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by pandaman 3y ago
Alice grows an apple and sells it to Bob for a dollar. Alice now has a dollar more because she gave her labor and services and the dollar is the value of these given. Bob took Alice's labor and services and Bob is now poorer a dollar b
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by pandaman 3y ago
You are somewhat right: Americans do see people who give more to the society than they take as more worthy than ones who take more than they give. But the market is not a moral measure in itself but is the measure of the value one gives and
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by pandaman 3y ago
Everyone has a phone that can manage calculations nowadays, few people can or want to calculate precise taxes. I still don't see how it makes advertising prices with taxes a "lemon market", which somehow prevents businesses f
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by pandaman 3y ago
>It's a lemon market. You mean it's a market with information asymmetry? How so? Customers know both that the sales taxes exist and their magnitude. If you think it's a great idea you can put big sign saying on your shop&#
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by pandaman 3y ago
>And this is why we don't just add it to the price? This is the grand reason? I don't think so, there are more apparent reasons listed in this thread already. I am just pointing that rolling a sales tax into price is not as sim
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by pandaman 3y ago
Indeed they can, that's not the question I've answered though.
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>If it's so easy to "know" the local tax rate for various things, why isn't it easy to label them? Because you pay the tax from the total of your purchase and not from each item separately. E.g. in Santa Monica, CA sa
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by pandaman 3y ago
So customers cannot deduct VAT from their personal taxes... I also doubt that separate ads per township are common in EU. For example, in Los Angeles the city is made from several separate townships with different sales taxes, two shops on
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by pandaman 3y ago
But they cannot calculate price on ads. Also, can you deduct VAT from your taxable income in Europe? Sales tax in the US is deductible.
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by pandaman 3y ago
It's not some kind of a novel hack, it's a boring old squatting. There are even multiple films made about this (e.g. Pacific Heights cited multiple times in this topic) not to mention countless articles and news pieces. It's
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by pandaman 3y ago
They had Jared getting kicked out of his own condo by an AirBnB tenant in the same show.
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by pandaman 3y ago
>And yet, we have Apple, whose hardware quality alone is good enough for a dedicated team to reverse engineer and write drivers for, with almost zero documentation available. Apple own software is pretty janky, my current MacBook cannot
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by pandaman 3y ago
Have you wrote drivers? Writing a driver off documentation is: a) very hard, how do you debug anything without JTAG ports and simulators? and b) not correct on principle because the documentation is not the hardware, there are errata in the
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by pandaman 3y ago
Why would I even try to capture your actual words? It's all there already, you can re-read this thread. And I definitely did not try to reword anything you say, unless now you are saying you did not claim that the Amazon is a counterex
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by pandaman 3y ago
I see, you believe that the statement "Amazon goes RTO even though it has no data about productivity impact from WFH" is a counterexample to the assertion "No company does RTO despite the data showing increased productivity f
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by pandaman 3y ago
There is no evidence that Amazon has no data showing decreased productivity during WFH period. The statement from the management is carefully worded so Amazon won't get smacked by SEC for misrepresentation: the stated "gut feeling
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by pandaman 3y ago
Sorry, I don't follow. The GP said that Amazon has no data and I argued that they probably have but don't want to publish it. But even if you are arguing against the GP your bringing up "No true Scotsman" makes no sens
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by pandaman 3y ago
Don't know about Amazon, for all I know about their disfunction they could be actually running the company without any performance statistics. But, say, Goldman definitely has these statistic since they pay bonuses based on them and it
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by pandaman 3y ago
Why would you believe that living in a vehicle should cost more than living in a capital structure in an undistorted market?
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by pandaman 3y ago
If statistics had been as clear as you claim them to be then we'd see enormous concentration of homeless in Aspen, Hamptons, Marta's Vineyard, Beverly Hills etc.
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by pandaman 3y ago
A lot of sitcoms were shot in front of studio audience so they used sets that were much bigger than the dwellings appropriate to the characters level of income and location. It's been noticed as early as 1953 in Bradbury's Fahrenh
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by pandaman 3y ago
A 7+1 rounds pistol with a safety switch is extremely popular with police? I'd like to see some source for that.
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by pandaman 3y ago
There was stuff that was always slow, stuff that involved processing a whole lot of data. Like building, or archiving, or generating reports etc. People wanted faster computers for that. UI was not slow, text editing was not slow, networkin
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by pandaman 3y ago
It's not instead of anything. A township government can only enforce the code, even if you paid 200% property tax. And codes are pretty loose because to change it you need some kind of majority in the town government. And even if som
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by pandaman 3y ago
I would not be drawing connections to reality from government actions. California imposed COVID curfew [1] just because they could, not because the viruses are nocturnal. At best, if there was actually any thought put into it at all, it&#x2
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by pandaman 3y ago
It's made a dual intent because it's impossible to prove the lack of immigration intent for any long-term visa. It's not the only dual intent visa, almost every long-term non-immigrant visa is dual-intent for this reason. Eve
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by pandaman 3y ago
For quite a while, H1B had been almost exclusively for foreign graduates from American schools so the distribution of H1B workers is as same as the distribution of foreign students.
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by pandaman 3y ago
More of a Californian thing, I'd think. You can live your whole life in SF or LA without seeing any promos for the opposition party. In other states, even in as Blue of a city as Austin you can still see an occasional bumper sticker on
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by pandaman 3y ago
I'd figure it would be easy to target Linkedin spam to the alumni, since the schools are in the same profile where they get the workplace. Instead they wrap their requests into invites to connect, get bounced and I don't know if t
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99% of these I get are from Indians, I figure few other Asians that sent same requests were influenced by their Indian classmates. And I've never worked in a company where a referral given to somebody you don't know is worth somet

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