justchilly

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by justchilly 6y ago
More likely they're seen as vulnerable demographic or unwelcome in certain neighborhoods. The people perpetrating these crimes are not the sort of people tracking the US-China relations.
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by justchilly 6y ago
Everything else aside, the OP didn't say they were married. That brings the rate a lot closer to what OP said than 29%.
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by justchilly 6y ago
You're looking at arrest data, not incident data. Very likely arrests are down because police deprioritized non-felony crimes post prop 47.
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by justchilly 6y ago
Typical office leases are 3-5 years. This is just the tip of the iceberg. So far <20% have been up for renewal since the pandemic started, and even fewer since it became clear that things were not going back to normal within a few months
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by justchilly 6y ago
> This is a great article around why "corporate welfare" rarely works out. Any data to back this up? It's generally accepted that subsidies are effective in many cases (see corona virus stimulus packages). This Foxconn dea
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by justchilly 6y ago
Wearing masks won't make this end any sooner. Reducing transmission rates flattens the curve meaning smaller spikes but likely longer presence of corona virus.
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by justchilly 6y ago
And their trades are typically scheduled in advance and public. Their job and fiduciary duty is to maximize shareholder value, and they make decisions so that happens. If that means allocating $ and rewarding people that will attain that go
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by justchilly 6y ago
How much would you be willing to pay for a comparable headset without a required facebook account. Clearly FB is planning to extract value from this, and is why they can price this at just $299. They're betting customers will give up s
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by justchilly 6y ago
Interesting point. Anecdotally I had a brown friend walk out of my house in SF late one night, walk to the end of the block, and then get detained by police for supposedly stalking/threatening a women. Would have been trivial to prove
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by justchilly 6y ago
Actually the largest cities are shrinking, and have been for the last couple year. It will be no doubt be exacerbated by recent events. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/americas-t...
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by justchilly 6y ago
The argument that "if you don't like it, you can go elsewhere" has been shown to work extraordinarily well when it comes to businesses choosing to go elsewhere rather than serve high crime neighborhoods. In fact it's a b
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by justchilly 6y ago
...which is fine and well within their rights. Businesses don't have to offer people any services if those people don't want to follow their rules. Under federal anti-discrimination laws, businesses can refuse service to any perso
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by justchilly 6y ago
This will put a lot of smaller/indie movies out of contention. Particularly from non-minority foreign countries. Meanwhile, recent best picture winners were rather homogeneous: Parasite Won in 2019. Moonlight in 2017.
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by justchilly 6y ago
> Undermining trust in society is an enormous problem. The whole reason the west was successful is because people can go about their day without having to worry about nominal costs of corruption in day to day life. Not worrying about the
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by justchilly 6y ago
Is there evidence that this is big enough problem that it warrants a major party to take it up as a major part of their platform? Against a backdrop of climate change, disease, the economy, and so on. To share a perspective that many on the
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by justchilly 6y ago
Said differently: "Reddit banned nearly 7,000 subreddits, but left alone the ones that contribute 82% of hate content." That seems like a dismal result, practically an admission that many of the bans were unjustified and/or s
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by justchilly 6y ago
Example: Hillary Ronin is the supervisor for the mission. An area that was historically lower income minorities, now being displaced, in part due to a lack of housing units. She has fought for years to stop the construction of buildings tha
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by justchilly 6y ago
I think you're right and we may be saying the same thing. Certainly most people consider cost vs quality of life. In SF this is particularly true for the younger people that are leaving. They just move back in with their parents, stop
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by justchilly 6y ago
The 36% US rate doesn't include Payroll Tax, Social Security, or healthcare (premiums paid by both employer and employee, additional out of pocket by employee). The 48% France rate doesn't include Employer Social Security Contribu
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by justchilly 6y ago
The rate is exceptionally high for earners making a fraction of that. Responses in caps. - 37% federal requires $510k income (after $12k personal exemption and probably $20k retirement savings). YES BUT ITS 35% ABOVE $207k - 13.3% state in
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by justchilly 6y ago
It's expensive being well off. If you make $250k a year, you take home $159k in SF. A big chunk of that goes to cost of living such that the $20k means one of your two kids can't go to the college they want because it's $50k
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by justchilly 6y ago
The marginal rate in California for high earners is well over 50%. That 8% you're referring to is just the state income tax portion applied to the entire income. Marginal rate for high earners includes: 37% federal. 13.3% state, plus F
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by justchilly 6y ago
Taxes are based on marginal rates. The more you make the more you pay. If you are a high earner making $300k in California your combined rate (federal/state/fica) is 38% and you pay $114k in tax. If you are middle class make $60k
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by justchilly 6y ago
I think your anger is misguided. Those web 2.0 arent happy about the exorbitant rent either, nor are they the primary beneficiaries. That would be the native SF'ers/homeowners that were here before the boom (and who are still payi
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by justchilly 6y ago
Those Felicias are the majority of the tax base, and fund all of the initiatives that rebuild communities. Falling housing prices -> falling property taxes -> less funding for schools. Even the new revenue tax passed last year to fund
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by justchilly 6y ago
If you make $250k in SF (sounds high, but about average for the people I know that are leaving SF), state income tax alone is $19,996. If you make that in Texas, state income tax is $0. That $20k/year is for many people a bigger deal t
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by justchilly 6y ago
I've seen the same. The misconception is that people are leaving because the housing is too expensive and its not worth it anymore. Almost everybody I know that moved out had no problem affording housing (high earners / home owner
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by justchilly 6y ago
This is incorrect. On a per-capita basis the middle class is not being stuck with most of the bill. The bottom 50% pays less than 3% of federal income taxes (which are the largest source of federal income). That same amount of income tax is
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by justchilly 6y ago
The article gives examples and links to other articles with more examples. Among other I see it mentions JK Rowling and Bret Weinstein. I don't know enough about this to opine on what they've said, but would you categorize them as
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by justchilly 6y ago
Because of their success these companies also get the most scrutiny (see house investigation/hearings last week). One foul step and its a PR disaster, impending regulations, boycotts, etc. Are you sure you'd prefer your convenienc

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