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by evanpw 8y ago
Individual states used to be more sovereign. It's similar to the structure of the European Parliament (where small countries have 10x as many representatives per capita as large countries), or the UN (where otherwise China and India wo
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by evanpw 8y ago
> there is no progressive taxation for capital gains (I know this is not your main point, but) short-term capital gains are taxed at the same rate as ordinary income, and long-term gains have three brackets (0%, 15%, and 20%).
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by evanpw 8y ago
Unfortunately, no: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40714311/4807623
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by evanpw 8y ago
My biggest complaint with structured bindings is that you have to give a name to every element, so if you're compiling with -Wall, you get a lot of "unused variable" warnings. Similar functionality in other languages lets you
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by evanpw 8y ago
Any time I hear something sensational about quantum computing, I check Scott Aaronson's blog for the real story. Here's his blog post on this topic: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3827 .
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by evanpw 8y ago
I know you said "generally", but there are some significant exceptions (like VXX): https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/VXX#eyJpbnRlcnZhbCI6IndlZWsi... Even the prospectus says "The long term expected value o
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by evanpw 8y ago
Your example seems to have nothing to do with carried interest. There's a single investor; no investment manager. The question around carried interest is whether certain types of income earned by investment managers should be classifie
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by evanpw 8y ago
FWIW, the common rebuttal scenario goes like this: You and I earn $200k in wages, and each pay $100k in taxes. You spend your remaining $100k on a boat. I invest my $100k, and 5 years later it's worth $200k. Suppose that $100k gain is
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by evanpw 8y ago
I took GP to mean that "tech bros" (with all of the negative stereotypes that implies) are not dominant, not that men aren't.
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by evanpw 8y ago
It would be completely consistent for more money => more happiness for each individual person, but for differences in happiness between people to be dominated by non-monetary factors (personality, relationships, local culture, etc.). The
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by evanpw 8y ago
The deduction is capped at $10k starting in 2018.
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by evanpw 8y ago
For those who are interested, the phrase to Google is “compensating differential”
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by evanpw 8y ago
Talking about asymptotics already assumes that the universe is infinite. Any smooth, finite spacetime will have finite energy. The interesting thing about asymptotically flat spacetimes is that they can be infinite in volume but have finite
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by evanpw 8y ago
http://knowyourmeme.com/news/heres-to-loss-the-internets-gre...
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by evanpw 8y ago
I've never understood why people care so much about dividends. The stock price drops by the amount of the dividend on the ex-date, so a stock with dividends that are always reinvested is equivalent to a stock that never pays any divide
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by evanpw 8y ago
You can only deduct 10k of state taxes starting next year
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by evanpw 9y ago
Apparently ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides ), the suicide rate at Foxconn during that period was lower than the overall Chinese or US suicide rate.
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by evanpw 9y ago
> How much more of a strain we'd be placing on the earth's resources? If the immortality is based on "brain uploading", maybe just an extra EC2 instance per family of four.
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by evanpw 9y ago
> Meanwhile the wealth gap is at historic highs. Increasing demand when supply is already low should bring up wages. Tariffs are an extremely inefficient form of redistribution. If you want to fix the wealth gap, just make the pie as lar
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by evanpw 9y ago
But US unemployment is at historic lows [1], and US manufacturing output is at historic highs, so why now? It's also notable that tariffs are one of the few policies that economists are almost in universal agreement about [3]. [1] htt
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by evanpw 9y ago
So do police and prison guards' unions, and they're much larger: https://reason.com/blog/2015/06/02/are-for-profit-prisons-or... .
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by evanpw 9y ago
That's not true: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm . Though sometimes people look at the non-food/energy components separately because they're less volatile (supposed to be a better predictor o
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by evanpw 9y ago
Sounds more monetarist: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/012615/what-differe...
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by evanpw 9y ago
QBasic was the free version included with DOS and was only an interpreter. QuickBASIC was the full commercial version which included a compiler.
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by evanpw 9y ago
Notwithstanding entirely valid concerns about student loans, this is pure clickbait. The feds also own 30% of the nation's land (640M acres), and have the exclusive right to collect $3T+ per year in taxes (not to mention they can liter
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by evanpw 9y ago
Since birth order is immutable, what would you gain by a longitudinal study? You still only get one data point per person.
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by evanpw 9y ago
This is the same as measuring developer productivity by counting lines of code: perfectly objective, but worse than useless.
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by evanpw 9y ago
Yes, at least in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe-haven_law
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by evanpw 9y ago
What dates do you see missing data for?
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by evanpw 9y ago
That's undefined behavior. References in valid C++ cannot be null.

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