Found the libertarian parasite. Taxes are theft, states are stealing. Enjoy your parasite paradise. See how well you scale. I guarantee your state will become tax obsessive if its populations increases by 500%. I wonder when a feudal lord drops by and buys out the whole state and turns it into a fiefdom, and "taxes" you for the right to breathe.
Actually, I'll thank Xi, since he alone is the one who controls North Korea's entire existance. Funny how all of this happens AFTER Kim visits China. Also interesting after China consolidates into a dictatorship.
And for the record, no, this will not make Trump the greatest. There was another president who pulled off an amazing foreign policy coup, one people thought was equally impossible at the time, his name was Nixon. We all know how that ended. If anything, I would credit Nixon for today, he set China on the path to where they are now, and in the position and mindset to kick North Korea to the curb.
1) Private prison execs chatting congress people about to pass a law that increases mass incarceration? 2) Military contractors being given the heads up on what bills are going to be sponsored that call for more armaments? 3) Private chemical or other possibly environmentally destructive companies told ahead of time of repeals of regulations?
Seems like in those cases you VERY MUCH do care about the insider trading, it is the impetuous for all the previously described ills. As the old saying goes "Follow the money".
3 major things keep companies in California, all related to talent
1) Weather. Let's face it, California weather is hard to beat. Most places you have to worry about running the AC and dehumidifier, or worry about running the heater and paying for heating oil, along with clothing and maintenance costs to deal with the weather. California gets to skip all of that, or have it as an optional thing you just pay for if you want it (mountain cabin, home out in the Inland Empire).
2) Non competes and at will. Non competes are void here, so companies have no real way to chain people to their work if they are good. Employees can walk. It is also at will, which means employers are also not chained to their employees if they suck. Employers can walk. This promotes the greatest mobility of workers and business, and tends to arrive at situations where both sides get what they want.
3) Infrastructure. Specifically the master plan of education of California which leads to the Cal State and UC systems which pump out grads to satisfy the tech industry, as well as the other major industries. This plus the private universities means theirs plenty of good people to pick from.
All the above lead to a demand that makes California expense. On top of this, the housing market is distorted because California citizens voted themselves incredibly low property taxes, which promotes never selling properties. This means for many companies, they get property taxes that can not be found anywhere else, despite the high property values.
The other missing ingredient is worker mobility. California is both at-will employment (so employers can ditch people fast if needed) AND effectively banned non-competes (so employees can ditch employers fast if needed).
Seems to produce the most equitable thing for both sides, leading to stiff competition and ideas flowing to where it is rewarded, instead of the paltry joke of a bonus most companies give out for patent submissions (usually less then 3k total, assuming it gets accepted by Patent Office).
As long as other states enforce non competes and do not fund higher education, probably not going to happen. Those 2 factors alone lead to large number of startups in California despite the expense. In any other state, your startup would die in the courtroom or the classroom.
The gender imbalance is already there and locked in. They can't suddenly start producing families with 5+ daughters. It will take decades to reverse the problem as demographics waves move through.
Yes, though I would also note, throughout human history, man learned from watching another man cripple themselves or die trying. We've created a world where success is so heavily looked favorably upon and the price of failure is so high, that it is a giant prisoner dilemma, going first is a fools errand. So no, I don't want to be left holding the bag for failure while someone rides my failure to their success, and no, I'm not interested in life ending mistakes.
Funny, my on paper taxes will drop 2k. My real taxes (in the form of higher inflation due to larger deficit and long term planning) are going to be much higher. I'm lucky too, I have an insanely good health plan. Most people will have the entirety of their tax cut eliminated by higher health care costs.
And if the GOP has their way, many people will watch their income drop more then 2k when they cancel Medicare, Medicaid and SS.
Except the places with money can just pay someone else. Food is a commodity. California already imports plenty from Chile. Sure, prices might go up, but no big deal. Meanwhile, those rural farms won't be even halfway as productive without the technology coming out of the urban areas (fertilizer, batteries to power many things, computers to do planning and remote monitoring, the various supplies + equipment to make irrigation work, etc.)
Wayyyy above that. The salary will be less (150 - 250k range), but then you add in equity, and it goes over 400k, and bonuses will push that even higher. Equity is the big one, top engineers at like Google and such will rack up 300-400k with equity alone. Plus all the other company perks, and there is no real comparison.
Once you factor in taxes, it REALLY makes it in favor of top software engineers, because 350k will be almost entirely taxed at ordinary income rates. The typical RSU's given to software engineers are also taxed at income rates, but you get to reap the gains at capital rates, which for many of the top tech companies has done VERY well over the last 5 years (Amazon stands out as one where one could have vested over the last 5 years and made HUGE gains).
Yes, but here's the thing. The vast majority of oil is used for transportation, between jet fuel, bunker fuel for ships, and gasoline. Furthermore, that is VERY inefficient. The utter best you can hope for out of ICE is 50%, which is theoretical, not economically viable. So roughly 30% of oil is literally being thrown away/wasted.
