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by sokoloff 1y ago
Now imagine that a restaurant buys 100 tables, 500 chairs, kitchen equipment, cutlery for 800 people, signage, a security system, and does a remodeling before opening. (Or an airline buys an airplane. Or a hotel chain builds a hotel.) Shoul
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Vanguard launched an S&P 500 fund for retail investors in 1976.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
In what way? A semi-log presentation is perfectly suited for this type of data. (To be frank, I would find any other presentation to be misleading.)
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I doubt we’d be able to avoid discovering microwave heating across 200 years of using RF in the relevant frequency area. Once discovered, applying it to a countertop application seems inevitable.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
That’ll be true when my generation is old and when yours is old as well. My house is well sized for our family of four. I don’t plan to move out when the kids go to college nor as long as I’m able to live independently. People who don’t lik
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by sokoloff 1y ago
You skipping buying that mask doesn’t improve those kids’ lives, though.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Most things will have a 6% sales tax, so you’ll need another $1.20 to get those 2 $10 items.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> Doesn't work that way. If we take 100 embryos and we both predict their heights and IQs at 18, you with only biological sex and me additionally with the heights and IQs of the parents, I will wager a large sum that my predictions
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Tell me the parents’ IQs and heights and I can give you a prediction of the embryo’s measures for $59.99.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
"Landlords will just eat the LVT" makes as much sense as "China will pay the tariffs".
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The electric trim switches override MCAS (and indeed the crew of ET302 almost saved the aircraft by turning it back on and commanding aircraft-nose-down (AND) with the electric trim). What is inexplicable is that they stopped doing that w
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Captain A. G. Lamplugh, a British pilot from the early days of aviation once famously said “Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapaci
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Old and young are late-bound. I don’t think any of this is particular to nor confined to a specific generation.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Tax account transcripts have been available long before Biden was president. Use Form 4506-T to request them.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
If it’s for shares bought before 2011, they don’t even have the basis. (They can detect that you had a sale for which they got a 1099-B but you didn’t list on your Schedule D. That doesn’t mean they have enough information to fix it.)
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by sokoloff 1y ago
There are many other forms of government which are less subject to the influence of the people and their silly preferences. If you don’t want to switch forms of government, formulating a holistic plan, addressing weaknesses in the plan, lay
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I am having a hard time understanding your last sentence. How is housing a non-productive use of land? Why would housing be something to be minimized?
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by sokoloff 1y ago
In 2025, a certain supply of units is available for rent in some relevant market. In 2026 an LVT is enacted shifting taxes onto land owners (and away from income earners). Do you expect rents at the end of 2026 to be higher or lower than no
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by sokoloff 1y ago
It is not begging the question to identify that a key economic factor would change under an LVT to be different from today. This change would affect the number of landlords who could profitably offer units for rent at today’s prices, which
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Not under an LVT. The amount of rent a property does bring is more a property of the buildings and improvements and only minorly of the land. The amount of rent that it could bring if maximally used is relevant to an LVT, but not what i
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Because their tenant can just go down the street and rent from another landlord whose costs did not increase by $10-20K/yr. In a world where LVTs increased taxes on all nearby landlords, that threat is an empty one. Sure, they can thre
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Which amounts to: “We propose to fix this problem by seizing the value embodied in the homes of 2/3 of Americans, while leaving their mortgages intact.” That being not politically tenable is a feature of democracy, not a bug.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> if we had disabled it (he can't even use it), it would've voided the entire warranty. The Magnuson-Moss Act pretty surely falsifies that claim by the manufacturer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think there are people for whom reading a prompt guide (or watching an experienced user) will be very valuable. Many people just won't put any conscious thought into trying to get better on their own, though some of them will read or
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I worked (as an intern) on autonomous vehicles at Daimler in 1991. My main project was the vision system, running on a network of transputer nodes programmed in Occam. The core of the approach was “find prominent horizontal lines, which exh
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I don’t agree that Gillette making a profit on razor blades is “double-dipping” and certainly not in a way that I want to prevent. The main point I made is the upthread summary (which appears to be unreviewed ChatGPT spew, adding noise rath
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Why would anyone believe that spare parts would need to be provided at cost? I’m a proponent of right to repair, but that would be an absurd over-step (and be a strong force to ensure that no spare parts are available to anyone).
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by sokoloff 1y ago
It’s a kitchen timer, music player, and weather sayer. That’s surely worth the $30 I paid.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I'm a manager of software engineers. I have absolutely no intention of paying engineer B the same as half-as-productive engineer A. Figuring out the best way to determine productivity is still a hard problem, but I think it's a ca
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Do the traffic laws not provide for "blinking red lights on a school bus mandates traffic to stop in both directions" and with extremely heavy penalties an no tolerance for violations? Here, the school buses leave those lights fla

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