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They were trying to get Republican votes so that the law would be bipartisan. In the end it passed on a party line vote, so maybe the compromises were a mistake...

Location: Seattle (current) / Toronto (looking to move to) Remote: Open to remote. Willing to relocate: Yes, around the GTA. Technologies: C++, Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeSc…

Make no mistake, all companies are one leveraged buy-out away from full private equity ruthlessness. Even if the current owners are great – people get older, they'll want to retire…

The biggest tax benefit of living in an owner occupied home is that nobody pays income tax on the rent you would pay if you were living in a house someone else owned. ... but most …

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

If the thesis of the thread was "Gee, it sure sucked to grow up in Argentina in the 70s with no access to high-quality financial products." that would be extremely relevant... but …

1228 pesos in 1976 was worth about $4.50 in 1976 USD [1]. ... and if he'd bought into the S&P 500 (Vanguard launched the First Index Investment Trust now the Vanguard 500 Index Fun…

DOL = Washington Department of Licensing: https://www.dol.wa.gov/

> It was only a few decades ago when Tokyo was famous for having the most expensive real estate in the world. Yes, but then they did something about it [1] instead of pulling up th…

Isn't that because normal people are heavily encouraged to put all their money into buying a house? Culturally ("rent is just throwing money away" / "the stock market is a casino")…

The author has an essay arguing why we shouldn't allow the humanities to go back to being the purview of the idle elite: https://acoup.blog/2020/07/03/collections-the-practical-cas…

I think this is the talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_the_ghastly_...

> But when we propose raising the standards, we get complaints from conservatives that "the free market will take care of it" (even though it obviously doesn't). The free market ap…

... because FAANG was about compensation and MS is not competitive (at least for mid-career hires). Take a look at levels 62 / 63 at MS vs. comparable roles at FAANGs: https://www.…

> The emperor really has no clothes on: your* degree really was a waste of money.... I mean... my degree is why I can work in the United States and has been (and will continue to b…

> Today Quebec has the lowest provincial birthrate in Canada. Not remotely true. As of 2016 Quebec has a fertility rate of 1.59 children per women which is higher than the Canadian…

Smaller tomatoes taste better because they are easier to ship without damaging (they're lighter and have a much lower mass to surface area ratio). As such, producers and supply cha…

From context, likely a professional engineer.

Too bad they didn't adopt the "Dumb investment certificate" [1] instead. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-09-24/earnin...

1. Stock markets are forward looking. Prices reflect expectations about the company going far into the future, not just right now. So yeah, this year and next year are going to be …

Townhomes, duplexes, triplexes, etc are substitutes for single family homes (not for everybody, but for some people... like me). You'd expect that allowing them to be built would m…

I'm pretty sure decadence is older than the 1850s... Yeah, it would seem Martin Luther died in 1546. Decadence requires power, and capital is the most obvious way to acquire it in …

From the Hertz bankruptcy motion (via Money Stuff/Matt Levine): "246,775,008 shares of common stock" or another way "Hertz could potentially offer up to and including an aggregate …

Just because you can change the lenses on your camera, doesn't mean you have to. There are zoom lenses with pretty extreme ranges that are even pretty compact like the Olympus 14-1…

Camera sales have fallen off a cliff in the last ten years as people increasingly rely exclusively on their smartphones. This has lead to camera companies simplifying their product…