usaar333

98 ms·

961.
by usaar333 8y ago
Day care costs of course. Total paid on childcare is higher in a family without a stay at home patent, though the two earner family generally will have more net disposable income (After child-care)
962.
by usaar333 8y ago
Yup. Sadly, we have very weak world government, so it is hard to coordinate the entire planet.
963.
by usaar333 8y ago
That is probably not even true for the crowd here. Flying and cars likely dominate.
964.
by usaar333 8y ago
It's also exaggerated from a climate issue. The vast majority of the benefit comes from cutting beef (and lamb), which I don't think is that hard of an ask. Other meat reduction has much less benefit.. and it is harder for most pe
965.
by usaar333 8y ago
Go to a highly educated Silicon Valley tech company. Survey around. How many of these people eat beef? How many take frequent vacations via plane? Per capita, especially due to the plane travel, their emissions are probably as high as som
966.
by usaar333 8y ago
Author here. The calculations used consider all of those. See https://medium.com/@usaar33/an-up-to-date-buy-or-rent-calcul...
967.
by usaar333 8y ago
Autocorrect fail. Tiered. Yes, moved every two years. Not ideal, but couldn't have afforded the places I moved into two years earlier and moving produces high quality of life gain.
968.
by usaar333 8y ago
FB Options expiring this Friday had an implied volatility of about 100% before close of day. A 20% drop in 2 trading days has around a 1/700 chance of happening under a Black-Scholes model. So yes, this does happen in the market, but i
969.
by usaar333 8y ago
> The longer you wait, the more you’re priced out of the market and reliant on the whims of a landlord. That's only true if the value of your portfolio or salary aren't increasing faster than the market. I've personally te
970.
by usaar333 8y ago
I'm not sure what literature is out there. My own sense though is: 1. I personally am very attuned to marginal tax rates and opportunity costs. e.g. a. I won't pick up the extra shift because I'd rather be doing something el
971.
by usaar333 8y ago
Not sure exactly what you are thinking, but I do think empowering Uber drivers to relocate scooters to high demand areas (where the driver tends to also go) would make a lot of sense.
972.
by usaar333 8y ago
Yes, UBI is much less distorting. Of course that said much welfare and tax policy is intentionally designed to distort society's preferences.
973.
by usaar333 8y ago
> If we had a system where the landlord made substantially less from affordable housing units, That's how this works in California. Unfunded mandate on developers. Developers agree to it so they get their development permits. (The s
974.
by usaar333 8y ago
We have a similar thing in the US (section 8). The program is intended for low income people. The affordable housing programs I'm mentioning aim to help people at roughly the median income afford expensive areas to ensure income divers
975.
by usaar333 8y ago
The units are administered by private developers/management. Who collects the extra rent? If the developers, you create strong malincentives to rent to people that likely will earn more in the coming years.
976.
by usaar333 8y ago
> Our legislators are smart enough to use piecewise linear function Yes, but it's also hard to avoid when you are offering non cash welfare. An example for middle income people is affordable housing. You get into the unit (saving yo
977.
by usaar333 8y ago
> It’s a private decision that the family makes when the mom has to return to work 2 weeks after giving birth (oh hello unpaid vacation). Fuck this I suppose you are alluding to this, but FMLA permits 12 weeks of unpaid leave. (obviously
978.
by usaar333 8y ago
> There is some evidence that breast fed children have some minor immune benefits. I don't think it is fair to characterize the immune benefits are merely minor. Eczema rates halve (6.3% to 3.3%) while gastrointestinal tract infect
979.
by usaar333 8y ago
I definitely agree with you on information providing, but I think these actions all need careful cost/benefit analysis. > subsidize breast pumps Especially given that they can be rented, this is probably a clear positive to do. &gt
980.
by usaar333 8y ago
For the NY Times, this is rather lazy reporting. The quote by the HHS doesn't go into the details of what they see are unnecessary hurdles for women. Did the reporter not try to dive in more? > A 2016 Lancet study found that univers
981.
by usaar333 8y ago
Real average wages are up 25% since 1990. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html
982.
by usaar333 8y ago
Right, I agree on the intention of ADA. But buildings should be allowed to make reasonable tweaks. My building was built before recycles and computer became a huge thing. Trash room only has a trash shoot. To dispose compost, I need to take
983.
by usaar333 8y ago
ADA already forces decisions to be made contrary to environmental concerns. Added construction being a key one. IMO, ADA is a great example of overbearing government regulation. It doesn't leave much room for "reasonable" acc
984.
by usaar333 8y ago
Those are related things. A locality is more willing to solve a housing shortage if existing residents are also being punished for said shortage in the form of higher property taxes.
985.
by usaar333 8y ago
Can you expand? All taxes are distortionary.. the tax system always creates some incentive that wouldn't be there without the tax. Might as well make it a good one.
986.
by usaar333 8y ago
> government owns both your land Yes, that's correct and why this is so controversial. I believe society has a right to tax land, because owning a completely inelastic item like land prevents others from using it.
987.
by usaar333 8y ago
> Keeping property taxes means that old people have to pay yearly rent to the government to simply keep their house. In Florida that's about 2k a year for my home. I don't see why, at least in an area with any sort of constrain
988.
by usaar333 8y ago
The article is talking about bikes though. Bike shares are definitely cheaper than subways and buses. Case-in-point: in SF, Ford GoBike (by Motivate, soon to be part of Lyft) costs $15/month. A monthly bus (MUNI) pass runs at $73, cl
989.
by usaar333 8y ago
Both offer wheelchair accessible cars. I'm not sure what the formal ADA rule should be on them, but offering these services seems to work out for everyone.
990.
by usaar333 8y ago
Agreed. I'd personally rather see better integration being transit and bike share. "Taxi" + bike isn't that common, but either pair well with public transit.

More ›