Funny. When Obama is in office "Stock Market is a fraud" "Unemployment numbers are a lie"
When Trump gets elected "Stock market baby" "Unemployment record low".
People think "Trump is doing well, market hit a new high of 23k". But no one said anything when it hit 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 under Obama...
Ahh the classic libertarian who thinks everyone can follow in their footsteps. Be interesting how that turns out. Get back to me when your population reaches 2 million.
"I also expect that eliminating the state deduction will force out of control liberal states to lower their taxes and stop flushing money down the toilet and useless social programs that only grow every year but don't help the people they're supposed to much less have an end goal."
Sure, as soon as we end Red State welfare.
This comes in the form of
1) Any economic depressed area program (Appalachia comes to mind, its one of 5)
2) End Agricultural subsidies
3) End federal tax breaks for mineral extraction
4) End any drug rehabilitation programs (let rurals sort out their opioid problem with their own money, if they can't afford it, die well).
5) End all efforts to support rural red state infrastructure development (not worth it to send fiber to the rural farmer in the middle of nowhere).
6) Adjust all medicaid/medicare/social security payments to scale per capita based on your state residence.(if you pay more in taxes, you get more of the payments).
Of course none of this will happen since it will lead to the extermination of rural america (its already on deaths door, mass rural hospital closings, opioid epidemic, suicide, depression are doing their work).
Starcraft is fairly well balanced, despite being asymmetric. As such, there is no one guaranteed strategy to work each game, and not even against the same race. It is very old at this point, and mostly well understood. As a result, you can easily find players for the AI to fight, with a wide range of skill, ranging from noobs such as myself up to Korean Pros like Jaedong, who would dismantle most AI with his muta micro alone.
Most of Broadcoms main engineering is already here, in Irvine. They are finishing their new campus, it is right down the street from my alma mater (UCI).
"Curiously, would you want to try to sue a corporation if you had to go through a special court owned and operated by said corporation? I'm guessing not. Yet if we sue the government, we are using a court system that is run under the same institution. Personally, I would rather not consolidate all the interested that could potentially act against me."
Funny, that's EXACTLY what we have. See Mandatory Binding Arbitration. And yes, people don't trust it, because there isn't even the pretense of due process, you lose by default by economic factors alone. Truth has nothing to do with it.
" didn't know there were companies in the US that had the power to imprison a person for not complying with them. Please enlighten me as to what companies have the same coercive power as a government (or, as you put it, "worse")."
What do you call a multi million civil judgment? A prison by another name since they now can directly take your money through garnishment. And you can't get out of it through bankruptcy. So your economic life is effectively over.
"It always amuses me when people distrust the people who run corporations while at the same time trust the people who run governments, as if the two are run by completely different kinds of people."
With government elected officials, I can directly interact with them. With many corporations, I can't even interact with them in any way, unless I'm a corporation myself or ultra wealthy. Please explain to me how to boycott Dow Chemical, Goldman Sachs, Koch Industries? All of them are major players that are mostly B2B setups that effectively are immune to public opinion.
I agree with this, but they really can't cut their price in half. Disney and co are too greedy to allow that to happen. Yes, the bulk of the cost you see from a cable provider is the cost of the content from the content provider, which is basically Time Warner, Disney, NBC Universal, and then the various regional networks. Why do you think ATT is buying Time Warner in the first place? Sure it makes them money, but more importantly, it converts a former cost into a revenue stream.
So explain Roy Moore?
And maybe, just maybe, those Right wing positions are anathema to most people and thus were rejected over time? Women do exist, yet somehow conservatives continue to treat them like statues that occasionally double as sex bots.
I see we have another lunatic libertarian anarchist type around. I'm curious, do you have enough money to protect yourself from a JDAM or maybe from people robbing your house since you don't have any police protection, seeing as they are part of the evil statist government?
That's actually average. Assume each coder is making 65k base (this is pretty normal for 0-5 year developers depending on area). Then add in bonuses, 401k matching, and health benefits. That can add up to 80k per person. So 4 people is going run you 320k at the LOW end. It merely goes up from there, as high as 250k per coder, some cases more.
Every one of the power source you mention can afford to install far more effective scrubbers/pollution filtration systems then cars can. Furthermore, combustion engines are fundamentally limited on how efficient they can be (Otto Cycle), and we can't even reach that because there is no economic material to reach said limit. Last I checked, a combustion engine practically can't get above 50% efficiency. Whereas most power plants easily reach into the 85%+ efficiency.
Centralizing the power generation would solve a lot of pollution. Cars are terrible power generators.
