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by patmcc 1y ago
>>>Others didn't even know what was going on at the time and were let into the capital building by police officers and were arrested anyway. If you're part of a mob and the police get out of your way that's not the
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by patmcc 1y ago
Wow, people who walked near the capital were thrown in prison. Really? Just walked near the capital. Didn't break in, attack cops, destroy property. Really. Just walked near the capital. Wow that's crazy.
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by patmcc 1y ago
From the POV of anti-abortion folks, the idea of "oh just let other people have abortions if they want" is as silly as saying "oh just let other people have slaves / kill their infants". If you think a fetus is wort
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by patmcc 1y ago
They may both be damaging, but currently we have a lot more porn than censorship, so it looks like it's causing more damage. If we flip to having a lot more censorship we'll feel that damage more clearly. Or we won't, dependi
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by patmcc 1y ago
I think the risk here is Taiwan being invaded by China, in which case having some US-based production helps a lot.
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by patmcc 1y ago
>>>I content that it is simply not possible to evaluate the "unimproved value" of a given parcel. I think there's a perfectly fine way; you estimate it the way we currently estimate properly values for tax purposes.
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by patmcc 1y ago
>>Since this wooden rod travels several miles in a 6 second time frame - traveling more than 500M/s on average - don't we have to assume it accumulates? If we assume it does accumulate, then we also have to assume peasant #2
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by patmcc 1y ago
Oh, I didn't realize - I knew 174 made it "must amortize", I didn't realize it could be done either way previously. Very silly indeed how they've done this.
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by patmcc 1y ago
There are businesses that will build a big custom piece of machinery. Think a factory or a mine. That may last for 20 years, but require workers to operate, maintain, etc. This is handled in existing tax law; building or improving a capital
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by patmcc 1y ago
Honestly it'd depend a ton of the particular industry/company/programmer. Some are definitely creating capital assets and should be amortized, others are "repairs and maintenance" which can be expenses. I'd pro
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by patmcc 1y ago
Yes, I think there are two similar but subtly different flaws in that always . 1) Accounting rules are to match revenue with the expenses responsible for them, which I think is a good principle. If your workers make something now that prov
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by patmcc 1y ago
If they're producing a capital asset, you do retain the right to the fruits of their labor, even if they quit. The rationale behind amortization isn't exactly the idea that the asset can be sold, it's that the asset is produc
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by patmcc 1y ago
They're still expenses, they just now need to be amortized. Buying a truck is an expense, as is buying gas for the truck. But the former you have to amortize over x years, the latter you can expense immediately. The law used to be &quo
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by patmcc 1y ago
If the restaurant buys e.g. a fancy oven or a delivery truck, it can't expense 100% of that cost in year 1, it has to spread that cost over the lifetime of the oven or truck. Labor that operates the business day-to-day would be an expe
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by patmcc 1y ago
Employee salary cost isn't always 100% an expense. Imagine you are BigCarCo, you make cars. The salary for your factory workers that build cars to be sold is an expense, incurred in that year, to be matched against the revenues earne
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by patmcc 1y ago
The US is perfectly able to give orders to US companies that may be against EU law. The GDPR may hold the company liable for that.
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by patmcc 1y ago
We could employ 100k people to dig holes and then fill them back in; should we? We shouldn't employ people in economically un-viable ways just because they need income. We can just give them money directly, or redirect them to other wo
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by patmcc 1y ago
Huh. Then yah, what the heck? Why not just be a regular corp?
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by patmcc 1y ago
That's effectively every business that isn't a complete rent-seeking monopoly. It's not a very good measure. edit: to be clear, it's not a bad thing - we should want companies that create consumer surplus. But that'
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by patmcc 1y ago
Google offers a great many things for free. Should they get beneficial tax treatment for it?
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by patmcc 1y ago
Give everybody $1000 (or whatever) to offset that. Ends up being neutral for some folks, a net benefit to the poor, and a net cost to the rich. This is already how lots of jurisdictions handle regressive taxes.
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by patmcc 1y ago
Tax the fuel. Gasoline now has a $X/gallon tax, as does propane, as does coal, whatever. What is the difficulty with that?
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by patmcc 2y ago
I didn't catch it in February, but WOW what a lovely game! Always impressed at how many variations on word games that can be created, very well done and congratulations.
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>>quicken et al at least use a system now where the bank grants read only permission as an app integration ...not always, they don't. Some financial institutes provide this, some do not. I know very specifically that some FIs
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by patmcc 2y ago
My experience with AWS is the documentation can be bad/wrong, it can be difficult to find stuff, but the actual services are very solid. It does what you tell it to do. Stuff works. My experience with Azure is that it simply breaks in
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by patmcc 2y ago
Oh, thank goodness, they're finally banning these evil devices. Hopefully they'll move on to bobby pins, coat hangers, screwdrivers, and hammers next.
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by patmcc 2y ago
That's not what anyone means when they talk about cops lying though. Cops can lie to suspects during questioning. They can say "your friend already confessed" or "we just got a call from the lab, your DNA matches" o
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by patmcc 2y ago
Do they think you're going to hijack the train?
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>>get people employed It'll do this one, certainly. Maybe not the most cost-effective jobs program, but I expect there will be many construction and data centre jobs in the next few years.
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by patmcc 2y ago
Haha, yah, I think we agree; Operation Texas does what it says on the tin (the data is stored in the USA! It can only be directly accessed from within the USA) but ultimately that doesn't matter at all, since Jim in Texas can just emai

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