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by dlp211 6y ago
Oh for fucks sake, I never made such a claim and the election is incredibly scrutinized. It is the reason that we know about the handful of fraud cases that have happened. Of course no one believes that there is literally no fraud. Why do w
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by dlp211 6y ago
You believe this because you have no idea how incredibly scrutinized the process is. There is a reason that there are Poll Watchers from both parties, including lawyers and independents to ensure that poll workers don't put their thumb
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The fundamental problem with this is that if I bought your product, it's because I was looking for your product after doing a decent amount of research which meant I was on a bunch of retargeting lists and you've wasted money on m
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It's a disgrace that people have taken to discussing politics in a democratic-republic?
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I would assert that CEOs are far more replaceable then they would have you believe.
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Your first is an appeal is an appeal to the extreme fallacy. A law like that would never pass in a functioning democracy, and if our democracy isn't functioning, then I would say we have bigger problems than a single person be taxed of
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Estate taxes are on the estate, not a person. Also, there is a built in assumption that taxes have been paid. This is almost always not true, see step-up cost basis. Estate taxes serve a purpose, though I would argue that a lack of will has
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We are a nation of laws, not men. Everyone should be treated the same under the law. Every person in your example should pay the same amount of tax.
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1. Taxes are not theft. 2. No man/woman is an island. They did not create their success on their own. 3. Marginal utility of dollars. Taking 90 cents from that person and giving it to someone that is not as well off is better for the e
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Your base point is valid, your example is at best incomplete. Stock compensation is taxed as regular income. The appreciation of the stock afterwards would be taxes as cap gains.
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It only seems fair if you don't understand the marginal utility of dollars (some dollars are in fact far more valuable than others) and marginal propensity to spend.
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More than what they are paying today. I'll also remind you that the tax burden on every marginal dollar is the same for everyone. That is, that CEO pays the same amount of tax on their first taxable dollar as I do irrespective of what
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by dlp211 6y ago
That's a nice false dichotomy you built.
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Not in anyway an authority on this, but I don't think so. They have to price the stock based on fundamentals and make a best guess. Would a different bank have priced it higher? Maybe marginally, but probably not double or more. Maybe
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The VCs and founders still have plenty of their shares to cash in.
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If the US dollar ceases to be the world's de facto currency, we have much larger problems then the moderate inflation that may or may not follow. I'd argue it is far more a political problem than a monetary problem at that point.
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Real estate is local, my house in Alabama has returned sub 1% annualized in appreciation, my house in Washington as returned about 6% annualized. Where supply is constrained, prices are going up, where there is excess, prices aren't ev
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by dlp211 6y ago
What inflation? Gold bugs have been telling me that inflation was going to happen for my entire 20 year adult life. And being on the Gold standard did not in any way prevent inflation...but don't let that little fact get in the way of
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For the same reason that a tourniquet is not a long-term solution to a severed artery. It is a short-term solution to a specific problem and it has a shelf life.
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Yes. The money isn't coming from my pocket our yours. It comes from a Central Bank punching keys --literally in the case of America's Federal Reserve-- on a keyboard and updating a ledger balance.
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> This could go badly for El Goog What does this even mean? The power and resource disparity between Google and an individual researcher are so vast that this in no way can go bad for Google. The idea that a few members on HN are disillu
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Understand is doing a lot of lifting here, it's also probably wrong that all the black boxes are understood. No one actually understands economics, we are all using a bunch of decades/century old models that don't really hold
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Probably 30+ years of priming by conservative politicians, consultants, and their media mouthpieces spouting white aggrievance agitprop combined with the explosion of social media and a black man becoming President and nearly 8 years of pur
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That's a lot of writing to blame a singular event for the rise of disinformation within conservative circles that ignores a whole lot of other reasons that conservatives are prone to this type of disinfo and not (American) liberals.
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This, I think, is such an important point. We hold too many powerful people in our society less accountable then those with less power. We should be striving to achieve the opposite, the more powerful you are, the more accountable you are,
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Why? Are people with deep technical knowledge, both soft and hard, not allowed to profit from that knowledge? Can you point to some conflict of interest in writing a book, speaking, and being a professor while a private citizen? Are you jus
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There are quite a few problems with the Forbes 400 list, most notably it does not in fact capture the wealth of the 400 wealthiest people/families. A lot of old money is left off these lists because...well it's old money and they
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How was it out of context. They played the whole tape. Also calling the media the DNC media just goes to motive.
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The whole point of software is to reduce or manage complexity. Git cli fails miserably at this. Google's perforce with mercurial client has been the best VCS I've ever used and I now have a deep hatred of everything that isn'
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What does physical violence have to do with the success of your son?

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