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by giantg2 5mo ago
Payroll taxes were capped because the related benefits were capped. We could uncap either or both ends of that. Although removing the cap should have been unnecessary if the government acted responsibly, and the removal of the cap would not
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by giantg2 5mo ago
"The majority of the city does not give a shit." Based on the voting, it seems they do give a shit but in the opposite direction.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
This is close enough (posted here by another). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185123
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by giantg2 5mo ago
It seems your article is saying the same sort of thing I already stated - "The share of taxes paid by the richest 1 percent (24 percent)", right? You are talking about effective taxes rates, which are different. To discuss that, I
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by giantg2 5mo ago
Do you have the data for that? I was wondering about tax paid (as dollars not effective rate- I know effective tends to me lower for HNW individuals due to accountants and other financial professionals they can afford).
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by giantg2 5mo ago
Or withholding money (grants).
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by giantg2 5mo ago
"seeing the ultra rich paying far less taxes then they are." Is this actually true? I thought looking at the aggregates that the top 10% pay something like 1/3rd of all income/cap gain taxes.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
I'm in the long process (slow due to competing priorities) of building an 18" visual telescope because the views can be really cool and beautiful. Plus it blows my mind that I might be able to hand grind something to see light fro
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by giantg2 5mo ago
This shouldn't really be a problem. Just use aseptic techniques to avoid glove contact (direct, indirect, and airborne) with the test material.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
It will only get worse for the next generation as the aquafers are continuing to be depleted.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
The whole point of stuff like SOC2 and audit to verify that policy is actually implemented. Seems like nobody actually checked.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
It still blows my mind. Shouldn't the government audit their contracting companies for egregious issues like this? Seems extremely reckless not to.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
Shouldn't this force companies that need to pass a SOC2 out of the district? Doesn't SOC2 require background investigation of personnel with access to sensitive systems?
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by giantg2 5mo ago
How did they get access to 5k passwords? Are they being sent/stored in cleartext? This is the most baffling part of the article for me. The second part I'm unclear about is how you could pass SOC2 when you aren't terminating
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by giantg2 5mo ago
"sure as hell beats the alternative of... :checks notes: nothing?" There seem to be many things that we could do, like addressing suicide as a social contagion including in media portrayal, providing better substance abuse and men
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by giantg2 5mo ago
Not the OP, but I saw it as a bandaid. Creating a hotline vs fixing underlying societal issues is a quick fix but doesn't fix the real drivers of the longterm increases.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
It's ashame stuff gets strawmanned like that. It's not like there's a secret cabal restricting access. It's just there are many things with limited research because there's no money in it. Both the meds in the artic
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by giantg2 5mo ago
Yeah, psychology studies are weak like that. Here is one with links to many other in vivo and in vitro studies, including some dealing with NGF and stroke (mice and rats). Quality varies. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article
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by giantg2 5mo ago
You're over complicating it because you don't need rates within subcategories when looking at the whole - e is given and f is useless. 3.8 - 2.8 = 1 The overall inflation is 3.8. Overall inflation without food and fuel is 2.8. The
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by giantg2 5mo ago
This makes me think of the tulip bubble. Using AI as much as possible just so people think you are productive is like buying tulips so that people think you're affluent.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
Depends on your definition of short term. Did oil prices drop after '08-'09 timeframe? A few years could be seen as short term in economic trends.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
I have seen some of that, but there is still plenty of non-tech partners, especially if the tech half is at a non-tech company. In my experience, the managers are the ones most likely to have a high earning spouse. It seems like most of the
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by giantg2 5mo ago
Yes, and that volatility is why economists exclude fuel and food from core CPI.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
I think you're misinterpreting me. The overall inflation increase attributed to food and fuel increases is 1%.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
Most SWEs are not top 5%. The median is about $135/yr, and a significant portion of us make under that. The point was that a 1% increase in inflation due to food and fuel wasnt the end of the world. Does a 1% cost of living increase hu
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by giantg2 5mo ago
"What do you mean by this?" Pretty simple - an overall increase of 1% inflation is attributed to food and fuel.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
Those are real wages. We would expect to see that during a sudden jump in inflation. Wages tend to lag inflation. The other interesting part in that article is that excluding fuel and food still shows 2.8% inflation - only 1% attributable t
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by giantg2 5mo ago
I'm not sure why this being disagreed to without any response. There are studies related to this out on PubMed. The effects do not seem huge, but they do seem to be significantly better than placebo. And at least those studies are in h
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by giantg2 6mo ago
Out houses are full of plastic and chemicals. The paint is latex, the carpet is polyester, the wood finish is polyurethane, etc.
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by giantg2 6mo ago
"No country provides a lot of support." The evidence suggests this is not true. The rest of your comment points to non-financial issues. https://www.newsweek.com/norway-birth-rate-fertility-rate-pa...

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