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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> You would also likely need foreign cooperation. There's no reason to believe a corporation headquartered in the U.S. needs to be truthful about their foreign revenue If I understand it right, you actually wouldn't need this m
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
Do you have any resources for how in-dispute the (eventual) currency adjustment part is? As you probably know, there is never 100% agreement among economists on anything, and no matter how narrow the opposition is you can often count on po
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
Apparently it's also possible to address the issue of shifting corporate profits to tax-havens even without a large scale international agreement. Basically, corporations have one place money comes in and two places it comes out, like
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
The corporate profits that are being taxed normally would get distributed to shareholders via share buybacks or dividends (so will appear to them as capital gains or income). Taxing this is basically taxing money earned from owning things v
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
It's basically the shareholders that pay this tax - the corporate tax being described here only on applies to the profits, so salaries for example would be counted as an expense and not included in that. There's also not a lot of
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Impressions of Swift from Go(forloops.substack.com)
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
From my memory of how early stage startups work: The company’s future is very unclear and subjective, and informed investors make bets using their experience and the market determines the price. But that’s for the preferred stock. The emp
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> The question is how we allocate the fixed amount of educational resources we have > The other option is to help the low achieving students so that more of them can participate in that winner take all economy. I'm not sure how t
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
Thanks for the link. So much has changed in the last 500 years that it makes me wonder how much the (distant) past can tell us about the future, but sometimes there's interesting stuff. This topic reminds me a little bit of Ray Dalio
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
The themes here remind me of another politics-is-the-new-religion article by David French, "America Is in the Grips of a Fundamentalist Revival". [1] In it he draws a distinction between religion and fundamentalist religion (which
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
Well, there's a bit more variety there than cooking oil - I think the "healthy fat" category usually includes nuts, avocados, olive oil, salmon, etc. I don't think chicken (including the skin) is supposed to be bad eith
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> Under the veil of ignorance I would choose to live in a low/deflationary country than a high inflation country Well, few people would disagree with you that high inflation is bad. Between steady low inflation and deflation thoug
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I had the same thought, it probably wouldn't even interfere with their stated goal of running at 144fps (and of course there would be more Go code analysis libraries available in the Go ecosystem). I could imagine plenty of other reaso
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I'm in a similar position, and I do use a Mac instead (because the developer tools I rely on won't run on an iPad). I guess the root issue is I do like the touch/pen interface for creative apps (instead of a desktop interf
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I only meant to say the majority of the middle class would fall under $120k no matter how you (reasonably) draw it (so with respect to that specific VAT/UBI proposal, most of the middle class would see a gain). For how higher incomes c
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I don't know if Yang's math checks out, but I think his proposal was $1000/mo and a 10% VAT. So the breakeven point would be $120k spending on taxable items/yr for an individual, or $240k spending/yr for a couple,
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
It does add more accounting, but one advantage of involving the companies in the middle is it makes cheating harder and less lucrative, since a bunch of companies have to coordinate to avoid paying the VAT instead of just one company at the
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
No, a gross receipts tax is on sales and not profits. If I understand it correctly (I don't know the details for every state), a gross receipts tax doesn't even adjust for value added (the VA in VAT). For example say a few compani
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
Sure, I believe Ohio has something similar. More significantly I think (in percentage terms), there are already sales taxes and VATs. But when people are discussing the corporate tax and corporate tax avoidance, usually they're talkin
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
Humans are taxed on their income. Corporations are taxed on their profits (they deduct their expenses). Corporations can be taxed on the money coming in, that would look like a sales tax or VAT. The problem with that tax is it falls on
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I'll try to explain the terms I think apply here - I'm not an economist but I find the subject very interesting and so read about it a fair amount. I think what you call "value creation" (growing the total size of the pi
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> The problem is we generally don't have a language for distinguishing between the two. There is a language for this sort of stuff, it's part of economics, they just don't teach people much of it by default in our public
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
It's tempting to write off economics as a field based on this sort of stuff, but I think that would be unfair to the economics profession. I don't want to get too into the politics here, but I follow the financial news, and it&#x2
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
If it's approved as a web standard, I would expect them to support it basically forever, since otherwise websites would stop working. I don't think there's any plan to deprecate the previous standard (WebGL) that came out ar
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
For anyone unfamiliar with WebGPU: It's a successor to WebGL, along the lines of newer graphics APIs like Metal/Vulkan/DirectX 12. Google and Mozilla are also developing a C-compatible library that should be available as an
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So many of these posts aren't specifying the exact compression format / bitrate they used for the test though. It's obviously possible to pass at some level of compression, but what I really want to know is if anyone can pas
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
Yes, like your lawyer example there's plenty of evidence where outcomes for people doing basically the same work varies a lot across times and places. Maximally small government / libertarian people would like to pretend that ever
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
You could easily solve the immediate problem by exempting locals' primary residence - CA already has policies like prop 13 after all. More generally, who could reasonably be considered to have a legitimate interest in housing policy?
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I don't think it's exactly expensive either, relative to other devices that have seen broad adoption. Computers, smart phones, TVs, (LCD/tube) monitors, tablets etc didn't reach that price point until they were in the m
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by throwaway34241 6y ago
> Still uses a traditional controller or at best some Kinect like interface. Which would have the problem of needing a expensive treadmill like device to prevent you from bumping into walls. > The headsets are still expensive. The har

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