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You buy security X for $1000 and sell it for $100. You immediately repurchase security X for $100 and sell it for $1100. You made a net profit of $100 but are taxed on $1000 becaus…

Why is “data driven” policing bad when we’re pretty much striving for “data driven” everything else in government? The EFF argues that the methods here are pseudo scientific, but t…

Ah yes, this sense still eludes me. Her: I had a huge crush on you in high school/college and dropped hints all the time. Me: But you told me you had a boyfriend/were a lesbian/hat…

Related HN thread that the other commenter was referencing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7709556

This does the opposite actually, it forced the federal government to de-prioritize areas with worse service in favor of areas with good but not as good as 100/100 service. There ar…

> This did happen. Netflix was throttled a few years ago and they reached a "deal" with Comcast and a few months later, Netflix rates were increased. 1) This happened prior to net …

Energy prices have outpaced inflation in that time frame despite productivity gains.

> This crisis in Texas is also a good argument for why price gouging during a shortage doesn’t work the way anti-regulatory advocates said it would. There's no way to make that jud…

I'm not sure why it's difficult to believe. Universities are more than just faculty. In the past few decades, universities have become full service institutions that provide more t…

The things that have seen large price increases are things that aren't scalable i.e. they still require the same amount of human input labor to produce Childcare is constrained by …

> Your comment, at face value, seems to defend the status quo. The comment is observational, not persuasive. Few people are happy with the current situation we find ourselves in. I…

The "loopholes" are there for a reason. They allow the government to indirectly further their policy goals without much effort e.g. tax avoidance programs for real estate investors…

This is misguided criticism that lays the blame on financial entities for a decades-long trend in shifting government priorities. Who else remembers Obama's quip in the 2012 debate…

The logic is wrong here. Assuming bitcoin is a deflationary asset I.e. constantly goes up, the value of any bitcoin will be worth more than the energy used to mine it. For example,…

No, GME stock had a higher capitalization requirement than cash.

That's irrelevant here. We have the counterfactual study (i.e. what would have happened if the SC decided the other way) that concluded that Bush would have widened his lead. Stati…

> we now know, Gore would likely have won had it continued. This is not correct.

> At which side of the setup? To get the data from the neighborhood hub to my computer? To get the data from the start of the ISP's network to the neighborhood? To get the data fro…

> I pay my ISP for bandwidth. WHAT I choose to download with that bandwidth has no impact on their bottom line This isn't true in reality. For example, it's significantly more expe…

LIFO. Thanks, corrected it.

It isn't uncommon to find yourself on the losing end of the union contract negotiation with little you can do about it. You give up your agency. The only things that matter are the…

I'm going to be the contrarian here and agree with this definition. I think it's more important that the government prioritizes making access to 25/3 available to everyone before m…

She's using it as a pretext for when they eventually ban or regulate crypto to death, not to genuinely inform anyone.