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by apex3stoker 1y ago
Biden administration had a regulation to make canceling subscription as easy as signing up, but the regulation got vacated by US Court of Appeals for the 8th circuit. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/click-to-ca
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by apex3stoker 1y ago
I think you have your policy preferences and you have the idea that if starlink was allowed, it would magically take much less time to go through regulation process. I think this is not true, but I think we digress. My point is that democra
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by apex3stoker 1y ago
That was an illegal move done by Trump. Biden administration proposed regulations for the conditions of the funding and allow states to apply for it. The regulations went through the necessary process to become final and the states went thr
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by apex3stoker 1y ago
Yes. When Democratic Party controlled the federal government, they tried to. It is generally hard to do because it requires funding and passing laws. Another difficulty is that voters don’t reward Democratic Party for their efforts. It is v
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by apex3stoker 1y ago
I think most software companies hire from computer science graduates from US colleges. It’s likely that international students makes up a large percentage of these graduates.
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by apex3stoker 2y ago
My point is that unless we understand the government structure, we risk missing budget in municipal government. I pointed out two instances in which in Seattle the government entities managing the infrastructure (airports, transits) are sep
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by apex3stoker 2y ago
It is not that simple. San Francisco budget includes the SFO airport but Seattle budget doesn’t include that. That’s part of Port of Seattle, which is not part of city of Seattle. Also, sound transit provides much transportation services in
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by apex3stoker 2y ago
I think you are probably not comparing apple to apple. I think San Francisco is both a city and a county, while Seattle is a city within a county. Also, the San Francisco International Airport is managed by the city & county of San Fran
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by apex3stoker 2y ago
The US government never did that. Russian did use facebook and other social media to influence voters. It was rather effective. But it is totally different from Chinese government compelling tiktok using full access of its internal data to
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by apex3stoker 2y ago
I think the issue is that China can use TikTok to run publicity campaigns to sway the voters into supporting policies or political candidates they like. They can do it more effectively with executives residing in China. The US government wo
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by apex3stoker 3y ago
From this https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-merchants-enter-... The old settlement allows giving discounts to cash, to debit cards etc, but it doesn’t allow giving discounts to visa/Mastercard issued by
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by apex3stoker 3y ago
There is a ISP which provides fibre internet with great upload speed and low price a few miles away. I once called their signup phone number and asked if they could extend their service to my place. They said no because they had an agreemen
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by apex3stoker 5y ago
I don't think nuclear waste is a key factor, but cost overrun is. Source: https://www.vox.com/2016/2/29/11132930/nuclear-power-costs-u...
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by apex3stoker 5y ago
>environmentalists were bought by gas extraction people In the US, opposition to nuclear energy is more like opposition to homeless shelters - people don't want the plants near them. I don't think environmentlists are that powe
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by apex3stoker 5y ago
This article[1] has more details. Sen. Wyden[2] has been pushing for more funding to IRS to develop its free file program, but Turbotax has been successful via their lobbying of Republican politicians and some Democratic politicians in prev
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by apex3stoker 5y ago
From the linked article, the vaccine effectiveness of 10 weeks factoid you mentioned is a bit incomplete. It only talks about effectiveness against symptomatic infections. The effectiveness is dropped to about 40% around 10 weeks for people
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by apex3stoker 5y ago
I think in the UK they have laws which basically say that bribery is defined by employers. It is bribery if employers don't approve the payments/gifts as part of the job. I think it is similar in the US. People in your examples pr
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by apex3stoker 5y ago
>I doubt its going to be mainstream anytime soon. I would like to have a quiet and powerful machine for deep learning. The best one I found come from NVIDIA DGX station. It uses liquid cooling and is <35dB acoustics. The problem is th
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by apex3stoker 5y ago
I couldn't find any solid proposal for social security tax, like not splitting between employer and employee or applying to long term capital gain. If it is implemented like you said, yes, it will push the highest marginal tax rate to
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by apex3stoker 5y ago
I think the new federal long term capital gain tax is a new tax bracket starting at 1 million, so the tax rate of the $1.2m will be broken down as follows: * first 200k: 15% * 200k-250k: 15% + 3.8% (ACA Medicare Tax) * 250k-441k: 15% + 3.8%
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by apex3stoker 5y ago
I think if real estate is like stock, most real estate holders will be happier. Real estate is subject to property tax, which is pretty much a form of wealth tax.
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by apex3stoker 6y ago
I think SALT deduction is an overlooked factor. It is unlikely that CA taxes or will tax capital gain more than the amount taxed by federal government. Before the 2017 tax act from, CA residents could have unlimited deduction on their state
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by apex3stoker 6y ago
I refer to virtually all outlets except the conservative ones (e.g. the ones you listed except Fox). As I said, the problem with the coverage is that it is based on their framing, i.e. running USPS like a business. There are so many article
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by apex3stoker 6y ago
The mainstream media provide unlimited and free ads to Trump. Trump is a savvy marketer. He plays the mainstream media like a fiddle. The outrageous remarks he said or tweeted are reported relentlessly by the mainstream media. The way I see
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by apex3stoker 6y ago
>what's the motivation for each car to do its own self-driving computation in busy metropolitan areas? There are a few reasons I can think of. 1) latency - the same argument against data center approach 2) security - we can't t
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by apex3stoker 6y ago
It's for safety. As explained in the article, it is not an option to shut down power to manually install the fibre because the power outage would be too long. The installation must be done with power transmission. This work is too comp
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by apex3stoker 6y ago
>on their 2020 taxes (basically paying less in taxes after a major stock market rout) because of additional language that applies the policy retroactively “so losses in 2018 and 2019 can be ‘carried back’ against the past five years.”
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by apex3stoker 7y ago
Some states need to lock down now because there are too many active cases. When the active cases get down and there are few new cases, we can end the lock down if we have cheap and abundant and quick tests, and have robust contact tracing.
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by apex3stoker 7y ago
> What's the point of using security keys with services that require regular SMS or app-based 2-FA as a fallback? It addresses the problem with phishing. The main problem with Authenticator is not that an attacker knows the one-time
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by apex3stoker 7y ago
Having fossil fuels makes it harder to introduce incentives to promote alternative energy. Countries with fossil fuels tend to enrich a small fraction of ruling class (and foreign oil companies) which uses fossil fuel subsidies to maintain

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