zacherates

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by zacherates 1y ago
They were trying to get Republican votes so that the law would be bipartisan. In the end it passed on a party line vote, so maybe the compromises were a mistake...
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by zacherates 2y ago
Location: Seattle (current) / Toronto (looking to move to) Remote: Open to remote. Willing to relocate: Yes, around the GTA. Technologies: C++, Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, debugging, performance Résumé&#
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by zacherates 4y ago
Make no mistake, all companies are one leveraged buy-out away from full private equity ruthlessness. Even if the current owners are great – people get older, they'll want to retire... and we all die. Eventually the ownership can pass
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by zacherates 4y ago
The biggest tax benefit of living in an owner occupied home is that nobody pays income tax on the rent you would pay if you were living in a house someone else owned. ... but most places don't have the stones to tax imputed rent [1]:
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by zacherates 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
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by zacherates 4y ago
If the thesis of the thread was "Gee, it sure sucked to grow up in Argentina in the 70s with no access to high-quality financial products." that would be extremely relevant... but the thesis is much more expansive than that (&quot
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by zacherates 4y ago
1228 pesos in 1976 was worth about $4.50 in 1976 USD [1]. ... and if he'd bought into the S&P 500 (Vanguard launched the First Index Investment Trust now the Vanguard 500 Index Fund in 1976 [2]), it would be worth about about $190
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by zacherates 4y ago
DOL = Washington Department of Licensing: https://www.dol.wa.gov/
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by zacherates 5y ago
> It was only a few decades ago when Tokyo was famous for having the most expensive real estate in the world. Yes, but then they did something about it [1] instead of pulling up the ladder behind them. [1] https://www.vox.com&
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by zacherates 5y ago
Isn't that because normal people are heavily encouraged to put all their money into buying a house? Culturally ("rent is just throwing money away" / "the stock market is a casino"), with financial incentives (
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by zacherates 5y ago
The author has an essay arguing why we shouldn't allow the humanities to go back to being the purview of the idle elite: https://acoup.blog/2020/07/03/collections-the-practical-case...
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by zacherates 5y ago
I think this is the talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_the_ghastly_...
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by zacherates 5y ago
> But when we propose raising the standards, we get complaints from conservatives that "the free market will take care of it" (even though it obviously doesn't). The free market approach would rely on drastically looser zo
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by zacherates 5y ago
... because FAANG was about compensation and MS is not competitive (at least for mid-career hires). Take a look at levels 62 / 63 at MS vs. comparable roles at FAANGs: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Amazon,Google,Fac
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by zacherates 5y ago
> The emperor really has no clothes on: your* degree really was a waste of money.... I mean... my degree is why I can work in the United States and has been (and will continue to be) worth an unbelievable amount of money. More seriously
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by zacherates 5y ago
> Today Quebec has the lowest provincial birthrate in Canada. Not remotely true. As of 2016 Quebec has a fertility rate of 1.59 children per women which is higher than the Canadian average (1.54), Ontario (the largest province by far, 1.
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by zacherates 6y ago
Smaller tomatoes taste better because they are easier to ship without damaging (they're lighter and have a much lower mass to surface area ratio). As such, producers and supply chains don't have to go to the same extremes (breedin
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by zacherates 6y ago
From context, likely a professional engineer.
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by zacherates 6y ago
Too bad they didn't adopt the "Dumb investment certificate" [1] instead. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-09-24/earnin...
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by zacherates 6y ago
1. Stock markets are forward looking. Prices reflect expectations about the company going far into the future, not just right now. So yeah, this year and next year are going to be bad, but we expect that five years from now things will be b
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by zacherates 6y ago
Townhomes, duplexes, triplexes, etc are substitutes for single family homes (not for everybody, but for some people... like me). You'd expect that allowing them to be built would make single family homes more accessible not less as the
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by zacherates 6y ago
I'm pretty sure decadence is older than the 1850s... Yeah, it would seem Martin Luther died in 1546. Decadence requires power, and capital is the most obvious way to acquire it in our society.
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by zacherates 6y ago
From the Hertz bankruptcy motion (via Money Stuff/Matt Levine): "246,775,008 shares of common stock" or another way "Hertz could potentially offer up to and including an aggregate of $1.0 billion of common stock" ..
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by zacherates 6y ago
Just because you can change the lenses on your camera, doesn't mean you have to. There are zoom lenses with pretty extreme ranges that are even pretty compact like the Olympus 14-150mm and slightly pricier 12-200mm for Micro Four-Third
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by zacherates 6y ago
Camera sales have fallen off a cliff in the last ten years as people increasingly rely exclusively on their smartphones. This has lead to camera companies simplifying their product lines (or simply going out of business). That being said: I
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by zacherates 6y ago
That strategy is discussed in footnote #2. Though one of the interesting things about such a physical oil fund is it makes it clear that you're just frittering away investor money on storage costs (discussed in footnote #4), which are
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by zacherates 6y ago
From the email sent to Alaska milage plan members: "If you’re a family or large group who wants to sit together, feel free to make the request with reservations or at the airport." ... so, if you talk to a person when you check in
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by zacherates 6y ago
A couple recentish, quick games I quite like: Just One: word game kind of like Taboo, but it's cooperative and there's no time pressure. Kingdomino: quick tile placement strategy game with a fantasy theme. ... Also Euchre: A card
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by zacherates 7y ago
... more relevant than Oregon: "Washington State votes by mail." [1] [1] https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/faq_vote_by_mail.aspx
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by zacherates 7y ago
This is actually the beauty of a carbon tax. Instead of trying to figure out all the costs, you tax pumping the carbon out of the ground and then let the prices flow through the economy. That way you don't have to try to figure it out

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