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by dtwest 8y ago
There needs to be more focus on the capital gains tax. The super rich do not make most of their money from income. If we were to reclassify capital gains as income, the system would be more fair to people who make a living from wages while
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by dtwest 8y ago
The article mentions that the US is the worst performing developed country. I find it interesting that nobody has mentioned the US's opioid problem. Kids dying of overdoses will crush life expectancy statistics. There have been frequen
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by dtwest 8y ago
Healthcare is not irrelevant, that is a ridiculous statement. Perhaps you mean healthcare spending, but even that is only supported by a few outliers like the US. Lifespan statistics are heavily influenced by early deaths. Drugs and violen
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by dtwest 8y ago
As someone from the Rust Belt, the "San Francisco is awful" mentality is puzzling to me. Awful compared to what? Seattle? Some other world class city? If it's so bad why don't you move somewhere cheap like Cleveland? Oh
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by dtwest 8y ago
Since when does Arizona have no hills? Most states in the US are flatter than Arizona.
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by dtwest 8y ago
That's kind of a weird point to make since the NSA spies on Americans and Europeans too.
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by dtwest 8y ago
The article presents DC's park and ride station as "a perfect example of WHAT NOT TO DO". But it's really all they can do if they must force a train system into an area without the right kind of density. I very much agre
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by dtwest 8y ago
The US is designed differently than the other heavily developed areas of the world. It's not about being "too big" or "not dense enough", it is more complicated than that. The Northeast US has a similar statistical
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by dtwest 8y ago
This is a good point. As a former LIC resident, I lived there because of the transit situation to other areas of the city. If I was working in LIC rather than Manhattan, I could easily live somewhere like Flushing or Greenpoint instead. Apa
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by dtwest 8y ago
Free speech is an extremely popular cultural ideal in America. However, there is a distinction the courts have made over the years that prohibits a call to action for a violent act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminen
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by dtwest 8y ago
The pie is growing slower than it ever has. Per capita GDP growth in the US has been close to 1% over the past 20 years. The majority of GDP growth has come from population growth rather than increased personal wealth. The purchasing power
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by dtwest 8y ago
I did not say that for the record
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by dtwest 8y ago
I find it hilarious that you praise your own critical thinking skills while citing the first Google result that you didn't read. You sound like one of these hypothetical Americans that never criticize themselves! The biggest problem in
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by dtwest 8y ago
What specific negatives about America get 'treated with "C'est la vie"'? Americans and the American media are extremely self critical. To counter your anecdote, when I talk to many Europeans there is this imaginatio
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by dtwest 9y ago
The post said 20 uncorrelated income streams, not random stocks. Random stocks often have high correlations to each other.
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by dtwest 11y ago
Should be fixed now. Thanks.
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by dtwest 11y ago
The registration description was inaccurate, you don't need to sign up for Stripe right away to look around the members area, thanks for pointing that out. Also, I agree with the free demo comment, I'll change the button to "
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by dtwest 11y ago
Exactly. Thanks for sharing that one
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by dtwest 11y ago
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