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by gen220 3y ago
Yep! I'd rather explicitly + differentially tax vs offer a tax credit for homeownership. Providing a revenue vs a debit against revenue. And to your point about the benefit being small, I'd suggest the tax should be fairly punitiv
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by gen220 3y ago
Yea, I used to live in CA and am all-to-aware of the distortions of Prop 13. I'm more giving a theoretical solution to the problem I observe in many US metro areas, rather than something that would specifically work for California tomo
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by gen220 3y ago
I think this strategy would also tax unoccupied housing. Because if it's unoccupied, you're a de facto nonresident. The broader idea is to tax absentee landlords and pied a terres, in favor of the people who actually live in the
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by gen220 3y ago
Fine, you could limit the tax to buildings identified as single and multi-family homes? Most of those 60% are not living in rental apartments. What it would do is reduce the property value of existing real estate supply (by making expected
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by gen220 3y ago
You could limit over-consumption of the existing supply by differentially property-taxing nonresident homeowners. That would lower property values + rents real quick. According to this site [1] the percentage of renters in SC in 2017 was 60
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Low-Background Steel(en.wikipedia.org)
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by gen220 3y ago
Yep, here's an article [1] describing the process. Here's some youtube video I found showing the various steps [2]. They don't have to use any chemical solutions more exotic than water and air. I bungled the explanation with
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by gen220 3y ago
> allow basis transfers without a taxable event when you're only changing what you're investing in rather than divesting in order to spend the money This is an appealing idea, but it comes at the expense of even further reducin
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by gen220 3y ago
When you outsource support, that carries costs that are difficult to measure and not carried in the lease. Your "supply chain of business" just became less robust. If you're in a business where a couple of days in lead time f
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by gen220 3y ago
I supplement protein, filtered for vegan because my body doesn't like whey, and Pea protein is pretty solid. It's a "complete" protein and doesn't require any complicated processing steps, just drying, pulverizing,
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by gen220 3y ago
Respectfully, have you ever tried to write a ToS? Part of the ToS is explaining exactly what you do as a business with users' data and IP that they submit to your service. If you're maximally ethical, you still have to outline eve
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by gen220 3y ago
Thank you for doing this! Every year I get frustrated with a PostgreSQL formatter, look out into the webs for hope, and begrudgingly return to my sub-par editing experience. Please take your time to do a good job, and thank you, again!
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by gen220 3y ago
> low-salt, high-fiber foods with no added sugar Only half tongue-in-cheek, but if you stick to the produce and dried goods sections, this is pretty much every grocery store! In all seriousness, yes it's a problem. But unfortunately
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by gen220 3y ago
The landlord's broker will show prospective tenants before the apartment's listed (and before the prior tenant has moved out, if they get the prior tenant's permission). If a prospective tenant is seriously interested, you ca
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by gen220 3y ago
It's difficult because digital ToS are so tightly tailored to your business, and digital businesses are so malleable and formless. If you went through the effort to standardize your ToS, it would only be "useful" to a tiny ha
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by gen220 3y ago
I said more in a cousin comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38526658 Basically, trade-offs. On knowing a local, locals will know which neighborhoods align with your lifestyle. They'll also be able to share he
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by gen220 3y ago
The last sentence is extremely true and good advice. In general, "the market" is extremely efficient: all "bona fide good" (i.e. you, your mother, your 5 closest friends, your manager, your college roommate would unanimo
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by gen220 3y ago
NYC (Brooklyn, mainly) for north of 10 years. Pros: Amazing food, music, "culture" in general. In general, if you enjoy some cultural niche, it is probably most at bloom in the U.S. inside the doors of some random address within t
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by gen220 3y ago
Just curious, I have no stake in this, but did you have the "high quality audio" settings turned on for Spotify? I know they've had them in the past, I don't know what the specific name is for it these days.
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by gen220 3y ago
I think Django's ORM is a product of its time, when limitations about the expressibility of the "active record" concept were not fully understood. I like to describe it as Django's ORM will satisfy 80% of your needs imme
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by gen220 3y ago
Do other people in NYC use Doordash? Curious to understand people who do. Anecdotally, I never have even considered it – although it's true that I'm somebody who prefers choosing my own groceries. I feel like the value prop (i.e.
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by gen220 3y ago
Disclaimer that I also sold my GOOG recently, also largely in compliance with my biases as an engineer. As an investor, though, calling the “top” for a company like Google (or Microsoft) is so challenging — not “top” in terms of all time hi
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by gen220 3y ago
Oh for sure, that's why I put "successful" in scare quotes. As mentioned, FB checks pretty much every one of the "ethical collapse" boxes with a bolded checkmark. That they've managed to be successful financia
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by gen220 3y ago
Uber was on the cusp on a bunch of these (numbers pressure, fear/silence, big CEO, innovation, goodness atoning for evil). I think fear/silence tilting + strong governance forced Kalanick out and saved the company. WeWork had ever
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by gen220 3y ago
It began the day up 54.75% YTD and ended the day up 50.6% YTD. They've had single-day downswings as large or larger like 30 times this year alone. Microsoft is fine.
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by gen220 3y ago
It is, and can be done sustainably. But only in conjunction with (1) good harvesting / forestry practices (2) good wood "processing" [i.e. drying] practices (3) good insulation in the homes that use wood for heat (4) good woo
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by gen220 3y ago
I have a friend who got into poker in the 90s. He did a lot of studying and practicing at home, then took a bus down to Atlantic City to try his luck, goal was to pay for a ticket back. He ended up making a lot more money than that (more th
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by gen220 3y ago
Have you tried HTMX before? Seems strongly aligned, with HTMX perhaps having a bigger community. Curious if you have, and found it lacking in some way.
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by gen220 3y ago
They also centralize all the risk. Operating a “pay me $X/month” service is really complicated legally, ethically, etc. In a way, OF is valuable to platforms like Twitter and Instagram, because it has monopolized a lot of the riskiest
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by gen220 3y ago
Eh, as outsiders we're all quick to judge. OpenAI and friends are able to move quickly, but (so far) they're not able to translate their LLM innovations into high-margin revenue with any significant moat. Give it a couple years to

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