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by dlp211 9y ago
It could have to do with the fact that video and text articles are different mediums.
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by dlp211 9y ago
The cost of Lego pieces has tracked with inflation since at least the 1980's. The going rate of a piece is ~$.10. IMO, what you are seeing isn't that Lego's are getting more expensive relative to their past prices, they are
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by dlp211 9y ago
TIL taxes only benefit the government and never go to anything useful like the food stamps my family sustained itself on while my baby brother went through chemotherapy, or the Post 9/11 GI Bill that allowed me to get degrees in CS and
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by dlp211 9y ago
Except it doesn't work that way because cost basis gets reset during inheritance which is a huge give away to the most wealthy families. It is also the reason for an Estate Tax.
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by dlp211 9y ago
I never understand why someone working less is considered a bad thing. If a person works less that leaves a vacuum for their services which will then be filled by another market actor.
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by dlp211 9y ago
We don't have a capital problem. Capital is available, it's cheap, and it is flowing.
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by dlp211 9y ago
That is such a simplification of income tax though. For example a family of 4 making $50k/yr pays about $40 in federal income taxes. If that same family make $75k it goes up to about $2500. Both of those as a percentage of income are
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by dlp211 9y ago
Those who can afford to save do, those who can't don't. There isn't someone out there making $50k/yr raising a family saying "if capital gains rates were just a little lower I would save so much of my paycheck&quot
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by dlp211 9y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but are you claiming that SS has had no impact on poverty rates?
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by dlp211 9y ago
I don't know off hand, but I know it isn't zero because they've released their tax returns for like 30 years.
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by dlp211 9y ago
In addition to this, how much you can deduct is limited in multiple capacities, so he may not even be able to deduct the full amount. https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...
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by dlp211 9y ago
But Trump allegedly doesn't donate to his own foundation unlike the Dell's or the Gate's foundations.
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by dlp211 9y ago
Probably none, but it's not a matter of what city could survive unscathed, it's a matter of what city has minimized the consequences. Houston has allowed for basically unfettered growth constraining their bayou's and preventi
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by dlp211 9y ago
Use an RFID system similar to how EZPass works. Or they can use a lGPS system that supplements GPS data for increased accuracy and decreased latency. Or they can factor in odometer data into the algorithm. Those are just three ideas off t
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by dlp211 9y ago
And while it may have not played out historically in the US, the opposite side of that coin, that is a glut of gold, is just as devastating to an economy.
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by dlp211 9y ago
This is gate keeping at its finest. Email is a clunky tool to do development with compared with what is available. A persons willingness to use email (and all the quirks for submitting a patch) for patching the kernel has nothing to do wit
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by dlp211 9y ago
I have used one and everything you said is valid. It is fairly low res and the graphics are mobile quality, but that isn't what you are paying for, and calling it garbage is pretty unfair. Show me another device that is doing AR right
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by dlp211 9y ago
I think for stable markets; ie: markets where neither the buyer or seller has a distinct advantage; probably. But I just bought in a market where the sellers have a clear advantage and buyers are competing aggressively against one another.
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by dlp211 9y ago
This isn't a thing on Windows. You are not required to go through the store in order to install or run UWP apps.
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by dlp211 9y ago
You can literally get every single one of those things. This idea that the only laptops available are MacBooks and other Ultrabooks is annoying here on HN.
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by dlp211 9y ago
Did you just claim a 20x return on investment wasn't good? A 7% investment adjust for inflation will return about 4x over the same time period (40 years). I have no clue what the hell you are talking about.
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by dlp211 9y ago
The average student loan debt in 2016 was $37,172. And while there are those that do take on significant amounts of debt, they typically are those seeking professional degrees, eg: M.D. or J.D. There are of course those who both take on l
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by dlp211 9y ago
I just want to point out something that I heard on NPR/Public Radio on my drive home the other night. Essentially the studies that have been done around Seattle show that $15 was probably too high, but when it was raised to $11 it had
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by dlp211 9y ago
No, not to my knowledge. In fact, most people didn't even know that MSFT lit this feature up and they beefed it up for Vista. I didn't shove anything down anyone's throat. Also, let's not pretend that everyone at MSFT w
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by dlp211 9y ago
Which MSFT has been collecting since Win XP SP2. There are plenty of other OS's that do the same thing and plenty more than don't. If you are that paranoid, you are more than welcome to not use Windows/not work at a place th
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by dlp211 9y ago
Microsoft started by doing what every other OS maker was already doing by collecting telemetry (note: they weren't selling it). A minor community of users caused a massive uproar about the telemetry coming off the device despite the f
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by dlp211 9y ago
Here's the problem. Windows is for everyone, the vast majority of people will run Windows on their desktop and laptop PCs. The vast majority of people also know nothing about computing and OS security. The vast majority of people wi
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by dlp211 9y ago
You can't actually make that claim at all based off of this. Repairability =/= environmentally friendly.
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by dlp211 9y ago
Exactly, they'll take what can be reused, get the additional parts, and sell a refurbished unit.
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by dlp211 9y ago
Yes there is. One is by force of law, the other is simply a reverse engineering problem. If you can put it together, you can take it apart, it doesn't mean it will be easy though.

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