you buy things to survive/thrive with crypto, you also owe taxes to the government 2) Crypto isn’t legal tender for paying your taxes in the United States (or almost any other country) 3) You (or your counte
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by boc 4y ago
Seems like you’re painting with a very broad brush. Ultralight 3L jackets like the Arc’teryx Alpha SL breath way, way better than a standard rain jacket. I actually A/B tested a standard 2L rain jacket vs the Alpha SL in hard rain whil
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by boc 4y ago
USD is inflationary by design. The intent is to encourage investment, not stuffing it under the mattress. So no, your example doesn’t work.
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He's a techno-feudalist. The lord doesn't need to explain to his serfs why his demands are required. Elon's previous companies are populated by true believers (albeit because of a shared vision ie: colonizing Mars) who beha
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by boc 4y ago
It matches what I see and hear directly from my friends on the ground at Twitter. It’s a small world here in SF.
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by boc 4y ago
If anyone is looking for an easy way to get their heart rate up to max + exert themselves at max effort without doing anything too crazy, I highly recommend a C2 rowing machine. Set the program to a 5K (or 2K) and do the first half as a war
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by boc 4y ago
I think you're confusing my use of basic. Basic here means fundamental , not surface-level. It's like saying carbon is a basic building block of life. It doesn't mean that if you dig deeper, it's actually something else
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People forget that Snapchat almost killed their product with this exact same logic. Their founder went to China, saw the omni-apps, and tried to pivot Snapchat in that direction with disastrous results.
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by boc 4y ago
Because economic activity is fundamentally incompatible with a deflationary currency like Bitcoin? If I can passively generate wealth by doing nothing but waiting, so can everyone else. Only suckers would work. This is basic macroeconomic
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by boc 4y ago
NPR is not funded in a significant way by the government. Only about 4% of their annual funding is from government sources. [1] [1] https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/national-public-ra...
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by boc 4y ago
Fantastic choice. I prefer my 2006 GX470 over almost any new car on the road today.
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by boc 4y ago
I'm cackling at idea that even Elon is tired of hearing about the blockchain from crypto nerds... even the ones offering him billions.
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by boc 4y ago
The Accidental Superpower is a good book that goes deeper on this topic.
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Because it’s antisocial behavior? Reflexively casting doubt (without a counter-argument) on a number that the BLS has been publishing for decades using a transparent methodology isn’t helpful. This number isn’t the “how much am I spending o
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by boc 4y ago
Not really, quite the opposite in fact. If humans were robots they’d trust each other completely, meaning all financial transactions could be done instantly with a simple database. Humans are messy, so the solution we’ve arrived at is a dat
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by boc 4y ago
People who drive Teslas are overwhelmingly doing it for environmental reasons, as well as supporting the cause of electric vehicles (aka mitigating climate change). Most Republicans aren’t interested in those causes. Elon isn’t a marketing
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by boc 4y ago
And with that headline, Elon is never selling another Tesla to his target demographic again.
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by boc 4y ago
The first season was so fun. Loved peeling back layers of the onion and discovering what was really going on. Season 2 had a few bright spots, but after that it was clear the story had hit a dead end.
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by boc 4y ago
Hello from SF! Having a "me" night tonight after watching some very entertaining games, and enjoying this thread quite a bit. If anyone is passionate about backcountry skiing let me know! I'm getting ready to split a lot of t
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by boc 4y ago
I know I’m not a big fish in the SF tech pond. I lead performance marketing/growth at my startup - spend a few grand a day across the typical channels. Seeing things like this from Elon make it nearly certain that my company won’t be a
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by boc 4y ago
But does Twitter have a signed copy of all those agreements? No. How could they? Either they comply without hesitation to all takedown requests, or they don't take anything down unless ordered by a court. Doing something in the middle
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by boc 4y ago
IANAL but restrictions on confidential information only apply to government classification of information. Private classification isn’t a “real” thing, it’s just a breach of a private contract. If you’re a “free speech platform”, who are yo
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by boc 4y ago
Right but the people who bring in the money (advertising sales) probably got axed because they don’t write code.
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by boc 4y ago
Biden’s statement wasn’t wrong. The fact check just provided a statement stating that the reason social security payments were the highest they’ve ever been is because they are automatically tied to CPI. It’s weird to editorialize fact chec
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by boc 4y ago
You have no evidence that this post is misinformation. You’re just choosing to believe it’s untrue.
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Counter point is that hundreds of millions of people use these products across the entire world, with thousands of corporations relying on them to work 24/7, yet the total number of global employees would barely fill half of the Chase
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The internet in general is incapable of admitting that the US does some things right. I'm thankful every day that I live in the world the US created and shaped, and not the world that was created and shaped by China (or the Soviet Unio
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by boc 4y ago
Totally agree. I think it's still worth reminding everyone that over a million Americans died from Covid-19 (and counting), and the response was way better than the response to the last major economic crisis. Overheating the economy vs

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