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by mister_tee 4y ago
possibly chromium-based browsers have had site isolation for about 4 years as well https://security.googleblog.com/2018/07/mitigating-spectre-w...
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by mister_tee 4y ago
this is probably cheating-it's beyond "original Amiga hardware"-but there were various expansion boards like the Video Toaster which did video switching and effects, and later editing. I was originally going to suggest the Am
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by mister_tee 4y ago
In reply to just the FTA quote (not the parent comment's content): The 20% long-term gains might also be subject to 3.8% net investment income tax, right? There is still a difference but it's closer to "about 2/3" t
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by mister_tee 5y ago
very likely yes, exempts anyone who was already exempt from overtime past 40 hours. It's a very short bill that more or less patches the FLSA to change a couple constants; doesn't look to affect anything about exempt employees.
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by mister_tee 5y ago
> You're still taxed on the value of the stock at the you received them. That's true; in practice executives may create a little flexibility in determining when they were received. This was a problem for Apple/Jobs: https
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by mister_tee 5y ago
interviewer: [...] buy these NFTs for $50, um, and so like when you think about the concept of digital scarcity and things that are, and, you know, that can't be copied... Keanu: that are easily reproduced? [laugh] interviewer: well, b
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by mister_tee 5y ago
One argument I've heard beyond "double-taxation" is that it allows state and local governments to more easily set higher income and property taxes than they otherwise could. The deductibility of state and local taxes has been
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by mister_tee 5y ago
There's a more general proposal to tax unrealized capital gains, for the wealthy. It came up in funding negotiations for this bill but wasn't ever in a draft IIRC.
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by mister_tee 5y ago
I'm not arguing for or against this but there are some points of subtlety: First, this is not at all guaranteed. It's the current state of the bill in the House, and the Democrats are arguing amongst themselves, were on vacation l
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by mister_tee 5y ago
I've heard that on the contrary, the US had some of the highest covid stimulus payments in the world across different metrics (% of GDP, $ per capita, etc.). That's when considering "stimulus" as broader than the uncondi
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by mister_tee 5y ago
good catch; it's $550B in new spending and $450B of renewing infrastructure programs that were going to expire (or have expired since the bill has dragged on) I don't know what the $450B is though, all the media focus and interest
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by mister_tee 5y ago
I'm not an expert especially on avenues to challenge, but the House Select Committee has subpoena powers
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by mister_tee 5y ago
in response to the video's message - I get that $60 in 2006 inflated to $80 today. And that development costs have gone up rapidly (so have sales IIRC but I know that's not evenly-distributed). Might the move to digital distributi
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by mister_tee 5y ago
A survey from this week reported that economists expect: Next month, or maybe November or possibly December, the Fed will announce when they plan to start slowing down the rate at which they purchase treasuries and mortgage-backed securitie
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by mister_tee 5y ago
From Kurt Vonnegut's obituary-poem for Joseph Heller [0]: the two were at a party hosted by a billionaire. Vonnegut asked how he felt that the billionaire made in a day what Catch-22 earned over its entire run: And Joe said, “I’ve
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by mister_tee 5y ago
yes, I sort of assumed--maybe incorrectly--that these employees/contractors handle chats and calls that were initiated from the help center and a logged-in account. agree with grandparent that incoming cold calls would be more challeng
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by mister_tee 5y ago
"One use case provided is that a customer service worker walks away from their computer and then a roommate grabs the machine to use its internal search tool and see what a celebrity has been buying on Amazon. But just four cases have
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by mister_tee 5y ago
agreed on those economic points. Also not a fan of negative real rates and increased direct control over the economy that it could enable. And I'm a bigger fan of (effective) big government than most. Depending on how much tinfoil is i
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by mister_tee 5y ago
Advancing technology is great, and yes, economically deflationary. Some less creature-comfort things unfortunately have outpaced wages in the US: housing, education, and health care coming in at #1. Granted, we have medicines and technologi
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by mister_tee 5y ago
hooray for doing the math, thanks This article is from 2015 and one of the author's key points is that we're never going to see the equity market booms of the 80s, 90s, and 2010s ever again. The example is that $100 in 1979 turned
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by mister_tee 5y ago
possibly, but it's against the rules, they'd be living a constant lie and there would probably be repercussions if they were found out and didn't have political cover. Might not stop some employees from trying. Facebook will
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by mister_tee 5y ago
sorry, I was questioning this aspect of the system rather than your post. I'm definitely not a tax expert but this seems like a raw deal for middle class and below... not to get too political but we can also look at which groups design
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by mister_tee 5y ago
Originally I had a much longer post but it got way too political (disclaimer: am liberal). Short version: this seems incredibly regressive. It's also supposedly been introduced in every congress since 1999, with limited and single-part
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by mister_tee 5y ago
my calculations might be incorrect but is the prebate at federal poverty level usually less generous than the current system? Two people, married filing joint status: currently $25k standard deduction. Current FPL for two: $17.4k. I picked
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by mister_tee 5y ago
Maybe a majority of big tech. Following is from quick news searches. Those in the know please correct if you want and if you're allowed. Facebook: local employees are expected in the office "at least half the time." But Zucke
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by mister_tee 5y ago
SQ4 was my first adventure game. I don't think I understood half the references when I played the first time and should reply the series at some point. As a warning, some of the Sierra approach may seem obtuse or rough today. IIRC seve
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by mister_tee 5y ago
This will depend on your views on politics/society/humanity. I know that there one side of the argument that workers should be basically hot-swappable and rack-mountable. I am often a bleeding-heart liberal and am pretty far to th
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by mister_tee 5y ago
Not the same thing as contracting employees, especially in the eyes of the government. Plus cancellation terms are likely codified in terms of the license agreement.
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by mister_tee 5y ago
You do eventually need to pay the loan, though at the very least you're able to control when. You can avoid selling into a down market, realize gains in a more tax efficient year, or keep holding the assets as they appreciate faster th
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by mister_tee 5y ago
Appreciate the suggestions in this thread. Adding recommendations for Blake Harris's "Console Wars" on 90s Sega vs. Nintendo competition, and Jason Schreier's "Blood, Sweat, and Pixels" for more of the developm

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