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Bill Gates Wants to Tax Robots(youtube.com)
71 points by nshelly 10y ago|73 comments
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by nshelly 10y ago
Probably the late 19th-century, when Stanford, MIT and Caltech were founded. They are all now competitors to Harvard. "Good" universities benefit from outsized tax-sheltered endowments, which can be spent on anything from rock cl
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by nshelly 10y ago
I'd also recommend joining the efforts to put "split roll" (removing the Prop 13 restrictions for commercial property) on the ballot in 2020. The biggest turnouts are in presidential election years and there should be an ele
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by nshelly 10y ago
Definitely agree that other places are more affordable, especially if you bring a nest egg from working a few years in an expensive Metro area like NYC, SF etc. But the 80s and 90s -- through the first Dotcom crash -- were also a different
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by nshelly 10y ago
Yes, looks like it includes all forms of income - capital gains, dividends, etc. However, it is using the MAGI so you could potentially use a solo 401(k) to defer income and get under that threshold. http://insuremekevin.com&#x2
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by nshelly 10y ago
The solution would be for Transurban (or another party) needs to sell options to allow drivers to lock-in fares ahead of time, and if they decide not to use them, allow them to sell off the options to drivers on the spot the same-day. Of c
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by nshelly 10y ago
Following the free-market analogy (for better or for worse), there needs to be an options market, where drivers can lock-in a price for the year, say $5 for that ($2 to $30) route. That way commuters can make better planning decisions. The
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by nshelly 10y ago
I think the idea is that you can plan on withdrawing 4% every year as well. The more flexible you are with your expenses, the more you can withdraw while ensuring you will have sufficient income throughout your retirement. I like the hybr
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Where should you live to escape climate change?(nytimes.com)
2 points by nshelly 10y ago|0 comments
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by nshelly 10y ago
Yes, but I wouldn't consider France and the UK necessarily fiscally conservative overall. Moreso than the US - think QE2 and QE3 vs the UK's "age of austerity" under David Cameron through 2015, well after the start of t
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by nshelly 10y ago
Switzerland and Norway would come to mind. Norway has a large sovereign wealth fund created just for the purpose of keeping up an income stream once North Sea oil runs out. Germany and Japan are possibly the only ones close to the US&#x27
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by nshelly 10y ago
It's also difficult to compare US states -- which can't print money, with the U.S. debt level (relatively acceptable in the developed world). Perhaps a better comparison is Illinois and California (the highest poverty rate in the
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Long-Term Parking: Airline workers living in LAX parking lot(nytimes.com)
3 points by nshelly 10y ago|0 comments
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by nshelly 10y ago
> If [an ex-employee] knows (as a result of having been at the company) that the prospects of the business are looking grim or a product launch is significantly delayed, that’s important information a buyer would deserve to know in evalu
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First lawsuits filed by sinking Millenium Tower against Transbay Terminal(sfgate.com)
2 points by nshelly 10y ago|0 comments
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by nshelly 10y ago
One could argue that swaying property owners in every metropolitan area of the world, and threatening the hotel industry is a greater obstacle than legalizing self-driving cars, which is almost unanimously agreed to be the future and in a m
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In economic recovery, people get overconfident on this financial literacy test(mobile.nytimes.com)
1 points by nshelly 10y ago|0 comments
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Google, Trying to Endear Itself to Europe, Spreads $450M Around(nytimes.com)
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Millennials 'set to earn less than Generation X'(bbc.com)
97 points by nshelly 10y ago|192 comments
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Elderly Now Outnumber the Young, Starting with Maine and Florida(blogs.wsj.com)
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So Many Research Scientists, So Few Openings as Professors(nytimes.com)
4 points by nshelly 10y ago|0 comments
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by nshelly 10y ago
Yes, higher operational costs in the Bay Area - market-rate property taxes, for example, would encourage Google and other large incumbents to grow or relocate employees to more favorable locales, all things being equal. Of course, there co
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by nshelly 10y ago
I wonder how Bay Area land usage would change if property owners were paying tax at the market rate for their use of the land. They would likely move more employees to other offices, as they faced more competitive market forces. On some t
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by nshelly 10y ago
Fascinating. It shows the importance of having a consistent blood sugar level, especially when we are around expensive food choices. At the same time, it seems that we could use fasting (resulting in a low blood glucose level) as a motiva
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Bay Area 2050: The BART Metro Map(medium.com)
31 points by nshelly 10y ago|28 comments
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by nshelly 10y ago
Not quite clear how they can "waltz off with their proceeds." They would be required to pay taxes on any income they earned in the US, unless they figured out a way to actualize the income earlier (e.g. Eduardo Saverin renouncing
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by nshelly 10y ago
Not their fault, but it is their gain. One of the other posts here mentions a few solutions that wouldn't force retirees or those on fixed incomes out of their newly valuable properties. The coastal areas of California are unique in
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by nshelly 10y ago
Well, on a purely economic basis, many of those homeowners, including investment funds, are paying < 0.1% in property tax and sitting on properties that are worth millions in value. As an example, the homeowner of one property with a mar
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Low fuel costs forcing airlines to buy used jets(bloomberg.com)
1 points by nshelly 10y ago|0 comments
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CA city cuts homicide rate in half by paying ex-convicts $1k/month(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by nshelly 11y ago|0 comments

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