ramjambamalam

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ramjambamalam , to Technology in Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

IPTV is the name of the pirated cable TV streams. Personally, I consider commercialized piracy to be a bit distasteful compared to the free and open source route, and I have the know how to self host my own streaming service.

Although it's not piracy, another free option to consider for live TV, if you're within range of TV broadcasters, is a digital TV antenna. I'm looking into that since not only is it free and legal, it's also the best picture quality, not compressed like IPTV (legit or pirated) or even cable.

ramjambamalam , to Canada in Who’s telling the truth about the capital gains tax? | About That

Do you realize that 67% does not refer to the tax rate, but rather the amount of capital gains that are taxed as income? Meaning that the remaining 33% are always completely tax free?

Example: you sell an investment property for $2,000,000 which you had previously bought for $1,000,000. Your annual salary is $75,000.

In this example, of the $1,000,000 capital gain, 50% of the first $250,000 ($125k) is taxable and 67% of the remaining $750,000 ($500k) is taxable. So, add $625k to your salaried income of $75k and your total taxable income is $700,000.

The total income tax you would pay after the proposed increase (assuming you live in Ontario) is $342,103, which is $320,405 more than you would have normally paid on your salary of $75,000. Therefore, your effective tax rate on the $1M capital gain is roughly 32%, not the 60% you mentioned in your comment.

ramjambamalam , to Technology in Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you

Which part of diversity, equity and inclusion are you opposed to? Or do the quotes mean that Ubisoft is doing something nefarious in the name of DEI and I'm out of the loop?

ramjambamalam , to Technology in Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower

Whistle goes, "Woo, woo," but that's only in the mo'ning.

https://youtu.be/zUXow3d3-b0?si=gr_4SDhNm3yUH0A6

ramjambamalam , to Programmer Humor in What it's like to be a developer in 2024

This is partly why I prefer Firefox's implementation of the find feature - it allows case-sensitive search while Chrome does not support it.

ramjambamalam , to Programmer Humor in What it's like to be a developer in 2024

Surely the word 'in' would appear countless times out of context on the table of contents.

ramjambamalam , to Canada in When Housing First fails landlords and tenants

It really seems to me that municipalities simply don't have the resources to support housing. Housing is a national problem and leaving it up to municipalities only creates perverse incentives to drive people experiencing homelessness out of your community into another, which isn't doing anything to solve the underlying problem. We need a national housing first program, but this story demonstrates the importance of getting it right.

Governments should also be building public housing, like yesterday. People scapegoat landlords a lot but they are also subject to the laws of supply and demand. The only two levers the government has are to decrease demand (e.g. cracking down on short term rentals, stunting our economy by limiting population growth) and increasing supply (e.g. zoning in the missing middle, building affordable public housing).

ramjambamalam , to Canada in He was evicted and his home was later listed on Airbnb. Meanwhile, his landlord hosted a charity event to end homelessness

Classic case of hating the game and not the player.

ramjambamalam , to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

I thought the Boring Company was more about pretending to want to dig holes to stifle public transit in order to bolster EV sales... Am I mistaken?

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