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931.
by gok 7y ago
Well you also need some paperwork to prove your cost basis, and most of that paperwork is dated. But yeah this is one reason why collectibles have a special, higher LTCG rate than securities.
932.
by gok 7y ago
Payroll taxes are included in the total federal tax rate of around 2%.
933.
by gok 7y ago
It's hard to figure out how they got that chart that I've now seen pasted about a dozen times around social media. They cite an unpublished book. But it looks comically wrong. The bottom decile's tax rate is nowhere near 25%.
934.
by gok 7y ago
That was also expected in the US but sales are up as the incentives have phased out. (BEVs in general, not just Tesla)
935.
by gok 7y ago
I ride the L most days, and mostly think it's great, but the systems are not really comparable. The subway has over 10x the ridership and is vastly more important to New York's economy than the L is to Chicago's. The "ha
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by gok 7y ago
When I got an EV, my apartment had shared chargers in the parking garage. As an experiment, I tried to not use them for a couple weeks and lived on public chargers. It wasn't terrible. It was basically back to periodically filling up t
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by gok 7y ago
The UAW's trust did own half of GM in 2009, then proceeded to sell almost all of it and lost their board seat. Turns out a company with a lot of overpaid employees and out of date products is a lousy investment.
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by gok 7y ago
This was a developer that didn't even bother moving to Cocoa yet
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by gok 7y ago
They were also very effectively replaced with expanded rapid transit, regional rail, and buses, all of which carry many more passenger than trams ever did.
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by gok 7y ago
It's stated in the article but it's not really accurate. Zürich is thousands of years old. It was never particularly drivable. There a very brief period of time where they tried to make driving easier, then gave up. It was always
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by gok 7y ago
"The unit could report compound annual growth of 55% between 2018 and 2022, and reach annual sales of about $38 billion by 2025, the analysts wrote." I'm curious how they're making basing these predictions since Google C
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by gok 7y ago
We're getting into the realm of Trolly Problem-esque ethical thought experiments, but how many drunk pedestrians should be allowed to die to save one victim of drunk driving? Consider also that those dead pedestrians are often not real
943.
by gok 7y ago
That is an issue that was touched on in one of the Freakonomics books too: increased DUI enforcement has lead to many would-be drunk drivers instead being drunk pedestrians, which is much more dangerous (for the drunk).
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by gok 7y ago
An interesting study on US pedestrian fatalities: https://www.ghsa.org/sites/default/files/2019-02/FINAL_Pedes... Some notes: Pedestrian fatalities are up in the last decade and there isn't a great
945.
by gok 7y ago
> Can you imagine the impact of being able to train from San Diego to LA in 30mins? Yeah I can: approximately nothing. What exactly would you do with such a train? Neither LA nor San Diego have meaningful downtowns or local transit, so y
946.
by gok 7y ago
The Shanghai Airport Maglev was built by a German company trying to prove the concept for longer distance maglev construction. It was a failure; it was way too expensive and not meaningfully faster than conventional high speed rail.
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by gok 7y ago
This is a common misconception. Overall US transit riders earn about the same as drivers. In metro areas like Chicago, SFBA, or Washington DC, the median income of transit users is significantly higher than drivers.
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Samsung ends mobile phone production in China(reuters.com)
365 points by gok 7y ago|180 comments
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by gok 7y ago
Most of this comes from EXIM Bank loans. The actual merit of the existence of EXIM is debatable, but there is no other bank that could finance large export deals for Boeing, and the EXIM happens to be a (profitable) government corporation.
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by gok 7y ago
Is there a legitimate reason for the Android sandbox to allow calls to `system()`?
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Tesla Acquiring DeepScale(cnbc.com)
11 points by gok 7y ago|0 comments
952.
by gok 7y ago
Bull fucking shit. What got RMS in trouble was not questioning the status quo. It was exploiting the status quo.
953.
by gok 7y ago
Yikes. If you can't figure out how to make your code 64-bit safe, or how to make code signing work, you are effective requiring your users to give you root access. Completely unacceptable for a game.
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by gok 7y ago
Doctors lost the right to complain about wage fixing when they decided to be a cartel.
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by gok 7y ago
I was in a group of ~a dozen people recently and somehow it came up that over half of our wedding bands were from Amazon.
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by gok 7y ago
This really wouldn't work for phones. The accelerometer needs to be very high precision, which is why it only works on very recent Apple Watch models. The accelerometer also needs to be running all the time, even while the main process
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Troops of the future may ditch night-vision goggles in favor of eye injections(stripes.com)
1 points by gok 7y ago|0 comments
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by gok 7y ago
When the author says LRT they seem to be explicitly referring to streetcars. Which are, yeah, generally pretty stupid. Build real rapid transit or run buses. If you want to get rich people to ride the buses, add express routes that bypass p
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by gok 7y ago
> The solution here would be to have at least four (proven number to avoid oligopolies) private train providers competing on public infrastructure It's mostly privately owned, but you are basically describing the current state of th
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by gok 7y ago
Where did you get that? This was an idea that someone posted on on a blog as a hypothetical way to bypass congress’s ridiculous debt ceiling rules which are used to hold the economy hostage during budget negotiations. And it was rejected th

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