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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Perhaps there was some tax reform since I last looked, but generally speaking dividends are taxed at the long term capital gains rate. So they would be the same or less than capital gains (short term capital gains are just treated as income
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You are assuming that all that matters is wealth, which isn't the case. Bangladesh has lower homicide and robbery rates than the U.S. Even Vietnam has much lower homicide and robbery rates. The US incarcerates a lot because we have a l
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That would be great if Meta was a VC fund placing hundreds of bets in the hopes of a moonshot paying off. But a (formerly) trillion dollar company placing such a big bet on such a small market is very surprising.
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I mean, that's not how stock buybacks work. First, stock buybacks are not tax exempt. If a firm earns $100 in profits and buys back $50 of shares, it still pays the corporate taxes on $100, not on $50. Unlike paying interest, corporati
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I agree that it's volatile, but that doesn't necessarily recommend it as an an investment vehicle, nor is it the case that we have a lot of assurance that the bottom has been reached. The main downside of bitcoin is that because i
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My guess is that the fortunes of twitter continue to be tied to the news cycle. When there are a lot of newsworthy events, traffic on twitter will increase, and when things quiet down, so will the traffic. This is not really something twitt
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Isn't this an assumption of the "popular vote compact" that has been enacted in some of the leftist states? They would send their electoral votes to the winner of the nationwide popular vote without regard to what the people
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Introduction to global markets for crude oil [psu class](e-education.psu.edu)
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I have a hard time believing serveless will be cost effective as a full replacement for a high traffic webapp. Higher ups do care about costs, so you should encourage some due diligence on pricing.
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> So this restriction only applies to motor vehicles. No, the requirement does not apply to only to motor vehicles, because we have another law: s. 316.2065: Every person propelling a vehicle by human power has all of the rights and all
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Well, despite the trenchant analysis, the point is not that the US creates completely fake movements. There are real issues of racism, religious tensions, women's rights, etc, and the point is to exploit these, arm the various groups,
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The reason why you think it happens less often is because the US declassifies its foreign activities after a long delay, at which point we have government admissions of what was done. Until then, we have only media reports that are labelled
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Identity politics are antithetical to marxist theory but not necessarily to the marxist movements as they actually existed. Here, things get more complicated because there were marxist movements all over the world, from Africa to Asia t
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This reminds me of a video I saw, in which a French father unwraps a birthday present for his young son, and it's a used copy of Mein Kampf . He turns to the boy's grandfather "What is this??" "It's what he wa
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
> The US has never recognized PRC claims to Taiwan. This is false. And the US also promised to remove all military forces and installations, which they have never done. There are today US troops in Taiwan. The constant lying to China by
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The article is about prospects of war between the US and China. According to official US policy, which is the One China policy, Taiwan and mainland China are the same country, and any disputes between the mainland and Taiwan is an intra-chi
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counterpoint: The US is free at any time to stop invading other countries, trying to overthrow other countries, and enter into conflicts thousands of miles from their borders. But really, it doesn't seem that they do. The US has invade
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We really shouldn't be growing soybeans or corn in Great American Desert (the vast plains west of the Mississippi and east of the Rockies). That is arid land intended for grass, and then you should raise cattle and livestock on the gra
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
> Today, there is no viable worthy alternative to Twitter. I'm really curious why you think so. On twitter you can read through the feeds of ~300 million monthly active users. You can read their opinions about current events, jokes
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India now gets about 12-18% of its oil from Russia (depends on how you count "indirect" purchases). The problem with embargoing Russian oil is that they are the no. 2 exporter (about 11% of Global exports). Basically Russia produc
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I'm really worried that cheap, abundant and reliable is not something our defense industry is capable of. - As a result of deindustrialization, we can't ramp up production of critical components. We make up for that by preposition
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G7 agrees to price cap on Russian oil(thehill.com)
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This is also true for other large bureaucracies. I see this type of cherry picking and fighting over credit often at work as well.
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The purchase of stock is not taxed, but the sale certainly is a taxable event, and does not even take inflation into account when determining the capital gain. In the same way, when one company buys another company, that does not trigger
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There are several mechanisms: 1. choice: The idea is that you can put your money in the bank and get some interest or you can spend it. So when interest rates go up, people will chose to spend less and save more. Obviously rates have to be
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While I think the answer is "no", I also think that we need to remember that users want features, lots of features, and so in some sense bloated software requires bloated organizations. This article might be useful: https:/&
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Isn't that already baked in with the ability to choose which accounts you follow? I'm not sure, I haven't used Twitter in a long time, so maybe they made it like Facebook where they put stuff into your feed that you don'
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> The current crisis is supply side driven. If you see a fall in consumer confidence it’s just because the media keeps repeating it’s going to be terrible like this article. These are two incompatible views. A supply side driven crisis m
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I've seen a marked decline in the speed and usefulness of google maps over the last 10 years or so. I'm not sure whether they are cramming too many features into it, so the UI becomes too cumbersome from it's original use cas
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Twitter Black, for $1000/month, allows you to screen out any tweets by checkmarks of lesser colors.

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