Remove that demand, and the price of oil falls, really hard. The sum total of all other uses of petroleum can be satisfied without the middle east.
I think we differ on the definition of "saved". Saved in most cases has involved thumbscrews, cutting off the hand, drowning, burning, beheading, racking, raping, and pillaging.
We already have. Residential water use is a minor part of water use. Bulk is agriculture, followed by industrial. Most of the things to save on the residential side have already been put in place (primarily low flow shower and toilets, and xeriscaping).
So on that front we are simply using not that much. On the desal front, new one opened in Carlsbad just 2 years ago.
The problem is that the pain comes later. You will see tax reduction in 2019, but it will shrink each year, and within 5-7 years, it will be gone or raise your taxes. It will raise everyone's taxes in 10 years.
Of course, these "temporary" tax cuts will become some campaign rallying cry in 5-7 years, and will be made permanent (see Bush and Obama doing the same for their predecessors "temporary" cuts).
Meanwhile, the tax cuts for the wealthy are permanent from the get go.
So end result? National debt will continue to rise, even faster. Now we just need a good war, and we've repeated the first 3 years of Bush.
Except this is the great weakness of US law: It is legal until challenged. I would bet there's dozens of laws on the books that would be ruled unconstitutional in a heartbeat if they were actually challenged. But usually they don't affect anyone, don't affect anyone worth mentioning, or no one has standing.
Historically, no, nearly no revolution has worked without the support of a modern military. Guns are no match for logistics. Guns don't do anything when your army is starving. See Valley Forge for an example.
Just to note, what California has is VERY rare, if not unique. California has the master plan for higher education, which as far as I know, no other state has anything quite like it, where they clearly lay out the roles of each level (2 year, 4 year, post grad). The IGETC means credits doesn't even enter into the picture, not in a course by course way, when transferring from a CC. I went this route myself, California CC into UCI.
And yes, CC's are not meant for 4 year degrees at all, but the pipeline part does mean it integrate into a 4 year plan very easily.
Or maybe he is just stating history. Ever heard of banana republics? They found it was vastly more profitable to sell fruits and such to foreigners (like the US) then feed their people.
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Found the libertarian parasite. Taxes are theft, states are stealing. Enjoy your parasite paradise. See how well you scale. I guarantee your state will become tax obsessive if its populations increases by 500%. I wonder when a feudal lord drops by and buys out the whole state and turns it into a fiefdom, and "taxes" you for the right to breathe.
Actually, I'll thank Xi, since he alone is the one who controls North Korea's entire existance. Funny how all of this happens AFTER Kim visits China. Also interesting after China consolidates into a dictatorship.
And for the record, no, this will not make Trump the greatest. There was another president who pulled off an amazing foreign policy coup, one people thought was equally impossible at the time, his name was Nixon. We all know how that ended. If anything, I would credit Nixon for today, he set China on the path to where they are now, and in the position and mindset to kick North Korea to the curb.
What about when the insider trading is
1) Private prison execs chatting congress people about to pass a law that increases mass incarceration?
2) Military contractors being given the heads up on what bills are going to be sponsored that call for more armaments?
3) Private chemical or other possibly environmentally destructive companies told ahead of time of repeals of regulations?
Seems like in those cases you VERY MUCH do care about the insider trading, it is the impetuous for all the previously described ills. As the old saying goes "Follow the money".
3 major things keep companies in California, all related to talent
1) Weather. Let's face it, California weather is hard to beat. Most places you have to worry about running the AC and dehumidifier, or worry about running the heater and paying for heating oil, along with clothing and maintenance costs to deal with the weather. California gets to skip all of that, or have it as an optional thing you just pay for if you want it (mountain cabin, home out in the Inland Empire).
2) Non competes and at will. Non competes are void here, so companies have no real way to chain people to their work if they are good. Employees can walk. It is also at will, which means employers are also not chained to their employees if they suck. Employers can walk. This promotes the greatest mobility of workers and business, and tends to arrive at situations where both sides get what they want.
3) Infrastructure. Specifically the master plan of education of California which leads to the Cal State and UC systems which pump out grads to satisfy the tech industry, as well as the other major industries. This plus the private universities means theirs plenty of good people to pick from.
All the above lead to a demand that makes California expense. On top of this, the housing market is distorted because California citizens voted themselves incredibly low property taxes, which promotes never selling properties. This means for many companies, they get property taxes that can not be found anywhere else, despite the high property values.
The other missing ingredient is worker mobility. California is both at-will employment (so employers can ditch people fast if needed) AND effectively banned non-competes (so employees can ditch employers fast if needed).
Seems to produce the most equitable thing for both sides, leading to stiff competition and ideas flowing to where it is rewarded, instead of the paltry joke of a bonus most companies give out for patent submissions (usually less then 3k total, assuming it gets accepted by Patent Office).
