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by heurist 9y ago
Where are you seeing those US numbers? Effective rates for the wealthy in the US are often much lower than the expected rate due to deductions and loopholes.
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by heurist 9y ago
They're going to have a lot of issues with that policy long term. The US started doing that in the 50s and 60s only to find it raised crime rates and decreased economic productivity (these became what we know now as "the projects&
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by heurist 9y ago
Good recruiters are excellent networkers who are in touch with the most exciting businesses in your area and field of expertise. I've only met one but if I ever find myself looking for a job then I'll be talking with him.
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by heurist 9y ago
The alternative right now is the minority having total control over nearly all federal and state bodies of government in the nation. I'll take the 'risks' of proportional representation over that...
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by heurist 9y ago
That only indicates demand for botcoin, not the reason for demand. Though emerging markets adopting it might explain the growth. It doesn't help assess bitcoin's value except to indicate it might have additional stability as a cur
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by heurist 9y ago
I had bought about $50 worth of BTC a year ago and it's now worth $800. Did the bitcoin economy grow that much in the last year? I've heard of increasing adoption by banks and governments but I don't know to what extent they&
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by heurist 9y ago
If you don't follow the industry there are indexes and funds available for this stock. All you need to do is find the right ones and you'll be mostly insured from any individual company failure. There's a lot of money in oil
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by heurist 9y ago
No, but it prevents ISPs from blocking upstart competitors. Without NN an ISP can slow down a competitor's site or prevent access to a competitor's website or any website that advertises them or any advertisement they might run. W
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by heurist 9y ago
Net neutrality prevents ISPs from blocking upstart competitors. If we want competition, we need net neutrality.
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by heurist 9y ago
Funny that my house in a block with around 300 other residents is only covered by one ISP, then.
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by heurist 9y ago
I think they should remove the media content they add to external links and only show URLs. If people had to click a link to see the title, summary, images, or other clickbait meta content they'd be less likely to share links thoughtle
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by heurist 9y ago
Decentralize it! We need better measures of power centralization. When an ISP is effectively able to create its own monopolizing legislation, it might as well be part of the government. The government isn't going to buy them out and im
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by heurist 9y ago
Rockafeller got up to around $340 billion in today's dollar. Vanderbilt, Carnegie, and a few others built huge fortunes before the trust busters and regulation came along.
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by heurist 9y ago
Facebook, google, amazon, etc all benefit from Pai's decision if they deem ISP fees affordable. It keeps competition from emerging and, with cable-like packages, would put their services in front of every Internet user.
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by heurist 9y ago
I've read that Cruz only takes meetings with representatives of formal groups.
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by heurist 9y ago
4% is well below the effective rate that the wealthy in this country currently pay and are likely to ever pay (legally). Would you have stayed if your effective tax rate were 5% lower than whatever you were paying when you decided to move?
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by heurist 9y ago
Big box chains and suburban shopping malls were doomed to fail. They built in a boom time and built in places expecting to draw in new development and residents from tens of miles away. But they based all their site decisions on an impracti
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by heurist 9y ago
It's starting but to truly take that stand generally requires major life changes, and those changes take time to come into fruition if they happen at all. I'm trying to save enough money to escape the rat race and build technology
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by heurist 9y ago
There are tons of things I'd want to try if I became redundant due to automation. However, if that were to suddenly happen the world would quickly change so dramatically that we would not be able to determine what careers are stable an
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by heurist 9y ago
Complex problems are not always simple to explain. I sell data about complex social systems and I've found that when my customers are finally deciding whether to buy or not, only very rarely do they want to look at numbers. They want t
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by heurist 9y ago
When you don't have expertise in a field and don't have time to study it, the wisest decision is to trust the scientific community with expertise in that field (and verify as soon as you are able). Even if they are wrong they are
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by heurist 9y ago
There's a lot more money and power in the first group of industries than the second group, so I can't take that as a fair equivalence.
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by heurist 9y ago
I find this "self-interest" kind of argument very common among conservative friends and family. They also say "follow the money". I have had great difficulty in understanding why they choose to apply these conspiratorial
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by heurist 9y ago
They're "easy" to operate and scale. All the systems are already pre-built for you - everything is on rails - and all you have to do is secure the funding, lease/buy/develop the space, and hire the right people to r
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by heurist 9y ago
Might as well read the op-ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/opinion/twitter-first-ame...
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by heurist 9y ago
I know a guy who knows some Google VPs who say Google is afraid people will go directly to Amazon for all their shopping searches rather than starting with Google, hence ad spend is threatened. Big deal for Google.
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by heurist 9y ago
We have to blindly accept scientific findings sometimes because we don't have the capacity to know everything, but in general "blind acceptance" is a loose connection that we acknowledge could and probably change. The fact th
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by heurist 9y ago
I always felt I would have done a lot better in tournaments if my opponents talked at a pace I could comprehend. In retrospect, I should have probably pursued another branch of forensics instead.
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by heurist 9y ago
Took how many years for opioids to be considered a crisis? And that had immediately demonstrable, measurable impacts on society. America has a lot of resistance to improvement when it requires giving up any kind of freedom.
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by heurist 9y ago
Don't worry, kids today are still suffering. Children in America today have a 1 in 5 rate of living in poverty, roughly the same 40 years ago.

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