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by ruggeri 4y ago
That might be true if they couldn't move wealth outside the country. But a concern is that those with savings might move money out of the country to invest in jurisdictions with lower capital gains tax. One view is that this tax jurisd
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1891 German Ratchet Screwdriver Restoration(youtube.com)
1 points by ruggeri 4y ago|0 comments
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by ruggeri 5y ago
Others can judge whether I misread your comment. Whether you are Rasmussen or Ruggeri or live in Denmark, Italy, or the United States, when you respond to a thread about France it is not mysterious that others will interpret your reply with
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by ruggeri 5y ago
With due respect, your comment would benefit from a better understanding of French 20th century history. Vichy France was not Nazi rule, and it was not oppression by invaders. It was oppression of the French and by (some of) the French, alb
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by ruggeri 5y ago
It might be obvious to people who are familiar with the problem. In fact, the title confused (and baited) me because I was familiar with the problem, but not the new formulation.
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by ruggeri 5y ago
Thank you. Stuyding the hydraulic version really helped prepare me to understand the electrical version. I've been wanting to understand how boost converters work for a while, so this was super useful and interesting!
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Peter Singer Wins $1M Berggruen Prize(nytimes.com)
1 points by ruggeri 5y ago|0 comments
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by ruggeri 5y ago
The parent poster doesn't want to be the only one in the country writing checks for extra money to the IRS. The parent wants equitable tax policies that apply to everyone.
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by ruggeri 5y ago
I upvoted you and would agree that encouraging creativity, new enterprise formation and investment in new ideas are all positives that the policy is chasing. I think this policy is not a very effective means to that end. QSBS does not reduc
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by ruggeri 5y ago
In my opinion, an outrageous tax-giveaway to the rich. Very sad that this was expanded to 100% (from 50%) during the Obama administration. Some people will say it doesn't apply to California, but this misses the point: you still avoid
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by ruggeri 5y ago
Sounds simplistic. Why did Biden withdraw troops? Is he not part of the transnational security elite? The problem with these conspiracy theories of everything is that they actually never explain anything. The reason the war was continued wa
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by ruggeri 5y ago
I've been reading [The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes]( https://www.amazon.com/Price-Peace-Democracy-Maynard-Keynes/... ) which I imagine covers similar material. I like it so
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by ruggeri 5y ago
Yes, it's a contrast between Russian and Western monarchy that is commonly emphasized. It's a true difference. But also no: learning more about this age made me realize that pre-Napoleonic Western Europe was even less liberal than
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by ruggeri 5y ago
He was an extremely active ruler. Founded the Russian navy, founded St. Petersburg. He was indeed also very interested in all kinds of science and technology and tried to import these to Russia. https://www.amazon.com/Peter-
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by ruggeri 5y ago
I should finish reading the linked article. But I have a quick initial question. Proofs in ZFC can be enumerated by a machine. In theory, we could devise a machine that (1) will certainly eventually halt iff ZFC is inconsistent (proves two
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by ruggeri 5y ago
Sibbling comment is correct that this is an attack on a military research project, not civilian infrastructure. Thus non-responsive to the original request. Perhaps a better (but also possibly fictional) example is sabotage of the Soviet tr
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by ruggeri 5y ago
Thank you. I was trying to understand this myself. NSO seems to be trying to distance themselves from how its software is used by its "clients," but that seems undercut by the plausible supposition that NSO knows exactly who its c
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by ruggeri 5y ago
I believe Archegos bought total return swaps. Those are different from CFDs, but I'm not sure how different they are. I'm not sure why one would be illegal (like CFDs are) and one would be legal (like total return swaps).
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by ruggeri 5y ago
35% per bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/san-franc...
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Mixed-Member Proportional Representation(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ruggeri 5y ago|0 comments
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by ruggeri 5y ago
Strong agree. Building on the side seems like a smart, low-risk move, and you could try it to see if it works for you. But it's easy to fail to maintain enthusiasm/momentum when working on the side, simply because you don't h
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by ruggeri 5y ago
I actually disagree with most of the advice here counseling you not to quit. It sounds like you would be able to find a similar job with similar income if you quit, tried to start your own project, failed, and re-entered the work force. If
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by ruggeri 5y ago
I think what you say is true, but I think the public reaction also reflects the disingenuity of Robinhood presenting itself as "democratizing finance," when in reality it seems like they are ambivalent about whether their users ar
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by ruggeri 5y ago
A reference to the famous result of Papadimitriou and Gates, of course. https://web.archive.org/web/20070610154429/http://www.cs.ber...
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by ruggeri 5y ago
Incremental transfer seems like it should give an incentive to cooperate, but I don't think so? If I pay you upfront for the first block, what stops you from then saying: actually I still want more money to start transfering the firs
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by ruggeri 5y ago
But do they send you the data first, or do you send them the payment first? If they send you the data first, then why should you pay them? If you send them the payment first, then why should they send it? I'm sure there's a piece
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by ruggeri 5y ago
The article raises a question I've wondered about before: how do you know that anyone will transfer you your data when you need it? You can require people to prove that they stored it, but how can you require people to transfer it out
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The Ramsey Effect(lrb.co.uk)
2 points by ruggeri 6y ago|0 comments
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by ruggeri 6y ago
The comment above is a little mean, but I don't think it's ad hominem to note the author's lack of specific qualification in epidemiology or infectious disease. When I am a non-expert in a complicated subject, I want the advi
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by ruggeri 6y ago
"The clinical trial participants who were evaluated were relatively young and unlikely to become severely ill, making it impossible for the scientists to determine if the variant interfered with the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine’s ability

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