No because you can have very simple short listing of laws and STILL not have enough resources to prosecute them all. Even if we just had laws against robbery, murder, blackmail and embezzlement, we don't have enough resources to prosecute every instance of those.
Furthermore, defense lawyers will routinely take some action that most people THINKS falls under the above four, and convince a jury or judge that the action doesn't, even if it is the same result. So you need to either let that action go unpunished, or modify the law to cover that scenario.
Does that include prices of free for people who have no money because they no longer can produce anything of value? Regardless if you are Keynesian or Austrian, ultimately for an economy to occur, you need exchange of value. But that presupposes people can ALWAYS produce value.
But here is the kicker. What if the cumulative investment in a given good or service leads to storage of value that can be exchanged far beyond multiple lifetimes? Some firms have reached that point, the stored value they possess means no one can compete with them for a long long time.
"The Federal government miraculously managed to function without income taxes for the first 137 or so years of its existence - until the 16th Amendment was ratified."
Correct, but nearly all the methods that were used to finance the government during that period are either exhausted or now recognized to be more destructive then income taxes.
1) Sale of land. The government routinely funded itself through the sale of western land for development as people pushed farther west. This is now gone, or highly limited.
2) Duties and Tariffs. Now known to cause more problems then it solves, overall lowers wealth by restricting trade. The last half century has been dominated by countries removing these as much as possible (see all the free trade deals).
3) Federal government had lesser responsibilities, and also was much weaker, thus had less costs
4) Fees. Some parts of the government went off fees to finance themselves. For some entities, this worked just fine. Others this provided perverse incentives and led to corruption/bribery. The largest issue with this is it entirely relies on Congress, because Congress alone has the power to set the fees demanded, and can choose not to give any freedom to the entity in question to set those rates. It makes corporate bean counting look like a paradigm of efficiency in comparison.
I would argue we can drop the income tax in exchange for universal property tax. But that is unlikely to go over well, since property taxes are hated for being beyond your control. I can choose for my income to go up or down (within reason). I can't control my property going up 200% in value over 5 years and now pricing me right out of said property.
Copyright and 1st amendment. One establishes that speech can not be restricted by the government. The other establishes speech by some entities is forbidden, enforced by the government.
That's a product of our government structure as well.
As it stands, easily 3 million Republican voters mean nothing, because they happen to be in California. Another 2 million in New York. 2-3 million Democrats in Texas may as well not exist. As such, about 25% of the voting population simply don't matter, possibly more.
"1. Get cost of living down by flooding the market with housing."
Will not happen because CA voters locked down a ton of the housing market with Proposition 13, which in effect punishes you for moving around, and strongly incentivizes not to sell. And ironically, this was brought about by the smallest government policies you can imagine, a combination of ballot propositions (so direct democracy, no government involved in passing it at all) and most city councils voting down construction projects (NIMBY ftw!).
That's the sad part, it will take big government to fix this, because the local government has every incentive to NOT build anything.
This seems like a good idea. So many companies are foolish and instead of paying for people to stay, they let years, sometimes decades of knowledge walk out of the door to replace them with someone who is cheaper but far less productive. I've watched it happen multiple times at my company over the last year, its mindboggling. Company is now spending way more as other people have to learn and fill in the missing knowledge and domain expertise. Would have been far cheaper just to give those people large raises.
Also the concept of using vesting stock options to hold on to people isn't new, it's called golden handcuffs, but I guess the new part is it being applied to top software engineers instead of executives.
I think that, more accurately, after taxes (even with deductions), you are left with an amount that does cover rent, but rent chews up so much, that you are left with not a ton left over.
150k is still pretty good, but consider that if you had no deductions, you would pay 50k in taxes, leaving you with 100k. Then consider 5-6k a month rent. That would leave you with only 30-40k. Still not bad, but it gets chewed up fast.
Then you have the fact that many things are more expensivei n those locations (like fuel, food, household supplies) and tack on another 7+% sales tax for some of that, and 35k goes by pretty fast. Still workable, but if you were to reduce your income by 25k (125k total), this would start to get rough.
College has never been a job training program. It was either a wealthy person hangout for socializing, academic research, or wealthy person party/dumping ground.
Job training was done by apprenticeships, for close to 500 years. Internships are just an offshoot of that.
Education has never been and never will be a free market thing.
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Funny. When Obama is in office "Stock Market is a fraud" "Unemployment numbers are a lie"
When Trump gets elected "Stock market baby" "Unemployment record low".
People think "Trump is doing well, market hit a new high of 23k". But no one said anything when it hit 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 under Obama...
