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by sokoloff 1y ago
> Treating a person as part of a group is the problem. Yes, but it's efficient and effective in a large number of cases. Those with no programming experience is a group. Those who just graduated a CS program is a group. Fresh bootca
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Small planes are about twice as safe per mile as motorcycles, all-cause to all-cause. Now, there’s planes running out of fuel and drunk driving on cycles that some operators might choose to exclude from their own risk calculations, but it’s
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Fuel dumping is overwhelmingly to prevent or minimize an overweight landing and subsequent brake/tire overheating and inspections. It’s got not much to do with minimizing fuel-fed fire after impact.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I’m willing to pay £20K less for someone who promises to never use AI. AI can’t solve everything, but never using it isn’t the right answer.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Tooling has made us vastly more efficient since the days of FORTRAN and punch cards, which has caused millions more of us to be able to employed in the field. Few companies could afford websites built with ancient tech, but everyone can a
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by sokoloff 1y ago
They started charging for public IP addresses in early 2024, which was a price increase from zero.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think all of these schemes end up failing in environments other than academic papers. If I was a wealthy person and the calculation was based on share of wealth donated, I’m pretty sure I’d find a way to become a massive employer of tempo
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Yes, money has utility. That should be unsurprising to everyone. This proposal's pairing of hypothetical projects levels the playing field by a factor of 10 versus the starting point. That seems like a pretty good improvement over the
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Great. Now, suppose the 10 wealthy people are in favor of the pipes project and the 100 average people are in favor of an art museum. Is the art museum or the pipes project more important?
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think that very quickly just changes the forms of donation to be “something that doesn’t count as a donation” (buying tickets to an event or even just straight up NFTs). As soon as the quadratic decrease is more than my marginal tax rate,
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I used to think the employer drives to contribute to the company's preferred charity were bad before QF; they’re bound to get a lot worse with it, giving power to employers with lots of employees and a willingness to encourage them t
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by sokoloff 1y ago
But they got 99 shares of government contribution for each share they put up for a 100x multiplier while the art patrons got 9 shares of government contribution for a 10x multiplier. Setting aside the emotional content and looking only at t
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Bonds are an exchange of cash now for more cash later in the other direction. Eventually, that “cash later” is taxed or inflated away (printed), so it’s a difference in timing more than category.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Is the opportunity cost of someone who has never programmed an iOS app before $2500/day as an iOS dev? Maybe in some analyses, but that’s not where I’d estimate it. If they’re turning down other $300/hr work, sure, but that’s not
945.
by sokoloff 1y ago
I thought it was 15% for devs selling under $1M per year. It also seems like a super-weird analysis angle to both pay yourself a ( very generous) full day rate AND then expect upside on top of that and conclude that making just the $10K
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by sokoloff 1y ago
She works in people ops, where I’d expect the US pay premium to be low or non-existent, at least as compared to tech.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
How many times per year do you hear people saying something so obviously flawed that you first wonder how they feed themselves, only to realize with horror that no one else seems to notice and instead is transmitting and discussing the idea
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> and a lot more than that in urban areas Or, if the UBI is insufficient, you could work or move someplace less expensive. Most anything else would feel unfair (as a result of being so) and tend to drive a cycle of inflation in the expen
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Yes, included in the first parenthetical, though I suppose it wasn't made perfectly explicit.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The whole point of the fig leaf naming it ride sharing was to make operating private taxis seem like a wholesome thing that shouldn’t be regulated like taxis.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
What do you think of as “the lower end of pay”? Fully remote, fully async, low intensity work is a global market, right? I’d be careful about taking the lower end of global pay.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I generally agree that SATs and APs lose meaning once the college enrollment is behind you, though I was asked for my SAT scores by my third employer (D. E. Shaw & Co.). I had to check twice with the recruiter to be sure I’d heard her c
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I wear my seatbelt and insist my family does the same, but am opposed to seat belt laws. I’m in favor of building codes for commercial and public buildings but not for detached private residences (or not at the current level anyway). I’m op
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> debts that will last generations That’s something that should be banned. Debts should die as part of settling the decedent’s estate. (The US got this right, and I thought most of the world did as well.)
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I believe that alcohol and tobacco are significant net negatives to society. Yet, I do not support a ban on alcohol and I suspect that an outright ban on tobacco would be worse than simply having high taxes on it. Sports betting is probabl
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by sokoloff 1y ago
For a while, advertising for-money online poker was not legal in some jurisdictions. So “ParadisePoker.com” (a real money site) couldn’t advertise. Free-to-play/play money site paradisepoker.net however somehow found the money to adver
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Interesting that the limit was that low. I remember having to borrow money to make the $2K investment before the deadline, but didn’t realize that was maxing it out. (My dad was the one telling me to do it; I’d have been entirely clueless a
958.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Though your answer is correct for the tax code as well as GAAP, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles are not necessarily followed by the tax code.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I graduated in 1993 and going back through my old Quickbooks file, my 1993 IRA contribution went to a broad-based fund at Twentieth Century (now American Century). It was a half-year of working and all I could scrape together was $2000 and
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by sokoloff 1y ago
My reading of § 1.263A-1 is that construction labor must be capitalized. § 1.263A-1.a.3.A indicates that it's in scope: Real property and tangible personal property produced by the taxpayer § 1.263A-1.e.2 specifies that Direct Costs a

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