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by hx87 10y ago
It tends to happen when the following are true: a) Previous government experience is highly valuable in private sector employees b) Government pay is less than this value b) affects regulatory capture in two ways: it allows civil servants t
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by hx87 10y ago
> the Yanks... Well to be perfectly honest I'm not sure, I'm not sure either, but setting up a traffic accident wouldn't attract too much scrutiny today.
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by hx87 10y ago
Why not make it a choice for the prisoner to make then? Perhaps we could have life in prison by default, but make humane state-assisted suicide available at any time.
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by hx87 10y ago
> And the compensation is a paltry amount Then that's what should be fixed, isn't it? The amount should be substantial enough to a) be a significant deterrent for future screwups and b) support the former prisoner indefinitely.
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by hx87 10y ago
Right, so the correct classification is traditional and Roth, not 401(k) and Roth.
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by hx87 10y ago
It also makes non-stupid investments cheaper, so all else being equal cheap money shouldn't increase the proportion of stupid investments.
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by hx87 10y ago
> There's a reason taxi service is expensive. For less regulated cities, sure. For the more famous ones such as NYC and Boston, it's because there are a fixed number of permanent licenses owned by rent-seekers who lobby the cit
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by hx87 10y ago
Roth 401(k)s (and traditional IRAs) do exist, you know...
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by hx87 10y ago
> I'd call this Russian way of doing business That's a funny call, since no one has been tax raided yet.
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by hx87 10y ago
Because distribution of value is important, and people believe that distribution of value is important. After all, there are limits to how much I can feel your well-being, and vice versa.
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by hx87 10y ago
We've had flying cars and jetpacks for a while now. They're just not economical to implement on a large scale.
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by hx87 10y ago
DC doesn't have to be low voltage though. Before high power solid state electronics became reliable, it was difficult to do DC-DC voltage conversion without going through AC first, but that isn't true today. Plenty of power is del
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by hx87 10y ago
Depends on whether the tax is the same on Roth and Traditional accounts (Why are you comparing 401k and Roth? They are completely orthogonal concepts.). If there is a tax, deductions for past taxes paid on Roth accounts are likely.
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by hx87 10y ago
That's probably going too far in the other direction. Perhaps start by limiting all copyrights to 5-10 years with no extension? If you can't make good money from IP in 5-10 years you shouldn't be relying on income from it any
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by hx87 10y ago
It's probably safe to say that business-level regulation has fallen while product-level regulation has risen.
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by hx87 10y ago
Market cap tends to be much lower than revenue for capital-intensive industries. Factories, machine tools, and steel cost a lot of money, after all.
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by hx87 10y ago
I'll bet he has plenty of respect for the "poor losers" but little for those who took advantage of them (PhD programs).
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by hx87 10y ago
A CEO's job is to delegate responsibilities, and an essential part of delegation is deciding what to delegate, and what to handle yourself. The latter depends on the CEO's passion and skillset, and since engineering and design i
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by hx87 10y ago
A facelift isn't all that useful in the grand scheme of things, even to the wealthy, and it requires a significant quantity of very highly skilled manual labor, which keeps the price high. Neither of the above would be true of a treatm
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by hx87 10y ago
So what are the right problems to work on, and what paradigms are more sustainable than European culture?
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by hx87 10y ago
So how would someone like Elon Musk contribute to a political solution to world problems? It sounds like a suboptimal field for someone with his set of talents to work on, and perhaps better suited to someone who has a less engineering and
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by hx87 10y ago
Certainly true. Proposition 13 removes another check on NIMBYism and property price boosterism, since without it the owners will have to pay a high proportion of their non-property wealth in taxes unless incomes rise by a similar amount.
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by hx87 10y ago
It's a good step forward, as long as the pricing scales with the amount of damage a car does to roads when driven. A heavy truck with skinny tires should pay much more than a 2 door convertible with fat tires. Base it on average recomm
534.
by hx87 10y ago
What is savings, if not a loan to an institution?
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by hx87 10y ago
Living in, renting out, and /improving/ real estate creates value. Using it as an idle store of value does not.
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by hx87 10y ago
Counterpoint: Houston has very strong property ownership laws, but zero zoning, and it's doing just fine.
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by hx87 10y ago
Most of the country also doesn't have the problem of rampant housing cost inflation the way NYC or SF does.
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by hx87 10y ago
Greater Boston has wide swathes of triple deckers, which are a 3-4 story (depending on basement status) compromise between the detached house and the 5-story apartment block. They were illegal to build for a period of ~90 years though, alle
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by hx87 10y ago
I'm comfortable with that choice, as long as the NIMBYism is applied to business investment and money as well as people so that people don't have to move in to take jobs. If you don't want me, then you shouldn't get my m
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by hx87 10y ago
In that case everyone in the burbs will just buy a Leaf, Bolt, Volt or Model S/X to bypass the cost of gasoline.

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