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by nwiswell 3y ago
> An e-scooter doesn't have an obvious way to pick it up and carry it with you. Yeah but this is 41 lbs, so you aren't going very far with it.
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I'm not holding my breath. In any event I think ProPublica laying out the data in this fashion is necessary groundwork if that's going to become a part of the political consciousness. The intellectual argument for a wealth tax to
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> The point is there exists a tax you have to pay for simply owning something Not at the federal level, and the methodology used for computing effective tax rates in this article (both for typical households and the centibillionaires) is
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> We already have property taxes. Sort of? They're a patchwork state system and they're heavily kneecapped because in many states property tax is not really proportional to the market value. In California, effectively the longe
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Fascinating. Visa-subsidized gold I guess.
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This is strange, apparently they're selling at a significant loss? Current online price, $1930. Spot gold, $1872.59. So a little less than a $58 premium. My credit card gives me 2% back, and my Costco membership 2% on top of that, for
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> People still trust Mozilla (despite them doing their best to squander their reputation with releases like this). I absolutely, completely disagree. I wish social media websites were controlled by foundations in the same way Wikipedia i
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> Fast food restaurants clearly realize more than $20/hr in economic value from their hourly employees in California, much like they do in Europe. This is certainly true on the whole, but it is not necessarily true at the margin .
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You're right, that was sloppy of me. It sounded right, but I think Melbourne Water statistics probably truly are dominated by domestic use, since it's a city. You can see the numbers don't match up; you're using a figure
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> Would you be willing to pay an extra $3.5 per month to never have to worry about a drought again? Yes, you'll never have to worry about your basic supply of 50 gal/d/person being threatened in a drought, but just think a
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by nwiswell 3y ago
All of what you're saying has to do with Amazon fulfillment (FBA), not Amazon.com the Internet marketplace. They're two entirely different things (you can actually use Amazon fulfillment for items sold on other websites, altho
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> Don't you think if we turned USPS into this it would be a another billions of dollars a year waste for taxpayers? Do we really need to be subsidizing drop shippers? You've missed the idea entirely. No shipping services are en
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> Would be curious to see numbers on the bigger items. Have you used FBA? Yeah, I've done enough FBA to rank somewhere between a serious hobbyist and an actual lifestyle business. There is a sweet spot. If you're selling lightw
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> if the market was working correctly Amazon's profits would be driven down to zero and you'd effectively have this Are you sure? Consumer behavior seems to be to simply go to their default marketplace rather than to search the
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by nwiswell 3y ago
I can't help but think that Amazon should be replaced with a non-profit or regulated public utility that provides a single unified online marketplace, part of internet infrastructure like ICANN. Sellers would select among competing ful
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by nwiswell 3y ago
The 52% is dominated by small crap items that basically cost $0 in bulk from China (cables, phone cases, etc) On these items Amazon fully realizes they can charge 90% and the seller is still making a profit, so they do. If you're selli
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by nwiswell 3y ago
I just don't understand why they would keep shutting programs down rather than doing course corrections toward a more competitive GPGPU. This behavior stretches all the way back to Larrabee in 2010. If I was a betting man, I would bet
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Does this feel a lot like Xeon Phi v3.0 to anybody else? Intel's strategy here is baffling to me. Rather than keep trying to improve their existing line of coprocessors (and most critically, keep accumulating key talent), they kill off
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by nwiswell 3y ago
I was going to observe that another totally-understandable reaction to getting fucked in a business transaction (or getting cholera from untreated water) is to begin researching everyone you do business with (or testing/treating all
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by nwiswell 3y ago
If you drink from a river and get cholera, would you drink from that river again in the future? It might be fine! Maybe on that particular day, somebody with cholera had just taken a shit upstream, and the bacteria are totally gone now. But
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by nwiswell 3y ago
"It's easiest and safest to assume that property is not stolen" is a parallel construction of your argument. You can assume whatever you want but the cops may not be very impressed. There are a lot of polite fictions in law,
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Here's the actual data: https://blackrockcitycensus.org/sociodemo#demographics 24.3% make more than $150k And of course participants make more than the national average. There's a huge proportion of attendees comi
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> What are they proposing? They're proposing to do away with access journalism, or at least access biographies. The entire deal, spoken or unspoken, is: "you give me the inside scoop, and I'll skip the uncomfortable questi
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I agree with you. On the other hand, changing founding principles should be a very deliberate process, or else they don't mean very much. In any case I don't think the criticism is generally as well-founded as what you've l
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> although I think its principles and expense ask for criticism. ... do they though? "Ah, but in your 'leave no trace' ethos, you forgot to consider the atmosphere! Ha HA! Checkmate!" "And your radical inclusion
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There is a middle ground between "let the planet warm uncontrollably " and "huddle in darkness waiting for death". Meanwhile, I assume you're a vegan who bikes to work and never uses air conditioning? The difference
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Yes, how dare people do things? The emissions in 2020 were estimated at 100,000 tons CO2, which is roughly equivalent to five hours of air travel (2.5 hours each way) per participant. The lion's share of emissions are from road travel
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> Most uses of chips are in cheap consumer junk overwhelmingly made overseas for bottom dollar I don't understand your point. While true, those chips are made at historical process nodes using antiquated equipment. The plan isn&#x27
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Points_Guy#Products_and_...
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TPG is paid astroturfing by the banks and it exists to pitch cards and inflate consumer perception of the value of points. Disregard it. If you want to use "reasonable" bootstrap values, I'd suggest using figures from Doctor

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