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by discardorama 10y ago
"Most" requires some hard data; and whether the fraction is higher or lower than the neighboring areas. Prop 13 is California-wide, so it's not specific to Cupertino.
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by discardorama 10y ago
What's forgotten in this discussion are the property taxes in Cupertino. The property values in Cupertino are among the highest in the Bay Area, and with that comes more property taxes. I doubt Cupertino would be this desirable were it
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by discardorama 10y ago
Or, a list of those who couldn't afford the right lawyers.
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by discardorama 10y ago
My guess: looking at the curve, and when they'll actually have to purchase the PV panels (a few years from not), things will be actually cheaper.
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by discardorama 10y ago
> This is all WhatsApp's and the US's problem, not Brazil's. So you're saying it's OK for Brazil to send a SWAT team to raid a house in the US? The judge's order has no validity outside his jurisdiction; jus
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by discardorama 10y ago
> But the problem is: Whatsapp have no offices or operations in Brazil. No, the problems is that with encryption, whatsapp cannot satisfy the judge's order anyways! Instead of showing such colossal ignorance, the judge needs to a
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by discardorama 10y ago
OK, so you introduce UBI. Yay! Now what happens to all the social workers employed by the city (say, SF)? Remember: SF spends ~$35K/homeless/year. Who pays when a homeless guy ODs and needs hospitalization? Right now government h
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by discardorama 10y ago
Simple. Satoshi owns millions of BTC. Anyone claiming to be Satoshi should just spend a small chunk of BTC from that initial block as a challenge response.
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by discardorama 10y ago
> I believe that Feinstein is a genuinely bad person, and we would be better off without her As a Californian, I am constantly ashamed at calling her "my" senator. Why the fuck can't someone reasonable run against her? I
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by discardorama 10y ago
I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't like how these things are bolted on and shoehorned into the existing constructs, resulting in some ugly-ass syntax. Consider: auto triple = std::make_tuple(5, 6, 7); std::cout &
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by discardorama 10y ago
Often they're the same. But once in a while a director like Stone will go his own way, luckily for us.
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by discardorama 10y ago
I'm sure the nerds here will find ample opportunities to tear this movie apart, but keep in mind that the "average American" (a) doesn't know much about Snowden, other than "he stole secrets and hid in commie Russia
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by discardorama 10y ago
How is it that a bunch of elected people without much military knowledge "know" more about these things than the men/women in uniform, with decades of experience?
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by discardorama 11y ago
Of course he will. If they didn't have his backing, they would not be putting up such a fight.
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by discardorama 11y ago
Anecdata, size 2, from India: My uncle (who had a device implanted 4 years ago to regulate his heartbeat) went into the ER one of the premium hospitals in our city (Fortis). He was having some weird symptoms, and his blood sugar was off. Th
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by discardorama 11y ago
And that is what, 0.1% of their revenue??
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by discardorama 11y ago
Just because Mozilla started Firefox, does not mean we can't question it. I have felt for a while that Mozilla isn't totally aligned with its user's interests. For example: finding and deleting tracking cookies is still labo
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by discardorama 11y ago
> And ban outsourcing companies from India from getting H1-Bs. You don't have to; the market will take care of it. They severely underpay their workers, so they'll never be able to compete.
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by discardorama 11y ago
> The idea behind Free Basics is to offer a stripped-down version of the mobile web so people can access parts of the Internet without it counting against their data plans. I hate it when people lie like this. The "Free Basics"
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by discardorama 11y ago
A solution to this wholesale import of cheap labor is to rank all the H-1B applications in order of salary, and take the top N. Presto: problem of low-wage imports solved; companies will now be able to find local talent, since they'll
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by discardorama 11y ago
> Forcing him how? If he came back with nothing, that's his answer. It's amazing how many people don't get this. The Congress makes laws, which are the tools at the FBI's disposal. If they didn't give them this p
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by discardorama 11y ago
> No tinfoil intended here, but it strikes me as very unfortunate that the Supreme Court Justice most likely to be opposed to this recently passed away last weekend. I know Scalia fans like to believe this, but you are dead wrong. It wo
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by discardorama 11y ago
I think the Federales have enough money to compensate Apple above and beyond what it costs them.
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by discardorama 11y ago
> They need to employ people to manage the program as well as run shelters, pay rents, etc. $4444 is not so high that it's obviously too much. Who will they pay rent to? The pier belongs to the City. That much money gets a homeless
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by discardorama 11y ago
I think he does have a point... but he could have put it better. I live in SF too; for ~10 years. I have never seen it this bad. The City passed a "sit/lie" law a couple of years ago.. but it's never enforced. The City i
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by discardorama 11y ago
AKA, ".... with one simple trick!" I wish Firefox had an ability to see which tab was hogging resources.
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by discardorama 11y ago
> And it does. Some people are worried enough to think that is worth the price. That's a broad claim. From everything I've read, there has not been much real success. Can you point me to some news reports where the spying actu
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by discardorama 11y ago
I was there when she cancelled the year-end party.
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by discardorama 11y ago
FTA: "While a single dose of ketamine is cheaper than a $2 bottle of water, the cost to the consumer varies wildly, running anywhere between $500 and $1,500 per treatment." Sigh.... why? Why must we turn any opportunity into a mon
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by discardorama 11y ago
I was at Yahoo when Carol Bartz came in and did exactly that. And guess what? Morale plummeted. "The beatings will continue until the morale improves" .... ever heard of that?

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