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by raiyu 6y ago
The problem isn't the wealth tax but about creating a taxation system and monetary policy that actually helps people. There is this false assumption that a wealth tax will somehow eliminate wealth inequality. If you have an already bro
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Former COO Sues Pinterest accusing it of gender discrimination & retaliation(techcrunch.com)
3 points by raiyu 6y ago|0 comments
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by raiyu 6y ago
I think that's where regulation comes in rather than taxes. Think of it like this if I'm in an industry and polluting the river. Do you want to raise taxes on me so that I stop polluting, or do you want to just make that illegal?
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by raiyu 6y ago
The things that affect me most directly in life are education, health and housing. Neither one of these is getting fixed by simply increasing tax revenue alone. When I goto the hospital and get an MRI and get billed through insurance and th
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by raiyu 6y ago
This whole tax the billionaires is misguided and won't solve anything. - US Population 2000: 280 Million - US Population 2020: 320 Million - +15% increase in population - Tax revenues 2000: $2.03 trillion - Tax revenues 2019: $3.50 tri
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by raiyu 6y ago
Pre-covid 90% of my meals were delivery. Though to be fair I typically only did one order per day. Post-covid certainly have been doing most of the cooking at home. Now it's probably 50/50 depending on the week.
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by raiyu 6y ago
This is true and has been going for most of the recovery post 2010. However with the pandemic and a significant amount of people moving out of the city, coupled with retail closures and bankruptcies hopefully this rent gouging will come to
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by raiyu 6y ago
They weren't a Snapchat killer but they immediately cut off future growth and stalled it out for a solid 2-3 years. You don't have to kill the competition in social to win, you just need to stop their growth. They can retain some
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by raiyu 6y ago
Touch screens are horrible for frequently used controls in cars. Any car you are in is traveling with kinetic energy, so it is likely to bounce and move around over the road surface. Without a physical button to rest your finger on it'
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by raiyu 6y ago
Same. Amazing how well it’s held up. I did need to do a repair on the motherboard as it stopped charging but one repair after 7 years is crazy.
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by raiyu 6y ago
That is absolutely true. But given that a competitor did pay for those assets, literally, then a market value for those assets was established. If he had stolen the IP, and the acquiring company decided to pay $0 for it and not take it, the
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by raiyu 6y ago
Ahh !! ok. I just wanted to make sure that it was purely for entertainment and I wasn't missing something about the bigger picture here. =]
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by raiyu 6y ago
Fair point, but the penalties for white collar crime are still very lax even when "everyday" people are affected. Look at the last recession which led to many "average" american families losing their homes. That wasn&#x2
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by raiyu 6y ago
I don't understand why everyone gets so excited of this dog and pony show. The executives show up before congress, they get grilled with a bunch of questions, but what is the real change that comes out of this process? I could certainl
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by raiyu 6y ago
White collar crime vs blue collar crime. White collar crime steal $179MM of assets and get 27 months of home arrest. Blue collar crime rob a bank to steal $10,000 and spend 10 years in prison.
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How to Test More People for Coronavirus Without Needing More Tests(nytimes.com)
1 points by raiyu 6y ago|0 comments
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by raiyu 6y ago
They over charge. Their cost is less than .01 cents per gb and look at their published pricing for customers. And I’m including networking equipment as well as head count in my cost, not just the cost of pipes.
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by raiyu 6y ago
You should double check your link to your Twitter account on your homepage as twitter says the account is suspended.
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Equity for All?(medium.com)
22 points by raiyu 6y ago|3 comments
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by raiyu 6y ago
You can make electric cars very fast if don't mind that they can run at full throttle only for a few minutes ;)
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by raiyu 6y ago
It basically means they are just giving you the vaccine and as part of the study they will not be exposing you to Covid-19 on purpose.
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by raiyu 6y ago
The segway failed because of product market fit. As a product it was very interesting, but it had pitfalls. It wasn't exactly clear where to store it. The people who saw it all had houses and garages, but for the everyday user in the c
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Npmjs reducing salaries for employees up to 50% post acquisition by GitHub(twitter.com)
18 points by raiyu 6y ago|11 comments
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Why Is a Tech Executive Installing Security Cameras Around San Francisco?(nytimes.com)
3 points by raiyu 6y ago|0 comments
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by raiyu 6y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head. I grew up with Street Fighter and never really connected the dots as to why I love the game so much. Sure it had pretty good graphics for the time, and gameplay was great as well. But the real different
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by raiyu 6y ago
No comment =]
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Twitter stock jumps on potential subscription platform(cnbc.com)
2 points by raiyu 6y ago|0 comments
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by raiyu 6y ago
A lot of companies didn't take remote work seriously. They used it for small teams and specific areas but as the pandemic forced everyone to adopt WFH and remote every company has had to become efficient at it. I think a lot of the sur
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by raiyu 6y ago
> Our failure to deal with coronavirus wasn’t because the government didn’t want to deal with the issue. Technically it was directly the result of our government not wanting to deal with the issue and making it political rather than scie
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by raiyu 6y ago
I moved from nyc to Miami and actually find the opposite. After three years here there was only one year worse than being in nyc during the summer. The summer almost feels milder here. Anecdotally of course.

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