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by tfehring 8y ago
I don't use LinkedIn, but I know it has a feature called "endorsements" that does materially the same thing as this, and my understanding is that those endorsements aren't taken all that seriously. What makes these more
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by tfehring 8y ago
> None of the studies I've seen have even considered whether a privileged background does translate to higher than average merit. And why wouldn't it? We already know household income is correlated with IQ, and growing up havi
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The cash traded for the T-Bills will be spent in the general economy, but the T-Bills themselves, which are equivalent to cash from institutions' perspective, will no longer be spent. There's no inflation because these impacts off
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by tfehring 8y ago
Compared to a car, T-Bills are much more liquid, and their value is stable over time and easily determinable. This is why they're the canonical example of a cash equivalent [0]. From financial institutions' perspective, they'
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by tfehring 8y ago
It just establishes new model assumptions. In the linear regression case, fitting boxcox(y) = βX + ε and predicting with boxcox^(-1)(yhat) produces different predictions than fitting y = βX + ε (minimizing Σ(boxcox(y) - boxcox(yhat))^2 does
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by tfehring 8y ago
Correction: You will not have made the wrong decision if you enjoyed the experience enough to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for it.
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by tfehring 8y ago
> Of course that means that you dont get so many fancy rewards benefits, but thats kinda silly anyway (getting ~1% back in rewards in exchange for a ~3% tax on everything) It's definitely kind of silly and it's definitely reg
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by tfehring 8y ago
Employees' taxes pay for government services that they use. Separately from that, Amazon as an entity [0] is dependent on government services - it ships goods using public roads and airports, its data centers rely on the public electri
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by tfehring 8y ago
In addition to echo chamber effects, this would strongly favor comments in popular threads. This may or may not be appropriate, depending on how you define "high-quality."
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by tfehring 8y ago
All of that seems good and necessary - given that the median net effective rent is still over $3k/month in Manhattan, and that there's apparently room to profitably continue building, it sounds like things are headed in the right
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by tfehring 8y ago
In what sense is there an oversupply of luxury housing? Are there lots of vacant luxury units?
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One reason to care is that https://pi-hole.net is DNS-based.
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by tfehring 8y ago
Based on my reading of their terms, it seems like they get back 30% of their own investment if the rest is entirely used to pay founders' salaries. So on a $150k investment, they have potential upside of $300k to $600k after they recou
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by tfehring 8y ago
I'm not OP, but it's worth mentioning that Earnest starts to recoup its investment as soon as founders take a salary. Its calculator [0] shows a percentage of 30% by default - if that's accurate, for the 67%-80% of companies
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by tfehring 8y ago
Say I'm a tipped worker making $3/hour in an area with a minimum wage of $10/hour. I work for an hour and don't receive any tips. My employer has to pay me $10 to comply with minimum wage laws. I work for another hour an
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by tfehring 8y ago
> But you'll never get every single public school in the country to empower its students with the resources available to schools like Lakeside and Philips Exeter. It's infeasible. They may as well be research universities. Th
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> They're still getting more funding thanks to the property tax revenue being spread around. More funding relative to what? Certainly not relative to the funding Palo Alto schools are getting.
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Should we also be taxed for the space we monopolize when walking or standing in public spaces? Or for the air that we monopolize while it's in our lungs?
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by tfehring 8y ago
Even a 100% capital gains tax would be regressive relative to a true wealth tax, since it never touches the starting asset base. Also, a wealth tax incentivizes productive investments, while a capital gains tax disincentivizes them.
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by tfehring 8y ago
But how does the level of that appreciation compare to your income? What level of wealth tax would you accept if it meant that you no longer have to pay income tax? Obviously I don't expect an answer to that - just something to conside
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by tfehring 8y ago
It definitely takes years. I went back to school 6 years ago and graduated 3.5 years ago, I optimized for financial security (went to community college followed by the cheapest 4-year available, worked 40+ hours a week throughout, went into
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by tfehring 8y ago
> I happen to think that immigration and customs enforcement is a net positive. But is it a net positive at the margin ? Protests by the tech community won't get rid of ICE. They might make it less efficient, forcing it to spend
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by tfehring 8y ago
> Topsoil should properly be measured in volume, not distance. Presumably topsoil generation is proportional to land area, and volume per unit area reduces to distance. 3 cm per 1000 years is equivalent to 30 m^3 per km^2 per year. Tha
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by tfehring 8y ago
Minnesota's population has been pretty much flat, but the Twin Cities' population grew by ~7.4% between 2010 and 2017 [0]. That's much lower than Austin's 20%+ increase during that time frame and lower than Texas's
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Nearly all of the regional variation in construction costs is attributable to differences in labor costs. This can create a self-reinforcing upward spiral in home prices [0]: > Inasmuch as it means that those working in the construction
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by tfehring 8y ago
Link for reference: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/microsoft... From that article: - $225M of the $475M will be loans below market interest rates, directed at middle-income housing. - The remai
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by tfehring 8y ago
Should've grabbed some cat-6 cable for a climbing harness first. https://xkcd.com/308/
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by tfehring 8y ago
Medicaid isn't the only option for premium-controlled health insurance in the US. As far as I'm aware, everyone in the US is able to purchase health insurance for at most 9.86% of their income in 2019, except: - Those who earn les
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by tfehring 8y ago
Quitting caffeine cold-turkey is worse than quitting cigarettes cold turkey IMO - the headaches are awful. But aside from that, nicotine addiction is way worse. Even when I drank ~20 "cups" of coffee a day, I didn't have crav
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by tfehring 8y ago
> Modern data science tutorials assume the source data is a nice and tidy CSV For what it's worth, I don't really see this as a problem in and of itself. Of course, if you want to do data science in the real world, you need to

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