rbcgerard

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by rbcgerard 9y ago
It would be nice if the US allocated some house seats to expats like many European counties.
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
Sounds nice - but I'd love to know what the cost of the system was and the annual upkeep/maintence repair expense, energy costs etc compared to regular trash pick up...can one make a compelling case that these should be more widel
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
while no fan of the system at all, there is a certain amount of reciprocity. Either you voluntarily accept an inducement to fly at a different time or you get paid ~0-400%[1] of the one way fare of the flight you got kicked off of plus they
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
to be fair those change fees only apply to the discount economy fares - you can pay more to have schedule flexibility with a flexible/refundable fair
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
I do t think these charts take into account benefits (I.e. Health insurance) which means that for many people income has not grown, but total compensation has grown, those workers just didn't get to choose where to spend it...
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
You hit the nail on the head with what counts as "basic" - as long as politicians can win elections by giving a benefit to people that they don't have to pay for/or collectively can't afford, I'm not sure how y
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
"DHS has carefully developed the ESTA program to ensure that only those individuals who are ineligible to travel to the United States under the VWP or those whose travel would pose a law enforcement or security risk are refused an ESTA
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
http://www.edline.net/pages/Shelter_Island_UFSD/Board_of_Edu... they have some part time teachers - but that is about the gist of it...and the outcomes not super impressive for the money...
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
Here is an example: School district budget: 11.3m Salaries: 4.5m Benefits: 3m That's for ~220 students and ~30 full time teachers... http://www.edline.net/files/stream/5D3207F7E11684C4-0000015B...
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
What real inflation measure should he have used?
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
I like Freedome from F-Secure pretty user friendly so it actually gets used... https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/home_global/freedome
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
It makes sense when you consider that for people that have been relatively diligent about saving for retirement, they still confront two big risks: longevity (outliving their assets) and long-term care (nursing homes/assisted living).
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
I'd encourage anyone interested in the subject to read this paper doesn't cover tontine's directly... https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.25.4.143
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
I always get a little annoyed when people talk about benefits of some tax deduction accruing to the "rich". It's not that it's technically wrong but, but rather a sort of a truism - if you can take the max deduction and
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
Put another way, in John Locke's book published in 1693 "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" he spends the bulk of the book focusing on body and mind as well as virtue and reason, while touching lightly on curriculum in the e
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
+1
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
Separate hardware
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
I just stop reading when reporters compare hedge fund or private equity gains in a single year to the S&P 500, or categorize either of those investments as high risk...
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
really only 3% lower
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by rbcgerard 9y ago
See below http://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/Industry/p122203.pd...
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‘I Dreamed of Africa’ Author and Conservationist Is Shot in Kenya(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by rbcgerard 9y ago|0 comments
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by rbcgerard 10y ago
I think the allusion was to what their all-in tax rate is. Everyone knows what their take home paycheck is, but ask the same person what their effective tax rate was for the year, and most people don't have a clue (over withholding, 40
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by rbcgerard 10y ago
$1,000 does not sound like true full fare first (I.e. F class http://www.cwsi.net/m/united.htm ), but my real guess is they had a global services customer they needed to get on the plane and this had paid less or had lo
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by rbcgerard 10y ago
Apparently united position is that you haven't "boarded" until the door has closed and plane has left the gate
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by rbcgerard 10y ago
At the end of the day the problem is: - the service provided has become essential (airlines, cell phones, home internet, etc) - it's provided relatively cheaply to a large group of people - there are few alternatives (and in many cases
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by rbcgerard 10y ago
If you're an academic, probably. Otherwise, almost never...
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by rbcgerard 10y ago
Probably not that often - but it doesn't sound like its risk less for them
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by rbcgerard 10y ago
Yeah - it doesn't seem unfair to get compensated for that risk
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Close to Half of American Adults Infected with HPV, Survey Finds(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by rbcgerard 10y ago|0 comments
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by rbcgerard 10y ago
The question in my mind is whether uber is taking any risk in that arbitrage, if uber is essentially selling me "the rider" a swap (floating for fixed) it doesn't seem unreasonable they should be compensated for taking that r

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