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by dlp211 8y ago
We don't have a two party system. We have a First Past the Post system that inevitably leads to two parties. And having two parties is not necessarily a bad thing, most governments wind up with two defacto parties, they're just c
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by dlp211 9y ago
$25k in tuition, room & board, and fees. You are not making a fair comparison as you need deduct living costs from the former or exclude them for the latter. You also don't consider the average aid package that one is likely to o
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by dlp211 9y ago
I've seen charts on the BLS site that show percentile vs. percentile and at the median salaries, it was about $1MM. It goes down, but there is still a substantial gap for the 10th and 25th percentile, and the gap grows for higher perc
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by dlp211 9y ago
Probably, might even be better, but what is the likely salary progression. College grads still earn nearly $1MM more over their lifetimes.
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by dlp211 9y ago
Only if you instantly revived them and never provided them with the details of why we have an income tax. They would also be shocked by the lack of tariffs and other taxes.
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by dlp211 9y ago
Renting doesn't magically mean you have additional money to invest. The only opportunity cost to factor is the value of the down payment. But you also need to consider their cash flow as rents rose and their mortgage payment remained
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by dlp211 9y ago
No, because you are not calculating imputed rent into your equation.
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by dlp211 9y ago
If you needed the tax cut, you likely didn't get much of a tax cut.
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by dlp211 9y ago
But didn't make the child tax credit fully refundable which hurts middle class families. I on the other hand am going to make out like a bandit with an approximate $6k tax cut, but I don't really need it. I'm going to dump i
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by dlp211 9y ago
This analogy is not correct. The correct analogy is renting a cow vs owning a cow, not owning a cow versus purchasing it's by product.
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by dlp211 9y ago
For the record, Turbo Tax handles this fine. I have used TT for over a decade now and they have been able to handle every situation with no issues. Doing my taxes usually takes me about an hour. Cheaper and faster than having a CPA do it.
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by dlp211 9y ago
I think shareholder expectations determine what a company does. If the company is a growth company, shareholders will gladly allow the company to innovate, but if it's a blue chip, they will expect dividends.
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by dlp211 9y ago
So these people are essentially poor and don't have access to trade and Banking, but they are going to have access to the blockchain, hardware wallets, and the various other technologies they need, and this will all happen before banks
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by dlp211 9y ago
And yet, that is not how Tesla advertises autopilot.
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by dlp211 9y ago
You should dispute the use of statitics here. They make no attempt to control for various factors and compare apples to apples.
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by dlp211 9y ago
We don't know that is what happened. Tesla is using weasel wording to confuse.
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by dlp211 9y ago
Using global statistics greatly skews your argument. While all these deaths are tragic, many of them could be prevented through law and regulation of human drivers.
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by dlp211 9y ago
Wages have remained flat when inflation is taken into account, i.e. real wages are flat, nominal wages continue to increase. We also have seen upward movement in median household income recently, and we should expect that trend to continue
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by dlp211 9y ago
And no one in California is dead because of that.
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by dlp211 9y ago
The difference is the extent to which those companies make that data accessible to third parties. Disclaimer: I work for Google
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by dlp211 9y ago
If that's your attitude, you should only buy corporate bonds and IPO's.
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by dlp211 9y ago
Betterment, where you pay an extra quarter percent to buy Vanguard funds.
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by dlp211 9y ago
Why would an address be a string? That's poor use of types. I would expect that getAddress() returns an Address. If it did return it as something non-obvious, than I would expect that to be expressed through the interface and thus the
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by dlp211 9y ago
I don't think it's that simple. Most energy is produced without any regard for externalities. So it isn't necessarily about a better use for the energy, but the fact that it is being used at all.
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by dlp211 9y ago
This is a strawman. This isn't the world that we live in and it won't be the one we live in for the foreseeable future.
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by dlp211 9y ago
Good for you, but this is no where near normal.
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by dlp211 9y ago
Because quality investigative journalism costs a whole lot of money and time and we need more of it.
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by dlp211 9y ago
Note: Google makes a ton more profit than those companies.
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by dlp211 9y ago
I'm sorry but I need to call this out. There is no difference between equality of opportunities and equality of outcomes for any significant population size. The latter is a direct consequence of the former; and anyone that believes
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by dlp211 9y ago
Yes, significantly. One of the biggest draws of football, for better or worst, is the tackling. People watch to see the big hit and the great escapes to evade the tackling. Here is just a single example: https://www.youtube.com&

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