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by nugget 8y ago
There are plenty of practical policy solutions you can employ to shift more market power to lower and middle income folks; e.g. proposition 13 in California but limited to one residential property per person.
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The root of this problem stems from the American ideal of the primary home as an ever-appreciating investment. If you instituted a land value tax, raised property taxes overall, invested heavily in (reliable, clean, safe) public transporta
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>then jack up prices to make a business Of course this hasn't happened in the rideshare market yet - it's cheaper than ever before. I've found Uber Express prices to be almost unbelievably cheap recently. Seems like there
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The math on this is even more direct, as you can take the differential in salary and invest directly into early stage companies that interest you, trading technical advising for access to seed rounds. You often end up with more equity (on
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>Walmart's infrastructure can move upscale in the grocery market more easily than Amazon/WF's infrastructure can scale up for grocery sales. Can Walmart move their brand upscale? That may be more of a challenge than infra
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That the majority of high school seniors would benefit more from trade school, apprenticeship, and small business entrepreneurship programs than four additional years of formal classroom education.
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How would the phone contribute to her vocabulary?
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Amazon is so convenient and has such good customer service that they've made me care less about pricing. On the other hand, they've made me care more about counterfeit goods. I've received a few this year already. What&#x27
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by nugget 8y ago
They lost me over this issue too. It felt like they only decided to support local vaults again because there were so many complaints from loyal users about the deprecation, which makes me think at some point they may try to end-of-life it
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>30,000 bots [generate] well over $20 million a month of profit that's $666/month per user >“Re-infection costs have been estimated at $0.0935 per device,” say Putman and co. >For example, potential botnet masters can mak
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by nugget 8y ago
The SFBA runs on a gold rush / lottery model. You can move there as an "ordinary" person and make millions or tens of millions of dollars within a few years, i.e. a winning lottery ticket. It's probably better than a l
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How broad would a vendor's coverage need to be on day 1 to be valuable for you?
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Keep in mind that the Nobel prize comes with an approximately $1 million USD cash award. It's not just a fancy gold medal.
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by nugget 8y ago
Check out Mapfit (mapfit.com) as well - top notch team with a lot of interesting ideas, and similarly much better prices than Google.
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Private insurance still exists in countries that have universal health care. In the UK, for example, a little over 10% of the population has private insurance. In the US today, about 50% of the population has free or extremely low cost hea
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by nugget 8y ago
Not sure I follow your distinction. There's a "no trespassing" sign and a law against trespassing. If I trespass, in violation of that law, how is that not civil disobedience? (Conversely if I'm not breaking the law,
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by nugget 8y ago
I believe the sheriff's department has publicly stated that they will not ticket or arrest anyone caught using the easement to access the beach, even if they have to hop the fence or take similar measures. This situation seems ripe fo
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by nugget 8y ago
This is all smoke and no fire. The article's subject complains about his account value falling from $280k to $110k in value, meanwhile his pension has a net present value in the millions. I'm surprised this made it by the WSJ ed
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by nugget 8y ago
For many decades society has told the smartest and most ambitious 18-25 year olds to go to college and climb the largely pre-defined ladder of success. What would happen if society told a bunch of them to pursue new innovations and venture
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by nugget 8y ago
I've hired about 50 full-time w2 on-site developers over the last decade and maybe 3 or 4 of them were total duds (due to extreme mis-representation of technical skills) once employed. I'm not sure how this ratio compares to othe
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by nugget 9y ago
Let me play devil's advocate for a second. Knowing how to write code isn't binary, of course; there's a wide range of skill even among those who have contributed to large production systems. If I hire someone who seems grea
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by nugget 9y ago
If you define bankruptcy as the literal inability to pay employees, vendors, and creditors, then states certainly can go bankrupt. A Federal bailout of state pension obligations becomes a political (not financial) problem. Why would states
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by nugget 9y ago
Changing the Constituion...or Bankruptcy.
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by nugget 9y ago
Wait and see what happens as a result of SALT deduction reform. Property taxes in the most expensive zip codes just became twice as expensive for many people. California may be less effected due to proposition 13 but places like Texas and
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by nugget 9y ago
I've seen cases where antidepressants saved people's lives. I've also seen cases where they were pushed on people who needed psychotherapy and not medication. Access to quality psychotherapy is unfortunately very low.
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UPMC educates so many medical professionals it's not surprising that there's an imbalance. I don't think Pittsburgh could absorb all of those MDs even if they wanted to stick around (which most don't). I'm surpris
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This is why the data portability requirements imposed by GDPR are potentially so significant.
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I don't know that much has been written about this yet, but consider data portability as one example. If an EU court rules that Facebook must allow extraction of a social graph with an email address and consistent ID included for each
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Facebook's fear isn't privacy requests made directly by individuals (likely a tiny number), but rather privacy requests made programmatically, on behalf of users, by third party services who can use clever marketing and growth hac
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by nugget 9y ago
Sometimes pride and a sense of justice are more important than money in terms of building a wonderful life. I agree with you that most people don't do the right thing, but that doesn't excuse doing the wrong thing. Based on the

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