ComradeTaco

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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
Fortunately, most public school policy funding occurs at the state and local levels as compared to the federal level. DeVos is and remains exceedingly unqualified for the position. She's literally never been taught or been taught in a
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
I believe what you're talking about is called a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP). Netlinx is one example of it ( http://netlinx.net/ ) I've read a bit about WISPs, because they seem like a happy solution to
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
That while Telco's do use regulatory capture well, you have to admit there's some sort of natural monopoly inherent to hard wired internet service.
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
All consumer level electricity supply is classified as a utility in the U.S.. Would you say that electricity transmission and generation have "stagnated"?
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
I disagree fundamentally with Ajit Pai's reasoning that minimal regulation will lead to innovation and lower consumer price. There are some industries that are natural monopolies, like water and electricity, because it's incredibl
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
I think it's over simplifying the situation to make a division between main street banks and wall street banks. Main street is largely owned by and receives liquidity from wall street. Many seemingly stable "main street" bank
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
The global economy as of 2008 was and continues to be absurdly leveraged, often combined with a wonderful smorgasbord of complex financial instruments that obfuscate risk. If the banks holding these complex instruments were allowed to fail,
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EPA Science Under Scrutiny by Trump Political Staff(nytimes.com)
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
Much of it has to do with the preposterous price of real estate and pent up demand in Boston. Finding a condo anywhere near a transit station 20 minutes out will cost you north of 400K. 10 minutes and you're looking at 600K.
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
I honestly believe the US isn't going to have enough political capital or will to do anything about climate change in next 15-20 years. What we will have to do regardless is deal with rising storm surges and sea levels. Pretty much eve
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
I agree that sometimes experts can make massive erroneous assumptions. Nutrition is a field that has suffered greatly from this. However, many of the predictions like currency devaluation and market loss, that were dismissed as expert scare
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
I see an overall trend of of authoritarianism and nationalism as a response to immigration and an increasingly changing world. There's also a pretty heavy streak of anti-intellectualism as voters were encouraged to fundamentally reject
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Is it at all worrisome that this man, through his donations, has an ear to the president?
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I'd argue he's dangerous period: "Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible ... The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about pol
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by ComradeTaco 10y ago
I personally enjoy uber and use it frequently. However, after reviewing my Uber receipts, I realized how awful the drivers side of the deal was. Take gas, car milage, Ubers cut and then you have literally a fraction of minimum wage with no