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by rsj_hn 5y ago
You are using a lot of handwaving to try to get across the finish line. Let's tease this apart: 1. "math vs no-math". All engineers learn math. Some are afraid of it. At elite unis, it's fair to say those afraid are weed
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
That's great if your only requirement is to train software developers to write CRUD apps - you can learn to do that by watching youtube videos, reading self-study materials, and taking MOOC classes - but if you want mechanical engineer
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
No, firms will need to do much more leetcode as the signaling value of a degree decreases.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
So in a surgery situation where you are under and something else is discovered, then that's a situation of unexpected costs. So you look to who is best able to bear them and that's who bears them. What exactly is the purpose of in
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> One simple change is to go to referenced based pricing. You can't charge more than 1.2 the Medicare reimbursement. Agree that this is huge. Price transparency, reference pricing. You know "the law of one price" is suppos
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
so that's not a good idea, but being able to post your own patch code as well as patch instructions should be protected, IMO.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> In your opinion. However, some people clearly believe it _is_ a tax loophole Only people who are not familiar with basic accounting or tax economics can believe this. > One of the talking points against inheritance tax is that it ta
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Hilaire Du Berrier: Spy from North Dakota(indexarticles.com)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Brave search results are quite different from Bing's (they are better) -- where are you getting your info?
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I'm sorry you had to read that in high school. This kind of stuff is why you see parent revolts. The problems with polemicists like Zinn or Chomsky is that they go looking for any evidence to support their thesis (namely that America i
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> With smallpox so deadly, how did europeans intentionally put it on blankets given to native americans with genocidal intent? That's a myth, stemming from Howard Zinn. Zinn basically scoured various underground and left-wing pamphl
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The next logical step is to subsidize the building of the units made unaffordable by regulations, and this is how you get politically funded housing and the patronage machine keeps growing.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
So now we are in the weeds about inheritance tax, but the idea is that you pay 40% on your inheritance which clears your tax obligations for that inheritance and resets all the cost basis calculations, and then after that you pay gains when
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
You should rest assured that it's not a good idea to invent grievances to justify personal hate. It is just not true that because there is a carried interest loophole, for example, that you can just make up arbitrary other tax loophole
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
>The thing is, who freaking cares. He can literally go to his grave without paying taxes. That shouldn't happen. So yes, you can borrow to pay taxes. And you can borrow to defer taxes. But that is limited by how many assets you have
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> And don’t you think that the bankers and heirs wouldn’t simply agree to have the heirs pay the loans back after they inherit the assets? OK, at this point you are just speculating wildly, right? You are inventing tax loopholes that don
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I didn't mention it because it's not true. I am amazed you think collateralized loans are just forgiven when someone dies. Remember that these are personal loans to Bezos. If they were loans to some business entity Bezos created
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I really wish people would think systematically about these issues before jumping on their soapbox, as this strategy does not eliminate tax payment, it merely defers it, with some interest cost. Consider the following scenario: Say the inte
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
One of the important issues that the no-code world hasn't really come to grips with is security. Generally speaking, you have similar security issues (not exactly the same as there are no buffer overflows or js-eval/java-object in
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Yes, the profit would be something like future price of coal * amount of coal recovered - cost of recovering the coal. What I don't understand is of these three variables, why you think the expected future price of coal is the one driv
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
so close to Cryptonomicon.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I think in my case, I benefit from all the exercise of getting up and going to the bathroom every 30 minutes.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Posted this as it's a fascinating look at some of the underground revolutionary movements in the 1970s based on Bryan Burrough’s book of the same title. I hadn't heard about many of these before.
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Days of Rage (2017)(status451.com)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
No, it suggests that these are money losing mines. India's coal usage is not only increasing, but they have set official goals to increase it even further: From TFA: Power demand in India is expected to grow faster than anywhere in th
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Your refusal to acknowledge the difference between prisoners of war Prisoners of war? They were loot. We should understand the institution of slavery a little better. The economy of much of the ancient world was based on slavery. E.g.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Congo badly needs money No, money is a veil. When people say "X needs more money", what they usually mean is "X needs more productive resources". But giving someone foreign currency doesn't result in increasing
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Those articles are about selling off old coal mines. This article is about India using coal . The thing about coal is that it's ubiquitous. It's hard to find a country that doesn't have at least some coal. But not all mines
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> If you look at a whole host of societal norms in the US, they will be quite puritanical Honestly, I don't see this and think it's both bad history and bad social commentary. Cities all across the country let people walk into
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Sure, but there is a difference between "being influenced by puritan culture along with many other historical forces" and "extremely puritan nation". I'm also not so sure about the accuracy of your Catholic stereoty

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