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Same, but mid December in SF. It hit our office pretty hard. I am not sure it was COVID, it could have just been a nasty cold that happened to sweep through right before COVID hit. But the timing was definitely odd.
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In the US, we pay 5x-10x that amount for a crappy high deductible plan that has measurably worse outcomes than your free insurance. It is hard to overstate how bad US healthcare is for the typical American. If you are wealthy, you have acce
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> At some point the loan must be paid back And in the meantime, they get to retain the full power and influence that comes with the stock/company that they control. The wealth inequality issue is as much about power dynamics as it
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Why would they need to sell anything? Just take a salary large enough to cover the wealth taxes. A CEO with a $100M net worth should easily be able to command a salary greater than $1M.
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The only reason "your money" has any value at all is because it can be used to pay taxes. USD is not backed by anything other than the government's "threat of force" to collect taxes. So in essence, taxes are a serv
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Capital gains are not "after-tax" earnings. That would be dividends which pretty much no one pays anymore (see stock buybacks). And corporate taxes are a joke, no one pays those either. As a startup employee, I understand and appr
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As far as I am concerned, there was only one side that was trying to score political points. The other side was trying to do what was right based on the best evidence that we had at the time. https://www.businessinsider.com/
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I think the 3.5 million deaths were used as justification for certain societal responses. But if you like attacking straw men, who am I to stop you. It is a free country after all!
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White supremacists like to claim that twin studies prove that black people are less intelligent due to genetics. Apparently Sam seems to think that Democrats refusing to accept the shoddy science behind twin studies (the conclusions of whic
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it is too late for carbon taxes. Those might have worked 10 to 20 years ago. Carbon taxes could have allowed for a gradual shift away from fossil fuels, but we have about 10 years to cut our emissions by half. Considering most capital equip
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Due to their size and reach, the oil giants have massive political clout. A major reason we do not have carbon taxes yet is because of their ability to lobby (bribe) politicians across the globe. These lawsuits matter because they hinder th
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My main concern right now is that an increase in interest rates is going to cause a drop in home prices and possibly trigger another crash. For example, the relatively modest rate increases in 2018 caused a fairly noticeable swoon in the SF
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You might be waiting for a long time. While solar panels are rated for 20-30 years, there is some evidence that they can last much longer. And considering the vast majority of panels in existence today have been manufactured in the last 5 y
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Yeah, something to consider is that FAANG salaries are an outlier. There is a bimodal distribution in tech salaries. Outside of tier 1 unicorns, no one comes close to FAANG salary. So when evaluating your options, using FAANG salaries as a
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And as a quick follow up to my last point. It might make sense to think about how taxes can work in your favor. If you take a year off, and you split the year across two calendar years (i.e. June 2021 to June 2022), you will get a nice refu
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A lot of advice depends on what you want to do and where you are at in life. If you have meager savings, then taking a year off might be a bad idea, but taking a few months might be do-able. If your 401k and bank accounts are flush then you
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Here is a generous interpretation of my comment: Sustainability advocates are pushing to replace high emissions foods (like meat and non-local produce) and unhealthy foods (like soda and chips) with locally grown produce. You linked to a st
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I think the belligerence comes from the fact that multiple people were killed during confrontations with anti-mask individuals. I certainly sympathize with your experience. I behaved very similarly and got yelled at once or twice for not we
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Something is seriously off with the study you cited. This image leads me to believe that the scenarios they are comparing are not remotely close in calories, which would invalidate their conclusion: https://2020science.org/w
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Bitcoin sits on top of those very same institutions as well. The only thing stopping criminal gangs from stealing the keys to your wallet forcibly at gunpoint is the justice system. And the blockchain could not exist without the massive gov
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Capital gains tax is rarely if ever a major consideration in investment decisions. The vast majority of professional investors are interested in cash flows, not capital gains. It is just the speculators that live and die by capital gains, a
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It boggles my mind that phone makers don't use a grippy surface on the phones. The sleek surfaces look great in marketing photos but make for horrible usability. I use Android and once a phone is nearing the 3/4 mark of it's
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That is a surprisingly bad take from Nate Silver, who I am usually a fan of. The fact that Florida has less excess death than the national average does not preclude systematic undercounting. One can both have lower actual deaths than averag
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Same question can be asked about the undercounts in Florida? [1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/florida-covid-19-dea...
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My anecdotal experience, HN upvotes informative, constructive, and positive comments. And it downvotes negative/cynical, political, or unsubstantive comments. I have had comments with very similar arguments, but different delivery rece
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> employees reaching outside of their role to forward their political goals The vast majority of executives in the corporate world are conservative, and in addition to personally supporting conservative movements, they frequently direct
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It also has some major disadvantages. Folks can get fired or laid off if the business goes south. You are competing with those same friends for promotions. And the HR department gets the final word on what is considered appropriate behavior
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Fair enough. I still think there are no shortage of folks with ambition in this generation compared to previous ones. But the one thing that I do think missing is a "new frontier". Previous generations had oceans to sail, mountai
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lol, and just to nit pick. Musk is probably the least innovative on this list. He did not found Tesla, he took it over. And SpaceX is using designs that had existed for decades. His main "innovation" was betting large sums of mone
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lol, do you seriously think no one was focused on rent extraction in the 50 and 60s? As if that was a recent invention? I agree, the culture has changed. Right now, I can now apply to 100's of startup incubators to get funding for my i

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