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I will do the pro-social thing of wishing that resources were more scarce so that the resources I hold were worth more.

Not sure why this obvious fact is being down-voted. The comments above don't mention that the killer feature of private orgs is the ease of exit, and therefore, the enormous risk o…

I am not familiar with the DSA. 1. Are companies permitted to charge for badges under DSA? 2. Is there an example of another social media that EU officials have identified as being…

The distinction is not as clear nor as useful as some make it sound. For example, is my pickup truck "personal" or "private"? Or is it personal as long as I drive myself and my stu…

I first heard about black owner appraisal discrimination almost a year ago, and I tried to find studies of this phenomenon. The closest thing I could find was this study by Brookin…

Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#Matter_con... ) thinks there are 10^80 atoms in the observable universe, which is approximately 2^240. If you only nee…

MA specifically addresses his education in this interview. He says that he learned most of what he knows via independent reading, that his high school was not high quality (his com…

How big a problem is the possible breakage of C extensions for new code? Is there currently some standard "future proofed for multi-thread" way of writing them that will reduce the…

If they were evicted and living on the streets, then they would not have accrued a rent liability for those months. So the total liability now would be less. You could argue that t…

Sure they can. Here, I think some lawmakers probably thought (a) "if someone can use this tool that well, then more power to him", or (b) I don't like it, but it is so unlikely, an…

Sure, if you can reproduce the input and if you agree that it is misuse. This is a scenario where we don't know the formula to create $5B, and and there is no consensus that it ("m…

> Is it in the interest of the US to pay Thiel to put his money in a Roth? How much should the US pay? How many of your tax dollars would you want to go to funding tax breaks for T…

When you create a tax shelter, someone always asks "what if someone uses this to create an enormous amount of wealth"? This is not just true for the US tax code, but has been true …

He could have saved it up from prior years of work. Starting salaries can in fact be lower than $110K.

I disagree with ProPublica's take. If it was as simple as "pay just fractions of a penny per share... watch as all the gains..." then we would all do it. Not just with Roth IRAs, b…

If they intended something else, then why didn't they write the rules to reflect "else"? The truth is that they didn't think that any Roth IRA investor would be as successful as Th…

I can think of two reasons: (1) It was not his own company when the IRA made the investment. That is, the IRA invests alongside other investors at the founding. Anyone who wants to…

Does anyone know whether this kind of tax planning is available to today's startup investors? Are there any administrators which support this kind of illiquid investment?

The NFT here seems to be a publicity stunt to both raise money directly from the auction and also to raise awareness about the charity. I had never heard of this charity before thi…

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Can you elaborate? All of the examples I can think of where favoring an in house brand is "bad" ultimately end with the consumer being harmed by either paying a higher price or rec…

If you start from "democratically elected governments exist to make the world a better place," then you're going to end up somewhere wrong. Even in the best of times, democraticall…

PP implies that that computation runs for a polynomial number of steps before producing its probabilistic answer. In the article description, the computation seems to be run "until…

Dear Mr. Millionaire, As someone with a significant amount of wealth, you have the option to spend it entirely on yourself. For example, you could have consumed all of it already, …

From the FDA statement: > This is because both CBD and THC are active ingredients in FDA-approved drugs and were the subject of substantial clinical investigations before they were…