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601.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Do they still live paycheck to paycheck after receiving a raise? If so, the problem likely isn’t the paycheck.
602.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Sale of a house isn’t a wealth tax - that would be the property tax you pay, and the exclusions are pennies on the dollar on those.
603.
by bombcar 5mo ago
It’s an income tax wearing the trenchcoat of a retirement annuity- it’s not one for any practical purpose.
604.
by bombcar 5mo ago
It’s just how commercial real estate is valued. It’s very formulaic based on the local multiplier of rents. It even applies down to single-family homes but those have competing buyers (families) - but in pure commercial you are the multiple
605.
by bombcar 5mo ago
And commercial loans are NOT like your home mortgage. One you got your home loan, the bank no longer cares (or even can care) about the value of the house, only if you’re not actively destroying the property and maintaining insurance and p
606.
by bombcar 5mo ago
And they’re often owned by funds that are measured in the billions. A parking lot in New York covers for a bunch of empty middle America storefronts, as long as the valuation works out on paper.
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by bombcar 5mo ago
Part of the problem is that when Toys R Us bit the wax tadpole, Walmart jumped in and doubled or tripled the number of aisles dedicated to toys; so any "middle" suburb/city area with a Walmart already has an "easy source
608.
by bombcar 5mo ago
The thing I've noticed is that even dying downtowns want insane amounts of rent; I think you have to be able to buy the building to make it work. However, that's not as unrealistic as it may seem, because the city itself often own
609.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Or print outs of jpgs.
610.
by bombcar 5mo ago
If the unions were more really trade guilds and policed themselves people would have much higher respect for them, I feel. And some unions practically are this, where the union negotiates rates and benefits, but the "customer&quo
611.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Need is almost always relative; if your house is next door to a 24 hour gas station you don’t meed to have a bathroom in your house as you could walk next door and use the gas station’s - but most everyone would feel this was a bit insane
612.
by bombcar 5mo ago
The Kia Carnival does pretty good at looking like an SUV from further away.
613.
by bombcar 5mo ago
It’s not a bad thing at all, and I think libraries do need to evolve, even if in sad that they’re doing so. I’d rather see their money go to robust inter-library loan setups and children’s sections than spending it all on overpriced e-loa
614.
by bombcar 5mo ago
The fact that a brand has to pay money to outbid competitors on their brand is something that feels it should be illegal. Google “forcing” Coca Cola to pay for ads on the search “coca cola” so Pepsi doesn’t appear at the top is somehow wron
615.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Advertisements have multiple purposes - brand awareness, product awareness, sale awareness, etc. Coca Cola advertising is mainly brand awareness - remind you they exist but not really directing you to buy one “right now”. Product awareness
616.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Advertising really only helps in two scenarios - it makes you aware of a class of product you had no idea existed (perhaps searching for toilet paper shows you a bidet ad) - or it makes you aware of a brand you hadn’t considered before. And
617.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Total market cap of NASDAQ 100 (QQQ) is $40 trillion, SpaceX joining that and immediately going to zero would be a 5% drop, big but not the worst we've seen.
618.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Now you have me imagining uThermal as CEO of SpaceX and I think it'd be worth it to see the cheese runs.
619.
by bombcar 5mo ago
You would correct your W2 when the amount you receive wasn't what was reported - this is exceptionally rare.
620.
by bombcar 5mo ago
I just spent 30 minutes reading a detailed mathematical version of "draw an S; next draw a more different S".
621.
by bombcar 5mo ago
One complication with e-books and e-audiobooks (as opposed to on CD) is that since you do NOT have to go in to "get" the book there's really no penalty for putting yourself on the waiting list, and it's long, and I'
622.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Most libraries are currently operating under "the donors don't know how they're being used" if you get the drift - checkouts of actual books are way, way down, the vast majority of checkouts are videos, etc; many library
623.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Strange, ours explicitly called out pizza boxes as being recyclable. I wonder what the difference is.
624.
by bombcar 5mo ago
The thing that's nice about physical datacenters with people is that they often have to physically walk over to disconnect you - it's not as easy as some automated system doing an AI.
625.
by bombcar 5mo ago
That first link is confusing; it seems to say they ended up removing the pages not because of a legal threat but because of robots.txt “automated”. If archive.org can be manipulated to remove content either via legal threats or simple robot
626.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Don't we need more than an index of Archive.org because whomever controls the domain could robots.txt these out of existence if they wanted to?
627.
by bombcar 5mo ago
The standard method is for the installer to have the needful and then it knows what packages to install to give you the network drivers you need going forward (shades of slipstreaming in all the network drivers I could find into W2K custom
628.
by bombcar 5mo ago
538 claimed that they post-checked thousands of elections and their percentages were pretty close. (E.g., 30% chances happened about 30% of the time, million to one chances happened every single time)
629.
by bombcar 5mo ago
Denying that the democrats had two high-profile situations where the “wrong” candidate ended up running is denying the obvious. It’s manifest that Obama wasn’t to win the primary, and that the superdelegates exist for reasons.
630.
by bombcar 5mo ago
My experience was that prediction markets were lagging indicators and basically followed something akin to an aggregate opinion of polls. This is especially viewable if you watch them during the 2020 election.

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