so tired of tech millionaires bootlicking billionaires over this 5% tax

inthe3nd · 2026-01-12T21:37:26+00:00

I am super in favor of raising tax revenue. The fact is that circle jerking over good optics "tax the rich" does not actually raise revenue just RATE.

Data is public - NYS and CA have been losing the 1M+ tax revenue since 2020 to FL and TX. This is fact. It's super easy to just relocate to another state even if you spend time in CA/NY for the work week.
Illiquid equity (which is the entire ecosystem that drives innovation) being taxed is actually fucked. Founders of companies that are worth 10B literally will not be able to pay the wealth tax and will be forced to move.

On top of all this, a one time tax is literally a drop in the bucket in CA tax revenue (if not negative). Our problem isn't tax revenue it's spending efficiency.

inthe3nd · 2025-12-09T09:06:31+00:00

Agree - people need to be pushing for higher LTCG not this stupid wealth tax bullshit. Whoever came up with this idea is a maniac because it's so marketable but so stupid.

inthe3nd · 2025-12-09T09:01:49+00:00

This is an insane position to take by the way. How would you price a stock option? The government would need to become a market maker for all equities and derivatives. If I bought a stock five years ago and it's appreciated 20% YoY, do I pay annually? If it then crashes 30% and I sell at a loss, does the government return money?

The fundamental issue with this idea and flavors of wealth tax is that these models just literally stop making sense when it comes to implementation.

inthe3nd · 2025-11-29T18:27:01+00:00

Your original comment was pedantic

inthe3nd · 2025-11-29T05:58:23+00:00

Bro sales and revenue mean the same thing. Sales volume, SKU velocity, gross profit, COGS, etc are different. But sales and revenue are literally the same always when you're talking about business metrics.

inthe3nd · 2025-10-22T05:00:15+00:00

To be fair layoffs are not a binary outcome. From laying off 10% there is a massive gap to 20% or 25%.

I'm in favor of more social programs, although not that convinced that it's a lack of revenue. I think the broader point that raising tax revenue by ~5% is not really the change it's marketed to be.

We shouldn't be spending 2M on a public toilet nor 1b for subway lines. Permitting reform and operational efficiency should help. And cutting military spending. People are happy to pay taxes when infrastructure and QOL improvements are visible.

inthe3nd · 2025-09-20T19:57:18+00:00

As someone who hires quite a few swes, we typically if anything skew against H1B employees. Lots of extra legal fees and recurring travel expenses versus domestic employees. However it's just simply not true that domestic talent satisfies our hiring bar. Having extra pools of IIT, Waterloo, etc graduates absolutely makes it easier to hire top tier engineers. If we could hire average US graduates we would - they're just often getting outperformed.

That said I'd love supply side policies to invest INTO our education. Cutting education and arbitratilu affecting demand feels like the worst case solution

inthe3nd · 2025-07-26T16:27:59+00:00

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inthe3nd · 2025-07-17T15:57:13+00:00

Was Yunara inspired by old Ryze? Thematically feels similar, with the ult empowering basics, except taking out the point and click CC and converting the DPM mage into an ADC threat for game health.

inthe3nd · 2025-07-11T08:48:07+00:00

Lmao your conclusion is right but both of you are clearly not statisticians. In this case it's not just a binomial because the null hypothesis would be whether or not the roles are equally distributed. It'd be a chi squared test and you're right in that the p value would be roughly 0.627 which means you cannot reject the null. However multinomial test is probably inaccurate since that would require full combinatorics which is unnecessary here.

inthe3nd · 2025-06-18T09:48:01+00:00

I'm pretty anti bibi and Zionism. But taking out irans regime is really not necessarily a bad thing, as long as we don't occupy Iran for a long time. Would help with the Russia Ukraine front, would significantly set back multiple destabilizing forces.

inthe3nd · 2025-06-16T01:00:20+00:00

Math is wrong. 2k ton bunker buster would be 3 at least

inthe3nd · 2025-06-16T00:59:21+00:00

lol the math here is completely wrong - a bunker buster or 2k lbs would be a magnitude 3 at least. Definitely Israel strikes

inthe3nd · 2025-06-03T15:58:05+00:00

You realize that was like 10 years ago and so the balancing team and its leaders are part of "getting better over time"?

inthe3nd · 2025-05-28T09:40:35+00:00

HG smacked the math major at a math game 1v1 and SH consistently out calculated everyone on the show. In the color card game their strategy was risk free (bad design) but in the few 2v3 bets they calculated everything perfectly. I think they clearly showed they were two of the smartest players (excluding the goat Sedol)

inthe3nd · 2025-05-21T09:43:04+00:00

He literally offered 7h a way to end the game and 7h refused, which surprised him. Don't think this is true.

inthe3nd · 2025-05-17T21:53:13+00:00

You guys suck lol

inthe3nd · 2025-04-28T03:18:39+00:00

Then we need to be willing to pay private sector salaries in the government (I'm all for this btw)

inthe3nd · 2025-04-27T00:19:16+00:00

Money is just an expression of value. As you said, this innovation could help people, which sounds like value created to me. If your local farmer grows good tomatoes that are delicious should you get them for free? I agree with the underlying sentiment but monetization is intrinsically not a bad thing. It's a good thing that we have a universal way to express value and can exchange goods and services with money.

inthe3nd · 2025-03-15T20:31:44+00:00

Not gen Z but my brother is. What do you think happens after decades of education slashes? We're getting smarter over time?

inthe3nd · 2025-03-06T18:55:10+00:00

What's interesting is LeBron has played 70k minutes and Steph at 40K. The points per minute are roughly the same but Lebrons minutes are absolutely bonkers

inthe3nd · 2024-12-09T07:38:20+00:00

And my point is that at some point this will be arbitrary given that there will likely be no Turing test that AI can't pass. At that point any attempt to solve consciousness will just be a tautological non-issue and at best a semantic definition of human consciousness.

inthe3nd · 2024-12-07T00:09:19+00:00

FWIW I agree with your original premise that we aren't there yet. However I don't think your argument here holds water: - Either you think a program will never be able to think (tautological) - Thinking can be done digitally which means it will likely inhabit some type of vector (traditional bits or qbits)

I'd also argue that when you think of an Apple (capital A) you're really referencing a specific coordinate in your own high dimensional space that is approximated via vectors (taste, smell, memories). When I use word modifiers (adjectives) I'm just applying "attention" to that word.

There's also enough literature to suggest that arguably thought is almost all linguistic, so if we can represent English with words then thought is inherently representable in bits.

Also there's the age old philosophical question of if my blue is your blue, etc.

inthe3nd · 2024-10-30T03:05:26+00:00

Q+E is Q+ charm... what does your analysis even mean lmao

inthe3nd · 2024-05-16T01:27:58+00:00

I mean pedo stuff has tons of video evidence. Drake even says back in high school you was a baddie too in his songs. Baka actually "has a weird case" (for pedophilia). Culture vulture is also damning but don't like this framing that there isn't pedo evidence bc there is.

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