bollorior

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by bollorior 6y ago
I don't know - the problem with complaints like 'Wal-mart are destroying small, local businesses' is that although many people agree that Wal-mart is bad, often no one is sure exactly what is bad about Wal-mart. Employee cond
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by bollorior 6y ago
I am prepared to accept that 'almost all cases' does not include the insanity particular to the frothiest 60% of the Australian housing market ;)
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by bollorior 6y ago
There isn't a technical limitation here. If in 2001 you had said that web content would be paid for by multiple auctions for advertising space between data brokers who know innumerable different facts about the reader, such as their re
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by bollorior 6y ago
I mean, you've just outlined the way that newspapers' business model is delusional and broken. Lots of people are prepared to pay them for something they make, but they have decided that they're only prepared to accept money
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by bollorior 6y ago
Like the music industry a decade or so ago, the news industry is now in a position where, rather than try and compete, they are going to blame their customers and their competitors for their own failings, and try and secure a special status
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by bollorior 6y ago
Newspapers made a huge strategic error in how they approached advertising, which ultimately resulted in much of their value being essentially given away to Google. It used to be the case that much of (for example) the New York Times' a
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by bollorior 6y ago
Your grandfather is surely much better off than if he had been renting that house all those years. He would also have paid a huge total amount (to a landlord) and wouldn't have any share in the appreciation of his house value. He also
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by bollorior 6y ago
Imputed rent tax and mortgage tax deduction make sense together but not separately in my opinion. Mortgage tax deduction without tax on imputed rent (as in Norway, Sweden and the US) is a subsidy to those who are rich enough to own their ow
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by bollorior 6y ago
I think you have misunderstood how taxation works. If you rent out a house, the rent is income, which you are taxed on. The deduction means that you don't have to pay taxes on the gross amount, but only on the net income after you&#x27
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by bollorior 6y ago
As a probability theorist (who knows very little about physics) I understand this machine as relying on the well-studied and widely debunked martingale fallacy - that you can play until you are slightly ahead, and then stop. Then repeat fro
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by bollorior 6y ago
Yes, this invention appears to resolve a fallacy simply by replacing with another fallacy, perhaps less well known to physicists.
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by bollorior 6y ago
Interesting, thank you.
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by bollorior 6y ago
If you asked me to write a JSON parser in 6502 assembly, I would put the fairly short and unambiguous JSON grammar into lex and yacc to get a parser in C, then compile that to 6502 assembly. Then maybe glance through the assembly code, alth
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by bollorior 6y ago
My city is unusual, fair. But 5x ratio would be far from unusual. One could easily find an apartment in Staten Island (not even a suburb, not very far from the city center) for less than 1/5 Manhattan office rent per sq ft. I'm no
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by bollorior 6y ago
Rent per square foot in the city center where my company's office is located is at least ten times rent per square foot on a house like mine in the suburb I live in. The rent per square foot for a desk in a serviced office near where I