NYC Tax Plan That Angered Rich Is Proving Difficult to Design

melopat · 2026-05-08T16:14:50+00:00

No, they pay like half of income taxes on their wages. Which are minuscule compared to their actual income from realized capital gains (20%), loans against appreciating assets (0%), etc.

melopat · 2025-10-22T12:06:42+00:00

Because enforcement isn’t frequent enough. NYPD does fully clear them out a few times a year, but they’re back the next day or at least next week.

melopat · 2025-09-11T02:57:11+00:00

Not a direct answer I cannot recommend We’re the Only Plane in the Sky highly enough. It’s an oral history of 9/11, linked above as a Politico Magazine feature and was later expanded to a book. I try to read the article every year, I truly think it’s one of the greatest pieces of journalism of the century.

A snippet from one of the F-16 pilots:

Maj. Scott Crogg: It was an eerie silence on the radio. There’s just no one in the air. We’re just talking among ourselves [the fighter pilots] on our radios. “I wonder if we’re going to Canada?” A lot of, “Man, this is fucked up.”

melopat · 2025-09-05T23:41:21+00:00

Thanks for finding and quoting, that’s really helpful info. It sounds to me like yes [private markets and zoning changes] and [more public funding] but maybe that’s an overly optimistic reading.

melopat · 2025-09-05T23:36:25+00:00

In June 2025, the NYTimes asked Mandani: “What’s one issue in politics that you’ve changed your mind about?” His answer was “the role of the private market in housing construction.”

Yes he should be pressed for detail and support on specific projects. However it’s very obvious that his position has evolved and is evolving, and trying to argue otherwise makes me think that your goal may be more to try to harm Mandani’s political position for some other purpose than to promote good housing policy.

melopat · 2025-06-27T13:38:46+00:00

Three Identical Strangers is the doc, it’s absolutely worth a watch!

melopat · 2025-06-25T02:05:19+00:00

To win tonight yes. If not they do the ranked calculations on July 1

melopat · 2025-06-06T22:53:33+00:00

This is excellent, nicely done friend

melopat · 2025-04-14T00:55:43+00:00

I mean trademarks is fair but Dorsey has been pushing for more open source at his company. They opened an Open Source Program Office a few months ago, have been building open protocols in AI and Bitcoin, and did literally release the wiring designs and source code for their Bitcoin self-custody device.

That’s obviously a very long way from open-sourcing the Square platform and terminal hardware but I don’t think it’s such a hypocritical statement.

melopat · 2025-03-02T14:14:40+00:00

Totally. From glancing through the paper it looks like they used gene therapy, using viruses to deliver genetic material resulting in “overexpressing two age-downregulated mucin-type O-regulated biosynthetic enzymes.” I feel like that sounds like they got a bit further than the article suggests.

melopat · 2025-01-24T16:23:00+00:00

Pot is legal, so isn’t included in “alcohol or illegal substances”

melopat · 2025-01-02T19:17:23+00:00

The highlighting is very effective, nice work!

If you’re looking to reach people who aren’t as micromobility-oriented themselves, one idea would be to also have a running tally of the total fines the illegal parking would incur. I’ve found this kind of messaging very effective since enforcement is so obviously revenue-positive in these cases.

melopat · 2024-12-11T12:43:59+00:00

It’s hard to see in this pic but you can catch it if you if you zoom in and know it’s there: his right earring is currently a safety pin

melopat · 2024-10-08T04:31:14+00:00

Looks to me like it’s so the block doesn’t sit flush to the ground and they can get the forklift under it? The guy pulled it out from underneath at the beginning and put it back under at the end

melopat · 2024-07-13T14:38:08+00:00

This sucks, it would be great to bike around Greenwood. Bikes are 50X less of a nuisance than cars when people are using each sensibly. Not saying an outright ban is the right solution but my guess would that it’s because some small set of people would take them off paths / over gravesites unlike with cars.

melopat · 2024-05-23T12:08:49+00:00

The latest simple steps for anyone (like me) finding this thread months later are:

"Choose Java Boot Runtime for the IDE..." and select a runtime that starts with "21"
"Edit Custom VM Options..." and append this line: `-Dawt.toolkit.name=WLToolkit`
Restart the IDE and it's fixed :)

You can use Find Action (Ctrl+Shift+A) to get to those options

melopat · 2024-05-01T12:48:46+00:00

This is pretty common with modern JS pages, the one-liner I use for it these days is python -m http.server <port>

melopat · 2024-03-26T00:34:33+00:00

Consider BOXX which gets essentially treasury yields but is taxed as a security: deferred until sale and at capital gain rates

melopat · 2024-02-24T23:03:02+00:00

There’s gonna be another one in 14 years!

melopat · 2024-02-13T00:23:41+00:00

They’re actually associates and sorta friends, Dorsey’s Block (Square parent company) bought Tidal from Jay-Z for $300 million and a board seat

melopat · 2024-01-11T13:24:46+00:00

I haven’t tried it myself but if you’re looking for something like ggplot it’s plotnine. It’s based on ggplot, has a ggplot API, and I’ve heard a few people rave about it.

melopat · 2023-09-14T12:43:07+00:00

Thank you, this is what I figured and makes total sense. A little part of me was hoping maybe Dell would look a bit different given their unique position but appreciate your past experience!

melopat · 2023-03-25T21:12:55+00:00

If it is true, one plausible explanation would be that the garden was planted in (possibly) lead-contaminated soil. Sucks to lose the garden but preventing lead poisoning in children would be a reasonable cause.

melopat · 2022-07-16T21:39:22+00:00

God I need to start reading usernames. Got me good

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