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by usaar333 6y ago
> while prices are rocketing up in Mountain View and it's getting hard to find a SFH for < $2.7M, even if it's on a tiny 6-8K ft^2 lot. Well, it's hard to find a home on such a large lot period (size is relative). Newe
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Any interest or dividends get taxed. Quite significantly in fact and historically, over 1% of the real value of your portfolio. This is only somewhat different than taxing wealth in effect. Right now we have a world, where lower interest r
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Where? UC doesn't handle it that way
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True, but Vietnamese Americans are well represented in undergrad at least. In fact about double the white representation in UCs ( https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/disaggrega... )
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by usaar333 6y ago
But in this case you are assuming a worker wants those things. They might not need various benefits (health, etc.) as they get them via another job or a spouse. If you look at reddit.com/r/uberdrivers, Uber mandating everyone be e
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by usaar333 6y ago
As it is satirical, it tends to narrowly bucket people. Bracket one broadly is intended to apply to many if not most upper middle class professionals, including ones who went to top public schools. Some just happen to enter the circle late
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Well, they have a national firewall that blocks connections to them, so I'd consider that banning.
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As far as I can tell, Goodcover wrote this as marketing to show that they both have less increased pricing bias toward neighborhoods that are more Black -- and also are significantly cheaper. It's the significantly cheaper that is most
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by usaar333 6y ago
Pet peeve of mine: It's really not the Central Valley as a whole being ravaged, it's specifically the poorer southern part - the San Joaquin Valley. Sacramento in particular is somewhere between the Bay Area and coastal So-Cal. T
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by usaar333 6y ago
In lower density areas, you'll have fewer contacts, so "herd immunity" numbers (with some interventions) are lower
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It's definitely true anyone can be hit again. Hong Kong, Israel, parts of Australia all are examples.
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Well, that and an actually effective isolation program.
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by usaar333 6y ago
> maybe 6x as likely to get infected as a random person That is almost certainly not the case. California has had 350 daycare staff get covid infections out of 100k+ workers. That's actually about a third the rate on average. Again,
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by usaar333 6y ago
> and if I was a teacher over 40 I would have serious reservations knowing it is extremely likely I will almost certainly catch the virus eventually. I'm not proposing schools open in an NYC/Houston/Miami type situation.
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(In the context of in-person teaching during a pandemic, because of the risk to them. )
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Well, that's what happens if you keep high schools open (where the kids are much more susceptible) and don't attempt reasonable social distancing. 20 elementary school aged kids that must stay with their group? Teachers required t
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by usaar333 6y ago
It's a human aspect, but to be blunt, it's not a significant consideration as long as you aren't opening schools in an area with high community transfer (e.g. Houston today). IF you additionally filter out high risk-group tea
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by usaar333 6y ago
Birth control is not the overwhelming #1 issue other than at the tail end. TFR plummeted continually from from 1800 to 1920 (from 7 to 3) in the US ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033027/fertility-rate-u...
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by usaar333 6y ago
ALDC (or at least LDC) preferences remain the most unjust (elitist) aspects of college admissions. Sadly, there seems to be limited political pressure to ban them (by which I mean extending various civil rights acts to ban institutions rec
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by usaar333 6y ago
In the long run, we're all dead. Or perhaps just cured of covid. There's ~375k Chinese students in the US. At one flight a week, it would take over 20 years for all to return home (to be fair, there's actually 4 flights a w
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by usaar333 6y ago
China effectively is by limiting flights.
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> or fly out from the country with the highest number of infections Are there exemptions in place for when it is difficult to actually return to country of origin? (e.g. it remains very difficult to fly into China)
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by usaar333 6y ago
For anyone wondering, gentrification in the study is defined as increase in median income and house value as well as college educated levels.
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> How much benefit have I drawn from looking like a programmer On the other hand, our profession does have the benefit of being able to be done with zero knowledge of appearance. In fact, I credit that fact to enabling smart teenagers t
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by usaar333 6y ago
> The assessors in that case should use historical sales data to adjust down the valuation of the property. Isn't that exactly what assessors should be doing? I don't see how you can value real estate without factoring in lan
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Note that California was excluded due to prop 13 heavily weakening reassessments. I generally dislike the law (favors old homeowners over new), but I had never considered until reading this article that removing power from property assessor
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by usaar333 6y ago
> lawsuit found that 67% of Dalits surveyed felt treated unfairly at their U.S. workplaces. I'm more surprised 67% of Dalits would have coworkers knowing their caste. Can someone give context on how this happens?
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> It's ridiculous. Both far left and far right of the political spectrum have become caricatures of themselves. They've both lost all reason and critical thinking abilities and resort to black and white, yes or no, all in or ou
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Most of the traits noted above were applicable to SARS as well.
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Because it's too simplified of a question. That's highly dependent on things like age, sex, and pre-existing conditions. Population wide numbers are in turn dependent on population structure and in turn who gets it. You see simila

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