As long as other states enforce non competes and do not fund higher education, probably not going to happen. Those 2 factors alone lead to large number of startups in California despite the expense. In any other state, your startup would die in the courtroom or the classroom.
The gender imbalance is already there and locked in. They can't suddenly start producing families with 5+ daughters. It will take decades to reverse the problem as demographics waves move through.
For better or worse, they still will. Already ways around that.
Small correction. Vivendi has nothing to do with Blizzard or Activision, Activision bought themselves out from Vivendi and are a standalone company.
Yes, though I would also note, throughout human history, man learned from watching another man cripple themselves or die trying. We've created a world where success is so heavily looked favorably upon and the price of failure is so high, that it is a giant prisoner dilemma, going first is a fools errand. So no, I don't want to be left holding the bag for failure while someone rides my failure to their success, and no, I'm not interested in life ending mistakes.
Huh? California credit rating has been going up the last few years, is there something missing?
Funny, my on paper taxes will drop 2k. My real taxes (in the form of higher inflation due to larger deficit and long term planning) are going to be much higher. I'm lucky too, I have an insanely good health plan. Most people will have the entirety of their tax cut eliminated by higher health care costs.
And if the GOP has their way, many people will watch their income drop more then 2k when they cancel Medicare, Medicaid and SS.
Except the places with money can just pay someone else. Food is a commodity. California already imports plenty from Chile. Sure, prices might go up, but no big deal. Meanwhile, those rural farms won't be even halfway as productive without the technology coming out of the urban areas (fertilizer, batteries to power many things, computers to do planning and remote monitoring, the various supplies + equipment to make irrigation work, etc.)
Wayyyy above that. The salary will be less (150 - 250k range), but then you add in equity, and it goes over 400k, and bonuses will push that even higher. Equity is the big one, top engineers at like Google and such will rack up 300-400k with equity alone. Plus all the other company perks, and there is no real comparison.
Once you factor in taxes, it REALLY makes it in favor of top software engineers, because 350k will be almost entirely taxed at ordinary income rates. The typical RSU's given to software engineers are also taxed at income rates, but you get to reap the gains at capital rates, which for many of the top tech companies has done VERY well over the last 5 years (Amazon stands out as one where one could have vested over the last 5 years and made HUGE gains).
Yes, but here's the thing. The vast majority of oil is used for transportation, between jet fuel, bunker fuel for ships, and gasoline. Furthermore, that is VERY inefficient. The utter best you can hope for out of ICE is 50%, which is theoretical, not economically viable. So roughly 30% of oil is literally being thrown away/wasted.
Remove that demand, and the price of oil falls, really hard. The sum total of all other uses of petroleum can be satisfied without the middle east.
I think we differ on the definition of "saved". Saved in most cases has involved thumbscrews, cutting off the hand, drowning, burning, beheading, racking, raping, and pillaging.
We already have. Residential water use is a minor part of water use. Bulk is agriculture, followed by industrial. Most of the things to save on the residential side have already been put in place (primarily low flow shower and toilets, and xeriscaping).
So on that front we are simply using not that much. On the desal front, new one opened in Carlsbad just 2 years ago.
The problem is that the pain comes later. You will see tax reduction in 2019, but it will shrink each year, and within 5-7 years, it will be gone or raise your taxes. It will raise everyone's taxes in 10 years.
Of course, these "temporary" tax cuts will become some campaign rallying cry in 5-7 years, and will be made permanent (see Bush and Obama doing the same for their predecessors "temporary" cuts).
Meanwhile, the tax cuts for the wealthy are permanent from the get go.
So end result? National debt will continue to rise, even faster. Now we just need a good war, and we've repeated the first 3 years of Bush.
Except this is the great weakness of US law: It is legal until challenged. I would bet there's dozens of laws on the books that would be ruled unconstitutional in a heartbeat if they were actually challenged. But usually they don't affect anyone, don't affect anyone worth mentioning, or no one has standing.
They are working on this.
https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-and-blizzard-open-starcraft-ii-ai-research-environment/
Historically, no, nearly no revolution has worked without the support of a modern military. Guns are no match for logistics. Guns don't do anything when your army is starving. See Valley Forge for an example.
Just to note, what California has is VERY rare, if not unique. California has the master plan for higher education, which as far as I know, no other state has anything quite like it, where they clearly lay out the roles of each level (2 year, 4 year, post grad). The IGETC means credits doesn't even enter into the picture, not in a course by course way, when transferring from a CC. I went this route myself, California CC into UCI.
And yes, CC's are not meant for 4 year degrees at all, but the pipeline part does mean it integrate into a 4 year plan very easily.
Interesting. Fiat Paper money can do all the above, better.
Ahh found the resident ancap. Curious, guns make it possible for people to murder en masse, should we restrict those?
Corporations make it possible for people to poison and murder en masse, should we restrict those?
Or maybe he is just stating history. Ever heard of banana republics? They found it was vastly more profitable to sell fruits and such to foreigners (like the US) then feed their people.