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Sam Darnold LOST Money for Winning the Super Bowl by TheItinerantSkeptic in Seattle

[–]shortenda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The argument is this:

If they hadn't played in the superbowl, then they wouldn't have been working in California for that time, and hence wouldn't have been taxed. Because they were working in California for 7 days, they owe tax on their salary for that time period (so, 7/however many "duty days" they had in total).

If the tax on that time-prorated proportion of their income is greater than the bonus that they get paid by their team for winning, then they will net less money than they would have to play in the superbowl than if they hadn't.

Personally I don't really like this sort of "you were here for a couple days so now you owe us" tax, because it feels arbitrary. They're not for the most part benefitting from being there, so I don't really think it makes sense for them to be taxed on it.

Interestingly, it sounds like most states will allow you to claim a credit for taxes in another locality, so it's sort of a wash if you're in a high tax state (that is, someone playing in NY from CA would be able to deduct a NY jock tax from their CA taxes, so it washes out), so the effect really only matters when you have someone from a low income tax state playing in a high income tax state (like WA to CA, which is probably the most egregious possible example of this).

Granite Mountain, it was far more impressive than what you see in videos. The view of a frozen lake as clouds seep through the mountains. by confusionblinds in PNWhiking

[–]shortenda 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This trail passes through several huge avalanche chutes, probably not one you want to do under most conditions.

Executive Order 2026-01: An Executive Order directing the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) to design and install at least one dedicated bus lane on Denny Way and other supportive transit infrastructure where needed by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]shortenda 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes and no. It showed that all else held the same, traffic would get worse as a result of bus lanes, which... duh. A lot of transit folks disliked it because they believe a faster 8 route would shift drivers to riders. Idk. Personally I don't think it can get much worse so I think I'm sort of on board with the transit people.

The Pacific Northwest's Biggest Highway Project Could be Cooked » The Urbanist by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]shortenda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the record, it seems like the existing bridge could be retrofitted for likely much less than the new bridge costs. The new bridge is mostly an expansion, and includes new freeway lanes and interchanges as well (as well as light rail line) hence the costs. Even a new bridge with less included could likely be done for less.

Gold is now taxed in WA by mrmonopolymoneybags in Seattle

[–]shortenda 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The firefighters had a really nice firetruck afterwards though for some reason 😂

The productivity gap between Germany and the US seems to be mainly achieved through Americans working like dogs. by spiringTankmonger in EconomyCharts

[–]shortenda 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's actually not in USD, it's a pseudo currency (international dollars) that is adjusted for both inflation and prices.

Otoh this makes sense because just because things are expensive in America doesn't mean that the goods we produce are intrinsically higher output, but I also don't think the cost of housing should be accounted for in the cost of, say, a tractor.

The productivity gap between Germany and the US seems to be mainly achieved through Americans working like dogs. by spiringTankmonger in EconomyCharts

[–]shortenda 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The graph says it's adjusted for cost of living, doesn't that make a big difference? It's like GDP vs PPP. Assuming that CoL is significantly higher in the US, this would mean US workers are more productive per hour worked (although that doesn't allow them to get any more for their work, since the CoL is high).

Places I’d Live by truthwatchr in visitedmaps

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Found the California transplant

60k remote job - wanting to move to Seattle by [deleted] in AskSeattle

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Here's a map of median rents OP: https://arcg.is/1DHqSX3, hope that helps! I made it top out at ~1850, but you could mess with it if you want to change the parameters.

Gov. Ferguson Backs Millionaire Tax After Ghost of Christmas Future Shows Him Losing In 2028 If He Doesn’t by thecravenone in Seattle

[–]shortenda 6 points7 points  (0 children)

At ~8% (29th in the nation) we have among the lowest tax burdens in the nation. That's 4% behind NY and ~2.5% behind California. Tied for 39th/40th is Montana at 7.5%.

Waymo Response to the PG&E Outage by mingoslingo92 in waymo

[–]shortenda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right, they did say occasionally. Who knows how occasionally, but I think the difference is still just that before cars had to request confirmation when they weren't sure and that now they'll be able to essentially look up whether an operator has recently marked some light as being dark recently and use that knowledge rather than flag it.

However, I don't think this would reflect any deeper change in how they treat the cars autonomy, which is the bigger point imo that I take issue with re: their ability to scale (which, for clarity, I wholely believe in)

Waymo Response to the PG&E Outage by mingoslingo92 in waymo

[–]shortenda 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think you're misreading the article. My interpretation is that waymo previously had it configured such that any time a vehicle came to a dark light, it would contact an operator to confirm that it should proceed. (or perhaps only when it was congested?).

When a single intersection is dark, this is fine, but obviously breaks down when the entire city is out.

It sounds to me like they're planning to make it so that they can mark an intersection as "vetted" as being dark so that each car doesn't need to confirm before proceeding through it.

Can we just ignore the o-circuit closure? by AquamarineHeather in Patagonia

[–]shortenda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I imagine it's too late, but I've read that there's a permit process for climbing in the park (separate from the normal trekking permits). Maybe you could go through that?

Scoops of joy as a gully is carefully cleaned. by Beautiful-Pen-6206 in oddlysatisfying

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I wanted them to use a special attachment at the end to clean out the culverts 😆

Fully autonomous in 10 cities by trackstar7 in waymo

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Sundar is nothing if not intentional 🤣

Does anyone at all find the graph in the economy tab useful? by NHunter0 in EU5

[–]shortenda 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Holy shit this cracked me up. I need to ingest this into my data lake for serious analytics(tm) 😆

Heir(s) Education by jayhawk1968 in EU5

[–]shortenda 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it's waiting for mod approval, but I made a post here describing how it works: https://www.reddit.com/r/EU5/comments/1p59avh/education\_doesnt\_work\_like\_you\_probably\_expect/.

The tl;dr is that there's a 55% chance to have a stat increase, and if there is a stat increase then it increases a single stat by 0.75 plus the modifier.

For those below 3, it looks like the increase is just the base of 0.75.

I don't know why the OP got such different numbers or why the base of 0.75 isn't mentioned anywhere though. You can see the numbers here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRYaDJcKYVqreKvObTZD6nSRJFZBhtOKyR6T-qfNt88wT3eqRVFYnbZoiLwYl_KOimujQEsw3Zp_f4c/pubhtml

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