Readit NewsAlso, how the heck is Mr. McGee supposed to come up with the other 67% of this judgment?
I don't think stepped-up basis should go away though, otherwise it's just the government getting a second cut of the inflation it causes.
The bigger issue for society is that our equity markets just don't have any real risk of losing your lunch anymore, so these strategies emerge.
The scam of income tax is that it's progressive on paper but not in practice.
Perfectly put. It's always bothered me that the tax brackets don't continue on in a logarithmic fashion, e.g. new brackets at 1.5 million, 15 million, 150 million, etc.
It's easy to think of sleep as a compromise to be defeated because we're culturally preoccupied with the achievements and pleasures of wakefulness, but that's really just us claiming personal preference for one narrow part of a holistic system that's just doing its own survival and propagation thing.
Consider trees, mushrooms, cicadas, snakes, or cats. Chilling out in low power mode as much is possible is maybe not a error to be fixed so much as it is an outcome of efficient design.
[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S102781171...
Pretty big limitation, and their discussion really is just there to justify publishing anyway. Both groups, bald and shaggy, may as well have been shooting blanks.
His end slide recap is below.
Economics:
// Increase minimum wage to $25/hr
// AMT for high income and corporations
// Re-fund the IRS
// Negative income tax (i.e. UBI)
// Eliminate capital gains exemption
// Remove 230 protection for algorithmically-elevated content
// Identity verification
// Break up Big Tech
// Age-gating
// Universal pre-K
// Reinstate expanded child tax credit
// Term limits
// Income-based affirmative action
// Expand college enrollment & vocational programs
// Ban phones in schools
// Invest in 3rd places
// Big Brothers/Sisters programs
// National service requirementThe thing about diy'ing audio (primarily speakers but also amps, DACs etc) is that you can get top of the line performance for a fraction of the market price. A $50,000 speaker setup that would bring tears to your eyes could be made for perhaps $5000. A DIY $500 kit can perform similar to a $2-3000 set of speakers. Open source amps with gerber files on github are amazing.
The biggest reason it's so easy to get amazing value is because that $600 speaker only has $150 of materials. Upgrading its $25 woofer to a $80 one would help a lot, but no company would do that and not sell it now for $1000 if they could.
However the biggest allure for me is not beating commercial systems on cost, but making what I want. A small speaker with deep base? Easy. Speakers with quasi-active noise cancellation behind them? Sure, why not. Speakers that'll make the most overpowered/fancy beach-boombox sound like a crappy toy? Simple.
The only limit is your imagination and time/money.
I'd very much recommend diyaudio.com, but be warned, parts of this field are mature while others are still in effective infancy. Also, being an engineer (electrical/mechanical) helps a lot, there's a ton of signals processing and electrical/mech oscillation.
I will admit that stuff like "speakers with quasi-active noise cancellation behind them" sounds intriguing. That's probably a good reason to get into this rabbit hole!
All jokes aside, it's an endless stream of takes from people who don't have an internal monologue. Plus some influencers trying their hand with unoriginal bait threads. Like the other poster said, it's worth checking out every now and again just to read some comments from folks who aren't thought leaders.