b_m_b_m_b_m

1 hour ago, Uaarkson said:

So basically, China spent decades and trillions of dollars building housing and infrastructure for a future population that doesn’t exist. What could possibly go wrong?

Actual affordable housing lol

Needs more jpg I can almost see something to form an opinion with

2 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

I thought Tesla’s profits coming for credit sales was common knowledge at this point. It’s their entire business model!

More rent seeking from elon the self made billionaire

lmao

lmao

2 minutes ago, Joe said:

 

I've been using the SQL tutorial at mode.com, but this looks great too, thanks! Also trying to complete the UC Davis Coursera SQL course by Monday.

Nice. Yeah try a lot of different stuff but just make sure you get to write sql to get a feel for it. Set theory is good to have but that's a whole semester math class if you really want to dig into it after a while (but may be helpful in the long run)

You're probably going to be tasked with understanding the databases/data/business before you're trusted to pull and analyze data in any meaningful way. This is similar to what I gave newer analysts at my last job and should get you started. The specifics of the db used (oracle, postgresql, mssql, etc) will be useful later but right now you'll just need to know the basics that would apply to virtually any of them: basic query setup, how to select, how to do various joins, and maybe some other useful things (group by, having, order by, etc)

Find a random data set and save it in a sqlite database and play around with it.

5 minutes ago, Joe said:

 

 

The pandemic gave me the opportunity to pursue a data science bootcamp, which I graduated from in November. I will be a Data Analyst! Now I just have to pretend I know wtf I'm doing in SQL before Monday.

Do you know what database your company will/ is using?

Good

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/27/cdc-guidance-masks-outdoors/

26 minutes ago, Uaarkson said:

People need to be seriously demonstrating against this man right now.

if he can't get Republicans on board with this or a compromise on HR1 or similar items there is zero reason to listen to his theory of change ever again. Just need to win the house again and expand the senate and cast him off

what an absolutely brain dead motherfucker

lmao

the only halfway decent republican because he used to be a democrat

But because he is a Republican the idea falls flat because you just need to give cash money

It's really stupid that we simply don't have 1 rep per x people (with a minimum) rather than y reps per state using a stupid formula

44 minutes ago, Chris- said:

I’m sick of most hazy IPAs, but a good West Coast IPA still reigns supreme in terms of beer hierarchy. Stone Delicious fresh from the tap is, IMHO, the best beer of all time. 

I used to live blocks away from Stones way coast brewery and I'd never go there cause it's not even the best brewery in town lol

Just now, Kal-El814 said:

 

If I could add things to the high school curriculum...

 

1) Stats

2) Basic finance

3) Home ec that includes cooking, sewing, and some other third thing that I usually bitch about and now cannot remember

Taking away time to study for how to take standardized tests sorry it's gotta be cut

I understand that anyone to the left of Hayek looks the same to libertarians but there's a pretty distinct difference between revolutionary M-L folks and democratic socialists or social democrats

Might as well trot out his antisemitic remarks as well. The revolution isn't coming folks, and you shouldn't want it to.

42 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

I don't understand—what is SALT? So you can write off your local/state taxes on your federal taxes? Why would that even be a thing?

Basically, yeah. The deduction reduces the income used to calculate your federal taxes. Same as charitable giving and home mortgage interest (lol)

But these itemized deductions are weighed against the ~24000$ standard deduction. So the two biggest things are the SALT deduction and home mortgage interest deduction. Even with the SALT cap and the cap for mortgage interest between the two of these you can easily blow past the 24k standard deduction in an area with a high cost of housing and taxes...but only if you're already relatively well off because the bar is so high. You have to own a home and be paying interest and taxes on this in addition to other state and local taxes. (Which non homeowners/non mortgage payers also pay but don't get the benefit of the mortgage interest deduction or the deduction for paying their landlords property taxes)

So even outside of the data (which points to the wealthy getting the majority of the benefit of the removal of the SALT cap) it makes intuitive sense that this cap in addition to the MI deduction massively favors the well to do. They both should be removed, and even the GOP couldn't eliminate them!