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by khuey 3y ago
As far as I know CLEAR has never allowed you to skip the actual security check.
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by khuey 3y ago
They're going to lose the buildings eventually when the loans need to be refinanced at much higher interest rates while commanding much lower rents.
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by khuey 3y ago
Mostly because we prioritize other things over actually getting stuff built for a reasonable budget.
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by khuey 3y ago
If you're going to use P/E metrics it seems wrong to group AAPL, MSFT, and GOOGL with the likes of AMZN and NVDA when the latter have P/Es an order of magnitude higher than the former.
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by khuey 3y ago
Federal receipts as a percentage of GDP may be within historical norms but the population pyramid is not. The baby boomers' retirement will have to be paid for somehow: either through benefit cuts, higher taxes on the working, or more
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by khuey 3y ago
Yeah "cancer" is a variety of diseases and treatments for some of those diseases have advanced very far and others haven't changed much.
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by khuey 3y ago
That's the joke.
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by khuey 3y ago
What's missing from this IMO is any explanation of why 5% is the magic number that makes this possible. If the socially beneficial aspects of local banking are funded by the spread between what the bank pays its customers and the marke
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by khuey 3y ago
Presumably the water heater is not the only electrical thing in your house so if things are scheduled correctly (which is a really big if in the construction world) the electrician is coming out the same number of times regardless.
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by khuey 3y ago
It does seem logical that if you sail under the flag of the Bahamas perhaps you should be calling the Bahamian Navy to rescue you from these glorified pirates.
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by khuey 3y ago
The Federal Highway Act was pretty bad! They plowed interstates through poor (and usually black) neighborhoods to get to the city centers and at least contributed to the urban dysfunction that's been a feature of American cities since.
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by khuey 3y ago
Yes, the homevoter mentality is much worse in the English speaking countries than it is in continental Europe or in developed East Asia.
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by khuey 3y ago
> Many young people want to live in NY and rent a shoebox flat for life. Nobody wants to rent a shoebox apartment in NYC for the rest of their life. But if you're not rich your only choices are to rent the shoebox or to leave NYC, a
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by khuey 3y ago
Live by the sword, die by the sword as far as doing business in regulation-free tax havens goes, I guess?
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by khuey 3y ago
Flint has had clean water for years now.
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by khuey 3y ago
> why are so many people moving there? Because its legal to build housing there, unlike much of the country.
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by khuey 3y ago
$29.1 million according to Crunchbase. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wyre
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by khuey 3y ago
PE has been hated since at least the 1980s, when capital was very far from free.
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by khuey 3y ago
Unregistered securities offerings are also illegal.
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by khuey 3y ago
In what sense is QQQ a derivative?
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by khuey 3y ago
According to a court of law or according to Coinbase?
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by khuey 3y ago
A huge number of residential properties are receiving massive prop 13 subsidies. Open up https://www.taxfairnessproject.org/map and go poke around a random neighborhood in Palo Alto. Blue means the assessed valuation is clo
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by khuey 3y ago
> Most sickeningly is that privileged tax status can be passed parents and children, effectively creating a separate caste of people with lower taxes. Thankfully this was significantly curtailed by 2020's Proposition 19.
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by khuey 3y ago
A better argument is "distributing the tax burden based on how long somebody's family has owned property in the same place has a large number of negative effects." One (of many) serious problem(s) with Prop 13 is that it remo
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by khuey 3y ago
Any rocket capable of reaching orbit is potentially an ICBM.
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by khuey 3y ago
The amount of drama in the Rust "leadership" really is excessive. This is not the first time that somebody gets slighted like this, and not only does nobody take any responsibility for what happened, few if any relevant details ar
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by khuey 3y ago
> They're not, because they have no recourse against the buyer. That depends on which state you're in.
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by khuey 3y ago
> I wonder how people survived freezing weather before HVAC systems. Their houses were built differently, for one.
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by khuey 3y ago
The people who got absurd bills are the ones who explicitly opted in to paying the wholesale prices on the grid. In the good times that could mean paying very low (or even negative) prices[0]. But that was a gamble, and in the ice storm the
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by khuey 3y ago
Premiums also are regulated so if liability is rising faster than premiums are allowed to rise you're in a bad place.

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