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Several people I know who grew up drinking pop will say they "hate water". Drinking water for them is boring or like a chore. The local water here is even highly ranked among the US as a whole for good taste, so it's not that our water is actually bad. I do recall feeling similarly in the past. At some point I got a nice metal water bottle and started carrying it around and drinking water, and I grew to enjoy it. Time away from pop and energy drinks for a while also made it more obvious how gross my mouth feels after drinking some. My tongue feels coated and sticky for hours, my teeth sometimes seem to feel weak. I imagine in the past this was something like my normal state. I didn't know what I was missing.
It's hard to convince people to change on this. They'll get an attitude like you're some health freak trying to hook them on a diet. Even my parents have a favorite pop each and will drink 2-3 a day.
Caffeine probably plays a large part as well. Most of the people I have in mind don't like or consume tea or coffee at all, because they don't taste very good (especially when you're used to pop).
The public schools aren’t pitiful at all. California has great schools.
Yeah you have to work your way up the text to find your way back to the top :D
> The modern 401(k) practices emerged from one of these then-obscure tax codes, which I view as an unabashedly good outcome.

That's exhibit A of what I'm talking about!

This is an article about IRAs being heavily restricted, 401k's are in the same 400-section of the tax code. IRAs are subsection 408, 401k's are subsection 401(k).

Literally just stop talking about it, stop trying to get a personal finance blog going, stop trying to get youtube views funnelled over to a personal finance discord server, just let unaware people run around like chickens with their heads cut off because when you tell them whatsup they try to get the laws changed when they fail to take advantage of it adequately

Ignorance is bliss and convenient, this is where we are. Just get the tax breaks you have because of your superior reading comprehension skills and eventually your ability to outsource and augment those skills to experienced lawyers and accountants with the same skills.
> still,seems odd for largely progressive company like Tesla that's ostensibly working to put oil industry on defence

This is marketing. Read up on how Tesla treats its workers and you'll see what their leadership's real values are.
Less taxes less overall regulation. It adds up having to deal with BS for everything you want to do.
1 or 2 hour global fracorbit strike on demand fries every submarine tracked from newspace capability in the Atlantindopac is next level MAD.
Am I misunderstanding or are you basically saying that the monthly cost of housing is roughly equivalent so more taxes = lower home prices, such that taxes + principal + interest is the same in both places?
It is! That game 100% dominated my childhood. What a work of art.
Corp taxes low, cost of living low (for now), HEAPS of open space (important for Tesla), UT Austin's compsci program (which is ranked) provides a good pipeline, engineers from the Bay are moving to Austin at an increasingly high rate, and demographics are shifting more progressive.

I think the writing is on the wall for tech in CA honestly
Where are you? You’re a poor man.
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Reason #481 virtualization-capable phones would be a huge privacy win.
texas does not have state income tax, sales taxes are about average and property taxes are higher than average
I’ve long suspected that the Democratic obsession with federal policy is to try to reduce the appeal of other states where companies may want to move.

It’s often seemed like people in California would prefer that a manufacturing operations operate in Asia and come through their ports rather than operate in the middle/south US.
A 400 sq ft tiny house in Texas, mega mansion in Hillsborough (Bay Area).

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-takes-last-remaini...
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Possibly? There are far fewer officers on a submarine, so there's more opportunity for training.

But submarines don't spend a heck of a lot of time on the surface where piloting skill matters. They stay submerged through the Straits of Gibraltar, the Straits of Hormuz, a lot of the Red Sea, etc. Submarines are slow on the surface and appear much smaller than they really are, so it's generally best for everyone if they go underneath or around chokepoints.
I wonder if it's good enough to bootstrap better and better compilers until you can build full on GCC?
>>LPs are not something you have to "be in";

>Uh, if you’re not in it, then you’re not providing liquidity.

Why did you cut off the rest of that sentence, which clarifies that I was referring to traders not having to be in an LP to accept an offer (sorry, "remove liquidity")?

People who really have some deep, coherent insight don't have to resort to that.

Furthermore, the point was that, even though you provide liquidity "to" a liquidity pool, that liquidity is available to the entire cryptocurrency's market, so "being in" the LP isn't a meaningful concept (with respect to whether you can buy from it -- though you'll still probably cut this off).

>I’m saying something different than you think I am.

The great thing about a discussion forum is that you can point to specifically where someone misinterpreted what you said and correct it. If you're just going to assert that someone totally misinterpreted you, but never clarify what you claim that deep insight was, then I'm not sure what you think you're adding to the conversation.

