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by joshe 6y ago
It will be interesting to see how many of these IPOing company employees move this year and next to avoid CA capital gains tax. (Asana, Airbnb, Doordash, Lemonade are others). California taxes capital gains at 13%, and 9 states have none (A
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by joshe 6y ago
GDP in the US is about $17 trillion per year. That's the total amount of income we create each year. The top 1% have $25 trillion in wealth. So if we took all the wealth of the 1% (income > $421,926/year), we would be out of th
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by joshe 7y ago
A lesson for entrepreneurs, it really is better to go around the bureaucracy. Uber and Lyft would not exist if they had "played nice". We can imagine a world where certain regulation would have improved their service for riders an
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by joshe 7y ago
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by joshe 7y ago
It's a disappointingly boring corporate campus (the second photo in the article) for a well run company with lots of smart people. The rendering shows a sad 1990's office park, complete with a path winding artificially along the w
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by joshe 7y ago
Worth pointing out that the money from the cuts goes to the Alaska Permanent Fund dividends at about $3,000 per year (instead of $1,600). Each permanent resident gets that every year. It's about a third of the universal basic income pr
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by joshe 7y ago
Mixmax has an accidentally helpful guide to the only way to block tracking: block images. (They also mention how aggressively they try to get around email blockers.) There's an inverse relationship between email importance and producti
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by joshe 7y ago
For context, here's a visualization of electric car sales by company from 2012 on. https://twitter.com/masegoslin/status/1132389324140343297/vi... And here they are grouped by model: https://c
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by joshe 7y ago
For Costco (in the US) and every other store I just walk past the guards. If they say something, I just say "no thanks". I decided I'd be happy to just stand there while they call their manager and then the real police, but I
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by joshe 7y ago
All the horrors of Nextdoor, brought into meatspace.
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by joshe 7y ago
They use the Filesystem api. There is experimental support to stop this detection in chrome now (74 and later). Go to chrome://flags/ and Enable "Filesystem API in Incognito". It should be on by default in an upco
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by joshe 7y ago
Also solar + battery is (very roughly) only double the rate cost right now, so you aren't really stranding people. I've been to farms with solar + battery only and it's totally fine. Back in the 1936 (rural electrification ac
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by joshe 7y ago
Incentives work really really well. Almost nothing else does over the long term. For a concrete alternative with incentives: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/basics-carbon-fee-dividend/ A massive $600 billion dollar pe
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by joshe 7y ago
100% of the carbon tax comes back as dividends to individuals. We can keep spending that money on carbon intensive products and can consume the same mix of products. But because we can now spend the money on other things instead, we might f
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There Was No Way to Win with the Uber IPO – Matt Levine(bloomberg.com)
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by joshe 7y ago
There are home versions of these heliostats too, I always thought it would be a nice home improvement. You could make a new sunny room, sunnier garden, or a warmer patio. Just googling, $2,000 gets you 1300 watts of heat. Or 115,000 lumens.
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by joshe 7y ago
Put this on your site. I know that https://nextjournal.com/features seems more like marketing copy, but this is much more compelling. Just saying "much more", or "fully" doesn't help much. Try remov
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by joshe 7y ago
Ah the good old days, I too remember accidentally crashing ie6 computers WITH CSS.
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by joshe 7y ago
Because if there is a "run on the bank", someone will end up short. Either the first people out will get 100% of their money and last 26% will get zero, or everyone will get 74% of their money. This very fact will actually cause a
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by joshe 7y ago
Just want confirm that vehicle security is a trash fire. The CAN bus [1] has no security, you just put packets on it and read packets off it. Like "tell me the speedometer reading" or "activate the brakes" and CAN bus do
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by joshe 8y ago
Still on an iPhone 6S for just this reason (and a slight preference for touch id over face id).
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by joshe 8y ago
One factor is expansion into multiple devices. Right now that's Apple watch, AirPods, and iPhone. Maybe a few more future ones like beats isolating headphones (existing product that doesn't charge wirelessly), a keychain dingus, a
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by joshe 8y ago
Nope, airfares bounce around and have been going down for the last 8 years. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SETG01 Partly as fuel prices go down: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=eaB
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by joshe 8y ago
Does saving $2,100 help? Oh and you can return it. And you can rent one on Turo if you don't want that hassle. I don't know that it will work, but driving price down is often a very good move.
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by joshe 8y ago
Does saving $2,100 help?
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by joshe 8y ago
I love jaywalking in SF just for this reason. I'm usually crossing in the middle of a block. I can see all the cars and I know where they are going. Plus I wait for lights much less often.
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by joshe 8y ago
This is some confusion about this, most of our insurance premiums go to paying claims. Most insurance companies operate with a slight "underwriting loss" or slight "underwriting profit", but usually quite close to even.
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by joshe 8y ago
This is a myth. Just as a starter, most low income people pay most of their taxes through sales, payroll and property tax (through rents and car registration). They pay a full share of both sales and property taxes and most of payroll taxes
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by joshe 8y ago
This is off a bit, he's pretty technical, BS in Electrical Engineering and CS from Princeton. And his pre Amazon jobs were managing technical projects at D.E. Shaw and Bankers Trust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J
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by joshe 8y ago
1) We totally agree, ride hailing is a low margin business. 2) Yes! As long as Uber/Lyft act like low margin businesses no one will compete with them. This means they have no pricing power.

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