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by briandh 12y ago
This point is not brought up enough. It is often buried or left out entirely in these discussions. Corporations that invert will not stop paying US taxes. They will stop paying it on foreign-earned income .
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by briandh 12y ago
This stuff can be tricky. For years I was using a D-Link USB dongle with a Ralink chip to connect to my home network. At first I had to use a non-mainline driver but eventually mainline caught up. Anyway, either way, it worked pretty well w
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by briandh 12y ago
Similarly, I did some research before I bought my Dell Latitude E4310, and it works flawlessly with Ubuntu, and always has.* Graphics (both on screen and on external monitors), WiFi, sound, even Bluetooth. It's not a guarantee, of cour
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by briandh 12y ago
It's not that Comcast (or whomever they're licensing technology from) isn't innovating; it's that the reason they're innovating is to avoid more expensive investments in new infrastructure.
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by briandh 12y ago
> This is due to Republicans in Congress blocking an increase on the gas tax, currently at ~18 cents/gallon of gas since 1993. Is it, though? Only 60% - 65% of the gas tax is spent on roads and highways [1] [2]. Not to mention (poss
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by briandh 12y ago
You're forgetting that $60 buys much more in Bengal than it does in SF.
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by briandh 12y ago
> But we are bound even by laws that we think are stupid According to whom / by what creed? I certainly do not believe that, and it is clear that a large chunk of the country does not either, if you look at the routine flouting, of,
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by briandh 12y ago
Prostitution in Thailand is technically illegal and practically murky [1]. It does not support your assertion. [1] http://www.thailawforum.com/sex-crimes-in-thailand-part2.htm...
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by briandh 12y ago
VonGuard wrote: > Halo, Fable, all the tent poles of the Xbox platform started at MS. So it's perfectly relevant to point out that it didn't.
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by briandh 12y ago
AliExpress, though the listings might be lying. $50 is a more reasonable ceiling: http://www.aliexpress.com/category/5090301/mobile-phones.htm... That said, from everything I've heard they're almost unus
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by briandh 12y ago
> But it does not work any more. The "growth" of the last two decades did go 99% into the pockets of the millionaires and billionaires. According to the world bank, the number of people in poverty worldwide declined from about
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by briandh 12y ago
> you can be certain that there is enough demand for food to support at least one grocery store... People need food, but grocery stores aren't the only place to get it. I can't speak about Detroit specifically, but it is common
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by briandh 12y ago
In addition, I "cite[d] a bunch of dead people" because I was responding to a criticism of libertarianism in general, not of my specific beliefs. In that light, it is most appropriate to discuss the views of exemplars and intellec
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by briandh 12y ago
I was replying to the statements I quoted.
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by briandh 12y ago
> For Friedman, satisfactory is maximizing shareholder value. That doctrine (which I disagree with, FWIW) applies to companies, not to overall economic outcomes.
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by briandh 12y ago
> That is, people are selfish rational actors. The problem is that they arent. Libertarian models of humans are incredibly simplistic. I can't speak to Friedman, but Hayek's views were more subtle than that (and so are mine, fo
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by briandh 12y ago
> That money is effectively removed from the economy. Not really. If that money is stored in a bank, most of it will be loaned out. If it is used to buy bonds (including but not limited to government bonds) then it goes to the issuer. An
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by briandh 12y ago
> Unfortunately, reality is messy and complicated and not a computer program. > Nah, probably easier to keep pretending that it's super-simple to manage humans at scale just because it's easier to reason about. This canard a
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by briandh 12y ago
Sorry, it is not true. For instance, you ought to visit some rural areas sometime and see the "consequence-free environment" in which white women there live. If you want to talk about middle-to-upper-middle-class white women in ur
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by briandh 12y ago
It would depend a lot on where he/she would be moving from how "insane" it would be. Though I agree there are better jurisdictions than the US to move a business to.
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by briandh 12y ago
I was going to write something similar. It's pretty sad. It is especially perplexing given the large and growing tech industry in Texas -- not that such comments would be appropriate in its absence, either.
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by briandh 12y ago
>The problem is that the implementers don't have the same level of skill in each language and who knows how much time they spent analyzing and refining each version One of they authors addresses this in the comments on the OP: >
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by briandh 12y ago
In the Play Store, OfficeSuite 7 Pro is ranked #47 among paid apps and games, is Editor's Choice, and rated 4.5 stars. There is also: SoftMaker Office, Kingsoft Office, Docs To Go, Polaris Office, and Microsoft Office. All of those, II
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by briandh 12y ago
I don't think it's supposed to be in terms of FB/Twitter. It's underachieving relative to their funding and valuations.
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by briandh 12y ago
It seems premature to be "freaking out a little bit" before knowing the details. This specific component might be open source and/or the same API with a different package name.
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by briandh 12y ago
Both in the linked page and the archived version, I don't see any difference from the 2013 version.
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by briandh 12y ago
I don't know much about GENIVI, but looking at the Wikipedia page, it turns out it has automakers involved that are also part of the OAA (Renault, Nissan, Hyundai, and GM, unless I'm skipping any). And there's overlap in the
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by briandh 12y ago
Reaction to what about Tesla? This is promoting Google's Android-based IVI platform. In addition, the OAA was first announced in January.
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by briandh 12y ago
Google's acquisition of Skybox isn't really comparable to its purchase of DropCam and integration of Nest into Google Now. The former gives Google information about you without any action on your part. The latter requires you to e
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by briandh 12y ago
No they haven't; the case is still ongoing, remanded to the district court.

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