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That’s one of those things that seems too dumb to possibly be true, but it looks like it is? An estate can sell stocks in probate with cost basis set to date of death, not purchase? Sort of makes sens…

I mean, long term rate is 20%, so taking a margin loan at 2% to finance consumption is a bet that you have less than 10 years to go…

They sell your assets if you don’t pay the principal though, which would trigger capital gains.

It’s not an income until you sell it

If they cut a string, or even pull on one a bit too much, they’re right back at C.

Even a charitable organization the donor fully controls must follow regulations on its activity. Surely some people use their foundations as personal piggy banks, but that’s fraud and is pursued as su…

Besides wealth growth being something totally other than income, the very wealthiest people have very concentrated holdings. They want/need the associated voting power and believe in their busine…

How much are you paying for Python again?

If you build over your lot lines, or build more than allowed by a conservation agreement, or build without securing permits, or violate local building laws in any number of other ways, your local gove…

I mean, they have a right to _try_. Publishers can put (basically) anything they want on their channels, and take money from (basically) anyone to promote their content. Whether that's a winnin…

It would be a really bad business if their rent could only cover interest, taxes, insurance, and maintenance i.e. expected change in equity is 0. If it covers principal as well, then it's merely…

This is either a really good joke about inflation or a total misread of _rec_ession, as the other comment points out. Much funnier as the former!

The issue I see is that pain you talk about is overwhelmingly inflicted by the journalist doing the interview. “How do you think your father (who passed recently) would feel about your win/loss” …

Even better - he answered “I’m just here so I won’t get fined” to every question at his Superbowl press conference. Osaka included video of that in her post announcing her press policy for this event…

The demand for these post game interviews comes from the same gross, exploitive, emotionally cheap place that demands hour-long biopics of every player with a dead sibling and full-screen closeups of …

My shorthand for all sorts of loosely related lazy thinking like that is “just skate better”[0]. Applies individually and collectively. [0]: https://youtu.be/jE494P5gQaY …

In that they're both implementations of Common Lisp, but is there a deep connection between the two than that? Not that directing more attention to clasp is a bad thing!

Commercialization counts as breakthrough here I think. We’ve demonstrably solved all the problems required to get from labs to billions of arms

> If a government doesn't have a monopoly of force, nobody needs to vote or even acknowledge the government. Meaning disputes with a government are settled (resisted) by ... force and violence…

Not everyone of course, and one should be attentive to and accommodating of teammates that feel that way. But surely “let’s knock off at three today and go down the pub, thanks for all the hard work”…

You might be interested in this talk from FOSDEM a few years ago comparing nix, spack, conda, and guix https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/installing_so... …

At the very least PPP was targeted in the sense it went to those who asked (or were unscrupulous enough to lie).

Fair advice, and they’re probably right to redirect most users that would file a bug with them. But on a normative level, perhaps a project that doesn’t want to support users shouldn’t have subsumed a…

It’s possible to describe the nature of an action without describing its form

This seems unnecessarily cynical. The large block of caveats seems mainly designed set expectations for potential users about the level of (total lack of) support. Using (and modifying!) a piece of s…

And English, in its predatory way, will adopt those 'different' words and constructions as its own in due time :)

We know exactly who dumped them, and when, because the company doing the dumping kept records and shared them with investigators! https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-coast-ddt-dum…

I think quoting the unsustainable part of OP instead of the net pay part led to lots of misinterpretation. Sustainability in a pay context is IMO strongly linked to a living wage, or at least a survi…

What? No. Automation doesn't need a new tax, it's just capital investment like any other. Tax the proceeds from investment (in automation and everything else) at a rate commensurate with ta…

Your replies down thread indicate an extremely narrow interpretation of 'expenses' here, namely only those financial costs directly related to employment. Taking that interpretation, you&#x…