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by rmah 6y ago
Burning wood is only carbon neutral if you plant and grow trees to replace the ones you burnt. It surprises many people just how many trees need to be grown to heat a single home for a year.
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by rmah 6y ago
The wash trade rule is to prevent people from taking a loss at the last day of the tax year to offset gains in other securities. Then re-buying it on the first day of the next tax year to "reset" the cost basis. In short, it&#x2
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by rmah 6y ago
A nice science project and possibly of use in desert climates or in tiny, extremely densely populated, nations like Singapore. But I don't see how it would be viable or why it would be needed for the vast majority of the world's
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by rmah 6y ago
I don't think this company is publically traded.
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by rmah 6y ago
I was speaking to a friend who works in the real estate side of banking and he informed me that the shortage was partly due to the foreclosure protection currently in place. He said that once that's lifted, a LOT of resident real esta
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by rmah 6y ago
They do both. As well as provide a description of the regulation's goals, context and examples. This is how regulation works. It typically starts with a rather vague law, then the regulatory agencies make up general rules to impleme
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by rmah 6y ago
Exactly right. One thing I often tell younger developers is... 80% of developing software is figuring out exactly what you want to build." Usually, the actual act of building it (i.e. writing the code) is fairly trivial.
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by rmah 6y ago
Incorporating in Delaware is the exact opposite of trying "to skirt rules and regulations". It is based on the desire for well defined, stable rules and relatively efficient enforcement.
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by rmah 6y ago
Am I the only one who thinks $500/mo seems excessive for union dues? That's $60k/yr in dues for every 10 workers. Does a union really need a full time rep for every 10 or 20 members? If, perhaps, half of that goes to &quot
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by rmah 6y ago
This never happens in the USA because this is not how tax brackets work. When you hit the next tax bracket, you only pay the higher rate on the income over the bracket threshold. Any income under it pays the lower bracket(s) rates.
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by rmah 6y ago
Massive? Oh come on, $600 is the cost of a moderately expensive chair.
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by rmah 6y ago
IMO, the parent comment was not hairsplitting, it was making quite valid critiques. Take the marketing critique. Far FAR too many techies think "marketing" == "advertising". It's not. Paid advertising is a small
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by rmah 6y ago
The world can and does already produce multiple times more food than is necessary to feed all of humanity. It's just that, currently, most of the crops mankind grows is used to feed animals which we then eat/use.
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by rmah 6y ago
In that quote, Wallace is just morphing, conflating, and fudging the definition of the word "worship". He says people "worship" (with a variety of subtly different meanings) a variety of things and then, implies that be
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by rmah 6y ago
The only effect of not using USD to conduct financial transaction has on your taxes is that it makes them more complicated. It will not reduce your tax burden one iota. (In the US, of course)
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by rmah 6y ago
"they" said the same thing about boomers too. and the silent generation before them. and ...
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by rmah 6y ago
And -- in the US at least -- crime was out of control and off the charts in comparison to today. Everything is so much safer now but people seem so much more paranoid. It is perplexing to me.
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by rmah 6y ago
That's all? I'd have thought more. And it makes perfect sense since "boomers" they have worked for 50+ years to expand their wealth. Think about it for a little bit -- older generations should have more wealth than
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by rmah 6y ago
Oracle and many other old-school enterprise software companies ARE Silicon Valley. SV caught onto this decades ago.
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by rmah 6y ago
Apple's money is not "sitting in the bank". Most of it is invested in various debt instruments (probably mostly US Treasuries).
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by rmah 6y ago
Yes, it's that easy. And prices of commodity food staples only cause unrest in very poor nations where food inputs constitute a large % of their income. Wheat costs about $200/ton and peaked around $450/ton during the arab s
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by rmah 6y ago
Do people not understand how insulting it is to call people in poorer nations who work hard to build a better lives for themselves and their families by making the crap you buy "slaves" is? Am I the only one who gets annoyed by t
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by rmah 6y ago
The answer to your question is: art should be subject to market laws and there should be minimal public funding except in very special cases. And IMO, there is no change needed how artists are getting paid because it's clearly working
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by rmah 6y ago
This has also always been commonplace in the media industry for creatives. Simply put, the supply of labor far far FAR outstrips the demand. It's a highly risky career path, but many take the chance because they want to. No amount o
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by rmah 6y ago
Real exchanges do not take custody of assets (unlike crypto exchanges) and do not sell info to end users. In the retail space, brokers provide this data. Their policies vary. From free for all traders, free for active/fee for inacti
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by rmah 6y ago
How can it be experienced authentically without the stink of human and animal waste flowing in the streets? Without the dread of disease hanging in the air. Without the threat of attack by the "foreigners" in the next valley.
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by rmah 6y ago
Yes, some people will get screwed end up like those out-of-work horses because of AI or automation. Other people will benefit greatly. On average, most people will benefit a little bit. This is how every technological advance has worked
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by rmah 6y ago
Whether the crypto you receive in compensation is considered a security or not will not matter from an income tax perspective in the US. If you were paid in stock, you would owe taxes on the compensation at the price of the stock at the ti
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by rmah 6y ago
In much of the United States (and I assume Europe), there are a variety of environmental regulations which restrict what you can do with your land. I don't know them in detail, but I know that tree removal, wetland removal, changing w
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by rmah 6y ago
One of the author's points was that it doesn't matter if Huawei's new OS is a git clone of android. So what? Android itself is, at its roots, a variant (cline?) of Linux, after all. The author seems to believe that Huawei

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