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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
There is no tax benefit to leaving a unit vacant, despite people who don’t understand real estate constantly making this claim. You do not get to deduct the rents you failed to collect, and there is no tax benefit that is lost when you rent
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
By your own admission, it’s nearly impossible to address the core issue here, so I can’t blame people for trying to nibble around the edges of the symptoms. It’s all that seems possible.
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
I think it’s different if someone is waiting on the immediate output of your work. But in your example, if the HR person needs to process 1000 documents this month and mine is one of them, I’d much prefer they use this process to help them
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
AppleCare+ does not include theft coverage. For that you need to pay for "AppleCare+ with Theft and Loss", which I assume you didn't do: https://www.apple.com/support/products/iphone/ It's
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
You can click through to the actual list here: https://wallethub.com/edu/most-diverse-cities/12690 It's worth taking a look at their methodology and how they're measuring diversity. Notably, NYC ranks mu
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
Your second paragraph is pretty ironic given your first.
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
This might technically work, but everyone would hate it. And that’s why it won’t happen, because people would hate it so much that it would have to be enacted en masse, and there’s no way to coordinate that.
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
This is a great comment. Taking this further, if big data can eradicate the consumer surplus, then maybe big data could make price controls more feasible. Maybe big data actually could make a command economy kinda work.
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
Agreed, I think this is corporate lore and mostly bullshit. I've flown Southwest many times and they're not turning those planes around in anything approaching 10 minutes, it's more like 30-45 mins. I don't doubt that th
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
I’ve traveled all over Europe and lived in Italy for several years and I’ve never heard of this.
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
The USDA classifies nine million American kids as “food insecure”, some of them quite desperately so. https://apnews.com/article/free-school-lunch-child-hunger-7d... It may not be any better for European kids, but it’s
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
Higher education is also similar
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
I associate the hedonic treadmill with a life of advertising-driven consumerism, and the US seems way ahead of Europe in that regard.
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
That’s likely because the non-prime vendors have to lower their prices to match prime, or they wouldn’t sell much.
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
Better yet, just do it as discounted coworking space. Win / win.
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
Brake, not break. Not just trying to be pedantic, I think this misspelling makes it less clear what you're trying to say.
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
I would bet money that this is exceedingly rare. You'd probably have to have a 767 or larger for this to make sense, and only a tiny fraction of private jets are this large. And then it would still have to be extensively modified to be
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
Some of that is false, but not all of it. And some of it is misleading. For example, women usually get more custody, but that’s also because men often don’t seek custody. Men who seek custody are awarded it at similar rates as women, IIRC.
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
That may be the hypothesis that you are entertaining, but that’s not the comment I was responding to. Nor is it a particularly well-formulated or convincing hypothesis, your cherry-picked examples notwithstanding. We don’t have evolutionary
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
Hunter-gatherer societies do not represent some ideal state that we should strive for, but rather a particular societal adaptation to the environment at the time. We live in a different environment (one that I have zero interest in destroyi
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
Even if that's true (a big if), all we can infer is that that's what hunter / gatherer societies seem to naturally coalesce around. It's not what modern society is coalescing around. Some folks take that as a sign that m
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
You're commenting on a thread about a claim that what's "best" is for children to have a father and a mother, not "let's encourage fathers and mothers to stay together", which is quite different.
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
Humanity will be just fine. There are eight billion of us and growing, and while fertility dropping is increasingly a localized economic issue, it hardly threatens our species survival. Even when population peaks (projected in a few decades
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
Given that most women do worse financially after divorce, I’m curious about these incentives for women to become single mothers that you’re talking about.
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
I also had a similar issue with Stripe, years ago at this point. I got it resolved partly by posting here, so this is a good first step. I'd also search HN for threads about Stripe, and there are often a few folks from the HN community
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
Yes, totally, Joe Biden should disregard the careful work of thousands of economists and other professionals, and instead focus on a layoff of 237 people he heard about.
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
I have no personal interest in this topic, but I like this site and the way the FAQs are organized. I'd love to have this for more topics.
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
I use mine every day.
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
Not for Microsoft it wouldn’t, which was their point.
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by ryanwaggoner 3y ago
In which direction? And is that universally true? Does it apply to all relationships, like parents for their children?

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