>Um, what?!? I’m really not sure you understand how this works. What do you think it means to be an LP?

It means that a) you have locked up tokens in the pool, and b) you receive a fraction of the fees when someone trades with it. You're still working from the (incorrect) mental model that thinks a DeFi LP is some walled off garden. This is in error. The LP is available to trade with everyone using that cryptocurrency's blockchain. So it's not very meaningful to speak of traders who can't trade with you because they're not "in" "your" LP. Once your liquidity is in any LP, everyone can access it. You do not need to provide it to more than one pool, as your premise requires.
I don't believe your assessment of most peoples' priorities in life is helping you very much in convincing them to adopt your worldview and way of life.
To clarify a bit: The monthly cost of renting a house is way higher in California, not because it costs more to rent the house, but because it costs more to rent the land the house sits on.

Property tax taxes two things -- the house, and the land. The portion of the tax that taxes the land is capitalized into the selling/renting price of the land, which is to say that causes it to cost less to buy the land and less to rent it. (The portion of property tax that taxes the building can actually be passed on to tenants (unlike the land portion of the tax) and serves to make building things more expensive, and that is bad, but since the majority of the price of houses in most urban areas is just land value, the land portion of the tax makes it a net gain).
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> Why unethical? Because tech workers are contributing to the displacement of the people those places need to survive.

Bay native here working in tech, and I'd argue that most SFBAY constituents are contributing to the NIMBY problem, not just tech workers. The vast majority of the workforce in the Bay doesn't work in tech, and they oppose new housing just the same.

The incentives just don't align for there to be a local solution to this problem. Unfortunately it seems this will have to be taken out of local control via bills like SB9 and SB10 that are slowly but surely chipping away at the problem.
That's super fun. I feel like it's a very specific animation, so it makes sense!
I'm not sure if you've seen the original Mortal Combat movie. There is a scene if I recall correctly where he's running away through a forest chased by such a knife.
This is interesting and looks like it was a fun project, but it looks a little complicated to be practical for me personally. I currently just put a screen over a large fan and open a bottle of carbonated water to attract them near the screen. The fan/screen can kill (starve) tens of thousands of them per day and their carcasses can be used in plant fertilizer. The downside of my method I suppose is that the fan will use more power than your laser by quite a bit.

[Edit] Apologies to the parent poster. I did not mean to derail the laser discussion.
What I'm really curious about is what happens to Austin (and to a lesser extent, Atlanta, Raleigh, Denver, SLC etc). Does Austin become the next Bay Area/next Seattle? Crazy high housing prices, and high homelessness/crime? If so, how long does that take, and what happens to native Austinites? If not, what prevents history from repeating itself?
Every war I’ve been able to find there was a clear resource issue that a ego, belief, nation identity, whatever reason was then pasted on top of to justify.

Even the crusades had a clear economic justification - massive overpopulation of fighting age males resulting in a shortage of jobs, opportunities, and money. Sending them off to die (and loot and pillage) solved both problems. Beliefs were used to paper over the obviously unpalatable reality on the ground and help recruit.

Besides whatever is captured, there are of course other things successful war gets you - fewer young men rattling around locally causing problems (including crime, revolts, general instability), your new ‘green’ military leaders get to cut their teeth in the field, ‘better’ female to male ratios for your traditionally male leaders, more space (aka conquered territory), looted riches and newly available natural resources, and it often reduces competition and neighboring populations that would get in your way within a region in general.

This doesn’t last that long obviously, as a generation or two later the population has again increased, your veteran leaders have retired, etc.

It’s not always so direct of course - most of the recent American wars are more about burning old excess material inventory, keeping domestic military manufacturing expertise alive, and ensuring domestic weapons manufacturers of all types are able to stay on the cutting edge, but it is still the same song and dance when you get down to it.

While you average solder may fight for a cause, a nation only goes to war when the books show it needs to happen.
That's not far off? Our boat grounded on a rock, and it sounds exactly what you'd think a 6000-ton steel tube going over a rock would sound/feel like.
> The LJ community was so great. It was a quirky place that made me feel at home despite publicizing in the "open." It's a community I miss immensely as well. Does any site/platform mimic the magic of LJ?

https://dreamwidth.org is a community fork of LJ that has a large and active userbase, is open source, and invests a lot into mentoring users › contributors › maintainers. Dreamwidth is a Google Summer of Code participant, for example.
Crypto has the potential to break down any middle man and gate keeper. The very middle man this community bashes on a daily basis (Big Tech and all).

