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by erentz 5y ago
I don’t believe you’ve been to NZ. There are no abuses here, I haven’t seen a single cop since level 4 started and I live in a busy central city area. What’s happened is really quite simple. New Zealanders have come together, and all recogn
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And the PACE trial
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Maybe this is a cause of the increase. But the root cause itself is the really abysmal way we design our streets that creates unsafe conditions. The Not Just Bikes channel addresses this frequently with examples from The Netherlands where t
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What happens in March next year?
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I agree this requires something like the G7 to come together and agree on proper measures. The rest will fairly quickly follow the lead once that’s done. Those that don’t will feel pressure in future trade negotiations, through border adjus
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Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19(thelancet.com)
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Such an amazing book. I’m now listening to the audiobook version for the first time. Extremely well narrated by William Drufris. And my mind is blown all over again at all the things Stephenson brings together in this book. The characters a
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by erentz 5y ago
Been looking at housing in Wellington past couple of months. All but one of the houses we looked at were very old, never insulated, often pretty terrible places with few updates over their life. They were all 1.3-1.5m NZD for approximately
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by erentz 5y ago
But Urs is a US tax resident for life now, US doesn’t let you become non-resident. So he will continue to owe capital gains in the US and if he becomes NZ resident that doesn’t change. But he will then owe NZs higher tax rates on his regula
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> Think I’m wrong? Cigarettes and alcohol still kill people they’re just highly taxed. Most studies have found that increasing taxes on cigarettes does reduce smoking prevalence.
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What’s different about US and EU house wrap?
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I’m still not really following, what are you saying about assigning income distribution? But so the way the article made it sound then is his IRA paid for the shares at par value ($1700 = 1700000 shares IIRC). Even though they were of cours
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by erentz 5y ago
Plug a good channel related to this called Not Just Bikes on YouTube. He does a great job tearing apart North American urban planning and housing and compares it to examples where the author currently lives in Europe. I want to be able to l
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What really sucks is I never got the opportunity to invest in PYPL at $0.001 per share. That’s the part that actually confused me. Sure its pre-IPO, but I’ve never seen any that are pricing their shares that low in the beginning, did I miss
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by erentz 5y ago
I see RCV and STV used interchangeably. And the way I’ve seen RCV described in the US it is just STV with a better name for easier marketing. But I may be missing some subtlety. I also prefer MMP for parliamentary systems but changing the U
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Yeah. The solution there is to get rid of primaries altogether. And they’re unnecessary with RCV. Although I think they’re unnecessary already under the current system and the US would be a lot better off without them. You could get rid of
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> If people could confidently vote for another party there wouldn't be just two parties. If multimember districts are used with RCV yes. If not it tends to maintain a duopoly. Australia’s Senate uses RCV like voting with multimember
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Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank [pdf](medrxiv.org)
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Few thoughts come to mind in case you haven’t already come across them yourself: 1. Unlikely but testing for sleep apnea, just to rule out since I’ve heard people with strange constellations of symptoms find improvement this way. 2. Testing
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NERC Warns Energy Shortfalls Almost Inevitable This Summer(powermag.com)
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Chinese Nuclear Plant Flags Performance Issue, French Part Owner Says(wsj.com)
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Edge of Pine Island Glacier’s ice shelf is ripping apart(washington.edu)
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Really all of the proposed benefits could be achieved in much less sexy ways. Want to bank the unbanked? Restart post banking. Want to improve transfer speeds? Copy what every other country has done and create a faster electronic clearing s
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It’s not clear what the event is yet. But it’s already somehow confirmed something for you, which maybe means you should question how you’re assessing the risks. And what evidence would ever change your mind on them. Lots of HN commenters a
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US and Japan leave G7 stuck on coal(politico.eu)
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Airships feature in a book I’m currently reading and recommend: Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson. So far it’s very well written, but a depressing and accurate reflection on how our human nature is dooming us.
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For those that cannot afford it an option to defer some amount of the taxes until sale is one common proposal. Myself I don’t favor this option and think if you can’t afford the land tax on your property then you’re making very poor use of
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This already happens. Look into how cities and states both in the US and around the world already value land separately from capital (or improvements) value as part of property tax.
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The problem is that when John converts to Bitcoin he may receive Bitcoin that has a criminal history attached tainting it. That taint may prevent John from using his Bitcoin at certain places or exchanging it elsewhere. It may also mean the
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by erentz 5y ago
Prop 13 is so ridiculously unfair and distortionary. I wonder is there a way to legally challenge Prop 13 on the basis that it confers a kind of durational residency benefit (see Shapiro v. Thompson)?

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