WildUtah

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by WildUtah 10y ago
Flyers routinely pay more for direct flights. International travelers often pay much more to avoid transiting unpleasant countries like the USA with its awful security procedures. Lots of people want to pay more for more width and recline i
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In OS X, the X is the tenth version of Mac OS. So this new version is now "Mac OS 10: macOS." Unless they bump the version number, that is. Then it would be "Mac OS 11: macOS."
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The article says "second layer." Apparently someone hasn't heard of methylation, introns and start and stop codons, and palindromic sequences. Or any results from the last fifty years of DNA and RNA research. If this is ever
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The NSA can know where drugs are and who is using them. That doesn't mean the NSA knows how to stop them. Drug users and dealers and importers have an army and are willing to fund it with whatever level of resources necessary to keep f
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Minimum parking mandates are the law most forceful in mandating suburbs. National finance regulations contribute. Concentration on freeway funding is part of it. Setback requirements and floor area ratios require suburbia also. Single use z
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"My biggest frustration about articles on this topic is how much they assume we all want the same thing" It could be clearer but the opening paragraphs talk about how nearly everything in America is suburban. There is no choice fo
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eye dropper?
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Korch was within one game in a long match of winning the world championship two different times in his forties. The champ was a young twentysomething Karpov. Then he went on to be the best fiftysomething chess player ever to play the game i
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There's a new outflow of illegals from the US to Mexico since 2007. But net inflow of legal migrants from Mexico has been strong and much larger than illegal flows every one of those years. And net inflow of illegals from Central Ameri
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fewer of us are etymologists But think how useful it would be in an emergency if we were. https://xkcd.com/1012/
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$130 And your air ticket is going to cost a lot more than that. The painful part is that you have to fly to a city with a Brazilian Embassy (LA, DC) inside the USA and stay there for a week while your visa application process happens.
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Say I'm a rich investor and we meet over brandy and cigars to discuss your business plan. I invest $100. You spend the $100 to get $200, making $100 in profits. You pay corporate income taxes of $43 (average state plus federal rate) le
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Countries with territorial systems have to monitor transfer pricing scams. The US actually ends up with much less revenue because it doesn't care as much about internal pricing abuse.
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Right there in the next paragraph it says: the business interest loophole and the accumulated earnings tax.
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"And not the fuzzy kind of constitutionality that pundits like to fight over." Lots of stuff the government does that pundits love to fight over is also called out as forbidden in the Constitution. Doesn't stop the government
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The EU is deepening the problems with non-territorial US taxes with its loony tax loopholes. Still, the USA could just end the problem entirely by going territorial.
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1. The business interest loophole is the loophole allowing the expensing of amounts referred to as "Business Interest Expense" in IRS Publication 535. See also Form 1120, line 18. 2. That is a silly motive. It does not hold up to
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No. I used it to mean paying high and unnecessary tax assessments.
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Smartphones have exploded in the last 10 years... The lithium ion battery problems are mostly under control now.
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The US tax code heavily punishes companies that hold cash in a variety of ways. The motive is to subsidize banks by requiring companies to rely on short term debt for operations. It's the biggest and most lucrative of subsidies for the
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Tokyo and Mexico City have very, very few buildings over five stories and still have double the density of SF. Paris and Barcelona have almost none over seven stories and have four times the density of SF. So it doesn't have to be high
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Muir Woods (the setting for the ape's home in the latest Planet of the Apes) A Planet of The Apes remake? That's the first anchor you reach for? Muir Woods is the planet Endor!
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Mayan and Nahuatl (Aztec) are each spoken by more than that before we even address the much more diverse South American languages. Europe is far from the most prosperous place for minority languages. SE Asia and Central America are far bett
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"I'd argue that if anything can be expressed verbally, then it can be translated." Have you made a serious effort to translate jokes, poetry, or advertising slogans between unrelated languages before you made that assertion?
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"Technology to translate in real-time already exists" No. It does not. I do some translation work and a lot of multilingual interaction. There is no decent translation technology even for written communication outside technical do
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Oracle's core product is Oracle database. That is a product based on SQL, an API language invented by IBM's Codd, Boyce, and Chamberlin in 1970-1974. Oracle developed Oracle database before IBM offered standardized free royalty-fr
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Actually the multi-million dollar cost of litigating in EDTX for defendants (it's cheap for plaintiffs) is usually more than the plaintiffs are asking for to settle. So defendants that expect to win big still have to settle and pay or
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Children must be protected from seeing nipples. There's nothing more abusive, corrupting, and unnatural than a small child encountering an adult female nipple.
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It's not a matter of win and loss rates. The vast majority of patent cases are settled without trial. Especially in EDTX, patent defendants know they cannot get a fair trial and settle to avoid the outrageous verdicts that come out of
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In Math, you take Calculus. It's four semesters. Then you take Real Analysis which is the exact same material all over again, but you actually learn it and prove the theorems instead of just memorizing a few formulas and blindly applyi

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