“When intertwined with public funding through state and federal tax incentives, the practice of movie and television write-downs represents a troubling exploitation of taxpayer funds. Coupled with rapidly expanding state tax incentives, it represents a multibillion-dollar Rube Goldberg machine that culminates in a nickel being pulled from your pocket, strapped to an Acme rocket, and fired directly into the bank accounts of movie studios.”
@andrew@law It's an argument which needs to be had, especially because not all incentives are equal, but this argument may be more open to attack than we might want when gunning for such powerful interests.
i.e. the opportunity cost of not giving $1 in tax credits for $3 of incentivized spending is $3. Absent the incentive, the spending is $0 so the multiplier is 3 (not <0).
i.e. out-of-state workers are taxed in GA when their in-state income exceeds $5k.
Below 17 means exactly that, 0-16. 16 and below, while understood to mean 16 or below in this context, actually means the child would have to be both 16 and also between the age of 0-15.
IW-Chef Michael Hüther plädiert für eine Reform der Schuldenbremse, um den Umbau der Wirtschaft zu finanzieren. “Ohne diese Investitionen werden wir das Ziel der Klimaneutralität zeitlich nicht erreichen”, sagt er im Interview mit ntv.de. Auch eine Senkung der im internationalen Vergleich sehr hohen Unternehmenssteuern...
I’ve noticed YouTube specifically has become more addictive, I never used to be one to sit and scroll for long durations before but I often catch myself spending way too long on shorts now...
I’ve noticed the recommendations suck now. It that’s their attempt at sucking me in?
Idk I am pretty addicted, but it’s like Netflix where I spend more time selecting than watching nowadays.
Kinda looking forward to Google making me fight for ad free YouTube. There is a 0% chance I will continue to use YouTube if there are any ads in my way. Even a stationary suggestion in my feed? Nope, fuck that. As soon as revanced is toast I’ll leave YouTube like I did reddit.
Sie verwendeten nicht alle Daten, die ihnen vorlagen. Bestimmte Jahre würden ausgelassen.
Bei der Berechnung der Durchschnittswerte gewichteten sie Einzelfälle ungewöhnlich stark.
Bei der Verarbeitung der Daten in einer Excel-Datei haben Rogoff und Reinhart fünf Staaten offenbar versehentlich nicht berücksichtigt. Das allein soll den Durchschnittswert für das Wachstum hochverschuldeter Staaten um 0,3 Prozentpunkte gesenkt haben.
Das liest sich ehrlich gesagt weder wie ein “Fehler” noch als seien sie zu dumm gewesen…
@Ulara the US and pretty much everyone in the world became spoiled about how warfare should be fought. Probably there's also the memory of WW2 when entire cities were leveled to 0 in bombings and shelling, so the alternative of carrying an urban fight became more desirable. Despite this, Russia seems to not care about this fact and actually bomb and level entire cities and other settlements to the ground instead.
Most people take a simple view of cash: they have a checking account for spending and a savings account for savings, and if they get fancy, they’ll have a CD for longer term savings goals. Power users will change to an online bank with better returns, and that’s about as far as it goes. That certainly works, but we can do a...
When will be your “this is the last fucking time I’m voting for the ‘lesser of two evils’, then I don’t care after that, let this country burn to the ground”? For me, this is basically it. This is last election I’m going for that " lesser of two evils" bullshit. After that I’m done. It’s just pointless. Let’s...
Yes, it’s gotten stable and there’s good content. Still a lot of 0-comment threads, but the comment threads I am involved in are much better overall. It’s not teen-mob-mentality over here and I’ve been surprised many times over my 4 months. Thanks to all of you guys and gals that make it happen.
The fever temperature, maybe. But the rest makes more sense in C. It’s so much easier when 0C is freezing and 100C is boiling. It works with cooking. Counting in increments of 5 or 10 also works for weather.
0 F is really cold to a human (but still livable), and 100 F is really hot to a human (but still livable). I honestly don’t really care what temperature water boils at in my every day life. I know that if I put fire under a pot of water, it will boil eventually. Why would I need to know the exact temperature?
Hard disagree. 0°F is colder than the pont it stopped being cool, but not yet really cold. 100°F is many degrees into dying of melting, but also a few degrees short of a fever worth noting.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen either 0°F or 100°F used in any way to refer to actually temperature. It’s always defining the scale or comparing to °C. Maybe once when checking for a fever.
I have only had the temperature described to me in celcius so Fahrenhite makes no sense to me.
What doesn’t make sense to you. You can think of F as a percentage of how hot it is. 0 is 0% hot, meaning cold as fuck. 100 is 100% hot, hot as fuck. Things in the middle are are in the middle. 85 is 85% hot.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen either 0°F or 100°F used in any way to refer to actually temperature. It’s always defining the scale or comparing to °C. Maybe once when checking for a fever.
What? Are you actually from somewhere that uses F? Because what kind of argument is this? You’re saying that 0F isn’t “really cold”? That’s a very specific take likely based on the very specific region you live in. The vast majority of the world would call 0F “really cold”.
