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by flurben 3mo ago
I used to think the same thing, until recently. Where I live (NC, USA) there was a big issue where commercial property owners have been able to reduce their property tax assessments, not on the basis of 'comparable sales' (like ev
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by flurben 2y ago
I tried! No country would let me in without a job, and no company in Europe would even interview me from America.
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by flurben 3y ago
I once had a startup fire me after only 6 weeks, for performance reasons, which were purely a fabrication. I'm not sure if that counts. It was not a good experience for me, but I did not feel like it had any long term consequences.
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by flurben 4y ago
ASCE has a dog in this hunt
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by flurben 4y ago
Esri's core products are a buggy mess, so it is impossible for me to get excited about anything shiny and new.
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by flurben 4y ago
As someone who has lived in majority-black towns in the south most of my life, those words are simply not used in the way you are using them. Blacks in the south are universally considered a minority, even in those geographies where they ar
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by flurben 4y ago
My great uncle was part of this; or so he claimed. He told me stories about training in California with the OSS for underwater demolition.
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by flurben 5y ago
What is a usian?
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by flurben 5y ago
For starters, in the U.S. system, interest rates on government debt are set by central bank policy. Investors cannot force it up or down. In general, I'm not sure the guy they are quoting is a reliable source of information about macro
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by flurben 5y ago
I think you're conflating 'international recognition' with 'independence.' Taiwan is functionally independent, currently, no matter what China, or John Cena or the Government of Djibouti says. In fact there is no ne
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by flurben 5y ago
Considering that Taiwan is already independent and would need to be persuaded to join the PRC, these kinds of threats seem counterproductive to China's goals of "peaceful reunification".
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by flurben 5y ago
A) This headline is flat wrong. Productivity is not at its lowest level in 40 years. B) What they probably meant to say instead is that the US saw the largest monthly decline in productivity in 40 years. There is a very big difference. C)
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by flurben 5y ago
the reason your figures aren't comparable is because the U.S. figures being used : a. Are not incomes for just a single-wage earner, they include the combined income for a household (of 2.53 people on average) b. Are referred to in pre
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by flurben 5y ago
Blackrock and Vanguard are just intermediaries, they do not actually own the shares in their ETFs, they manage the assets on behalf of clients.
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by flurben 5y ago
Yes, you're reading this wrong. Referring to tax obligations as "Slavery" is disconnected from reality, and pretty insulting to all the Americans for whom real, actual American slavery is still impactful.
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by flurben 5y ago
The goal of the legislation is to shift the tax burden towards high net worth individuals, and away from wage-earners. Raising cap gains rates and/or increasing top marginal income tax rates are not very effective ways to achieve this
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by flurben 5y ago
Modern societies are not capital constrained, so capital formation is superfluous. The world is awash in excess capital among the rich, so providing government subsidies to facilitate further capital formation among the rich will not improv
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by flurben 5y ago
Taxing incomes and not wealth is fundamentally unfair to people without wealth.
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by flurben 5y ago
"Revenue neutral" just means a bill will not increase government revenues. edit : You can downvote me all you want, it isn't going to change the definition of the term. https://definitions.uslegal.com/r/r
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by flurben 5y ago
Reliability
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by flurben 5y ago
I bought from carvana 2 years ago because they had: A. Lower interest rates than the local credit union or the banks, and B. Better prices on the vehicle I wanted than anyone else in the area.
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by flurben 5y ago
Eliminate minimum requirements on parking and restrictions on height. Make demolitions easier. Eliminate the neighbors ability to stop any project that they don't like. Reduce the number of permits required, reduce the permit fees, red
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by flurben 5y ago
I'm confused why you think Americans are relevant to this story. The word "cock" and it's status as an English language vulgarity is a product of England. It predates the U.S. by centuries.
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by flurben 5y ago
In what way is it deviant?
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by flurben 5y ago
Esri's JavaScript API 3 has poor performance, but I've been very happy with version 4.
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by flurben 5y ago
Government developer roles can be sort of like this, it just depends on the details. The general idea is that you're expected to fulfill a fixed set of responsibilities, which might be challenging for the first year or so. But as time
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by flurben 6y ago
Interest rates have been low for quite some time, though. Maybe it is also driven by perception of overvaluation among publicly traded equities?
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by flurben 6y ago
ok. it seems our differences here are more in definitions and semantics I interpret the phrase 'left to their own devices' to mean that there is no central bank and therefore reserves are as a concept are null and void, which the
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by flurben 6y ago
> If left to its own devices the market rate would be driven down towards zero. How do you figure?
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by flurben 6y ago
That is not even a real Thomas Jefferson quote.

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