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by muzz 14y ago
Prop 30 raised personal income tax (and sales tax, a separate point), which is based on calendar years.
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by muzz 14y ago
well, that definitely is hypothetical, because that's not what happened
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by muzz 14y ago
Stupid question, but how did you pay 2012 taxes before 2012 was over?
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by muzz 14y ago
That was an extremely rare tax deduction that few had every even heard of before an article about it came out in January. It was struck down by courts as unconstitutional, so the deduction had to be disqualified retroactively.
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by muzz 14y ago
Constitutionality of law indicates otherwise.
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by muzz 14y ago
Income != Assets His bio describes him as a "failed investment banker", so perhaps his lack of that kind of basic knowledge should come as no surprise. This Proposition was passed back in November, yet somehow it appears to be news to the a
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by muzz 14y ago
Read the author's previous pieces-- very little logic, lots of California-hate. The premise of this article, Prop 30, is nothing new. Rehashing of the same things (from the same author no less) must give PandoDaily some page views or somet
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by muzz 14y ago
That's his LinkedIn, which simply may not be updated. He's not mentioned in the OP-- which seems to list everyone in the company by name-- nor anywhere on Vidyard's website.
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by muzz 14y ago
What happened to CTO Edward Wu? He seems to have been part of the original founding team and CTO but no mention of him in the past ~1 year. [edited, linked to previous post from Inovia] http://inoviacapital.com/2011/11/inovia-capital-is-pr
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Progress Stalls in California on Earthquake Warnings(nytimes.com)
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Top users of H-1B guest worker program are all offshore outsourcing firms(epi.org)
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How Frothy Is the [Private Market] Tech Boom?(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by muzz 14y ago
Your 4 points at the end are all true (and true in general), but Facebook's valuation on SecondMarket was not a stretch-- in the IPO they sold 425M shares at $38.
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by muzz 14y ago
> But does that mean that a purchase of eg 5% of a company at a high valuation makes that company worth 100% of that valuation? Probably not. No, it means exactly that. How else do you think valuation is computed?
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by muzz 14y ago
Interesting that no one is calling this an "Amazon tax", as was done when California did the same thing
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by muzz 14y ago
If you are a student from a family with median income or below, Harvard and Stanford waive tuition (and Stanford will cover room and board too). http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/02/21/us-education-stanf...
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by muzz 14y ago
Would love to see any hard data on what the actual new administrators are, and how much the additional costs are. Raw numbers, not the % increase compared to some year in the past.
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by muzz 14y ago
Sticker prices have been soaring. Actual cost of attendance hasn't been increasing nearly as much-- many students don't pay anywhere near the sticker price due to tuition wavers, grants, etc. This article summarizes it as 3rd degree pri
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by muzz 14y ago
If there is "absolutely" a bubble, please explain the motivation for individuals to participate in the "bubble"? I.e. with the housing bubble and the stock market bubble, the motivation was to buy those assets solely in anticipation of bein
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by muzz 14y ago
Numbers like that are often red herrings. Harvard undergraduates have an average student loan debt of $11,780 [1]. While it's not $10k, and it is debt, it's really not that much higher. [1] http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/10/18/grad
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by muzz 14y ago
Largely the same article as this previous one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5060690 The top thread in the comments are somewhat of a rebuttal/debunk: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062415
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by muzz 14y ago
I think I see your point. The second half of my original comment may have claimed more than it needed to.
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by muzz 14y ago
"the general overhead that comes with trying to sort through all the applicants" is exactly the same problem I have in trying to find a quality day care provider! I know someone in another country that can do the job, but the law gets in
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by muzz 14y ago
No, what caused the crash was that there was no bigger fool to sell overvalued stock to. Engineers coming out of the woodwork were simply responding to the economic incentives that existed for them (and that's the problem with bubbles, it's
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by muzz 14y ago
Wow. So we must change our immigration policies because of Stripe's chosen solution to their talent identification problem? What other profession would that work for? e.g., s/engineer/day-care-provider . I need to hire a good day care provi
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by muzz 14y ago
No, it would bring supply and demand into equilibrium, and ensure that resources are utilized where they have the most economic value. Econ 101 tells us that in free markets, price is variable that moves to equate supply and demand, result
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by muzz 14y ago
So your problem is not immigration, but rather talent-identification at your compensation level. Increase your compensation level and the talent will find you.
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by muzz 14y ago
One things conspicuously missing from the post is the idea that companies will set up foreign offices to hire the workers there if they can't hire them here. Maybe that idea died along with the whole outsourcing push of the mid-00s.
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by muzz 14y ago
Not sure why you are implying that only the unemployed can fill jobs. There is plenty of tech talent in the San Francisco area (shocking! I know) and people are free to switch jobs. If Stripe offered competitive-enough compensation, they s
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by muzz 14y ago
No. Even as a percentage of jobs it's not very useful. I.e, do you really believe that engineering/programming jobs peaked in late 2008 / early 2009?

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