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by danans 8y ago
Call me jaded, but these still sound like a wealthy person's toy. They are low occupancy, like cars, and also like cars, would be hard to have a significant number of these operating in an area without major safety issues, but worse be
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by danans 8y ago
> ...come to think of it, I wonder if colleges know that their primary value is as a signaling mechanism, and intentionally restrict the size of the incoming class to preserve that signal. In other words, they're aware that they don
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by danans 8y ago
The American term "middle-class" means something far less specific than the original British meaning of "well to do, town dwelling, non-aristocratic business owner". In that definition, a "middle-class" person
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by danans 8y ago
One interpretation is that for many who took on debt they couldn't support, it was a desperate attempt to continue a lifestyle that wasn't possible for them any more due to changes in both the global and local economies, aided by
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by danans 8y ago
> Go to Whole Foods and look at kombucha. Why does it need a ton of sugar? It needs to ferment in order to become Kombucha, which requires sugar.
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by danans 8y ago
This seems ripe for tax evasion. Two parties could loan each other the same amount, through different shell entities, and both could deduct the interest on the payments to the other.
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by danans 8y ago
> The net result of a tax cut, even if applied unevenly, would be less redistribution, by definition, not more. You are leaving out what follows tax cuts, which is the cutting of government services to the poor. That's where the up
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by danans 8y ago
> because there were so many exemptions. The effective tax rate was lower primarily because 91% was the top marginal tax rate. Even those who paid the top marginal rate still had most of their income taxed at lower marginal tax rates,
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by danans 8y ago
> A redistribution scheme is inherently unfair. All systems of tax, benefits, and even property rights are redistribution schemes, including the recent tax cut, which was a redistribution upwards in the income/wealth scale. Redistr
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by danans 8y ago
> Many cities have subsidized housing (and/or rent control). The net effect is these people can 'afford' to live in areas while making lower pay. Many wealthy people who live in rent-controlled or property-tax capped hou
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by danans 8y ago
> $31,200 * 328,300,000 population of USA = $10,242,960,000,000 To start with, 24% of the population are minors, so that knocks a few trillion off that figure. Secondly, a UBI isn't a living wage, so $15 in today to dollars is not a
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by danans 8y ago
I don't understand your response.
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by danans 8y ago
> Perhaps the conditions for recognizing when an industry "needs" consolidation aren't that esoteric? Aren't they all issues of scaling? I don't think they are esoteric either, but rather, pretty straightforward.
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by danans 8y ago
Despite the article's attempt to establish a connection, Millenials' purchasing habits (online vs showroom) have little to do with this beyond their being the generation currently creating growth in demand. Large items such as was
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by danans 8y ago
I never had much of an opinion on corporate tax rates in either direction prior to the debate before the latest tax bill passed - I was much more concerned with (IMO too low) top level marginal income tax rates and capital gains rates. But
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by danans 8y ago
> Here's some robustness for you: our ancestors have been depending on their respective families since humans were a species It's apples-to-oranges to compare a biological definition of robustness at the species level over eons
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by danans 8y ago
As an aside (while I'm enjoying my morning cuppa), the Ottomans, via their control of the world coffee trade in the 1600s, served as the conduit through which Europe and India learned of, and began drinking coffee, both around the same
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by danans 8y ago
> How can that be? All else equal, you are right, but practically, for most people who aren't young, or athletes, hard endurance physical exercise triggers eating behavior that overcompensates for the number of calories burned. Sure
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by danans 8y ago
If you're ever in London, I recommend visiting the Museum of Transport in Covent Garden to understand how London's transit system developed.
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by danans 8y ago
> more robust and decentralized system than us all being atomized and being cared for by the state. Decentralized, sure. Robust? No way. Unless they are wealthy and economically independent, your family are a small number of failures a
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by danans 8y ago
For the software development aspects of my work, I've developed a strong aversion to manual mouse-based management of overlapping windows, as provided by the traditional Mac, Windows and Linux desktop environments. They require too muc
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by danans 8y ago
Even objects correctly identified as being used for religious rituals are often still derived from practical objects, whether cups, spoons, etc, or ritualized weapons. Few objects are purely religious in their derivation. Sometimes the dis
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by danans 8y ago
> Coming from a rural area, I’m really appalled at how inefficient public transit is. A highly utilized public transit system is often far more efficient than cars when measured in people-miles/hr during hours of peak transit demand
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by danans 8y ago
Disclosure: Google employee, but opinions are my own. Did Google really transform Mountain View in the way that it proposes for San Jose, though? The Google campus in Mountain View still looks like a dressed up suburban business park to m
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by danans 8y ago
Well, whether or not one agrees that it's the best food, I think the Bay Area does have some of the most incredible variety of food in the US, definitely compared to where I grew up in the Midwest.
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by danans 8y ago
Hah, good catch ;) I'll offer "just tastier" as a logically consistent, and transparently opinionated replacement.
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by danans 8y ago
> Wow you're really passionate about your cheese huh? :) Living in the Bay Area makes foodies out of people ;) Don't get me started on my sustainable seafood, alt-milk or simulated meat preferences. > Question - could your p
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by danans 8y ago
The shifting preference patterns around cheese type are very tangible. In my own case, my kids have never had the kind of individually plastic-wrapped processed orange cheese slices that I grew up with. No Velveeta style either (unless
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The Future of Suburbia(granolashotgun.com)
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by danans 8y ago
> It is also a set of cultural norms rooted deeply in a long lineage of hard won ideas. > By banning these people platforms like Twitter and Patreon are eroding free speech not in the legal sense, but in the cultural norms sense. If t

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