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by cavisne 4y ago
Proposed wealth taxes have been on unrealized gains. Without doing that it’s pointless, billionaires even today never realize gains and just rotate through loans backed by their shares.
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by cavisne 4y ago
To pay the wealth tax you would need to reduce your ownership in the company to pay the tax until eventually you are just another minor shareholder with a leadership position (for now at least). And eventually is not long (under Warren&#x27
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by cavisne 4y ago
In California & Washington mortgages are non-recourse, ie they are secured by the property itself and nothing else. So if your financial situation deteriorates to the point where you are forced to foreclose, you lose the equity in the h
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by cavisne 4y ago
Just git clone mingpt and set the parameters to 100 decillion
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by cavisne 4y ago
Since this comes from a Chinese university they will likely drop the code/checkpoint or at least API access also (their text->image model already has a api).
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by cavisne 4y ago
what would be a tourists experience getting in such a taxi if they werent local? For me this was the biggest game changer of Uber.
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by cavisne 4y ago
The revenue generated from "lift and shift" enterprise migrations to AWS, where large companies pay accenture to move them to AWS in the least efficient way possible probably dwarfs startup revenues.
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by cavisne 4y ago
Not really speculation, its mentioned in the article. Theres not really any free lunch here, vanilla postgres is optimized to perform well within the constraints of a single scale-up host, minimizing storage usage as much as possible. These
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by cavisne 4y ago
How do these companies onboard apps, they always seem super vague about that. I understand the model, they provide a tracking sdk that app developers embed in their apps and get paid for. But I haven’t found any actual documentation on thes
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by cavisne 5y ago
Sadly this is an ideas that has failed many times in the past, and often run by companies that are outright scams. Over half the cost in wiring a house with fiber is between the curb and the house.
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by cavisne 5y ago
There is 30T in government debt, and interest payments last year were ~500B/~6T of total spending. What impact would a 1% move have on these payments, is this public information? (ie. how much is fixed vs floating etc). Can the Fed eve
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by cavisne 5y ago
I think they would have seen this coming, they just couldn't do anything about it. The rise of social media has moved most human generated content onto a few platforms, most of whom don't let Google index them (facebook being the
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by cavisne 5y ago
Built on mangodb? https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb
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by cavisne 5y ago
Probably a submarine story http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by cavisne 5y ago
They used to not allow crypto currencies to use these products (credit card processing, treasury) due to the fraud risk and regulations. Now they are
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by cavisne 5y ago
You still pay for the app engine requests. This whole product is just a hash script that configures the proxy for you.
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by cavisne 5y ago
No one really is, it has majority support from both sides of politics. Because it would be a change in the system it's used as a wedge by politicians. Additionally they know that it's harder to get out of the vote among left leani
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by cavisne 5y ago
The original "no code" dream (ie programs would be written by dragging boxes around in a UI) could have led to this. If instead the future of software becomes large ML models, software engineers will be critical. Feeding the right
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by cavisne 5y ago
Wait till you find out the Fed buys corporate bond ETF's nowdays too...
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by cavisne 5y ago
You can buy cheesecloth masks on amazon. They aren’t really any more comfortable though than a surgical mask.
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by cavisne 5y ago
FAANG has many other benefits (standardised hiring, promotion, performance expectations and compensation increases, profitable business with more stable stock price). Meta is the only one of the FAANG trying to break into a new area that is
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by cavisne 5y ago
Doing exactly this works well, but the other bits of UniFi kindof suck. The desktop software is flaky and I’ve seen some really unreliable firmware updates. The non AP hardware is really overpriced as well
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by cavisne 5y ago
Is there much mystery, I thought they were simply frozen on the os version before the license change?
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by cavisne 5y ago
This feature doesnt seem to be compliant with MacOS's 24 hour per customer limit, so I suspect it will disappear at some point (or change to be more like AWS's offering)
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by cavisne 5y ago
They mentioned the main use case when they launched the initial Mac ec2 instances. Any company that does something on iOS/macos needs mac hardware to run builds on, there is no other (legal) option. The status quo (even at very large c
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by cavisne 5y ago
Sounds like when this person was younger they still got some enjoyment out of life, now woke culture has poisoned their brain so much that an online ordering system not letting the in "just a bit early" is a personal affront.
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by cavisne 5y ago
Especially not the leader who created this bio weapon and unleashed it on the world.
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by cavisne 5y ago
> Maybe the federal government will bail out Ford here with a charging infrastructure program Even if they did I don't think it would help. DC chargers are fundamentally a construction project. Tesla Supercharger locations often get
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by cavisne 5y ago
It's happened [1] but for it to happen to a company with the structure of Facebook a lot of things would have to go wrong. For starters Zuck owns Class B shares which have 10x the votes of Class A shares. I'm sure a bank would h
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by cavisne 5y ago
The capitol is (normally) a public building. There is a sitting senator who has been arrested at a protest in the building. Likewise it was not long ago that the capitol was full of protesters accosting senators in the lead up the the supre

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