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by mrep 6y ago
Well, Chicago, Dallas, and Houston are the third, fourth, and fifth largest metropolitan areas in the US so you should be able to find other jobs there and they all are in the affordable housing areas.
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by mrep 6y ago
So who is making money on news then? A quick google search for "trump has coronavirus" shows some news articles and no advertisements whatsoever. Going to the news tab shows more articles and still no advertisements and I cannot
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by mrep 6y ago
If they don't want google to display a snippet, then they can "Use the nosnippet meta tag to prevent Google from displaying a snippet for your page in Search results, or use the max-snippet:[number] meta tag to specify the maximum
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by mrep 6y ago
I am so trying that. I have to blow my nose quite often everyday and my nasal passages get frequently blocked especially when lying down trying to sleep. Fortunately, mucinex can fix that allowing me to sleep but fixing the source sounds
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by mrep 6y ago
Hm, I actually did the full pay calculation included payrolls a month ago for myself last year. Granted, I was in washington last year, but between federal income taxes, social security, and medicare mine was about 27% on 221k income as a
546.
by mrep 6y ago
Do you not have express trains? We have some in chicago and for example, the naperville to downtown express takes 34 minutes to go 30 miles downtown because it literally goes straight downtown without stopping at any other stations.
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by mrep 6y ago
But you can move to avoid state and local government taxes to stop paying them. And citizens in high tax states with high benefits that only benefit the local population get to reduce their federal tax burden with SALT deductions that other
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by mrep 6y ago
But you do get that money, you get it and then it goes to the state and local government to provide you with your state and local services. As a hypothetical, imagine 1 state which has very low taxes, say 5k on 100k income and does not prov
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by mrep 6y ago
Why should you get deduct $5,000 from your federal taxes when someone in a no income tax state like washington cannot deduct the other state taxes they pay that make up for not having a state income tax? Edit: after looking it up, I'm
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by mrep 6y ago
What people are in this 'in-group' you speak of because evidently I'm not in it because nobody questions me in a class sort of way about sports, hobbies, my plain t-shirts, shorts and sandals, my subaru car or anything of tha
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by mrep 6y ago
GM didn't invest 2 billion. GM got 2 billion in stock, 700 million in cash and a bunch of other stuff mentioned here for the deal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24546221
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by mrep 6y ago
Posting Siconik's comment on arstechnica: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/09/nikola-admits-prototype... To address some of the "how will GM react" question: - GM has conspired with Nikola man
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by mrep 6y ago
From the current asset sheet in millions of dollars: Reserve Bank credit: 6,968,229 U.S. Treasury securities: 4,391,505 Mortgage-backed securities: 1,949,547 That puts treasuries and mortgage backed securities as basically their
554.
by mrep 6y ago
The central bank cannot distribute money evenly among the population. Congress however can and they basically did albeit selectively based on need with the CARES act which gave citizens direct cash handouts, massive increases to unemployme
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by mrep 6y ago
Since 1978 at least [0], not sure how much data you'll get further back. [0]: https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/
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by mrep 6y ago
Doubt it because if it got exercised they would be selling their stock. Otherwise, they just be able to sell daily calls at 1 cent below the price for no premium and watch it exercise and thus liquidating the stock they are supposed to hol
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by mrep 6y ago
US treasuries mostly in late march. Demand for dollars skyrocketed due to covid-19 and people were selling their treasuries to get dollars causing treasury yields to spike so the FED started buying $75 billion in Treasury securities per da
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by mrep 6y ago
Historically, equity markets and housing provide similar returns when you factor in rent according to this super interesting harvard paper on "The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015" and the corresponding HN discussion [0].
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by mrep 6y ago
From the Federal Reserves press release in 2015: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/othe... The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced preliminary results indicating that the Reserve Banks
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by mrep 6y ago
Source for ECB? FRED says they've got about 6.458 trillion euros [0] and the english version of the ECB website says they had 4.6 trillion at the end of 2019 which also matches the FRED and they haven't updated it since then [1].
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by mrep 6y ago
What data are you looking at? Median home price for Chicago (where I live incidentally) is 229,000, for Dallas is 225,000, for Houston is 197,000 according to this source [0] and those are the 3rd, 4th, and 5th largest metropolitan statist
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by mrep 6y ago
Facebook and Google have both bought tens of billions of dollars worth of their stock back which is effectively just dividends that are reinvested for you.
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by mrep 6y ago
Where are you located and what do you pay for local and remote workers?
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Tesla to Sell as Much as $5B of Shares After Rally(finance.yahoo.com)
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by mrep 6y ago
> The general public is far more savvy about investments, risks, and bubbles in general than they were in the past. I'd argue the crypto currency and ico hysteria of late proves otherwise.
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by mrep 6y ago
Healthcare is quite variable in the states. I for example have good insurance with my job so I have a max out of pocket spending limit of $2500 per year and I can also put $3500 per year of pre-income tax money into a health savings accoun
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by mrep 6y ago
> Then you should offer them (imo) $750k in options vesting over 3 years. That's in now money, as in that should be whatever the investors in your last round paid for that same stock. Except those investors got preferred stock where
568.
by mrep 6y ago
Good luck finding equipment at those prices. I was looking to pick up some extra equipment a little while back and everywhere was either sold out or crazy marked up because everyone is trying to build a home gym now. Just rechecked dick s
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by mrep 6y ago
> For all the power they hold, the innovation and improvements in society we get is abysmal. Please do tell what you would do differently.
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by mrep 6y ago
Hourly employees pay it too and because it is a withholding tax, you pay for it even if you are below the standard deduction and don't file a tax return because it is automatically taken out of your paycheck by your employer when you g

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