You are referring to HARM missiles, which are designed to home in on electromagnetic emissions, which for their application is radar emissions.
Ahh the classic libertarian who thinks everyone can follow in their footsteps. Be interesting how that turns out. Get back to me when your population reaches 2 million.
"I also expect that eliminating the state deduction will force out of control liberal states to lower their taxes and stop flushing money down the toilet and useless social programs that only grow every year but don't help the people they're supposed to much less have an end goal." Sure, as soon as we end Red State welfare. This comes in the form of 1) Any economic depressed area program (Appalachia comes to mind, its one of 5) 2) End Agricultural subsidies 3) End federal tax breaks for mineral extraction 4) End any drug rehabilitation programs (let rurals sort out their opioid problem with their own money, if they can't afford it, die well). 5) End all efforts to support rural red state infrastructure development (not worth it to send fiber to the rural farmer in the middle of nowhere). 6) Adjust all medicaid/medicare/social security payments to scale per capita based on your state residence.(if you pay more in taxes, you get more of the payments). Of course none of this will happen since it will lead to the extermination of rural america (its already on deaths door, mass rural hospital closings, opioid epidemic, suicide, depression are doing their work).
Nah, he just gets Russians killed. But hey, its not Americans so it's ok, according to Bannoites such as yourself.
Starcraft is fairly well balanced, despite being asymmetric. As such, there is no one guaranteed strategy to work each game, and not even against the same race. It is very old at this point, and mostly well understood. As a result, you can easily find players for the AI to fight, with a wide range of skill, ranging from noobs such as myself up to Korean Pros like Jaedong, who would dismantle most AI with his muta micro alone.
Most of Broadcoms main engineering is already here, in Irvine. They are finishing their new campus, it is right down the street from my alma mater (UCI).
"Curiously, would you want to try to sue a corporation if you had to go through a special court owned and operated by said corporation? I'm guessing not. Yet if we sue the government, we are using a court system that is run under the same institution. Personally, I would rather not consolidate all the interested that could potentially act against me."
Funny, that's EXACTLY what we have. See Mandatory Binding Arbitration. And yes, people don't trust it, because there isn't even the pretense of due process, you lose by default by economic factors alone. Truth has nothing to do with it.
" didn't know there were companies in the US that had the power to imprison a person for not complying with them. Please enlighten me as to what companies have the same coercive power as a government (or, as you put it, "worse")."
What do you call a multi million civil judgment? A prison by another name since they now can directly take your money through garnishment. And you can't get out of it through bankruptcy. So your economic life is effectively over.
"It always amuses me when people distrust the people who run corporations while at the same time trust the people who run governments, as if the two are run by completely different kinds of people."
With government elected officials, I can directly interact with them. With many corporations, I can't even interact with them in any way, unless I'm a corporation myself or ultra wealthy. Please explain to me how to boycott Dow Chemical, Goldman Sachs, Koch Industries? All of them are major players that are mostly B2B setups that effectively are immune to public opinion.
And content providers have noticed and started subdividing things again in the streaming world (see CBS, HBO go, and now Disney).
I agree with this, but they really can't cut their price in half. Disney and co are too greedy to allow that to happen. Yes, the bulk of the cost you see from a cable provider is the cost of the content from the content provider, which is basically Time Warner, Disney, NBC Universal, and then the various regional networks. Why do you think ATT is buying Time Warner in the first place? Sure it makes them money, but more importantly, it converts a former cost into a revenue stream.
So explain Roy Moore? And maybe, just maybe, those Right wing positions are anathema to most people and thus were rejected over time? Women do exist, yet somehow conservatives continue to treat them like statues that occasionally double as sex bots.
I see we have another lunatic libertarian anarchist type around. I'm curious, do you have enough money to protect yourself from a JDAM or maybe from people robbing your house since you don't have any police protection, seeing as they are part of the evil statist government?
That's actually average. Assume each coder is making 65k base (this is pretty normal for 0-5 year developers depending on area). Then add in bonuses, 401k matching, and health benefits. That can add up to 80k per person. So 4 people is going run you 320k at the LOW end. It merely goes up from there, as high as 250k per coder, some cases more.
Economy of scale is a thing.
Every one of the power source you mention can afford to install far more effective scrubbers/pollution filtration systems then cars can. Furthermore, combustion engines are fundamentally limited on how efficient they can be (Otto Cycle), and we can't even reach that because there is no economic material to reach said limit. Last I checked, a combustion engine practically can't get above 50% efficiency. Whereas most power plants easily reach into the 85%+ efficiency.