It's an odd contradiction, but I'm used to it.
I'm slightly unpersuaded.

"Have you ever met a Sudanese?"

"She married a Senegalese."

?"He's a Guyanese."

To me the risk of an offensive or disparaging connotation appears especially with East Asian and maybe South Asian -ese terms, but probably not with African or South American -ese terms (and not for "an East Timorese", as I pointed out in another post). I think this connotation arose in English in the 20th century especially with East Asian demonyms, and native speakers may differ in our perceptions of how widely the connotation spread.
Can't launch rockets from California. Splitting time between SpaceX and Tesla is a lot harder when its half way across the country.
> middling infrastructure

Compared to what?
>> Universities will get whatever the state appropriates to them and then have an obligation to take all comers.

> Would that be like current pre-university public schools then? Shudder!

Why would that be the case? IE, what are the root causes of problems in public K12 education and why would changing the funding mechanism of universities cause those problems to propagate?

Many states have already done this with Community College systems and AFAICT the results have been mostly positive.

So, I imagine it would be exactly like current public universities (in CA quite good). It's not like changing the funding mechanism completely wipes out the faculty or curricula.

In practice, the major change would be that getting into certain programs at public universities (traditional 4 year bachelors programs) becomes more difficult. The university system takes all comers in the sense that there's no charge the point of use, not in the sense that they literally admit everyone who applies. And making college admissions more selective might be a good thing anyways.
1) Very true, but unless you're an avid hiker or a marathoner, I'm not sure how big of a role climate plays in deciding a home.

2) Texas politics are invasive if you're a woman in need of an abortion, sure. But then, California politics are invasive for everyone who earns an income. If Texas politics are 'frequently invasive', then California politics must be downright suffocating.
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One of these videos gives some good information. And all of them are interesting.

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> There are homeless issues in Austin, just as there are in SF (though not as bad as SF, it's getting worse every year).

- Homelessness in Texas has decreased by 55% since 2010.

- Homelessness in California has increased by 35% since 2010.

So, there is massive a 90% gap. California is obviously doing something wrong there.

Source: United States Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Yeah, I say G-code is Assembly-like the same way I'd say a dolphin is fish-like: they resemble eachother in many ways and if you'd never seen one, you kinda get the idea, but they are not related and if you cut them open they are very different.
Which ones specifically? The only two I know of are:
- The low/zero emission car rebate that Toyota and every other manufacturer has used.
- The clean energy manufacturing tax write off that applies to over a hundred other companies.

I don't think California has given Elon any significant subsidies. When Tesla asked states to compete on the Gigafactory, California lost to Nevada.
Here’s the rub.. his job also goes away when those companies go away.

I still agree with you for a different reason though - if you believe that it’s a poorly governed place, at some point it becomes immoral or at least unwise to continue to sustain it with your tax dollars.
Ontario data on vaccine side effects, particularly peri/myocarditis, by age:

https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/ncov/ep...

Note that only 55% were hospitalized, average stay 2 days.
The official reason is because of housing:

"To be clear we will be continuing to expand our activities in California," Musk said. "Our intention is to increase output from Fremont and Giga Nevada by 50%. If you go to our Fremont factory it's jammed."

But, he added, "It's tough for people to afford houses, and people have to come in from far away....There's a limit to how big you can scale in the Bay Area."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/tesla-moves-headqu...
This is mostly symbolic so far as Tesla doesn’t even have the factory ready.

Elon has options to exercise in Q4 before they expire, which will realize a substantial capital gain.

By moving both personally and his business to Texas, he is likely avoiding California state income tax and capital gains, since Texas has neither.

I’d say that’s bad faith, given how much California has subsidized his companies.
Elon has been a fairly outspoken critic of California's covid measures, as well as the state's cultural stance on free speech issues. He had previously threatened to move all of his business operations out of California because of covid restrictions, and now it looks like he is making good on those earlier comments.
In a lifetime of regret and missed opportunities, this is one area at least where I've learned my lesson. I can now go through a whole game and use all the "special" stuff that I'm given, and usually even at the appropriate times! Kinda proud. It sounds silly but it took a lot of letting go.
Those same guys also have SSBNs, so it is in fact dangerous for everyone.
Right. People don’t get this because tax policy is dominated by right-wing memes but tax load for median families is way higher in Texas. Property tax rates on the median house are higher, while the effective income tax on the median income in California is very little. Median income tax burden in California is ~$350/yr.
This would be a complete non-story if not for the propaganda-driven political climate that needlessly and divisively pits "red states" against "blue states".
Under the water you've got sonar, which only tells you sound (and sound pressure levels) from a particular bearing.

