OstiaAntica

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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
Fisker's other plant is in Joe Biden's Delaware.
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
pg, we need a clearer voice against these types of loan schemes. In the Fisker deal, the Qatar state put up a fraction of the U.S. govt investment, and is getting equity in return. The U.S. taxpayer has nothing but downside and is actuall
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
This money is taken from private sector, profitable companies like Google and Apple, and is given to politically connected, trendy companies like Solyndra. Politically directed investment increases unemployment because the incentives are a
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
You are mistaken. Disneyland is a classic private entrepreneurial tale. Walt Disney sold his home to finance the park. http://www.mackinac.org/7164 Homestead land grants cost taxpayers nothing and went to small family farmers. That's n
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
It is corruption, a form of "venture socialism" where politically connected donors get money with no-strings-attached. It's heads I win, tails, the taxpayer loses. This form of government-driven investment is a dramatic departure from 200
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
Gingrich passed a rescission bill that retroactively cut money from the 1994 budget.
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
Even with the current slowdown, U.S. per capita GDP is much higher than Canada's. Singapore, as an island city-state, isn't really comparable to the U.S. It is more like Manhattan, and the government in Singapore can implement fairly heav
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
This is the type of unserious, policy-by-press release we've come to expect from the micromanagers in the U.S. Congress. First of all, housing is still overpriced, in terms of historic trends, in many markets. Second, this is yet another pr
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
You misread, it is only $250,000 for the first home, and the rest can be investment.
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
Agreed. Our friend is afraid of a problem that has never existed in history. A society that is increasing in productivity and wealth just creates new types of employment opportunities, not unemployment.
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
Well, currently the government punishes companies that hire employees-- all sorts of payroll, worker's comp, and unemployment taxes, and also workplace legal liability that is extreme in the U.S. To the degree there is already a lot of cen
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
A lot of the growth of the last decade was driven by unsustainable private and public borrowing and spending. Most people in the political class are desperate to get the credit bubble-blowing machine running again, by having the state subs
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The Missed Red Flags on Groupon(dealbook.nytimes.com)
105 points by OstiaAntica 15y ago|47 comments
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
The CIA is not involved in the decision. It is a political one, made by the State Dept. and the Administration. The U.S. provides a visa but subjects the Dali Lama to other indignities: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2010
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
The people who took on too much housing debt, and the banks who lent to them, were either greedy, or foolish, or a combination of the two. None of them deserve a public bailout.
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
That's exactly right. I learned to code from a PHP book a decade ago, and now I am using the excellent OOP Symfony2 PHP Framework. The full spectrum of options are already available with PHP, the language and its frameworks lack nothing.
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
> What next? Remote control trophy hunting? In fact, Internet based, real-life hunting has been done, and is now illegal in the U.S. http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0405/p01s02-ussc.html
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
World War II wasn't unavoidable. If the West, particularly France, had pursued a less vindictive peace with Germany after the first world war, the circumstances that brought Hitler to power would not have existed. Specifically, the unsust
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Coming Soon: the Drone Arms Race(nytimes.com)
114 points by OstiaAntica 15y ago|97 comments
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
This is a very anti-hacker post, and an argument for the broken status quo. I also seriously doubt it is accurate. PayPal has disintermediated anti-competitive banking laws, providing millions with low-cost quasi-banking. They should be c
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
The Wright Brothers have a national day of observation each year (Dec. 17). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Brothers_Day
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Silicon Valley insider drove Solyndra loan restructuring(washingtonpost.com)
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
Actual story: http://gigaom.com/2011/09/30/pantheon-drupal/
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U.S.-Backed Geothermal Plant Struggles(nytimes.com)
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
The missing documentation: /savers/delete -- suppress interest rates to ruin savings (aliases: /banks/addcash, /stocks/pumpup ) /banks/bailout -- returns the "banker bonus" object /fed/audit -- 404
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
You missed the point about cell phones. The technology is over 60 years old, but it took FOREVER to commercialize it. The reason: telecom was controlled by monopolies, and the government owns the spectrum. In fact, the government is still
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
"Bold" action by the politicians and the central banks created much of the current mess. If we'd just cleared the pipes by letting the banks fail, recapitalizing new banks, and basically rebooting the financial system, we'd be much further
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
Firefox is broken. It hasn't been stable since 3.x. I've literally been forced, unhappily, to migrate to Chrome. I love FF and want to use it, but it hangs about every 15 minutes.
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
States do not have the right to tax Amazon, if Amazon does not have a physical presence in their state. That's not a "federal override" but rather is part of the constitution and is a protection against every state collecting taxes on ever
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
The U.S. isn't alone; Israel also taxes income on a worldwide basis.

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