ComradeTaco

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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
There is a functional limit for induced demand! But it effectively can't be reached in urban and suburban areas because cars scale really poorly. Cars don't scale well for three main reasons: (1) Cost. Building roads and highways
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
Obamacare only reduced the growth of healthcare costs, it did not stop the growth. The approach that most democrats believe would reduce cost is single payer or Medicaid for all.
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
I always imagined that if you were stockpiling large amounts of gold in your home it was more of a survivalist thing than a risk management thing.
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
In a country scale crisis people would be selling all their valuables for fire sale prices to pay for essentials, including gold. A fiat reserve currency, like the Swiss Franc or the Pound would be easier to use, less likely to be stolen an
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
If we're in the kind of crisis where all fiat money is useless, gold will be useless too. The only kind of thing that will have value are things that help you survive. A crate full of gauze pads and bandaids would be better than a whol
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
I apologize for the sarcasm Dboreham, I usually try to make arguments in better faith. The anti-consumerism is just so obscene that I feel like a bit of absurdity is necessary.
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
I took a red eye flight that boarded only about 45 minutes after the security checkpoint for the terminal reopened for the morning. I sat right next to the Spirit Airlines counter, where I watched dozens of people place their bags on the sp
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
ISPs, like all corporations, always have the best interests of their customers as heart. In the unlikely event that an ISP abuses their position another ISP startup will immediately spring up and start a brand new network.
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
If you're at the executive level you likely have enough connections and savings that you can afford to occasionally fail without substantially affecting your quality of life.
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
Large bridges and elevated roadways generally have a factor of of at least Safety 2 to 3 times their maximum expected loads. Everything these days is, for good reason, overbuilt. Even the Brooklyn bridge, partially because structural mechan
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
The comparison between shipping services and Uber/Lyft with broadband connections is absolutely absurd. Hangouts has the infrastructure cost of a server and UPS warehouses and vehicles. An ISP has the infrastructure and maintenance cos
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
I am a structural EIT. Industry focus on safety is paramount. Seniority is very much respected so there are almost no young MBAs and they exist almost exclusively at the corporate level. Only a full engineer can legally stamp off on the fin
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
I think he felt bad about the caterpillars being mashed up.
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
Jet Blue is generally very pleasant.
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
US Corporations pay an effective tax rate of 12.6%.[1] http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/01/news/economy/corporate-tax-r...
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
I'd argue that it's not money in politics. The democrats and republicans get tons of money from tons of different interest groups and industries, yet the the only party that voted whatsoever for this bill were Republicans. The pro
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
Hard won congressional seats will often sit out or sometimes even vote against their parties legislation but coordinate their votes inch a way that ensures that their parties legislation still passes. Say you have 54 democrats in the senate
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
He's quoting a woman that accepted more than 650k from ISPs for reelection campaigns.
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
I understand that a phone connection is different from an internet connection. But I couldn't think of two more similar industries. Wasn't dial-up,the first real consumer internet delivered through via telephone lines and switches
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
You can't just say the regulations are old and therefore invalid because they're old. Remember, the telephone industry was regulated because telephone companies merged and cooperated to create regional monopolies and destroy compe
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
You're correct and I edited my comment. I suspect that that may just be a tactic to save face in vulnerable districts rather than a sincere desire to oppose the bill.
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
No, he's correct, about 7% of republicans in the house didn't vote for the bill.
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
The votes in both the house and the senate were almost entirely along party lines. Every republican in the senate that voted, voted for this act and every democrat in the senate that voted, voted against this act.
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
It's funny because Google has been trying to break free of ISPs with Google Fiber. Unfortunately huge capital costs and regulatory capture by ISPs effectively torpedoed expansion plans. Now the head of the FCC, a former General Consul
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
Trump is amusing. He'll say something absolutely obscene, then his surrogates will say that he meant something different and slightly less obscene. Then supporters will go to great lengths to translate his words into an extremely favor
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
1. I thought it was funny too. But they also legitimately believed and expressed that anyone who believed in social welfare was a communist. 2. They took the frame back. 3. They did. I was working at the store as an hourly employee. The cus
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
I spent a summer working for some very conservative business owners. They asked me what I felt about the great society program during Johnson. I said that I thought it was a fine program that lifted a lot of people out of poverty. The follo
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
Is there anything that she has accomplished or done in her life that indicates that she will improve things? She had a lot of trouble answering absurdly basic questions during her confirmation hearing.
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
I apologize, I should have said funding mechanisms{[1]. Policy is heavily influenced at the federal level. [1] https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/edlite-chart....
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
Tragically, the Democrats believed that the Republicans would nominate people who were at least tangentially qualified for the position. Took 'em only one election to screw it up.

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