What 1-2% wealth tax are us shlubs already paying?
You’re honestly lecturing me about unrealized gains and you don’t even know about Property Tax?!? Primary residence is the closest most people get to an investment portfolio, and they get taxed on its full value, not just the equity fraction they own.
Physical dimensions? Some of these cards are pretty long and/or pretty tall. I’ve run into space constraints in smaller cases. Different manufacturers have different layouts, so that’s a specific card check.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/ has physical dimensions in the details, but not on the main table.
no one’s talking about a 5% wealth tax, and few people are even talking about applying it to people with fortunes as paltry as $10,000,000.
Us middle-class shlubs are already paying 1-2% wealth tax on our biggest asset, and that asset doesn’t even generate income. Why should billionaire stock portfolios be exempt?
Asset taxes, whether real estate or equity, encourage those assets to be put to productive use. If you can’t figure out how to extract 1% economic value out of your $100,000,000 company to pay the wealth tax, then maybe you should sell that company to someone who can run it right.
It’s been a while, but I read it more as a spoof. The characters more incompetent and self-aggrandizing than malicious. Kind of a foil to Le Carré’s usual work, where the hero is always one step ahead, even if he works through imperfect collaborators.
And then the Iraq WMD story came out, and it seemed disturbingly prescient.
The idea that billionaires would leave the economy that made them billions, the services and amenities that make being a billionaire worthwhille, and all their rich friends, all for a little tax break is pretty ridiculous. They already choose to live in California, New York, and London - expensive places with high taxes - rather than Cayman Islands or South Dakota.
They’re definitely not uprooting the whole corporate campus, moving it away from the skilled workforce it needs, the housing that they need, and the good schools that they want.
Billionaires’ personal wealth isn’t generating any taxable income, anyway, so there’s no income tax to lose if they do leave.
I like Cory Doctorow’s take: AI is good for single-use, personal code to solve an immediate problem, and terrible for long-term, production projects. I imagine there’s a bunch of neophytes out there who use AI to create their first project, find out that github exists, and thinks someone else must be having the same problem they just solved, so why not release it to the public?
Doesn’t every WH renovation get named for the president who did it? Lincoln bedroom. Roosevelt theater. Truman bowling alley.
Trump Ballroom is obviously an occasional use facility, but “Trump heliport” is something they’ll say on the news every day for a thousand years.
It’s a promising benchmark, but I look at their first graph and see that oil & gas growth haven’t slowed since 1965. Coal slowing since 2005, but that may just be reaction to a big 2000-2005 coal boom.
What’s promising is that we’ve finally gotten to the point where there’s enough renewables where their rate of change, if not actual amount, is meaningful on the global scale. You no longer need to plot renewables on a separate graph, or on a log scale, to even see them.
People know that listening to music supports the creator, and they don’t like supporting shitty people. There’s tons of people making really good music, so you can satisfy both the desire to enjoy good music and support good people.
Dunno how well it would work with kubernates internal networks, but my DNS is configured with different views for internal and external clients. So, when letsencrypt does a lookup, they get the external IP, but when an internal client looks up the same name, they get the internal IP. TLS is happy, because the certificate matches the name. I’m happy because it works even when the ISP is down.
Can’t imagine they would be personal-use lockers, especially not with doors that display the contents. Have to imagine that they were no-lock ‘lockers’ to hold common-use balls & gear out of the weather when not in use.
I suppose they could be rental/honor-box - insert quarter to get ball, please return when done, but I don’t think I’d call that a ‘locker.’
The US has a choose-your-own-adventure history.
We’re a country that welcomes the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, where the pioneer spirit brings people together to build thriving communities away from the aristocrats and oligarchs, and you can be whatever you strive for. Life may be hard, but I’ve got my people, and we’re doing the best we can.
We’re also a country of ‘good’ Christians, where geographic isolation protects us from threat of invasion or immigration, and allows only the smartest, most ambitious, and wealthiest people to exploit abundant natural resources and desperate labor force for fantastic personal gain.
As someone with a collection of a couple hundred CDs and another hundred or so DVDs filling my closet, I’m not really sure everyone appreciates the logistics of holding physical media for a couple-hundred-game library.
vim index.html
<html><header><title>Welcome</title></header>
<body><h1>Welcome</h1>
<p>Here's my random thoughts and links I keep forgetting
</body></html>
:wq
Why would I want to learn wordpress, much less spin up a database, for that?
They announce pretty regularly when they’ve entrapped some bunch of hicks into fake bomb plot. Why would they not announce that they’ve interrupted a legit, grassroots plot?
I’ve been collecting CDs, DVDs, and BRs for 30 years. They fill a closet. Thank fuck for rippers, though, so I can play them all from one HD with a little sort through menu and a click.
It’s hard to keep up with all the new hotness on disks, though. If you want to know what the guys at work are talking about with Ted Lasso, or The Boys, then it’s streaming or high seas.
20" Lasko fans are still just $20, and you can use the box it comes in to shroud it to your GPU.
You’re not wrong. From the study:
Most fully alcohol-attributable diseases require heavy drinking, either occasionally (e.g. alcohol poisoning) or chronically (most chronic disease categories linked to alcohol).
Having not gone to any of my 40-or-so reunions, I feel like they would only get interesting after 20. Maybe 30. That’s long enough for everyone to have finished all the school they’re going to do, for people to have moved beyond their first jobs, or even first careers, and to have experienced enough life to really become their own people.