berberous

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by berberous 3y ago
Why did you go in with your sidearm and camera? Legal or not, it seems unnecessarily provocative, and that you went in with a camera because you knew it would cause a reaction.
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by berberous 3y ago
On average, I don't know, but I certainly think in some instances, the answer is yes, e.g. if I was Apple's board, I would have been happy to overpay Steve Jobs and Tim Cook relative to an average CEO.
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by berberous 3y ago
The letter was sent by a partner at Quinn Emanuel, a well known and highly regarded litigation firm.
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by berberous 3y ago
I take no view on whether Elon will be successful on making Twitter more profitable. But as a user -- and someone that typically supports Elon -- I have to say he's made the app subjectively worse IMO. I find the "For You" pa
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by berberous 3y ago
Louis CK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be-NXGbepU0
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by berberous 3y ago
For TV, hard to go wrong with an HBO series. Most recently, Succession was excellent.
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by berberous 3y ago
Sure, $3,500 is too steep for this to be a mass market hit with v1. But I think it's a fairly reasonable price to get the ball rolling, and they will see a fair number of early adopter consumers (much more than Google Glass or Magic Le
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by berberous 3y ago
Mainstream media
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by berberous 3y ago
You think you need two children for one to make it to 18?
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by berberous 3y ago
This is a weird take to me. Even if climate change turns out to be significantly bad, I have a hard time imagining it would be worse than most times in human history. Only a few generations ago people lived through two world wars. We could
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by berberous 3y ago
It’s still early. Within 10 years, I’d be surprised if headsets and software haven’t improved enough that it’s reached a tipping point where many more people do use it consistently.
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by berberous 3y ago
Why does it need a server? Does bitwarden have the ability to just use a local vault?
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by berberous 3y ago
I think it’s probably a failure of an idea, but I think “pyramid scheme designed to harvest biometric data” is uncharitable and wrong.
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by berberous 3y ago
The person you are replying to did not even get into the politics of it or his feelings on SF, but are we really denying facts now? Sure, anything could have happened, but 95%+ chance he got stabbed by a crazy homeless person.
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by berberous 3y ago
Not sure how true it, but there were news stories of people actually killing themselves from Lina’s collapse.
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by berberous 3y ago
Tornado Cash was sanctioned by OFAC, which makes it illegal for U.S. persons to interact with the relevant contract addresses to the same extent as interacting with North Korea. SushiSwap is not going to be sanctioned. It's not clear w
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by berberous 4y ago
Well, putting aside how annoying they all can sound, I think today’s markets proved them right that things would have been a real disaster had the Fed not taken the action they did.
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by berberous 4y ago
I, and others, would never keep more than $250k in a bank account even before this SVB debacle. There are products made to manage this risk. For example, Mercury gives you up to $1M of insurance by sweeping to four different banks on the ba
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by berberous 4y ago
It says 10+. I wonder what the average duration is.
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by berberous 4y ago
Things are not black and white. There are certain things that can be more easily audited, verified or enforced on-chain. For example, payments could be automated (potentially based on verifiable data), or secured lending could happen progra
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by berberous 4y ago
Have you tested Awair? How does Airgradiant compare?
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by berberous 4y ago
Sure, but that's probably going to unfairly impact the poor. Imagine a family of poor immigrants, where the father worked very hard and saved and left some asset to his non-rich children...you want to punish the children when the fathe
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by berberous 4y ago
The IRS may be underfunded, but it's misleading to say the IRS does not go after the wealthy for tax fraud. The chart in that article shows $1M+ earners to have the highest audit rate, albeit some of it correspondence audit, and says 2
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by berberous 4y ago
The US does go after the wealth for tax fraud. I think the bigger issue is that the wealth pre-emptively hire CPAs/lawyers to take maximum advantage of tax rules in a way that may not be prohibited, innovating faster than legislators c
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by berberous 4y ago
I agree with all of that. Hand wringing over tax loss harvesting seems silly to me. I think there are very good historical reasons for basis step-up, namely, that it is unreasonably hard to expect heirs to figure out basis from a deceased,
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by berberous 4y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "overhead", but direct indexing has been commodified for the masses for a while. See Wealthfront for example. Even Vanguard is pushing into it soon: https://www.etf.com/sections&#
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by berberous 4y ago
This technique is available for everyone.
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by berberous 4y ago
You are right that it defers, but does not eliminate, taxes; however: 1. You can use losses to offset $3k of ordinary income per year. 2. Tax deferral is still advantageous. For example, you can defer until retirement when your tax bracket
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by berberous 4y ago
think this was meant to link to this: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.59...
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by berberous 4y ago
You can do it with TIPS: https://www.advisorperspectives.com/articles/2022/10/24/the-...

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