gigawhat

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by gigawhat 10y ago
Payday loan shops. Don't pretend you can legislate around that problem-- if payday loans against UBI were illegal, the black market (loan sharks) would fill in the gap.
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by gigawhat 10y ago
Yup, if married and you've been there a couple of years. $250k if single. Still, almost anyone who bought a house a few years ago in the area is sitting on at least $500k in gains. So even if taxes on the remainder are arguably fair fr
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by gigawhat 10y ago
Weirdly, I own a house and think I'd be better off if prices fell-- fell a lot. I bought a few years ago and would be happy if prices uniformly dropped to those levels. Why? I want a 50% bigger/nicer house in the same area. But bi
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by gigawhat 11y ago
I used to rail against the H1-B program until I realized that the body-shop consultancies aren't hurting demand for my services. . . they're increasing it. It seems like at least 75% of the body-shop projects end up being so poorl
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by gigawhat 11y ago
"The jet will also have its nose-mounted, 30-millimeter cannon removed, opening up more space for scientific instruments." http://blog.ametsoc.org/uncategorized/plane-has-combative-at... Given that it's
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by gigawhat 12y ago
An even better real-world example might be manual transmissions, which are now both slower and less efficient than modern automatic counterparts. Some people (like myself) prefer them regardless.
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by gigawhat 12y ago
Terrible comparison. Your car payment doesn't tend to increase unpredictably with your car's value over time, as property taxes almost certainly would.
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by gigawhat 13y ago
I think I qualify as one of those people, and I make way more than $150K, and have done so for a decade. And I work 40 hours a week. The people who puzzle me are those who fetishize programming so much that they don't demand proportion
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by gigawhat 13y ago
What's "uncharacteristic" about the name? It's the actual doors that are silly and gimmicky, so the naming is apt.
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by gigawhat 13y ago
Scientists are trained to despise anecdote. Not sure what science has to do with this anyway; this is basically a matter of public-policy/politics/economics.
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by gigawhat 13y ago
I'm no libertarian, but how about market forces? As fewer blue-collar workers can afford to live in or close to SF, the labor pool will shrink and wages will go up.
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by gigawhat 13y ago
I read this on patrick.net years ago-- a lot of it is quite outdated now. Basically the housing market nationwide is quite strong. Whether it will last is another question. Just one example of the article's outdatedness-- the jumbo mor
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by gigawhat 13y ago
"Up In the Air" didn't promote the simplified life; it basically tore it apart.
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by gigawhat 14y ago
I am Bender. Please insert girder.
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by gigawhat 14y ago
I guess one doesn't need a car at all with a helicopter parent.