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by nugget 10y ago
Everyone knows how to fix the problem in the short/medium term. The solution is money. Specifically, money from the Federal Government. The real behind-the-scenes debate in DC this month is about, first, the best mechanism to transfer
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by nugget 10y ago
How can a place be simultaneously 4k elevation and also "presently below sea level"? Are you saying that the introduction of sea water would rapidly erode 4k ft of surface material?
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by nugget 10y ago
To paraphrase an author I read recently ... it will happen slowly, and then all at once.
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by nugget 10y ago
> At this point, anything is better. I hope more people in our community will volunteer themselves to the work. After watching the sheer amount of personal destruction leveled at Trump (a relative political newcomer), what private citize
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by nugget 10y ago
It's not always that simple. Execs like this take entire teams of talented subordinates with them. The headline focuses on one person but the real brain drain occurs when that person turns around and starts to poach the absolute best
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by nugget 10y ago
One challenge is that people who grew up in America have totally different expectations in terms of quality of life and living standards than immigrants from poor countries who are willing to move here and start from scratch. A poor kid fr
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by nugget 10y ago
That's your opinion. My opinion is that Greenwald is one of the most important journalists alive today. It feels like there is mass disillusionment with institutions of all kinds, from both conservatives and liberals, and especially
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by nugget 10y ago
Check out polymail.co
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by nugget 10y ago
How would you compare the two fields? What do you look forward to in medicine?
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by nugget 10y ago
Corruption plain and simple. There should be claw backs and reductions on self-dealt pension benefits such as these.
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by nugget 10y ago
Have you ever seen people you know personally do live events / media on that scale? Carson did an amazing job considering his background.
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by nugget 10y ago
Not all universal health insurance systems are created equal. Read up on Molina Healthcare. Some of the Medi-Cal heavy provider networks in Southern California are so bad that they are effectively inaccessible.
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by nugget 10y ago
Sometimes systems have to crash before they can reboot - part of the normal life cycle and trying to prevent pain can end up making it worse.
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by nugget 10y ago
Let people vote with their feet. Avoid bailouts when pain arises from obvious mistakes, corruption and self-dealing. The rest will sort itself out.
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by nugget 10y ago
There was a fascinating discussion about Greece on HN about a month ago. Based on what some Greek posters were saying, it seemed like the Government has effectively nationalized the housing market by raising property taxes to 5-6% (through
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by nugget 10y ago
Illinois is the real time bomb. My prediction - California will eventually pair property tax hikes (from 1% to 2% on every property in the state; limit prop 13 basis to one property per person) with pension benefit cuts (10%; reduced COLA)
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by nugget 10y ago
I dislike the majority of his post but most of the people I've known to achieve ''success'' at the highest levels spent years in this zone where they obsessed near 24/7 about their work. It sucks to write that
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by nugget 10y ago
Housing is the real problem. Let's call it what it is. Once you have a place to live, then the cost of a pleasant existence is a) pretty cheap, b) controllable [eat out versus eat at home], and c) more or less the same in many parts
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by nugget 10y ago
Same here. Avoidance of regret.
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by nugget 10y ago
I like the idea of increasing the child tax credit to something like $10-15k per child, up from the current level of a few thousand. The increased incentive would only be fully realized by families who could scale their income up to match.
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by nugget 10y ago
Even as a child-free libertarian I have no problem with the state subsidizing child-bearing. Seems similar to nation defense. Without it, as you say, society, and particularly our own set of cultures and values that we have curated, will
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by nugget 10y ago
IE was pretty bad but Firefox was decent. I interfaced a bit with the early Chrome team. Better performance was a necessary but not sufficient condition for success. Chrome was the fastest browser for at least six months but many early a
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by nugget 10y ago
I am old enough to remember that Chrome didn't really take off until Google released an extension framework with many popularly supported extensions. There's likely a lot of room in the browser market for custom browsers curated
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by nugget 10y ago
Or help boost our immune systems by exposure? I couldn't tell from the article.
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by nugget 10y ago
> it's only done when one or both of the parents are carriers of a serious genetic mutation I have friends who have done PGD simply to select the gender of their child. Once researchers identify reliable genetic markers for height
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by nugget 10y ago
Yes, I think there should be pressure to either use it yourself (if you decide your personal utility is worth the cost) or to rent it out. You can still leave it empty, of course, but people do respond to incentives; the more the maintenan
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by nugget 10y ago
Well by those terms, the more tax you owe on a property the more productive either it and/or you have to be to maintain it - as the taxes increase, so do the incentives for you to put the property to work (as a rental), so that it help
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by nugget 10y ago
You answered your own question - money (e.g. the second job) is how we measure productivity.
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by nugget 10y ago
When Amazon and Microsoft go through the next inevitable downturn and housing prices take a hit then all of these investors will learn a painful lesson. I know a lot of young software developers who have moved to Seattle for job opportunit
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by nugget 10y ago
The broadest solution is very high property taxes - ideally a land value tax - in order to encourage productive use of property and limit speculative bubbles.

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