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by muzz 12y ago
Many mutual funds actually bought shares of Facebook before the IPO: http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/18/markets/facebook-mutual-fund...
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by muzz 12y ago
What does this article have to do with Hacker News? Note the decidedly different tone from this entry on the same Washington Post Wonkblog: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/06/25&
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by muzz 12y ago
GP is being rewarded by saving on fuel-- his cost is only 30c/mile compared to the standard of 55c/mile. He's trying to deduct both his actual costs and the standard cost, which is obviously double-deducting.
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How the Maker Faire Restored My Faith in Humanity(blog.newegg.com)
1 points by muzz 12y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 12y ago
so that would imply that college is then made affordable to both low income students and wealthy students alike since they can hide their assets. what a bonanza!
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by muzz 12y ago
You seem to not know that assets, not just income, are used in the determination
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by muzz 12y ago
What percentage of students pay full sticker price?
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by muzz 12y ago
The taxpayer savings don't fund Obamacare but rather go back into higher education: "The Congressional Budget Office said the direct-lending approach would save taxpayers about $61 billion over 10 years. Roughly $40 billion of the
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by muzz 12y ago
#1 is essentially third-degree price discrimination. College tuition is effectively "sliding scale" with wealthiest students pay full sticker price and poor students paying little or nothing
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by muzz 12y ago
The entire OP argument is that predicated on students essentially being lemmings and willingly / unwittingly taking on student loans to spend on college tuition. If we believe that college students are rational economic actors-- as we
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by muzz 12y ago
> That tuition has been massively outpacing inflation is something I have heard from too many different sources to dobut Sticker-price tuition has. "Tuition revenue" is what students actually pay.
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by muzz 12y ago
It sounds like Sergey is saying that his involvement in Google+ was a mistake, not that that the company going down that path was a mistake. I think the author is taking the word "mistake" out of context: "It was probably a
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by muzz 12y ago
The article points to 54 emails. SF is a city of almost 800,000
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by muzz 12y ago
Agreed. However, people don't seem to want market-based pricing of parking. The city actually recently turned off the meters on Sunday in part due to public outcry, and now parking is once again hard to find on Sundays.
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by muzz 12y ago
Parking is free? It has no cost associated with it? Money is only buying something here because someone, i.e. the previous parker, is getting it for less than it is worth and can now monetize the difference.
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The Wildly Different Financial Outcomes for Employees in Acquisitions(blog.wealthfront.com)
3 points by muzz 12y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 13y ago
Only 9 counties participate in inter-county transfers http://www.boe.ca.gov/proptaxes/faqs/propositions60_90.htm#1 And as you point out, if you are under 55 then none of this applies.
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by muzz 13y ago
How are the riders, who willfully chose to do so, some how bearing the "brunt"? As opposed to those whose homes and businesses were Eminent Domain'd to make way for the construction, their nearby neighbors who now have loud a
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by muzz 13y ago
I agree that it's not a good comparison. Property tax is more like a cost of ongoing operation, so a better comparison would be to the cost of gas.
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by muzz 13y ago
> If the value of the property increases, there is incentive for owners to sell. Prop 13 counter-acts the incentive given by market appreciation of the value. The value may go up according to the market, but the owner's taxes are c
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by muzz 13y ago
This is the essence of the arguments for Prop 13. In places with re-adjusted and higher property taxes (like Texas), the property tax serves to keep a lid on housing prices.
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by muzz 13y ago
Your BART example is the opposite of NIMBY-ism: wanting/allowing something in your back yard that is not used by you. NIMBY-ism about BART was manifested by the peninsula towns, which refused to allow BART in the first place (due to mi
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by muzz 13y ago
> Agism is definitely an issue in tech, but it's likely that he is not up to date with some of the more modern languages or techniques Why do you suspect that he is likely not up date? The first part of your sentence mentions agei
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How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff Without Actually Looking(techcrunch.com)
28 points by muzz 13y ago|34 comments
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by muzz 13y ago
more like just a very poor submission. poor analysis and simple errors like calling the CEO "Marissa Mayers"
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The Internet Is Held Together With Bubble Gum And Baling Wire(techcrunch.com)
2 points by muzz 13y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 13y ago
this may be a nit, but unless the $30k is in a cash-equivalent like money market wouldn't you have to wait 3 days for settlement of whatever was sold for that $30k?
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Silicon Valley Hears Echoes of 1999(businessweek.com)
2 points by muzz 13y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 13y ago
Indeed, as are Texas, Alaska, and Saudi Arabia. Resources must be extracted where they exist. No such physical constraints bind the development of search engines, social networks, etc.
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by muzz 13y ago
Which city do you think Seattle or San Francisco should be more like? And why do you think businesses based in those two cities disagree?

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