SerialStateLineXer
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SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
Food poisoning worked for me.
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
Wasn't ye plural?
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
In a nutshell: If we adopt the FairTax, many taxes are gone, replaced by a 23% sales tax on new products and services.
It's actually defined such that the tax is 23% of the total amount you pay, including tax. So if the total price is $100, $23 goes to the tax and $77 to the seller. It's more like a 30% tax.
SerialStateLineXer
1yr ago
I couldn't find any reference to Cohn from more than a few years ago.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
In the NEJM tirzepatide study, they reported a final fat-to-lean ratio of 0.7, which means that the subjects were still about 0.7/1.7 = 40% body fat.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
There are gas taxes, but they're mostly to fund roads, so they may cover the cost of roads (though I'm not 100% sure of even that), but they don't also cover the social cost of carbon emissions. There also aren't generally taxes on other uses of fossil fuels.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
Greg Mankiw says that the stress tests probably wouldn't have caught this, although I imagine that they'll be modified to cover this scenario in the future.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
Yeah, but I meant Americans.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
That's a summary report. The full report is like a hundred pages with statistics for over a hundred different causes of death broken down by multiple demographic stats. Here's the report for 2019:
This is not my area of expertise, but I'd expect that to lead to much larger distances on the right tail.
It does, but I accounted for that. The right tail is longer than expected even when accounting for the fact that it's logistic. Either there's something I'm not understanding about how this works, or someone screwed up somewhere.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
That looks like a bug. The use of backticks didn't prevent the tildes from creating a strikethrough effect.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
I don't know. Switzerland, maybe? Low taxes, high wages, smart people, and excellent graphics. Singapore seems cool, too. Taiwan has low wages, but would otherwise be a pretty swell place if not for the threat from China.
SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
There are tons of people in the US who don't care at all about politics. Find them. Or find like-minded people in the US and move to where they are.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
if you believe that politicians should try to live up to their campaign pledges.
All the dumb stuff they say to pander to the base? No, that's the last thing I want them to do.
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
Not even a personal grievance, just terminal Reddit-brain?
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
so why not use the cost of fare enforcement in Tokyo as a baseline for our cost comparison?
Because New York isn't full of Japanese people.
Fun fact: Subway gates don't even have turnstiles in Japan. You can just walk right through without paying. I think they beep or something if you don't pay, but I've never seen anyone just keep on walking, so I don't know if they keep beeping.
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
My point was not that she's doomed, but that if she actually has the quantitative skills and conscientiousness needed to do well in finance classes, she'll probably be fine and not be magically handicapped by having been poor as a child.
I just got promoted for the second time in seven years as a software engineer at the same company, and my income has more than doubled over that time period. And this is slow for my company; I had a lot of issues focusing during mandatory WFH during COVID, which was a major speedbump for my career progression. I could easily have been promoted a third time, nearly tripling my income, if not for COVID.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Black people don't do much, if at all, better on the SAT than on the LSAT. Harvard undergrad made an explicit choice to continue discriminating enough to get a class that's 14% black, but their law school has not. This is an HLS thing, not a general law school thing: Yale Law school is clearly discriminating as hard as ever.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Harvard's law school made more of an effort to appear to comply as well, although they still seem to be discriminating.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Quote laundering. If you want to say something that's not, strictly speaking, true, you can just quote somebody else saying it.
SerialStateLineXer
8mo ago
The oxford study results paint a grim picture for East Asians where it states that women of east asia are more likely to prefer dating people of other races with whites being highest rated, I would argue that the subcontinent and south-east Asia has the similar issues
The silver lining, for South Asian men, is that white men generally aren't nearly as attracted to South Asian women as to East Asian women.
SerialStateLineXer
8mo ago
There's nothing wrong with wanting to not be on the receiving end of a trade war, tariffs or sanctions.
Trade wars only have receiving ends.
SerialStateLineXer
8mo ago
Among the PMC (the truly rich are more heterogenous as a class) assortive mating is now so strong that it largely filters looks-based matching to an intra-class level.
According to Gregory Clark, it's always been thus. He claims that in the anglosphere, mating has been assortative on socioeconomic status at a correlation of approximately 0.8 for centuries.
This was due to a redistricting that pretty much guaranteed she would lose, right?
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