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by sokoloff 5mo ago
> no "I'm a billionaire so I can spend as much as I want on myself" To me, that would seem extremely difficult for Congress to pass a law restricting individual speech in this particular way that would pass First Amendment
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
The risk free rate of return is usually only a point or two above inflation, and I’d argue that real wealth, rather than nominal wealth, is the true measure to look at to determine whether someone’s position has improved, stayed flat, or de
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Where else would they get sounds from inside the cockpit that weren’t transmitted on the radio?
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
> H1-B is an immigrant visa. I don't believe that's correct. H1-B is formally a temporary, nonimmigrant work visa/status which permits "dual-intent" (meaning a holder can be openly seeking permanent residence whe
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
> You can tell from the way they talk about the subject that they don't understand the momentousness of what they're proposing. I think that what you can tell is that they think the voting public won't understand the momen
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
“Never lost money over any 20 year period” is a good enough refutation of investing in the S&P being gambling in any way that matters to allow me to act. Others might be more conservative and I hope they find and choose investments whic
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Studying that chart might reveal a way to long-term invest in a way that isn't anything like gambling. Or, I might be completely wrong and just been on an incredible white-hot-streak gambling for the last 30 years.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Feel free to avoid it if you think it’s gambling. https://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-dat...
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
I don’t view long-term investing in productive companies as anything close to gambling.
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Right. I’m not arguing that Apple wouldn’t offer a 256GB model if they could make money doing it; I’m puzzled as to why they wouldn’t offer several lower-spec models as the entry-level into and then progressive upgrades within that line,
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Why would they sell a device with 256GB of RAM as the lowest-spec device rather than making 8 32GB or 16 16GB machines as their entry-level? Apple’s not exactly famous for their low pricing on spec upgrades nor competing based on being the
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
What would have happened five years ago? I suspect this VP would have gone entirely without analysis tools for these datasets or would have a department of people slowly grinding away at his long list of tickets, tickets that were poorly sp
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Would you willingly swap your life (or the life of your child) for that of a medieval king? I sure wouldn’t.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
It shifts the gains away from the marginal investor in Microsoft who was only willing to pay a penny less for those shares (probably an eighth of a dollar when this anecdote happened). Instead of them getting the 100 cars, the buyer who was
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
> it's a uniquely bad time to be smart and hardworking I think the next decade will be one of the single greatest times to be smart and hardworking. I think we’ll see AI-powered tools evolve to give hardworking humans significantly
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
In what world would 256GB of RAM be “entry level”?
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Is that the case? I would expect long-term investors would make more profits from the stock market than market makers. If the market-makers are making vastly more than long-term investors (who are making trillions), who is coming in and ven
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
I suspect a lot of it is to ensure people who are paid in cash have a strong moment where it can be argued that they took significant agency to hide that from the IRS. “I just clicked yes on the web form.” might not feel as compelling to a
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
> yet MJ was deemed guilty even after proven innocent. He was not “proven innocent”; that’s not how the legal system works. He was “found not guilty” which is a much lower standard than “proven innocent”. (OJ Simpson was similarly found
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
“I was having a hard time until I found a great investment advisor.” “How can I contact your advisor?” “Their name is <three part unique name>; just search for them and reach out.” “Great. I found them and their results look impressiv
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
It seems not at all surprising that the “other side” of a fork would view it somewhat negatively. The person planning the fork presumably views the mainline project maintainers somewhat negatively in that moment as well. They can be as host
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
TinkerCAD is easy to get started with and is a fine starting point. If you want to go farther than TinkerCAD can reasonably take you, I’ve done a lot of modeling in onshape (after using Fusion360 for a few years). Parametric CAD systems (Fu
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Most people on this site are also familiar with the “XKCD 10000”. But not all, so: https://xkcd.com/1053/ (Amusingly, it even uses “30 years” as the timeframe.)
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
I own some Ryobi and Harbor Freight tools as well as some Milwaukee and SnapOn. I don’t see it as a problem that tools of different quality, specifications, and price are available in the market. I wouldn’t want there to be only select 80%
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Then you shouldn’t make an open-source car. Maybe you should make a source-available car, or a car with select portions of CAD available, or something else that fits your intended business model better than open-source.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Most likely you met one of the safe harbor tests. The dunning for getting this wrong is automated, so if you didn’t do it right and didn’t pass a safe harbor, they’d have sent you a notice.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
> but presumably you can engage with the spirit of the analogy? What you’re calling “the spirit of” the analogy, others are seeing as “the bias embedded in” the analogy and you seem annoyed that people aren’t accepting your proposed anal
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
It’s not late filings as much as late payments (late quarterly estimated taxes, under-withholding beyond safe harbor rules, etc.) Lots of people who are self-employed or who make a high W-2 income and receive irregular payments/gai
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
I think there's a massive difference between "paying what was required by the offer" and "paying less than was required by the offer" and only one of them makes you a thief.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
In this allegory, did AWS take all the apples in the crate while paying them $1 for every apple, thus becoming the bad guy?

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