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Interestingly, if the bottom doesn't fall out from under BTC in this hypothetical scenario, investors may flee to BTC rather than dumping it into precious metals or overseas equities. Deleveraging comes in many forms and it can bring u
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You are absolutely correct that it is legally challenging to enforce the estate tax, which is why I am arguing that it should be strengthened as it is important to our democracy. The Rockefeller fortune would have never materialized without
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I meant dearth of data, and I have rephrased the paragraph to more clearly convey the intention. While there is a lack of supporting data, the intent is important.
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Indeed, there is a lack of supporting data and enforcement is weak at best, but it is a matter of mutual respect and shared responsibility between the wealthy and non-wealthy.
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The estate tax has been nearly the best way of reducing wealth inequality, second only to the income tax. Like many wealthy individuals off of Hacker News, you more than likely have a Roth IRA account that houses Vanguard mutual funds. John
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You cannot remove ideas from the mind but you can flood it with so much misinformation that the ideas are basically destroyed. Effectively, people will "block Facebook" from themselves through self-censorship or completely writing
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The British economy nosedived into total exhaustion of resources, with resource rationing extending to 1956. It was closely intertwined with the French economy for a century before WW2 and its assets were wholly seized/decimated. If WW
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Sure, check the S&P 500 index price. It always dips come December.
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People liquidate assets during December Holidays for buying presents, vacationing, and so forth. In other news, water is wet.
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Case in point, this comment.
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How do you reconcile that with the fact that competition is by all means opposed? Sections of the country are carved up into fiefdoms where rent-seeking is the norm.
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I'm on the fence about this, especially given that it's my livelihood. Sure, I worked through the bad old days of writing `document.getElementById()` by hand, Scriptaculous vs MooTools, mountainous files of jQuery, Backbone vs Ang
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And knowingly exposing others to HIV is no longer a felony in California. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/1... While virtue-signalling about nomenclature is fun, this actually
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Well, to be fair, I was looking at the 960 Pro rather than 960 Evo. Maybe Apple will go for lower-quality components, maybe .
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Any network security authority worth their salt would tell this manager (and those like him) that "checking up on things" is a hopeless and useless endeavor. Like all log monitoring systems, only actionable items should be present
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For reference, 1TB NVMe SSDs retail for $600+ and 2TB NVMe SSDs retail for $1700+. Lower-priced 2TB NVMe SSDs will probably come out soon, driving the cost down hard.
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How do you reconcile that with external effects? Surely a college endowment increases for reasons outside of the college presidents' actions and it is not directly attributable to him/her. If all college endowments grow in lockste
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This is pretty much it, mocking is quite simple and straightforward. It's tedious but wrapping access to external resources (eg: cache, HTTP, database) is necessary for a sane Go-based application.
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An appallingly minuscule tax (eg: $0.01/1000L) would encourage appropriate (nay, mandatory ) rate monitoring as well as provide a modicum of oversight. Keyword: rate monitoring, not rate limiting
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What utility? It has no intrinsic value.
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Not really. It wholly fulfills being financially responsible through this basic tenet -- buy low, sell high. Few asset classes can appreciate in value as astronomically as BTC and it would be prudent to overcome sellers' remorse. Some
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Those are two separate issues and it is only prudent that parents relive their children of crushing debt. Would you rather parents piss away their wealth on frivolities? Passing on wealth is the hallmark of a wealthy society and it's r
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The problem is externalities -- both positive and negative externalities affect the outcome and it is basically impossible to determine whether an outcome occurred due to management decision or due to an externality (eg: revenue growth due
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Definitely this. It takes a lot of effort to burn through as much cash as Uber is and moving the needle in Lyft's favor requires a lot less effort, which is where things get dangerous for Uber.
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The idea is to drag the entire ride hailing industry underwater long enough to drown out competitors, and the trick is to do this without drowning themselves in the process. This is the nature of "predatory" pricing. There is some
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Hosted here: https://github.com/c9/core/ Notable tech: Emmet (snippets, HTML autocomplete), Engine.IO (web-sockets), MsgPack (message serialization), RuSHA (browser-based SHA1), Tern (code analysis, AST etc), Acor
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Numerous systems that scrutinize IP-based geolocation information already throw up additional security checks when detecting changes. Personally I welcome it, especially when banks do it. It's low-hanging fruit TBH. It massively fucks
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I've always considered myself a digital janitor of sorts, always cleaning up garbage other people leave around.
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They will probably water it down to fast-lane/slow-lane where SaaS providers -- ie: you -- have the option to buy into the fast-lane. As for affecting policy, that is a more interesting challenge.
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I would argue that their wealth composition determines their capacity to move around -- or, more to the point, how liquid their assets are. Real-estate owners are obviously anchored to the land that their property occupies, naturally. One p

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