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by primrose 6y ago
Or get involved with drugs.
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by primrose 6y ago
"Public schools are literal prisons for children and the only time many people will ever encounter physical violence in their lives." ~Michael Malice
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by primrose 6y ago
The affordable housing is not in Tokyo but outside the city with a decent commute. Also, Japanese national debt is 258% of GDP. I don't know how much incentives are put into housing but I got to imagine the government is spending it ev
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by primrose 6y ago
> Income tax seems like an overall success to me. How would you quantify this? > people living there have gotten net-worth-wealthy from real estate 1. NIMBY's, excessive regulation, limits on building all drive costs up. 2. Scare
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by primrose 6y ago
You underestimate people's need for freedom.
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by primrose 6y ago
I'm not so sure UK politicians would know what to do with a complicated tech company.
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by primrose 6y ago
It's great that universities here are stellar. But the K-12 students are taking a hit. I feel bad for the vast majority of children going to school in this state.
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by primrose 6y ago
It's being worked on.
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by primrose 6y ago
> For this to work, the majority of people thinking of attending college would need to have an aversion to sharing physical space with others. Or it's cheaper and more convenient. Like online shopping. > their parents might deriv
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by primrose 6y ago
> Cal State sticker-price in-state tuition is only $5,700/year. Online education will be cheaper. With state subsides it'll probably be free. khanacademy is already free. Check out this lecture on cellular energetics: https:&#
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by primrose 6y ago
> excellent public education Looks like Texas has California beat on that metric: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/public-scho... One of the largest school districts, LA public schools, is notoriousl
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by primrose 6y ago
Here's a rich dude named Peter Schiff: https://twitter.com/PeterSchiff/status/1294454477299363840 He moved to Puerto Rico to avoid taxes. He is an outlier but his sentiment is correct. This is a spectrum. If
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by primrose 6y ago
> 529,000 people Fair enough > How do you think a model would operate for university-level instruction that would both prepare kids for employment Not sure, but Uni level instruction is probably sub-optimal for a large portion of the
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by primrose 6y ago
I live in LA. No investment, it's baked into the numbers. > As long as we don’t descend to full on fascism next year I think I’ll buy a house here. I would not recommend buying a house for the next couple years at least. Prices are
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by primrose 6y ago
> 30 years and the numbers have not significantly changed. "How did you lose all the money?" "Slow at first, then very quickly." > Companies based here are some of the most profitable in the world. Cat's out o
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by primrose 6y ago
> 1.6 million people worldwide How many of the 1.6 million need to live here in LA? > University attendance may dip, but with the rock-bottom prices You can't compete with online prices if you have brick and mortar, hence Amazon.
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by primrose 6y ago
Add it to the pile
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by primrose 6y ago
The same principal applies. If you make it too costly to do business, business will leave. That or a company from somewhere else will use less taxes and regulations as a competitive advantage. They'll even take losses like shutting dow
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by primrose 6y ago
Universities/colleges are about to be disrupted and ironically the tech sector is helping this with online learning. My guess is half of them will go away in the next few decades. Business can and will move. Sure the port is nice. I&#x
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by primrose 6y ago
What if they just stop investing and build elsewhere?
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by primrose 6y ago
The US income tax was only supposed to be applied during war time for the wealthy. Now it applies to everyone. If this does pass expect it to effect most people with some assets in the state in a decade.
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by primrose 6y ago
For now
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by primrose 6y ago
Detroit took decades to go bankrupt. Sometimes previous polices can have long term effects before diminishing.
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by primrose 6y ago
Or taxes are already ridiculous and this is a sign of things to come. It's a huge red flag especially when Rob Bonta get's on TV to promote it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrEK5hgr3vY
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by primrose 6y ago
I'm from the Metro-Detroit area. The city of Detroit did this. Everyone moved out and a few decades later the city had to file for bankruptcy. It took the skyscrapers downtown being at rock bottom prices (and generous state and local i
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by primrose 6y ago
The fact that the "gut-and-replace" wealth tax happened in the first place is a problem. Rob Bonta then gets on TV and justifies it ensuring no one with substantial assets will come here. Income tax at 13% is enough to encourage s
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by primrose 6y ago
I’m willing to bet the LCD screens and fancy hardware are a small part of the vehicle cost, esp. when compared to the batteries. All software is expensive up front but near zero cost to deploy to each additional car. At some number of cars
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by primrose 6y ago
“Anyone using Lidar is doomed, DOOMED!” Looks like GM is catching up to where the industry was a year ago, from A cofounder of Waymo. https://youtu.be/0w1G2GyPTUM
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by primrose 7y ago
Would this new global mechanism be useful for other diseases like cancer or AIDS?
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by primrose 7y ago
An* aardvark

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