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by khuey 2y ago
Home ownership in the immediate post-war era functioned as a form of forced savings. To the extent it was an investment it was more akin to a reverse bond than a stock bought on margin: you pay a fixed payment on a loan for 30 years and at
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by khuey 2y ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05937
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by khuey 2y ago
From the perspective of an rr maintainer, Sid's work was good and we were supportive of it. The main issues with migrating to that as the "blessed" version are that 1) rr has accumulated a decade of very hairy fixes for crazy
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by khuey 2y ago
Every share of an S&P 500 index fund you hold is already 6-7% NVDA, so a lot of investors already have substantial bets on some of these "race horses".
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by khuey 2y ago
> Does this mark the moment in history where China has now surpassed the US and is the new global superpower? Why would it? The US returned rocks from the moon over half a century ago.
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by khuey 2y ago
Based on those numbers it sounds like the limitation is more "Direct File can't handle the Additional Medicare Tax or overwithheld FICA yet" than a baseless exclusion of higher income taxpayers.
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by khuey 2y ago
Mozilla at least really did pay straight cash bonuses so there was no equity valuation stuff to worry about.
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by khuey 2y ago
The up to date ABI for x86-64 lives at https://gitlab.com/x86-psABIs/x86-64-ABI
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by khuey 2y ago
None of that addresses the fundamental problem which is that there's just not enough housing. Greater Dallas builds more housing than the entire state of California.[1] Until that changes California's housing costs cannot be fixed
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by khuey 2y ago
You don't need the same budget. You have to pay employees more to keep up with the rising cost of housing and land (or they all quit), so the budget has to go up too.
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by khuey 2y ago
Dismissing these problems as "incompetent democratic governance" is missing that in many cases these are manifestations of voters getting what they want. Housing shortages and the existence of an underemployed class are popular wi
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by khuey 2y ago
I know 10 years is the standard CBO timeframe but are we sure it's the correct one for a drug like this? If you gave a vaccine 100% effective against cancer to 18 year olds it would probably look like a money loser on a 10 year timefra
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by khuey 2y ago
> I don't think its resonable for people to continue taking GLP-1 antagonists all their lives. Why not? People take statins or beta blockers for the rest of their lives. Sure it's not that feasible at current US prices but they
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by khuey 2y ago
> It used to be that if you sold one house and bought another for same price then there would be no appreciation taxes, but that stopped a few(?) years ago. If you're referring to Section 1031 exchanges in the US, that never applied
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by khuey 2y ago
> A recent statistic for a major city: 40% of homes are unoccupied. [citation needed]
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by khuey 2y ago
Things like malloc_usable_size() exist but you're not supposed to use the overage it tells you about so they're not very useful APIs.
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by khuey 2y ago
> In the US, the transportation sector as a whole accounts for only 29% of our collective greenhouse gas emissions [0]. Within that sector, passenger cars only account for 20% of the 29%, or 5.8% of our total greenhouse gas emissions in
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by khuey 2y ago
It only requires a majority plebiscite, not a supermajority, to fix.
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by khuey 2y ago
Yeah I'd agree.
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by khuey 2y ago
> Most applications that use C++ are latency and efficiency critical. I'll take the under on this. There are plenty of C++ applications that are "latency and efficiency critical" but I'd guess it's well under 5
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by khuey 3y ago
Do Europeans really return their rental cars washed? The only time I've ever washed a rental car in the US was when I drove it off paved roads in violation of the terms of the rental agreement and needed to hide the evidence.
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by khuey 3y ago
Noah is only a leftist if anyone to the left of Attila the Hun is a leftist. Noah is very much a neoliberal.
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by khuey 3y ago
He lost one million dollars in an insane bet he made with a guy on Twitter about hyperinflation.
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by khuey 3y ago
The company was also paying its share of the premium with pre-tax dollars whereas the ex-employee has to make that share up with their post-tax dollars.
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by khuey 3y ago
It's illegal essentially everywhere in the US to organically grow something low-density into a proper city. The only way a new city is getting built at all is to do it that way from the start.
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by khuey 3y ago
> It's optimistic about debuggers understanding non-C-like calling conventions which I'd expect to be an abject failure, regardless of what dwarf might be able to encode. DWARF doesn't encode bespoke calling conventions at
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by khuey 3y ago
> I believe until very recently there was so much fibre laid during the dot com boom, that we didn't really need to lay much more. My understanding is that there was a one-two punch of the dot com boom laying a huge amount of fiber
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by khuey 3y ago
Not much reason to have direct cables. The parts of Russia and the US that are close to each other are very empty, and it makes sense to land transpacific cables in Japan or Taiwan and pick up traffic there rather than going non-stop to Chi
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by khuey 3y ago
For those who have never seen it, Neal Stephenson's "Mother Earth Mother Board" for Wired in 1996 is the must-read classic of this genre. Wired seems to have paywalled it recently but it's available on archive.org https
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by khuey 3y ago
> Myself and my ancient h/w and s/w engineering friends have been having a discussion recently about how the modern C++ language features are generating code that is not readily debugged at the source level. What specific featu

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