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New comment by Shaanie in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

Shaanie — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:54:33 +0000

How do you suppose that would work? The only predictions possible are things which are virtually impossible to influence, like atmospheric events?

New comment by Shaanie in "Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation"

Shaanie — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:44:42 +0000

It's quite impressive to quote the guidelines to someone when your first post breaks a whole bunch of them.

New comment by Shaanie in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"

Shaanie — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:47:36 +0000

If it loads pages, then it clearly works. Nobody claims it's a practical, competitive browser.

New comment by Shaanie in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

Shaanie — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:31:13 +0000

More choice as in more content available to choose from on Netflix?

New comment by Shaanie in "Ticker: Don't die of heart disease"

Shaanie — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 07:40:50 +0000

The top 20% consumers consume a large majority of the alcohol, which means there are many Germans who consume reasonable amounts.

New comment by Shaanie in "Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent"

Shaanie — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:27:04 +0000

They don't criticize it, but believe UBI will "almost pay for itself" by not requiring aa much overhead. Which it won't, not even remotely close.

New comment by Shaanie in "‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]"

Shaanie — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:02:22 +0000

It's entirely possible there's no longer any single person in charge in practice, but rather a bunch of more or less individually operating cells - each with their own leader.

New comment by Shaanie in "Signs of autism could be encoded in the way you walk"

Shaanie — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:28:44 +0000

Did we though, or did we make a calculated decision that in a place with limited resources it'd be better for us to eliminate the competition?

New comment by Shaanie in "Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B"

Shaanie — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 09:14:25 +0000

FED is owned by private corporations?..

New comment by Shaanie in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

Shaanie — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 05:09:59 +0000

There's no problem getting a refund for apps in my experience, I've done it a handful of times when I've changed my mind and it was easy and fully automated.

New comment by Shaanie in "Dumb TVs deserve a comeback"

Shaanie — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:44:10 +0000

I suspect it's not quite that simple. First, is there actually enough demand for ad-free TVs to make the option worth including? I personally probably wouldn't pay $20 to avoid ads in the home screen since those kind of ads are just a minor nuisance, which makes me question the size of the market for the ad-free option.

Second, what would the pricing be for the option?

If it's $10-20, that'd probably be fine, similar to what Amazon did for Kindle. But if it's more than that, then I bet the negative PR they would get for including the option outweighs the potential benefit to customers. "I would never buy an X, they're extremely greedy and want $50 just not to show ads. Crazy. I'll buy Y brand instead (which has ads but no 'corporate greed' option to not show them)".

New comment by Shaanie in "Do bike lanes cause more traffic congestion? What the research says"

Shaanie — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 10:18:57 +0000

I believe you may be conflating opinion with fact, unless you add some qualifier like "based on potential throughput" or some such.

New comment by Shaanie in "The richest people borrow against their stock (2021)"

Shaanie — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:39:24 +0000

If I buy something for $10 and it's worth $10,000 when you inherit it, you should (obviously?) be taxed on the increase in value from $10 -> $10,000 if/when you sell. The purchase price shouldn't be "reset" to $10k.

It'sutterly insane to me that the step-up basis exists in the US, it's such an obvious loophole that can fairly easily be closed without many adverse effects.

In my country (Sweden) if you don't know the purchase price, you can use an approximate purchasing price (e.g. for equities you are allowed to assume that it was acquired for 20% of the current value, so you'd be taxed on 80%).

New comment by Shaanie in "The richest people borrow against their stock (2021)"

Shaanie — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:25:53 +0000

But then you have X money tied up in some presumably illiquid art with questionable value. Seems better to just invest the X money from the start.

New comment by Shaanie in "I've tracked every piece of clothing I've worn for three years (2021)"

Shaanie — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:11:50 +0000

You hardly have to be rich to spend $300 a month on fashion, you just have to be not poor, and have it as a priority. Just because fashion isn't a priority to you doesn't mean it's the same for everyone. The same people that spend $500 a month on clothes might think buying a TV for more than $300 is unthinkable. Priorities differ.

New comment by Shaanie in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"

Shaanie — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 06:02:17 +0000

America also just have way fewer refugees. Seems like it's around 60k a year, so less than 0.02% of the population per year. Sweden, for example, has had around 26k refugees per year (the last 10 years), which is around 0.2% of its population. At its peak Sweden almost took on a full 1% in one year.

Of course it's easier to integrate a magnitude fewer refugees, and there will be less issues overall.

New comment by Shaanie in "'It's better for humans in general': The 4-day workweek is closer than you think"

Shaanie — Fri, 31 May 2024 07:28:07 +0000

I kinda doubt your output decreased by 20%. Probably fairly close to it, but I'm guessing you got slightly more done on the other days.

New comment by Shaanie in "'It's better for humans in general': The 4-day workweek is closer than you think"

Shaanie — Fri, 31 May 2024 07:25:02 +0000

It's the same as working from home. Some people are way more productive at home, away from all the distractions in the office. Others barely get any work done at all at home.

Most people are nowhere close to working fully focused 8 hours a day, and may also benefit from more time to recharge. Others benefit less. The average probably matters more for the company (also shorter work hours will improve retention, or allow you to pay lower wages to compete etc).

New comment by Shaanie in "Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners"

Shaanie — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:07:19 +0000

Tax havens is a race-to-the-bottom thing, just like not caring about emissions. Or using slaves, if you want a more extreme example.

If your country's only advantage is to steal tax money from other countries, or provide cheap energy by burning coal, or cheap labor by using slaves, then it's perfectly fine to isolate that country to force it to stop. We obviously shouldn't just accept that everyone is worse off just so that a country with no other advantage can thrive.

New comment by Shaanie in "Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores"

Shaanie — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:50:09 +0000

I don't understand your point. Yes, there's a lot of unskilled jobs, possibly a majority of jobs. Far from everyone looks down on unskilled jobs, and nobody is saying they're not important.