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by sokoloff 1y ago
A mix of bad CEOs at those companies and good CEOs at Target, Walmart, and Amazon. I don't believe the median worker held any blame at those companies. From that, I’d conclude that CEO capability and effectiveness really matters and pa
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I disagree (not a CEO). What’s the median worker at a company like Walmart or Amazon paid? To think that a CEO of those couldn’t improve (or degrade) the company’s performance by many thousand times more than a Walmart or Amazon worker seem
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by sokoloff 1y ago
You did: “IFR was only low because we could get all the infected to the hospital .”
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by sokoloff 1y ago
What?! I know hundreds of people who have had it, and only one I know went to the hospital. Zero died. I’ve had it three times. Zero hospital visits. One was “bad cold”; one was “mild cold”; the last was “would have never known I had anythi
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The IFR (infection fatality rate: the chance of dying for an individual who contracted COVID) is under 1%. That’s a small minority by any reasonable measure, especially in a thread comparing it to the plague.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Is forcing grandma out of her house economically the perfect or the good in this story?
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I originally misread your “Prop 13 does this” to mean the thing in the first paragraph, not the thing in the second paragraph.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
ALPA (pilot union) has consistently objected to cockpit video recording. I believe other pilot unions have a generally similar stance.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
“Beat it, grandma! We have better ideas on how to use the land and house you raised a family in!” is unlikely to be a winning campaign platform. (Thankfully.)
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by sokoloff 1y ago
FTC can still do it without the legislature. They just have to follow a more rigorous process in rule-making.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I’m something like 3 for 20 lifetime in getting those CommandStrip style adhesives to release completely, no matter how many videos I watch for technique.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I ran Hackintoshes for many years. Performance on a $1500-2000 Intel platform was always extremely good (certainly better than any Mac I was willing to shell out for and sometimes better than any Mac that was sold).
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by sokoloff 1y ago
There is a market for land plus improvements. What you actually paid in 2016 is presumably the market value of that combination. You probably referred to other similar parcels that had recently sold when contemplating your offer as well. It
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I don’t think a land value tax is a good idea, because I’ve never heard a satisfactory way to objectively value the land as-if unimproved. But making you and I pay a different amount of LVT on the same exact piece of land definitely makes i
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by sokoloff 1y ago
My view is that where Google workspace apps have won, it’s on price (for enterprise) or because it’s free (for easy online sharing, etc.)
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Yes and: You can also refinance later if rates fall.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Absolutely the armed forces need to train with and use these. The intent of the study is (presumably) to figure out how to train more safely by understanding the impact, choosing smart limits, and educating leaders and medics as to the symp
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> Normal people are renting apartments or portions of homes. About 2/3 of households in the US own the home they live in. Renting is the minority, not the majority.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
People buy cheap[er] houses near airports and then try to get airport ops changed/restricted all the time . (I agree with you, but it’s obviously a thing that people have no problem doing.)
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by sokoloff 1y ago
In the short run, markets are a voting machine; in the long run, they’re a weighing machine. — Ben Graham If you own a slice of nVidia’s shares at a current P/E of 37, after a year, they’ve earned 2.7% of the value and you still have t
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The FTC was not given unlimited rule-making power by Congress, and has to live within the power granted to them. Issuing an NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) and conducting a regulatory analysis for certain rules are examples of such lim
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by sokoloff 1y ago
“Their purposes” are not necessarily perfectly aligned with “their employer’s purposes”. I have met more than a few engineers who seem to practice “mortgage-driven development”.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Points on the license probably requires more surveillance in order to prove who was driving rather than just that this particular vehicle violated a traffic law.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
My objection to raising minimum wage too high is that it makes it illegal for people with modest skills and abilities to earn a living unless they can find an employer to dress up charity as a job. I know people who would struggle to create
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by sokoloff 1y ago
That $2 represents how many minutes of your annual labor? 2 minutes? Less than 1 if you account for all the non-coding drag on your tota working time?
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by sokoloff 1y ago
That's where PBGC comes in: https://www.pbgc.gov/wr/benefits/guaranteed-benefits/your-gu...
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by sokoloff 1y ago
For a defined benefit plan, I don’t need to care. For defined contribution plan, I care (but can usually choose investments). I personally only have 401k, IRA, and after-tax investments, no pension.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Selling naked puts doesn’t seem particularly outrageous. About half the time that I want to buy a position, I’ll sell a series of put options just OoM until I get assigned the shares I want, collecting small premium along the way. My “hedg
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I hope mine is not managed by someone dumb enough to keep handing money over to Jane Street on such a simple scheme. If they are that dumb, I need to move my money way more than I need Jane Street punished.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> lack of a meaningful train system The US moves the most freight by rail in the world; seems meaningful… https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/highest-railway-cargo-tr...

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