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by imgabe 3y ago
You can look at the graph in the article. It starts at 1850. So, 174 years if you want to be precise.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Have you ever driven across the US? There is an unfathomable amount of open space. Same in most countries, aside from maybe Europe. We are nowhere close to running out of land.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Regardless of what the temperatures are, one group of 10 years would have been the hottest 10 years in the last 200 years, because, you know, that's how numbers work. Some are bigger than others and it would be exceptionally unlikely f
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by imgabe 3y ago
Recorded history is about 150 years, which is barely a blip in human history, let alone the planet’s history. We will find ways to adapt and survive.
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by imgabe 3y ago
It’s not to get a better education. It’s not to do better research. Yes, you are proving my point.
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by imgabe 3y ago
The value of branding. An interesting concept. What value does branding provide? Does it make you smarter? More competent? Or does it just convince people to give you more money for no reason? Interesting that you place such a high value o
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by imgabe 3y ago
Sure,ok. Look at the state of things run by Ivy League graduates in the US and carefully reconsider that. The financial system. The cost disease in infrastructure projects. Government. Healthcare. Are you sure about that?
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by imgabe 3y ago
And would you say it’s a good thing that this is the reason as compared to actually learning calculus? Ultimately, you’re going to have to drive across a bridge someday designed by John or Jane Q. Ivyleageue. Would you prefer they got the b
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by imgabe 3y ago
I mean sure, technically, yeah.
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by imgabe 3y ago
We’re talking about Ivy League schools here, not Cornell.
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by imgabe 3y ago
When did you go there?
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by imgabe 3y ago
It’s true. There are brainless hiring managers who will greenlight anyone with a fancy school on their resume just like there are consumers who will fork over a month’s salary for a handbag with right logo. If you want to work for people l
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by imgabe 3y ago
Are they the smartest people possible? Recent court cases have exposed that “smartest possible” is not what Ivies are selecting for.
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by imgabe 3y ago
It’s too late. Ivy League schools are a joke. They’ve been coasting on the accomplishments of alumni from 50 years ago. Serious kids of the current generation should not worry about trying to get into Ivies. Why would you go to an Ivy? Do y
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by imgabe 3y ago
I don't know what you mean by "represent actual history". I don't think anyone believes that AI output is supposed to replace first-party historical sources. But we are trying to create a tool where we can ask it questio
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by imgabe 3y ago
AI has been better than humans at chess for a while now, and chess is more popular than ever.
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by imgabe 3y ago
These aren't that funny... I would even go so far as to say they are pretty bad.
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by imgabe 3y ago
The 9,000 construction jobs will also pay taxes while they're working for 2-3 years. The 1,500 people will buy houses and go to restaurants and dry cleaners and have lawn care and create much other economic activity that will also gene
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by imgabe 3y ago
People can stop an interrogation at any time by asking for a lawyer or just not answering any questions.
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by imgabe 3y ago
They’re not avoiding any costs by selling the movie. They would just have a smaller loss than if they didn’t sell it. They don’t have to sell the entire rights to the underlying IP, just the one movie. Nobody is taxing anyone for avoiding l
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by imgabe 3y ago
I already answered that. Because the value of doing so is greater than $10 million. Hence, the value of the movie is NOT $0, even when it is deleted they still retain the exclusive rights and that has value. So to say the value is $0 is a l
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by imgabe 3y ago
No it’s not. If someone offered $10 million for the movie and they chose to destroy it instead, then destroying the movie had a value > $10 million to them because they chose that over the money. If it were worth zero, then why wouldn’t
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by imgabe 3y ago
I like that idea. Hold an auction. If they still want to delete it, then the maximum deduction is (expenses - highest_bid), since clearly the studio is getting some value out of not releasing the film.
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by imgabe 3y ago
> From the moral perspective, it is clear that WB clearly had real expenses. They spent money, bought rights, and tons of workers were paid good money. Yes, they had expenses . You seem to have a very very rudimentary understanding of a
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by imgabe 3y ago
> Fundamental to the whole premise of taxes is that they are applied to net profit. If a company spends $1 to make $10, they get taxed on $9. If they spend $8 to make $10, they get taxed on $2. Yes, the key word there is net profit, and
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by imgabe 3y ago
Nobody is stopping them from wasting their time and resources. They are free to waste them as much as they want. It's just not a tax-deductible business expense to do so. There is a difference between "we won't allow you to d
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by imgabe 3y ago
They're not real losses. They could sell the movie. They could release it. They're deliberately forgoing those options and deleting it. You don't have a loss until you attempt to generate revenue and find that the revenue is
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by imgabe 3y ago
The line is at claiming a loss for tax purposes. Destroy the film if you like, but then you get no tax break. There's a similarity with the "hobby loss rule". In order to be a valid business who can deduct business expenses l
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by imgabe 3y ago
The value is in the land, not the house. If you own a plot of land with a single family house on it, and suddenly someone is able to build an apartment building on that piece of land, it will actually become much more valuable because an ap
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by imgabe 3y ago
Induced demand refers to highways. Do you know of any studies demonstrating induced demand for housing? As a counterpoint, look at all the empty cities China built in the middle of nowhere. According to the "induced demand" hypoth

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