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by spikels 9y ago
The Stanford paper estimates gross earning to be around $18 per hour and all expenses including insurance, downtime, gasoline and depreciation (but not fines) at $5 per hour. This gives net earnings of $13 per hour. To get the $5 per hour i
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by spikels 9y ago
While I agree with some of your points much of what you say is unnecessarily simplistic and partisan. As John Prados writes “what actually happened was more complex.” This article is about the details of what actually happened not revisitin
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by spikels 9y ago
Not a very good article. The underlying studies are pretty weak so I would say the jury is still out on ride-sharing's impact on congestion. I advise anyone really interested to read the actual research as this has become highly politi
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by spikels 9y ago
This is clearly on the State of Hawaii not the US government.
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by spikels 9y ago
This is the correct answer. I can’t believe smart people fall for this kind of bullshit so frequently.
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by spikels 9y ago
This is what is killing US public transit. Most things are reasonably priced in the US by global standards. Why are our public works projects always so ridiculously expensive? It has to be some structural or cultural difference.
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by spikels 9y ago
Unless you set up your business up as a C-corp. Rarely the case for individual consultants because it provides limited benefits and lots of costs.
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by spikels 9y ago
and your taxable income exceeds $315,000 for married individuals filing jointly or $157,500 for individuals. The 20% deduction starts phasing out at those levels.
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by spikels 9y ago
If you are not an W-2 employee and your business is not incorporated, by default you ARE running your business as a pass thru entity. BTW - There is no 20% tax. There is a 20% deduction for some pass-thru income.
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by spikels 9y ago
According to the article you WILL get the deduction but it will begin to phase out as your taxable income exceeds $315,000 for married individuals filing jointly or $157,500 for individuals
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by spikels 9y ago
Just to get the terminology right: A tender is not a "round" - as in "a round (or series) of financing".
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by spikels 9y ago
Anyone understand why Intel would do this? Have they given up on their own GPUs? Is this a response the Nvidia threat?
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by spikels 9y ago
I have gone through a few different versions of these calculations and got similar results. Even if the driverless tech costs more it is still around half the costs of a human driven car. On factor I have not seen fully addressed is the abi
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by spikels 9y ago
In business when people talk about a "tech" company it is not about technology but an industry classification. And the reason everyone wants to be a tech company is because the trade at higher earnings multiples than most other in
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by spikels 9y ago
Maybe high school aged people don't need paragraph breaks but older people like me do.
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by spikels 9y ago
SFGov's latest annual budget has $305 million for homeless programs but this doesn't include lots of homeless related spending, mostly medical but also police, fire, cleaning, etc. There are also lots of non-profit, religious and
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by spikels 9y ago
Hard to say what is really going on here or if there is even a problem at all. Academic positions have always been in short supply in many fields, particularly hard science. However I do get the sense it has gotten worse in recent decades b
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by spikels 9y ago
Drivers have to rate you before they see your tip unless you give a cash tip.
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by spikels 9y ago
While obviously density improves the efficiency of almost any transportation system I don't understand why driverless vehicles would ever be less efficient than traditional cars. Sure they will initially cost more due to additional sen
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by spikels 9y ago
Think of hotels or airline/train sleeper seats not public transit.
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by spikels 9y ago
Driving is SF is actually quite challenging. It is quite congested with cars as well as pedestrians and cyclists. Due to lax enforcement many traffic laws are routinely ignored particularly by cyclists, pedestrians and transit vehicles. On
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by spikels 9y ago
4 cents/mile is roughly in line with rates for traditional auto insurance today. And as these rapid improvements are likely to continue, these costs will quickly come down. Sure you can imagine some class action / criminal legal d
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by spikels 9y ago
Sybase had a version running on Linux back in 2003. Used it for a big analytics project. It blew away SQL Server in term of reliabilty. No need for regular restarts.
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by spikels 9y ago
Take a look at the economics of driverless cars. It is not a case of "Oh look! a shiny object" but "Oh no! We are building an obsolete business". Even the big automakers now understand this will be radical change (Ford h
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by spikels 9y ago
Shame that such awesome space was barely being used right in the middle of SF. There is a pretty severe shortage of office space in the area. Automattic should both make a pretty good profit by subleasing at current much higher market rents
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by spikels 9y ago
Freakonomics radio just broadcast an episode on Uber (and self-driving vehicles) last week. Pretty interesting analysis of the impact of Uber from an economic perspective. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-most-danger
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by spikels 9y ago
Maybe public transit only runs certain hours or that high quality taxi is too expensive. The billions of trips on Uber and similar platforms indicate that this is often the case. If in fact there is "little actual need" for Uber,
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by spikels 9y ago
Were the Lyft drivers personally identifiable? Or did they just find the location of anonomized drivers?
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by spikels 10y ago
> I don't understand why it's controversial that California (or any other state) should be legally obligated to pay the pensions they promised to workers. One reasonable objection is that public pensions are never fully funded
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by spikels 10y ago
This history of Part D is so polically distorted it is almost exactly backwards. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2003/03/05/us/bush-medicare-propo...

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