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by chillacy 6y ago
Yea that's the problem with tuning these things, same with tarrifs, just leads to companies having a rational reason to spend money on lobbyists. IMO the VAT would be much simpler as a flat tax than trying to tune it, but it's not
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by chillacy 6y ago
A means tested NIT and a UBI can be designed to be equivalent: https://taxfoundation.org/universal-basic-income-ubi-means-t... A guaranteed minimum income would need to phase out by income, so as to not discourage people fr
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by chillacy 6y ago
I see UBI as more of a response to the existing conditional welfare system which already exists and circumvents this system in the most perverse way where you can make _more_ money on disability than doing something economically useful. At
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by chillacy 6y ago
I suspect as with anything relating to human cultures, there's plenty of examples and counterexamples to go either way. For instance in many places people live in a single room, parents and kids [1]. In others I'm sure people live
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by chillacy 6y ago
No, companies offer the least amount and still be competitive with the other employers in the area. This amount currently varies by location because job markets are segmented by city. Over time if job markets spread across cities, then this
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by chillacy 6y ago
On the bright side though, cities might become more diverse (instead of being tech bubbles where only programmers can afford rent). It may also undo some of the brain drain happening to cities in the middle of the country, which could revit
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by chillacy 6y ago
Comp today varies per city because job markets are per city: at every moment each city has a fixed number of applicants and jobs, which creates a market rate. In the long term with enough companies doing remote work though, this starts to b
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by chillacy 6y ago
In recent history in developed countries? Yea seems so. In human history? Most other cultures place way more importance on family than we do in the west, in many even today, kids continue living with their parents until marriage.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Is there higher incidence of myopia in places with less sunlight?
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by chillacy 6y ago
You don't get a "free political speech" pass even if you identify/pass as Han Chinese. Certainly you don't get treated as badly, but the restrictions on speech are still real.
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by chillacy 6y ago
> is a private and individualistic activity Some people go to malls as a social activity. Others like to read product reviews by people (sometimes well known bloggers), or watch youtube videos. Sometimes people even ask their friends for
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by chillacy 6y ago
Game theory would suggest that even if all individual business participants know this, they will still opt to sign up anyways because they're making locally optimum decisions. The paradox of advertising is well known as well, yet ad sp
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by chillacy 6y ago
I'm not quite sure the "we" encompasses a majority in all of these examples... especially the "browser wars" where firefox users are a definite minority (compared to IE users). But maybe you mean "we" as i
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by chillacy 6y ago
> I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know
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by chillacy 6y ago
It's fast if you measure throughput or median latency but it tends to have pretty monstrous worst case latencies due to GC.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Oh this was happening pre-internet as well. Anonymous manufacturers get squeezed by brand labels, brand labels get squeezed by retail stores, franchise owners get squeezed by the franchise...
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by chillacy 6y ago
I don't know the specific etymology of that word, and I do recall that there is a lot of english in bollywood films, but the linguistically the languages are actually related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Eur
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by chillacy 6y ago
Is particle.io considered one of the more expensive ones? I've used them for one-off projects but it looks like they do volume discounts.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Which countries did you have in mind and why would they care about Picasso? Western art history is probably not all that common of a study subject around the world.
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by chillacy 6y ago
There is a short play here: if there's ever a bank run on Tether, it'll crash to 0. The bet would be to hold onto this short and wait for this event to happen, but given how banks survive with fractional reserve banking, it's
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by chillacy 6y ago
I've noticed that the longer your career is, the harder it is to find someone who can replace you. E.g. if a company wants you because you grew MS Office for 5 years and then did the same for Google Sheets, and they want you to help th
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by chillacy 6y ago
Good fanout, but consider: 1. is normative, it assumes the reader respects the all of the (US) constitution's values. Two possibilities: (a) the reader is from outside the US (this article is about Finnish basic income after all) and (
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by chillacy 6y ago
Maybe expensive whisky or wine is a better comparison. They're both mass produced and their value derives more from scarcity than better worksmanship.
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by chillacy 6y ago
I think you've summed it up that your beliefs are very specific and if anyone disagrees with one of them they're unlikely to agree with the rest of them. I will also note that libertarian principles are not very popular with the e
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by chillacy 6y ago
Also depends where you live. Seattle is very different than NYC or Paris.
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by chillacy 6y ago
$700 sneakers, probably marked up too much for the brand, but $300 sneakers are reasonable if you want minimally branded leather sneakers with high quality construction. If you don't care for that kind of stuff though then that's
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by chillacy 6y ago
These people are probably wealthy enough not to care but if I were buying a $5000 purse I'd want to do it in person, like I'd test drive a car before I bought it. Also if I were traveling on vacation, ordering online and shipping
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by chillacy 6y ago
Even that depends now. For awhile there was a strategy for diffusion lines where brands would sell cheaper goods under a slightly different label. Think Burberry Brit, Versace Collection, or Polo Ralph Lauren. Nowadays the trend is to put e
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by chillacy 6y ago
If this was a west coast city, I'm sure they knew one of their target customers very well... they might even have Mandarin speaking staff.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Sometimes I can tell. Usually you get better detailing with the expensive stuff, in the same way that you get nicer interiors on a Lexus than a Toyota. Granted the difference in quality is definitely not worth the difference in cost (like m

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