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by mattrp 7y ago
Insurance is regulated by state. You can have insurance in say Texas and visit your doctor in Oklahoma but as a Texas resident you cannot buy Oklahoma insurance. This is why for example there is not one national Obama care market but fif
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by mattrp 7y ago
This article misses one other potential savings — allowing patients to cross state lines to buy plans in cheaper states. In terms of HSA’s, I think they are a great idea. But I have a more radical solution than an HSA: Allow the first $100k
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by mattrp 7y ago
Usually I see HSA’s combined with a high deductible plan so that the six figure medical bill is protected. We were on one when my daughter needed surgery (~$50k). We also had another child the same year ($20k), and all we paid was the $6k
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by mattrp 7y ago
It’s addressed in the autonomy day presentation if I’m not mistaken.
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Germany is number 1 because of the wind... there are days when they generate more than they can take. Exporting is not really a good measure of energy security — for example, how much do you think Germany can charge for the wind it cannot
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by mattrp 7y ago
Kaparthy has a good presentation outlining why they aren’t focused on lidar.. it’s pretty compelling logic.
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by mattrp 7y ago
I could be wrong but I recall Lyft is using hyper accurate maps.
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by mattrp 7y ago
This is correct - read the fantastic “making of the atomic bomb” - the planners kept competition alive for as long as possible because no one really knew which path was going to work. In contrast the nazi project, among other reasons, fail
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by mattrp 7y ago
Today they produce a lot of subsidized power that when everything operating correctly produces an excess of power. However we are not talking about today, we are talking about the future. The average plant age is 30 years. Some plants ar
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by mattrp 7y ago
Agreed - the lifespan argument is really not portrayed in an accurate way. Besides, France is basically screwed - it hasn’t been able to expand its energy supply beyond population demands (ie it doesn’t and couldn’t support a data center e
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by mattrp 7y ago
For the longest time I had my systems cat Syslog to an lpr... anytime someone did something, I’d hear a bzzzzzt. Usually about 5 times a day. Maybe a dozen. Then one morning I came into work and there was a whole box of paper on the flo
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by mattrp 7y ago
You may be interested to know the author of that book is also a huge advocate for blockchain. I hate to keep pumping the book/author but it’s really good. Google “commanding heights and Hernando de Soto” that was a pbs series produce
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by mattrp 7y ago
That’s a good question. It’s mentioned in the book, “driving Honda” by Jeffrey Rothfeder
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by mattrp 7y ago
I would prefer the Honda way. Local autonomous teams of engineers led by engineers. Even the ceo has to be an engineer - and famously could field strip and repair the motor from his small engine division in front of vip’s and press when i
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by mattrp 7y ago
Sorry I was being intentionally controversial. I had both Unix and vms accounts as a student and I guess the vms never really resonated with me...
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by mattrp 7y ago
That depends on which Indian war you’re referring to - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars There were literally more than a hundred dating from the 1600s until the twentieth century.
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by mattrp 7y ago
The key is titling. Without titling, squatters in the west could not access legal protections normally associated with a title such as defending against other claims. I mentioned mortgages in the context of the authors book who asserts tha
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by mattrp 7y ago
Exactly- southern plantation owners envisioned massive tracts of land sold to plantation owners who would extend slavery to the west.
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by mattrp 7y ago
Hernando, the author, defined it as extralegal - the part of the economy that is outside of the formal law. Squatters in the US - and the rest of the world - don’t have formal legal support when they decide to make a given plot of land the
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by mattrp 7y ago
Well yes to this - in the 80s you were either System V or whatever crap IBM was selling back then! :) Ps I always assumed 80x24 was a teletype (eg. tty) standard or at the least a two-by 80x12 punch card layout. I also wonder if the serial
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by mattrp 7y ago
It’s important to understand the importance the homesteading act played in the civil war. It was signed into law on the same day as the emancipation proclamation and together represented Lincoln’s resolve to preserve the west as a place of
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by mattrp 7y ago
Yeah I was just about to ask that too... like the Times can’t afford to pay for traffic like everyone else.
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by mattrp 7y ago
Morally and practically I think this point of view is repugnant. And it is easily defeated by a life insurance policy. Simply buy a life insurance policy equal to your entire net worth, die, give the payout to your heirs tax free. Thank
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by mattrp 7y ago
That’s because of all the non-Swiss who domicile in Switzerland but earn income outside of Switzerland. But this example does serve to illustrate that a wealth tax in US won’t be restricted to the “rich” forever... eventually almost everyo
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by mattrp 7y ago
Easily defeated as an unfunded liability which is illegal. Otherwise the government would have to fund these purchases with budget allocations. The value of US real estate is ~$30t for example.... which by the way should give some sense o
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by mattrp 7y ago
Right... but you wouldn’t know that until all the deductions you used to have are wiped out because you make too much... and then you get AMT’s for added insult. And it’s not 1%... I don’t know the % you’d have to be the but the deduction
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by mattrp 7y ago
The way they would game it would be by building unpermitted structures. Read Hernando de Soto’s mystery of capital - he talks how this happens all over the world as a way to store wealth. The problem is it can’t be financed so the capital
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by mattrp 7y ago
The problem with advanced placement / gt / etc is that just like the broader educational system it assumes everyone learns the same just a lot faster. In my own experience, and I get it, this is purely anecdotal: the three smart
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by mattrp 7y ago
>> “Eight weeks of paid leave includes up to two weeks prior to the birth and assumes a normal vaginal delivery,” an HR representative said write to Jennifer I bet if most companies simply got rid of the HR departments altogether, not
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by mattrp 7y ago
You must be in Bergen county!

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