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merkleee commented on Affordable Care   blog.samaltman.com/afford... · Posted by u/mattkrisiloff
shimon · 9 years ago
Yes, tax rates are arbitrary so not qualifying for an exemption is mathematically equivalent to being fined. It's just presented in the reverse.

You are being fined for not paying mortgage interest. You are being fined for each kid you don't have. Buy your house and have your kids or you will continue paying more in taxes!

merkleee · 9 years ago
Where can I apply for an exemption to the not owning a house penalty?
merkleee commented on Amazon to Create 100,000 New Jobs in U.S. In Next 18 Months   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/devy
aero142 · 9 years ago
How to PR.

1) Identify large trends or the goals of powerful people.

2) Release feed prewritten BS to media that describes what you already planned to do in terms that aligns it with the above goals.

3) Profit(or don't get in a pissing match with our appearance above all else President Elect)

merkleee · 9 years ago
Trump has historically bad approval ratings for a new president. Expect to see stories like this for the next 4 years.
merkleee commented on Georgia Tech Offers Online Master of Science in Analytics Degree for Under $10K   pe.gatech.edu/news/press-... · Posted by u/dgritsko
merkleee · 9 years ago
I am skeptical that this program will be a good signal for hiring analysts. In my experience, there are two things you need to select for:

(1) Understanding statistics. Hopefully this program will take care of this requirement, but it's not hard to find these people anyway. There is an infinite supply of science PhDs fleeing the academic job market.

(2) Behavioural/personality. People who will do well at the actual job. Example: can you tell when a PM is asking you to answer the wrong question, and how do you handle it?

You can easily find (1) with screening questions, (2) is the hard part.

But, I guess if you think you have (2) as a future analyst, this program could be a good way of getting (1).

merkleee commented on Bitcoin slides as China's central bank launches checks on exchanges   reuters.com/article/us-ch... · Posted by u/stevewilhelm
hkjgkjy · 9 years ago
There is still only a limited amount of space in the attractive parts of a city, even if you are allowed to expand the city freely.
merkleee · 9 years ago
There is a limit, true, but that limit is 60 story high-rises. I doubt foreign demand would hold up very long if we built a few of those, but in any case, the union construction jobs, the aggregate demand, the development fees, and the letup in competition for ordinary housing would all be welcome.
merkleee commented on Bitcoin slides as China's central bank launches checks on exchanges   reuters.com/article/us-ch... · Posted by u/stevewilhelm
matt_wulfeck · 9 years ago
How about a check on foreign realestate investment? I have a fantasy where China starts looking into homes its nationals own throughout the Bay Area in search of lost revenue, wherein the prices collapse because of a selling frenzy.

The reality is that many of the foreign-owned homes here are owned by shadow offshores which are very hard to track.

merkleee · 9 years ago
Usually, when people from another country buy something in our country, we call it an "export" and cheer it on. In this case, because housing construction is limited, we consider it a bad thing. What if instead, we allowed developers to build more housing to sell to those foreign buyers? So we could not only have enough homes for locals, but also improve the national trade balance.

Imagine if we only allowed American car companies to build 1 million cars per year, and them complained about the damn Chinese buying up all the cars.

merkleee commented on I estimate human population to peak in 2065   docs.google.com/document/... · Posted by u/toonies555
hughes · 9 years ago
How would any reasonable person think that all humans will completely stop having children?

It makes about as much sense to me to continue the trend below zero, and assume that eventually people start consuming children.

merkleee · 9 years ago
Hey, it worked for interest rates.

u/merkleee

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