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by zamfi 7y ago
I'm assuming that 36% doesn't include you and "your employer's" payroll tax of 15.3% of your income, which nominally goes to social security and medicare but really ends up in the general fund. You are indeed paying
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An Apple store employee ‘helped’ a customer by texting himself an intimate photo(washingtonpost.com)
12 points by zamfi 7y ago|2 comments
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by zamfi 7y ago
> "and basically removed Customs tax" > This is not how custom taxes work. The EU is one of the biggest free trade zone in the world. If Mercosul joins, it is the biggest. Wait, isn't this is exactly how custom taxes wo
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by zamfi 7y ago
I wonder if someone has done a study about the differences between mental state or health when you're driving 30 min vs. on the subway for 30 min. In my experience, it's a different kind of interruption somehow. I wouldn't av
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The Rise of Woke Capital(nytimes.com)
4 points by zamfi 7y ago|0 comments
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by zamfi 7y ago
Thanks, this is helpful. Maybe she’s one of those people who stockpiles frozen food because she can’t really leave the house on her own. Frankly, the night markets in the original piece sound much nicer than a weekly 20 min chat with the po
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by zamfi 7y ago
> It’s lovely to see the postman as I don’t usually see anyone else all week Forgive my urban-dweller naïveté, but how does it work exactly to not see anyone but the postman once a week? Doesn’t this person need to get food, say, at the
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by zamfi 7y ago
Sure, but I was using labor laws as an example to show that there exists precedent to discriminate based on company size. Further, GP also claims that “being a monopoly” is the only scenario in which size matters, but monopoly power is not
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by zamfi 7y ago
> If you give people a choice, the super wealthy mostly will pay a relatively small fee and go about their day, and you'll end up temporarily incarcerating the very poor for the same social malfeasance. (With some distribution of be
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by zamfi 7y ago
> The only scenario in which the size of a company has a bearing on which laws apply to them is if the business is a monopoly. I'm sorry but this is not true. There are tons of labor laws, just to give one example, that depend on ho
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by zamfi 7y ago
That economists make mistakes, and that even well-regarded economists espouse simplistic models, is not evidence that physicists might be any better at it.
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by zamfi 7y ago
SVP doesn’t use relatively cheap-to-supply-but-higher-income urban customers to subsidize expensive-to-supply-but-lower-income rural residents, which PG&E does some of, maybe?
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by zamfi 7y ago
For some people, the fact that it’s like a hotel (entire place to yourself) but a) in a residential neighborhood, and b) with a kitchen and other amenities of home that are usually missing or very expensive in a hotel (laundry, parking, etc
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by zamfi 7y ago
> But I still feel like I’m being silently judged - not just by him, but by everybody. Does "everybody" include you, too, by the way? Are you actually just judging yourself for taking time off, and assuming everyone else is? Do
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by zamfi 7y ago
> I think my employer would rather me be a zombie than to just have some time off to recharge. And you probably don't think you can even ask your employer about this: what would it say about your devotion as an employee?
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by zamfi 7y ago
Umm...many cities (SF, NYC, most of California, ...) have plenty of prohibitions on building condos that go far beyond “there’s a natural park there” and “the owner doesn’t want random people building condos on his property”. Zoning laws ba
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by zamfi 7y ago
> This kind of low interest easy to get loan exists for no other type of asset, and is unique to housing, and is in large part a product of macroeconomic state policy. These types of loans are backed in many countries by government insur
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by zamfi 7y ago
That quote is about real property, that is, land. Not your vinyl collection. And as bad as property is, rents—the current model—is certainly worse.
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by zamfi 7y ago
Yeah, that's kind of the point -- cultures change one kid's unsavory attitudes altered at a time.
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by zamfi 7y ago
This was truly lovely to read. A peek into how cultures change.
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by zamfi 7y ago
But this is all else being equal , which is the “lump of labor” fallacy. It’s not obvious that skilled immigrants have the net effect of reducing the wages of non-immigrants with those same skills — tons of new firms are started by skilled
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by zamfi 7y ago
"Mensa membership associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests" would be both a more accurate description of the results, as well as perhaps a more believable correlation.
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by zamfi 7y ago
I think swipe down from the top, then swipe up like you’re killing an app?
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by zamfi 7y ago
> extremely high levels of air pollution. Particularly since [...] exposure to PM2.5 Pun intended? If so, this was brilliant IMO!
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by zamfi 7y ago
...and we're back to repetition. It doesn't seem like you're willing to question your assumptions, unfortunately. Anyway, it's been fun! Thanks for the conversation.
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by zamfi 7y ago
Thank you. There were tabloids and conspiracy theories and alternative facts long before Facebook's newsfeed. But: there is the question of whether the tech somehow amplifies it, makes it worse in a way that we are somehow less equippe
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by zamfi 7y ago
> Nukes [1940's], antibiotics [1920's], supersonic jets [1940's], space flight [1960's], the invention of computers [what are we calling this, 1950's?]. Supersonic jets do not belong on that list. I get that you
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by zamfi 7y ago
I'm going to meta-level with you: 1. No one is saying that the inventions of 1909-1959 were not amazing. Yes, the jet engine is fantastic. Flying is bonkers. Antibiotics, great. No one is seriously arguing that these are not spectacula
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by zamfi 7y ago
> "Scott is a dick and I don't like his tone" OK dude, this is the third time you've tried to steer this thread towards a character attack on yourself, and that's just with me--others took the bait. People can ha
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by zamfi 7y ago
I'm confused about your computer point. Anything done with a computer could have been done by hand, manually. How is there any category difference? Is it because it's 1000x faster instead of non-categorical "10x faster"

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