And likewise, as someone from arizona, 100F is hot but not “really hot”. That doesn’t start until after 110 or 115. So in general, out of the entire world, 0-100 is a pretty good range of “really cold” to “really hot”. Only the people who live in the specific places that regularly get much colder or hotter actually care. To most people, it doesn’t really matter if it’s 0 or -10 or -15, it’s all too fucking cold. Just like to you 100 or 110 or 115 doesn’t matter, it’s all too hot.
And -5 farenheit is… just a bit colder than fuck? I understand what temperatures I start feeling cold perfectly well in Celsius, I know roughly when I’ll need a jacket, when I’ll need a hat and scarf… Farenheit tells me nothing because I don’t know about it. Sure, 0 is very cold, but where is “cold enough to wear a jacket”? It’s most likely never going to reach 0°F where I live, and it won’t reach 100°F outside of very rare summer days… Beyond those extremes it’s not useful to me because I don’t know it.
I just read the post about 0 and 1 being invalid probabilities. Here’s my best attempt at interpreting it as a joke: This is clearly yud’s attempt at creating a mathematical trollpost using only words.
But yeah as someone with a (honestly atrophied) degree in mathematics I am struggling to figure out the post. Whatever he’s doing, he’s not performing mathematics; at best it is sophistry. Honestly it makes me sad that he wrote it at all and that people read it and agreed with it.
Reading it is like going to a restaurant, seeing “bowl of plain rice” on the menu, ordering it, and getting served an old boot full of glitter and sawdust. Seeing the comment section and seeing people that think yud is smart or correct about anything is reading the yelp reviews later for the restaurant and seeing people talk about how they’ve never tried rice before having it at the restaurant, and that it was really good and that now when they go to other restaurants with rice it’s never the real thing and they shouldn’t be trusted.
For actually interesting contrarian maths, go watch some Norman Wildberger videos or something.
Das 60-Milliarden-Euro-Loch im Klimafonds spaltet die Ampel. Die FDP möchte die Sozialausgaben kürzen, die Grünen wollen Änderungen an der Schuldenbremse....
No it was a project back in the 1950 I think and it was this big mobile lab but because there was this belief that rounded tires preformed better in the snow the builders sanded the tread off the off-road tires they got also the engines while they had plenty of torque the fastest the artic explorer could go was 2 mph and when it finally arrived at the artic it got stuck immediately and moved faster in reverse the scientists got soo fed up with constantly digging the 70ton paper weight free that they just gave up and started using it was a small stationary base until the ice under it broke then 20 years later vw sent a bone stock Beatle that managed be the first car to drive across the artic with 0 issues
Filling in a form for a 17-year-old (feddit.uk)
Also, how can you be aged 16 and below? I know, not technically the software’s fault, but still…
Michael Hüther im Interview: "Ludwig Erhard würde fragen: Passt die Schuldenbremse in die Zeit?" (www.n-tv.de) German
IW-Chef Michael Hüther plädiert für eine Reform der Schuldenbremse, um den Umbau der Wirtschaft zu finanzieren. “Ohne diese Investitionen werden wir das Ziel der Klimaneutralität zeitlich nicht erreichen”, sagt er im Interview mit ntv.de. Auch eine Senkung der im internationalen Vergleich sehr hohen Unternehmenssteuern...
Has anyone else noticed smartphones have got significantly more addictive recently
I’ve noticed YouTube specifically has become more addictive, I never used to be one to sit and scroll for long durations before but I often catch myself spending way too long on shorts now...
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Watching Ukraine burn through ammo fighting Russia has the US Army rethinking how much it really needs for when war breaks out (www.businessinsider.com) Ukrainian
[US] Consider a brokerage account for your main bank
Most people take a simple view of cash: they have a checking account for spending and a savings account for savings, and if they get fancy, they’ll have a CD for longer term savings goals. Power users will change to an online bank with better returns, and that’s about as far as it goes. That certainly works, but we can do a...
when will be your last time to vote for the "lesser of two evils"?
When will be your “this is the last fucking time I’m voting for the ‘lesser of two evils’, then I don’t care after that, let this country burn to the ground”? For me, this is basically it. This is last election I’m going for that " lesser of two evils" bullshit. After that I’m done. It’s just pointless. Let’s...
Does anyone else feel like Lemmy is getting SO MUCH better?!!
Just sayin’
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Debatte nach Urteil zum Klimafonds: FDP fordert Sozialkürzungen (taz.de) German
Das 60-Milliarden-Euro-Loch im Klimafonds spaltet die Ampel. Die FDP möchte die Sozialausgaben kürzen, die Grünen wollen Änderungen an der Schuldenbremse....
NYT Monday 11/20/2023 Discussion
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Zum ersten Mal wird in Solar mehr investiert als in Öl. 2023 kann auch gute Nachrichten. (feddit.de) German
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