@AlDefinitely @AzelfDaGirl Yeah, you can see he spelled it correctly in his actual signature: "Jun Ofs"
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Habadashery
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@AzelfDaGirl It is Jon, must've been a typo
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@LoganDobson Capping benefits while uncapping taxes only buys ~5 more years before depletion lol
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It would be funny if we uncapped both the tax and the benefit of social security.
Make billionaires pay 12.4% on all their income but in retirement those guys get millions a month, inflation adjusted, straight from the treasury lol
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
Murray: Is it true that people making under $184k pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes Murray: And the rate for someone making $1 million? Dahl: 2.2% Murray: So, a 12.4% tax for people making less than $184k, but 2.2% for a millionaire or .0002% for billionaires.
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Anyway, who knows if this is really insider trading. But hire a competent financial professional for significant investments
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"It's hard to make money insider trading" is one of the things people absolutely do not believe when you tell them but is true
Ali@haramcart
Pete Hegseth is so spectacularly stupid that he used his insider knowledge of a strike on Iran to attempt a multimillion-dollar trade that LOST money
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Every word game needs some mechanic that encourages being a little silly with it, or it becomes a constraint satisfaction game.
charm@charmcgi
scrabble is actually a shape rotator game if ur competitive
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@DrewSav I do think "Kamala/Hillary" will send us to the Middle East was a little motivated by "a woman shouldn't lead a war"
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I agree N=2 is not a significant sample size but I also think it's no coincidence both times Dem ran women against Trump they lost. People will vote for women for office but something is clearly different when it comes to President.
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@Merridew__ Could've invested in a pair of America's highest quality and most popular newspapers (NYT, TDAY)
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@thomasforth Even in this hypothetical, *avoiding* rent control is what increases supply
If you threaten to slap someone unless they unlock a door and they unlock the door, it doesn't mean slapping people occasionally acts as a key
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Because there are cases in which rent control shifts incentives towards increasing supply. Take for example homeowners in an area with a strong say in permitting via local democracy. Their incentive is to oppose new homes to restrict supply and increase their home values,... 1/2
Guilherme Vianna@DonVianna
<policy that doesn't fix the issue of low supply> works whenever <thing that increases supply> is happening Why do rent control at all then? Just silly
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@sdamico Backdoor prop 13 repeal (everyone sells and the assessments get unfrozen)
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SEIU is testing if they can lower the wealth tax to cover ~everyone
Wally Nowinski@Nowooski
California wealth tax creep: I’m getting polled right now on a proposed California wealth tax of $10m and up.
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@tedfrank Sure, but Vegas's spread knocks it up to a ~5.75% discount. Can probably get that cheaper in the financial markets
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@ThreeHatsInARow Offering someone a free product if a 19:1 bet hits is a 5% discount, except people are more excited about the bet.
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When Gallery Furniture does this, the owner goes to Vegas and places a giant bet to hedge.
Taylor Snow@taylorcsnow
Jordan’s Furniture rn
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Trump accounts are a very American way to do baby bonds (already a very American way to child support)
"Seed your kid's trust account tax free" hurray
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@queerthecloset @agraybee There aren't really any science reasons beyond sending people into space, just testing space flight tools
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@agraybee Like I imagine there’s all kind of cool science reasons for doing this particular mission but when you say we’re going back to the moon its like… are you sure about that?
GIF
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It's because your definition of "to the moon" is different than their's.
Everyday Astronaut@Erdayastronaut
I'm honestly SHOCKED at how the general public has NO IDEA Artemis II is taking humans out to the moon and will be the furthest humans have ever flown. Every non-space nerd I've talked to has no idea. WE GOTTA GET PEOPLE STOKED!!!! THESE FOUR HUMANS ARE FLYING TO THE MOON!!!
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@JimDMiller @wolajacy @brianluidog @NathanpmYoung I think the primary goal of capital markets is to allocate capital efficiently
Insider trading is banned for the same reason a cashier selling muffins on the side for their own profit is banned
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@wolajacy @brianluidog @NathanpmYoung The primary goal of capital markets is to get accurate prices that reflect all possible information. Insider trading helps this happen. Ordinary investors should not be betting on individual stocks and should be using index funds and they are not hurt by insider trading.
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This Robin Hanson debacle is surprising to some people. But you only noticed this time because the object level is so clear.
It's just the same thing Bryan Caplan does: a specific argumentation style that fools no one except rationalists. You're being taken for a ride.
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it shouldn’t be a hot take, that’s the correct way to look at gentrification. some guy with a unicycle isn’t displacing you, but your residential & commercial landlords / investment capital / your capital-compliant municipal leaders etc are. hold those people to account!
onion person@CantEverDie
my hot take on gentrification is the average person doesn’t understand that gentrification isn’t usually a function of individuals, but of big business restructuring neighborhoods, so gentrification takes often sounds indistinguishable from far right anti-immigrant sentiments
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@pilesofskulls And how much time/money does it take to get to the point where you're clearing $200k?
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Women love it when you work 60-70 hours a week and move to a different state every 3-6 months.
Brad Wilcox@BradWilcoxIFS
What many young men don't know is that "many skilled workers can earn “in excess of $200,000 per year on hourly wage and overtime alone,” in addition to generous travel and per diem allowances." -- "particularly [for] high-paying occupations include pipeline welding, elevator construction in major metropolitan areas, and data center electrical work."
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@GeringerAdam Eh, you could get some materials scientists on it and automate a decent chunk
But good luck getting planning permission for Jeff Bezos's brick redevelopment project
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The odd thing about today’s billionaires is they couldn’t pay to have a 19th century style revolution in masonry architecture
They would have to establish entire schools to rebuild the workforce of masons
Trent 🇺🇸@tnertz
@GeringerAdam @grok I can’t wait for billionaires to take on the pet projects of recreating a 19th century style urban core in a random dilapidated city with maximum amount of mixed use housing units without parking podiums
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@mattyglesias And usually total sidestepping of state and local authorities which created most COVID-era regs
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What weird about the “US public health failures during COVID” discourse is it tends to be constructed as if the President of the United States and his appointees at HHS, CDC, FDA, etc are somehow separate from and unrelated to American public health institutions.
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@EconBerger @stevehou @nikitabier Is he registered? FINRA's not gonna be thrilled if this wasn't approved by an RP
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@stevehou @nikitabier joke's on all of us, Ghalibaf passed CFA level 3 right before the war started
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