jeffbax

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by jeffbax 8y ago
Pensions are not always guaranteed if the company goes under, they're also often incredibly mismanaged. Everyone should be moved to 401k, particularly the public sector which is wreaking havoc across state budgets
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by jeffbax 8y ago
I drive stick, and rarely fiddle with my phone other than maps and changing the song. I'm not sure returning to that world is the best for most people though. Worse fuel mileage for the majority, and more cognitive load that doesn&#x27
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Love my AirPods, but if they can't even get a battery replacement that's a huge downside. As for disposal, like any electronic apple will at the minimum help recycle them for you (as will others like best buy) We definitely have n
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by jeffbax 8y ago
From your own article: "However, some economists think that the worker bears almost the entire burden of the tax because the employer passes the tax on in the form of lower wages. The tax incidence is thus said to fall on the employee.
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by jeffbax 8y ago
"Rent control is the only thing more effective at destroying a city than bombing"
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by jeffbax 8y ago
This is nonsense. I've rented for 10 years now and I love my city just as much as anyone. Buying doesn't really make a ton of sense at these prices so I don't, but I don't see how I am less engaged than an owner. Hell, I
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Taxes and HOA just get rolled up into the rent. It's not like those aren't already impacting the price because the landlord must be the one to pay the money.
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by jeffbax 8y ago
My gut tells me that XProtect, SIP, and only allowing software signed by Apple like is the default should be enough for most users to not worry. "Don't just type in your password" is something everyone using windows or Mac or
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by jeffbax 8y ago
The market won't crash. You can't physically build fast enough to do it even if all the zoning was fixed. If anything you'll temper prices or lower slightly but even if they fell a bit maybe CA'd get needed tax changes f
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by jeffbax 8y ago
What do you think is going to happen when significant portions of the poor and middle class leave? Fewer people to pay for California's absurd public sector pensions and expensive government services -> higher taxes on the people re
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Technology is… disruptive. Not to be cliche. I don't think that "mostly due to AirBnB" is likely fair. AirBNB is around at the same time that the economies of scale has strongly tilted in favor of cities, who have restricted
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by jeffbax 8y ago
If anyone is interested further, this is a great EconTalk on sharing: http://www.econtalk.org/michael-munger-on-sharing-transactio... TL,DR: Why do we all buy an electric drill to put up 4 screws in 30 seconds? Sharing&#x2F
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Similarly 'wtf mate' is that Google Hangouts was working fine in Firefox for a while, not at all in Safari… and now it is reversed.
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by jeffbax 8y ago
This is true due to the cost required, but how much of the cost is largely due to credential inflation? Much of the population would probably do better with trade training, but we've sold it to "everyone must get a 4 year degree&q
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Articles like this ignore the impact on individuals. For every group that is trying to full time Uber/Lyft or turn an AirBNB into a hotel, there's also tons of people who are doing in the spare time to make some extra or work the
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Agreed. The total disregard for caring how effectively money is spent in high tax states is a huge problem that does a disservice to the goals of the voters. The pension bomb is going to be a reckoning.
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by jeffbax 8y ago
The tax code is broken, but it's not due to reducing the distortions that have broken it. SALT, mortgage interest etc should all go away. They're subsidies to the wealthiest. The tax law was good for bringing the corporate tax bac
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Sucks, but cry me a river. I'm more upset we've been tax subsidizing luxury car purchases by $7.5k for years. That should have only existed for the bottom economy models, not status symbols for the wealthy.
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Might I suggest you read up on some state run pensions, and see how much worse they are doing. CA, IL, NJ, NY, MA are all having serious funding problems after years of sweet deals and overly optimistic returns (which have done far worse th
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by jeffbax 8y ago
The minimum wage dominates so much of our discourse considering it is such a small ~1% of total US labor with the bulk of actual minimum wage earners being people who are likely in college or still living with their parents. Sorry, but even
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Yup, a negative income tax is a much better policy avenue to deal with this. It's much better to subsidize people doing things of varying degrees of productivity in an otherwise open employment market, than to discourage work entirely.
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by jeffbax 8y ago
This is silly. In China it's nearly LITERALLY both government and big business. You cannot be a big business without the government saying so, and most of the business leaders are party members. This is a far cry from in the states, wh
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Large corporation that is one of the few capable of implementing such a scheme (to whatever degree of 'success') that others cannot afford to do lobbying the government for regulatory capture? News, at 11!
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by jeffbax 8y ago
US healthcare is complete regulatory capture.
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Public sector pensions are bankrupting states around the country and widely mismanaged. Not to mention extremely politicized and an easy way to get votes by over-promising and kicking the burden to the future. For all the faults of 401ks an
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by jeffbax 8y ago
That's why you pass it with a measurable, visible reduction in other taxes -- "revenue neutral" Which is generally what Democrats don't want to do b/c its not raising taxes, and Republicans don't want to do b&#
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by jeffbax 8y ago
A carbon tax is really the only immediately workable and impactful solution to climate change. We can't flip a switch and have the change activists want overnight. That both parties have abandoned a revenue-neutral carbon tax (sell i
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by jeffbax 8y ago
I would not underestimate those two advantages. Even Microsoft and Google are getting outpaced by them overall. It might only be that Amazon competes with so many companies anymore that they choose the second and third place solutions.
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Straws and plastic bags get all the heat, but they are actually a pretty small proportion of plastic produced and littered. Straws are like .001% of plastic in the ocean, vs. 50% for discarded fishing equipment. Those "flimsy" pla
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Not true. The best train systems in the world are private businesses. The problem is having to compete with the government. The NYC subway used to be two private systems and the government put them out of business and now it's death by

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