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by mrep 4y ago
> bill obscene amounts and profit massively Profit how? Your 2 examples of UCHealth and Mayo Clinic are both non-profits.
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by mrep 4y ago
Half of Discretionary spending which does not include Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
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by mrep 4y ago
Doesn't look so potential anymore: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/25/twitter-accepts-elon-musks-b...
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by mrep 4y ago
I'm not on twitter but the Justine Sacco incident doesn't make it sound like a nice place to me.
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by mrep 4y ago
> One may also not want to contribute to those leaders on principle, and instead reward the other leaders even though it costs more. Of course, just don't expect me to care about your housing costs if that is your reason you choose
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by mrep 4y ago
Well I don't live in Bangladesh so I'm not too worried.
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by mrep 4y ago
If abortion law, something you can simply drive to another state for a once in a lifetime event is in your requirements for where you can live, don't be surprised when people roll their eyes at you when you bitch about housing costs.
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by mrep 4y ago
"safe" https://rekt.news/leaderboard/
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by mrep 4y ago
Oh please give us some examples.
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by mrep 4y ago
It has worked on every OS that has chrome that I have used and takes like 30 seconds to install. It is easier to click a chrome extension to stay awake than go to a webpage in my opinion. You do you though
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by mrep 4y ago
Why not just use keep awake? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keep-awake/bijihla...
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by mrep 4y ago
> We're currently discussing the people that don't make enough to pay their student loans off. If we are only discussing just those people, then I think it is a different story. I could get behind a x% of income over y% of yea
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by mrep 4y ago
Rods from God: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
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by mrep 4y ago
What is your definition of a functional economy? I'm a millennial with a mortgage and a car loan. Should I get free money so I'm not debt-burdened?
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by mrep 4y ago
> The government can simply write off the student debt And now those people have 1.75 trillion dollars more to spend on the economy instead of paying debts which creates inflation which is effectively a tax on everyone with cash and bond
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Elon Got His Money(bloomberg.com)
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by mrep 4y ago
There stock is up because they just beat earnings [0] and TSLA has 24 billion dollars worth of volume per day [1]. I'm pretty sure he could raise the 21 billion given some time. [0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04&#
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by mrep 4y ago
Really? Mine defaults to 22% on morgan stanley and I have to manually withhold extra from my salary. It also does not withhold any for state taxes which I also have to do with my salary. I don't think I can withhold either from the
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by mrep 4y ago
> Even FAANG employees should not really sit on these to get the maturation of these stocks to cap gains Why do people always mention this? You pay income taxes at vesting as if the entire stock was income. cap gains is only for the di
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by mrep 4y ago
You are ignoring investing the savings which if the stock market returns 8% vs the panels at 13%, you would get a 50% higher return with the panels + investing the savings in the stock market vs just the stock market after 30 years. Albeit
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by mrep 4y ago
Fair point and I'm not against free public education, but $15k is also a magical fantasy number to get too if you include housing/food/utilities.
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by mrep 4y ago
And just hope students don't default right after they graduate? You realize how picky they'd have to get? 40% of undergrads drop out [0] who would probably all default alone which is completely unworkable to be profitable consid
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by mrep 4y ago
Nope, that is not how unsecured personal loans work. Those depend on your credit which most students don't have much/any and your debt-to-income which is normally infinite for students because they don't work.
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by mrep 4y ago
Because unsecured loans are awful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31099683
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by mrep 4y ago
Also adding 1.75 trillion dollars worth of debt which taxpayers who paid off their loans are now on the hook for.
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by mrep 4y ago
So unsecured personal loans? Those depend on your credit which most students don't have much/any and your debt-to-income which is normally infinite for students because they don't work. You would massively screw over kids who
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by mrep 4y ago
That is not the point. The point is that kids whose parents cannot pay/cosign a loan can currently get into the top 50 schools but without the government backing the loans, none of them would likely be able to get in at all leaving th
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by mrep 4y ago
Maybe for the bottom schools but there are enough rich parents to pay/cosign a loan for like the top 50 schools and I highly doubt they would reduce tuition/spending and risk hurting their rankings.
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by mrep 4y ago
Sure it can, you just need the investment return part to come from the (rent - costs) and not from property price increases. If I have a property where the rent returns 8% after costs, I don't need the property value to increase to ma
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by mrep 4y ago
Do you have a link to where they normally discussed these things? I would love to read that.

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