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by nodamage 10y ago
I think we need to accept that much like communism is an ideal that might work in small groups (literally communes) but quickly falls apart when dealing with large groups (because people are terrible and will find ways to abuse the system),
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by nodamage 10y ago
> Yes, that's crony capitalism, not a free market. You're getting close to "no true scotsman" territory here. Microsoft abusing its position in the PC market: crony capitalism, not a free market? Intel bullying AMD in
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by nodamage 10y ago
> And there's ample evidence that free markets are more efficient at providing value, when held to a legal framework that maximizes freedom (for everyone, consumers and proprietors alike). I don't think there is. I think in man
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by nodamage 10y ago
I'm not making any argument except pointing out that for many people with pre-existing conditions, buying health insurance pre-ACA was indeed actually impossible.
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by nodamage 10y ago
Why do you believe such an approach would work? Is there any evidence behind this position?
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by nodamage 10y ago
Interesting, I haven't heard of someone getting denied coverage for applying to an ACA plan before. What was the reason for the denial?
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by nodamage 10y ago
> Or we could try going the free-ish market approach and try to find a much freer balance with the FDA/USDA/occupational-licensing/scrap Medicare/Medicaid,etc., which we do not currently have AT ALL. Is there any coun
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by nodamage 10y ago
> Altman acts like buying insurance was impossible when self employed pre-ACA. Give me a break. It was impossible if you had any pre-existing conditions, no matter how trivial.
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by nodamage 10y ago
Yes. It's absurd that this is even a debated topic when dozens upon dozens of countries around the world have successfully implemented universal health care systems which have resulted in better health outcomes than the US.
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by nodamage 10y ago
A lot of complaints about the ACA seem related to monthly premiums going up compared to pre-ACA plans. It goes something like this: prior to the ACA I was paying $X, now I'm paying more, therefore the ACA is bad. But here's the th
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by nodamage 10y ago
It's an unfortunate feedback cycle. Medical providers charge high numbers because they know insurance companies will only pay out a percentage of the billed amount.
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by nodamage 10y ago
Indeed. Yahoo pretending it wasn't a software company is what lead to a billion user accounts getting compromised in the largest data breach in history.
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by nodamage 10y ago
Same with in-flight entertainment systems on planes. They always have terrible, slow interfaces.
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by nodamage 10y ago
The most annoying one is the incremental compiler is broken under Xcode 8, leading to full recompiles every time a line of code is modified. https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/62737?start=0&tsta...
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by nodamage 10y ago
> I think I'd be lucky to get two hours of productive development time on my laptops. Is this speculation or have you actually measured it?
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by nodamage 10y ago
If you're going to run numbers you might as well use a calculator that at least accounts for the standard deduction, personal exemption, and deducts 1/2 of the SE tax: Income: $100,000 Self-employment tax on $100,000: $1
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by nodamage 10y ago
> This mostly puts you in the 25% tax bracket. We'll assume that there's also 5% of state income tax. For FICA, since you're both the employee and the employer, you pay 15.3%. All together, that means you're losing ab
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by nodamage 10y ago
I'm confused too. To my knowledge Dropbox credentials are only ever stored on the client. If the 1Password client is compromised (presumably meaning the installer download is hijacked like what happened to Transmission), your Dropbox f
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by nodamage 10y ago
A compromised 1Password application on a Mac can read a lot more than ~/Dropbox. I'm not sure why this problem is specific to Dropbox? Nor why changing the permission would materially change anything? Am I missing something?
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by nodamage 10y ago
I'm still not convinced that React Native is a great solution for anything beyond the most simple apps. The iOS/Android SDKs are already complex enough to deal with when you're writing native apps. When you introduce a third-
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by nodamage 10y ago
I've stopped using my real name when posting online for this exact reason. Less worrying about getting harassed because you said something that might offend someone, or that someone might look up something you wrote in the past and use
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by nodamage 10y ago
> the other $170k would be taxed at 15% Huh? Where did you get 15% from? The other $170k would be taxed at ordinary income rates, so most of that income would fall in the 28% or 33% bracket.
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by nodamage 10y ago
I hope you are at least contributing to a tax-deferred retirement account? A solo-401k is a very good option for solo entrepreneurs, and I'd be surprised if anyone considered it a bad thing to take advantage of.
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by nodamage 10y ago
Drug offenses, not marijuana possession specifically.
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by nodamage 10y ago
It's pretty misleading to look only at federal inmates as they're a relatively small percentage of the overall prison population. There are currently 189,520 total federal inmates ( https://www.bop.gov/about/st
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by nodamage 10y ago
The linked article is about improved health outcomes due to secondhand smoke bans in public areas : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD005992... You're free to continue smoking in the pr
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by nodamage 10y ago
> I think if you read the actual claim they make, and then you go read the description of the Double Irish accounting trick on wikipedia Apple doesn't actually employ the double Irish as traditionally defined - the second half of th
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by nodamage 10y ago
> A significant portion of those profits were shifted overseas to avoid taxation within the US. In Apple's case this is not true at all. The money they are holding in Ireland comes from profits generated overseas, not from profits m
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by nodamage 10y ago
They seem to be pushing this hard here in Seattle. This past week they've sent me two coupons for $20 off my entire order.
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by nodamage 10y ago
If you live in California you have no choice. Even if you incorporate in a foreign state, you'll also need to register your foreign corporation in California.

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