Centralizing the power generation would solve a lot of pollution. Cars are terrible power generators.
Hmm? Been having budget surpluses the last few years.
No because you can have very simple short listing of laws and STILL not have enough resources to prosecute them all. Even if we just had laws against robbery, murder, blackmail and embezzlement, we don't have enough resources to prosecute every instance of those.
Furthermore, defense lawyers will routinely take some action that most people THINKS falls under the above four, and convince a jury or judge that the action doesn't, even if it is the same result. So you need to either let that action go unpunished, or modify the law to cover that scenario.
Does that include prices of free for people who have no money because they no longer can produce anything of value? Regardless if you are Keynesian or Austrian, ultimately for an economy to occur, you need exchange of value. But that presupposes people can ALWAYS produce value.
But here is the kicker. What if the cumulative investment in a given good or service leads to storage of value that can be exchanged far beyond multiple lifetimes? Some firms have reached that point, the stored value they possess means no one can compete with them for a long long time.
"The Federal government miraculously managed to function without income taxes for the first 137 or so years of its existence - until the 16th Amendment was ratified."
Correct, but nearly all the methods that were used to finance the government during that period are either exhausted or now recognized to be more destructive then income taxes.
1) Sale of land. The government routinely funded itself through the sale of western land for development as people pushed farther west. This is now gone, or highly limited.
2) Duties and Tariffs. Now known to cause more problems then it solves, overall lowers wealth by restricting trade. The last half century has been dominated by countries removing these as much as possible (see all the free trade deals).
3) Federal government had lesser responsibilities, and also was much weaker, thus had less costs
4) Fees. Some parts of the government went off fees to finance themselves. For some entities, this worked just fine. Others this provided perverse incentives and led to corruption/bribery. The largest issue with this is it entirely relies on Congress, because Congress alone has the power to set the fees demanded, and can choose not to give any freedom to the entity in question to set those rates. It makes corporate bean counting look like a paradigm of efficiency in comparison.
I would argue we can drop the income tax in exchange for universal property tax. But that is unlikely to go over well, since property taxes are hated for being beyond your control. I can choose for my income to go up or down (within reason). I can't control my property going up 200% in value over 5 years and now pricing me right out of said property.
Copyright and 1st amendment. One establishes that speech can not be restricted by the government. The other establishes speech by some entities is forbidden, enforced by the government.
That's a product of our government structure as well. As it stands, easily 3 million Republican voters mean nothing, because they happen to be in California. Another 2 million in New York. 2-3 million Democrats in Texas may as well not exist. As such, about 25% of the voting population simply don't matter, possibly more.
"1. Get cost of living down by flooding the market with housing."
Will not happen because CA voters locked down a ton of the housing market with Proposition 13, which in effect punishes you for moving around, and strongly incentivizes not to sell. And ironically, this was brought about by the smallest government policies you can imagine, a combination of ballot propositions (so direct democracy, no government involved in passing it at all) and most city councils voting down construction projects (NIMBY ftw!).
That's the sad part, it will take big government to fix this, because the local government has every incentive to NOT build anything.
This seems like a good idea. So many companies are foolish and instead of paying for people to stay, they let years, sometimes decades of knowledge walk out of the door to replace them with someone who is cheaper but far less productive. I've watched it happen multiple times at my company over the last year, its mindboggling. Company is now spending way more as other people have to learn and fill in the missing knowledge and domain expertise. Would have been far cheaper just to give those people large raises.
Also the concept of using vesting stock options to hold on to people isn't new, it's called golden handcuffs, but I guess the new part is it being applied to top software engineers instead of executives.
It's 106 for a 2 pack.
Also, you wouldn't need many of them, just 1 for each terminal, and then hook it up to a Ethernet switch or maybe a wifi range extenders.
I think that, more accurately, after taxes (even with deductions), you are left with an amount that does cover rent, but rent chews up so much, that you are left with not a ton left over.
150k is still pretty good, but consider that if you had no deductions, you would pay 50k in taxes, leaving you with 100k. Then consider 5-6k a month rent. That would leave you with only 30-40k. Still not bad, but it gets chewed up fast.
Then you have the fact that many things are more expensivei n those locations (like fuel, food, household supplies) and tack on another 7+% sales tax for some of that, and 35k goes by pretty fast. Still workable, but if you were to reduce your income by 25k (125k total), this would start to get rough.
College has never been a job training program. It was either a wealthy person hangout for socializing, academic research, or wealthy person party/dumping ground.
Job training was done by apprenticeships, for close to 500 years. Internships are just an offshoot of that.
Education has never been and never will be a free market thing.