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by mrep 6y ago
Holy shit! Just an example I found, 230 Atherton Ave, Atherton, CA 94027 vs 234 Atherton Ave, Atherton, CA 94027, both absolute mansions with pools looking at them on google maps and the former even has a tennis court. Property taxes paid
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by mrep 6y ago
Refresh the page, HN randomly sorts them.
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Poll: Will you take a Covid-19 vaccine
2 points by mrep 6y ago|3 comments
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by mrep 6y ago
Very likely
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by mrep 6y ago
Somewhat likely
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by mrep 6y ago
Somewhat unlikely
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by mrep 6y ago
Very unlikely
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by mrep 6y ago
Don't know
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by mrep 6y ago
And those 11 nines of durability are what it is designed for, they don't offer any sort of SLA for that.
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by mrep 6y ago
> In fact Steam kills the whole "Apple store is a gouge" premise stone dead. It literally is just a distribution mechanism on desktop computers, where you absolutely can side load apps and games as much as you like, and they&#x
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by mrep 6y ago
Is it really that bad on pavement as I am thinking about getting the ripcurrent s for commuting next year once wfh ends? That hydra does look pretty sweet though but I'm not sure if it is worth an extra 2k.
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by mrep 6y ago
Having used many iOS and android devices before, I usually preferred iOS devices because they were just far far more performant and snappier when running so jailbreaking was worth the inconvenience and it wasn't that hard. I remember
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Operation Warp Speed(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mrep 6y ago|0 comments
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by mrep 6y ago
Where? I see $10 a month or $100 a year prepaid for 2 TB: https://one.google.com/u/1/storage
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by mrep 6y ago
I wouldn't count on it considering they unbundled ad free twitch from prime 2 years ago [0]. [0]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/20/17761760/twitch-prime-tur...
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Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Results [pdf](s2.q4cdn.com)
5 points by mrep 6y ago|0 comments
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by mrep 6y ago
> With a buyback, you have fewer shares after the buyback. Not sure who "you" is but the company will have fewer shares outstanding, investors who don't sell will have the same and those investors will also now own a great
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by mrep 6y ago
Don't buybacks benefit long term investors, not bigger investors precisely for tax reasons. Historical equities compound growth almost entirely comes from constantly reinvesting dividends to buy more shares which compounds to increase
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by mrep 6y ago
Based on what? Regional monopolies such as cable ones led my comcast are widely considered the most hated companies in existence so much so that south park even made an episode about it.
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by mrep 6y ago
210 w-2, 19k 401k, 50k income taxes, 11k employer FICA, so about 61/221 = ~27.6%
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by mrep 6y ago
I did the math on my taxes somewhat recently and between federal income taxes, social security, and medicare mine was about 27% on 221k income as a single person with no kids in washington state and I'm including the employer payroll c
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by mrep 6y ago
Yes, both employer and employee taxes affect the tax wedge [0] and you should factor both in when calculating how much you are taxed as your employer 100% is factoring in the employer tax when calculating how much to pay you. [0]: https:&#
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by mrep 6y ago
Barely. They are only buying corporate bonds and the sum total of "Includes non-marketable U.S. Treasury securities, supranationals, corporate bonds, asset-backed securities, and commercial paper at face value" is 85.274 billion
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by mrep 6y ago
And go where? European central bank assets are at 53.1% of GDP, Bank of Japan assets are at 125.7% of GDP, and the US FED is at 34.4% of GDP [0]. But hey, you could go with the chinese yuan, they "only have a 36% assets to GDP ratio&
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by mrep 6y ago
What are you paying and do you post that information on your job description? I am a software engineer with 5 years of experience in Chicago IL and am open to new opportunities. What would you offer me?
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by mrep 6y ago
Some teams may use it at the big companies and I myself have used lesser performant languages at some of the big companies but only for smaller stuff. For the widely used stuff which big companies do a lot of, you need high efficiency and
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by mrep 6y ago
> Typically, because the country has enough scale, it is cost effective for the government to design and estimate costs for a government run facility to produce the drug and use that as a bargaining chip including if needed voiding the I
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A Comparison of the Tax Burden on Labor in the OECD(taxfoundation.org)
1 points by mrep 6y ago|0 comments
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by mrep 6y ago
That quote is about a person with a million dollars in wages in the highest income tax state and it doesn't factor in payroll taxes which contribute to the tax wedge on income. The tax wedge for a single worker with no children earnin
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by mrep 6y ago
us defense spending is 3.2% of gdp, less than a third of social security, medicare and medicaid at 9.8%: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget...

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