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Worth noting that Michelin only rates restaurants in certain cities. For example, there are no Michelin star restaurants in Houston- not because you can’t get an equivalent experience, but because they don’t send reviewers. 

I suppose it depends on your pain tolerance. If you aren’t beating on them, they are just miserable economy cars.

2-doors are pretty much dead for a reason. If they are going to put it on the Civic platform (we all knew they would), there would be minimal weight savings from the 2-door. So you give up a substantial amount of practicality for nothing other than aesthetics. Not even enthusiasts are really buying 2-doors that aren’t…

I’m a tax attorney. $700 isn’t a particularly high billing rate. I’ve seen north of $1,500 an hour for a practice head of a major international law firm. $700 will get you a mid-level associate at a major firm (3-6 years out of law school). I’m in-house, so I no longer bill by the hour but I pay those bills on behalf…

The billionaires that aren’t paying taxes aren’t earning income. This is because most mega billionaires (i.e. Elon Musk) have earned their wealth from appreciation of the companies they run- companies that don’t pay dividends. Until they sell, there is no income to tax.

They’ve been talking about algae for biofuel for decades. It’s better than corn, but fundamentally biofuels suck. 

Biofuels are even worse than regular fossil fuels, because of all the energy and land that has to be used to grow biofuel crops. Biofuel incentives mean demand is way past the stuff that was going to be thrown away anyways. 

Judging on acceleration numbers, these were a bit overrated compared to their German cousins. The MK VII Golf R was rated at 300 and is actually pretty even in a drag race. 

I learned to drive stick when I was 18 years old on the 1986 Alfa Romeo that I own today (that was 18 years ago, but I only bought the car 5 years ago).

Even if you owe capital gains on a home sale, it’s only assessed when you sell the house. Likewise, gain on shares is only taxed if you actually sell the shares. 

I loophole would be something like exploiting a flaw in the way the tax code is drafted. The “mega backdoor roth” is a loophole, because the original drafters never intended high income people to put tens of thousands of dollars into a Roth. By contrast, borrowing against assets not attracting tax is just…

Except that’s the way it works in just about every country in the world that has an income tax. You don’t really know how much fiat currency you are going to get from that asset until you actually turn it into fiat currency. 

Sorry, failing to see a hazard, without more, does not fall within the legal definition of a gross deviation from the standard of care. It just doesn’t, and there’s plenty of case law on this topic. You’d need some other circumstance besides simply failing to see and react to a hazard or misjudging a distance to…

In places like the mountain west, forecasting accurately can be nearly impossible. I’ve been at work and had 4 inches of snow on a sheet of ice come at the end of a 60 degree sunny day. All seasons were not good for those conditions. 

That requires a finding of recklessness which is a standard similar to negligent homicide. That’s a standard much higher than ordinary negligence. Without other facts, a simple failure to yield doesn’t legally support such a charge.

You can be and generally are.  But it’s a ticket, not a felony. 

Mostly law school. 

If you remove the base-effects from the deflationary period in the initial stages of the pandemic, a 5% wage increase is still a real increase. 

The rich are doing great due to assets going to the moon, but the poor are actually getting the biggest wage increases on a percentage basis.