If you're up at periscope depth you can stick a periscope up to see and other antennas. If you're on the surface you typically send people up into the sail and the boat is commanded from there. (Only a couple people fit up there, so the people actually operating the rudder and navigating are belowdecks).

Overall you generally get a good indication of what's happening, but... it's definitely possible to be surprised.
Fwiw I do meal prep. The downside to it is refrigerated or frozen cooked food that you eat the same dish of for an entire week. The upside is that I get to cook and eat all kinds of world cuisine (some quite labor intensive), while still being quite alright on time spent cooking. So even though its microwaved leftovers, the very different flavor profiles that I get to snack on every week makes it up for me.
> The exodus will only pick up steam unless policymakers get their act together.

I used to live in California. There is no better state than California. If house price falls, I would buy another house in California.
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Only for the richest people: Texas has lower state income tax but the local taxes more than make up the difference and so middle-class people end up paying a higher total tax rate.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-19/wait-c...

Since the decision about where a large company's headquarters is located is typically made by someone on the ultra-rich end of the spectrum, they're optimizing for things which don't apply to most of their workforce.

Cost-of-living should be lower, but I think that's important to view in more specific comparisons based on exactly where you're going to live — someone coming from San Francisco is going to find almost anywhere in the country to be cheaper but California is a big state there are many places where the comparison is going to be much less stark, and might end up being a wash depending on your job prospects and quality of life factors.
You don't need a nuclear powered sub to do that.
Your social graph already is that data. It doesn't need to be downloaded as it is regenerable.
They just built another massive warehouse near their Fremont plant and plan on continuing expansion in California. This move is just to get headlines, they are expanding everywhere.
Fun fact, you need to be earning over $4M/yr to have an effective tax rate > 50% in CA.
Obviously, Texas has out-built California in housing every year since 1990. Housing solves homelessness for reasons that should be clear.
Yes, I agree, the environment probably matters to some extent, even possibly to a large (maybe even largest) extent.

I think it all matters what people mean by culture. Is access to capital, good education, mentoring, support in developmental growth, time (time to learn, study, play, etc.), and safety/care (loving parents, health issues taken care of, well fed, comfortable living/sleeping, etc.) is included in "culture" or is that separate?

Anyways, I wouldn't be surprised if those environmental elements play a big factor, and it's likely that some races simply line up more perfectly with those things as well which could explain why in turn you see the data show a gap between races.

But if by culture we mean things like music, native spoken and written language, traditions and customs, spiritual/religious beliefs, foods, clothes, art, folklore, etc. Well I don't know, I feel those would likely play less of a role.

I think some people might also imply "values" when they mean "culture". But I feel that possibly translates into environmental factors. Like if you don't value caring for your kid, helping them with their homework, encouraging them to read, learn, go to school, and all that, well it probably just leads to similarly deficient environmental factors, like maybe ending up in an environment with bad education, no mentorship, lack of safety and all that.
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>Because tech workers are contributing to the displacement of the people those places need to survive.

>Yet the reality is you're still contributing to that displacement even though you're not responsible for those policies.

You're arguing that people trying to make a better life for themselves are ruining the lives of others? I think it's extremely clear that Californian's own tax policies, along with NIMBYs are to blame here, not tech workers.

But this is typical, myopic 'blame the catalyst, not the problem' I see frequently from west coast-style leftists (and i say that as a staunch leftist). Tech workers are easy to point at because they are new-ish transplants (most have been here >15 years at this point), and they are considered culturally distasteful, and moderately well off.

Nobody wants to blame the multi-million dollar single family home owning boomer who voted themselves a property tax exemption in the 70s that they can literally pass to their kids (from an ethical perspective, you should be appalled that we're currently living through the birth of an actual, landed aristocracy)

The tech workers are literally trying to make a better life for themselves. The NIMBY homeowners are literally hording wealth. Yet we blame the young tech workers... it's total nonsense.
1. abortion
2. limiting voting rights
Would have to think for more than a seconds to add more.
Austin continues to become less and less affordable for people who aren't bringing in existing home equity from other high cost of living areas. My understanding is the bulk of offers for homes in the Austin area are from Texans and existing Austinites but the bulk of winning offers are from out of state.