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by jeffreyrogers 7mo ago
The only time I see non-competes as reasonable is when someone sells a business. It seems fair to put a territory restriction on a seller so the new owner doesn't have to immediately start competing against the person they bought out.
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by jeffreyrogers 7mo ago
Yes, here, reddit, X, at work in people's emails and status reports.
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by jeffreyrogers 7mo ago
He's a pretty successful angel/early stage VC investor so he's not some random guy. His point doesn't seem to be that there's nothing to be learned building a successful business but that the existing methods are so
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by jeffreyrogers 7mo ago
No, you can do cost segregation to classify some of the real property as Section 1245 (which is accelerated vs Section 1250). People doing this and then selling is how they get unexpected tax bills.
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by jeffreyrogers 7mo ago
I don't know how these specific loans are structured but in real estate it's relatively common for a loan to be interest only with a balloon payment (the principal) due some number of years in the future. So in theory you could ju
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by jeffreyrogers 7mo ago
The step up in basis happens when you die, so the estate has no capital gain. Then the debts are paid, then the heirs get whatever they're supposed to get.
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by jeffreyrogers 7mo ago
Minor nitpick. The step up in basis actually happens when you die (not when your heirs receive the assets), and your estate has to pay off creditors before distributing assets. So the debt is paid off first, then your heirs get whatever is
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by jeffreyrogers 7mo ago
You do. I think these loans are generally used for short term liquidity. For example if you want to buy a new house before selling your old one. You'd get a loan against your assets, buy the home with the loan proceeds, sell your old h
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by jeffreyrogers 7mo ago
You can't reclassify profit as reinvestment to show zero net profit. (If you could every business would have an internal hedge fund or private equity business and would show zero net profit).
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by jeffreyrogers 7mo ago
Pretty good overview of how/why these deductions reduce your taxable income. Couple of things to note. Depreciation is recaptured if you sell an asset for more than its depreciated basis. People sometimes get into trouble with this if
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by jeffreyrogers 7mo ago
I only know one family with >=8 kids (they have 10) and not that well so I can't really comment on them. I know many with 4-6 kids though. It's true that in most cases the women have a traditional family role (not always though
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by jeffreyrogers 7mo ago
This is not true among the people I personally know with large families.
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by jeffreyrogers 7mo ago
I associate the concept of pronatalism with also wanting to be involved in your kids' lives, which Musk seems to have no interest in.
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by jeffreyrogers 7mo ago
I don't think Musk and Andreesseen are who most people would associate with the concept of pronatalism. The headline was surprising to me because most of the people I know who could be described as "pronatalist" are strongly
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by jeffreyrogers 7mo ago
> The US spends ~$14,570 per person on healthcare. Japan spends ~$5,790 and has the highest life expectancy in the OECD. Ethnic Japanese in the US live have about the same life expectancy as Japanese living in Japan do (within 1 year). U
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How Much Would Continued Low Fertility Affect the US Standard of Living?(pubs.aeaweb.org)
2 points by jeffreyrogers 8mo ago|0 comments
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by jeffreyrogers 1y ago
These sort of commentaries on AI are the modern equivalent of medieval theologians debating how many angels could congregate in one place.
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by jeffreyrogers 1y ago
A lot of that is to get around laws that say corporations can't practice medicine. These are state-laws, not federal so in every state it's different.
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by jeffreyrogers 1y ago
I believe the monkey gland is called that because around the time it was invented there was a surgeon (Serge Voronoff) who was promoting a surgery in which he would implant baboon testicles into men (there was a corresponding surgery for wo
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Which Kind of Science Reform(elevanth.org)
1 points by jeffreyrogers 1y ago|0 comments
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by jeffreyrogers 1y ago
I think most of the ostensible age discrimination is explained by the tech industry's massive growth over the past 50 years (means more young people are hired than old people because they have the skills).
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by jeffreyrogers 1y ago
Algorithmic betting is widespread in horse racing now. I can't remember the exact figures but I think it's estimated to be about 40% of the total handle. There is a company that will allow individuals to connect directly to the be
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by jeffreyrogers 1y ago
How did you choose the artworks for the artworks section of your site?
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by jeffreyrogers 1y ago
He had a sharpe ratio similar to early Rentech and used much less leverage. Probably would have had similar returns to them if if he used similar amounts of leverage. From interviews with him he seems extremely risk averse. Alumni of his fu
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by jeffreyrogers 1y ago
Benter allegedly did use something like this in his later models so it probably does matter.
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by jeffreyrogers 1y ago
Tyler Cowen claims it's already here. I don't agree with him but he has credibility with a lot of people.
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by jeffreyrogers 1y ago
It's a little hard to say for sure because companies can stay private longer and in some cases don't need to go public at all, but it seems that the last wave of huge successes were founded pre-2015 and since then the industry has
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by jeffreyrogers 1y ago
I know what TOS are. An employment contract is also literally the terms under which your employer must perform its obligations to you as an employee. Both are bilateral contracts between a corporation and an individual that specify under wh
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by jeffreyrogers 1y ago
That's literally what an employment contract is.
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by jeffreyrogers 2y ago
I found my experience with AI Chat vs web search much different than OPs. For me AI chat almost always gives better results than web search. Most of the time I use it it's when I know that what I'm doing is possible but I'm n

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