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by dlp211 8y ago
Nit: it's not legislation, it's regulation in the FCCs purview. The reason this matters is because it is likely going to take Congressional legislation to get net neutrality now, which means electing (mostly) Democrats.
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by dlp211 8y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The validity of the claim lies on Jones and his ilk, not on I or other reasonably minded persons.
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by dlp211 8y ago
I think you're interpretation is incorrect. A better way to think of this is that those 5% of people work exclusively on those projects. I'd be very surprised to learn that only 5% of Google engineers work on those projects.
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by dlp211 8y ago
Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google. It's a shorthand for high growth tech stocks. It is also sometimes abbreviated FAANG to include Apple, and sometimes it will include Microsoft. It's best, IMO, to think of it as the BIG10 NCAA
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by dlp211 8y ago
No one refers to DDG as duck.
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by dlp211 8y ago
You are not required to license Android to use Android. AOSP and other versions forked from AOSP do exist. There are.other mobile OSes available as well. I'm sure Microsoft will gladly let you use their OS for the right price, KaiOS, U
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by dlp211 8y ago
I'm trying to understand your point. Google has nothing to do with Qualcomm keeping their hardware drivers proprietary. What am I missing?
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by dlp211 8y ago
As an independent phone maker, if this was their concern, they should have backed one of the other dozen or so attempts at a phone OS. No one forced them to choose Android. They also have the option to write their own OS anytime they want.
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by dlp211 8y ago
This isnt true though. Samsung ships it's own apps as the defaults on it's devices as one example.
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by dlp211 8y ago
That's revenue, not profits. That is also not even revenue but annual run rate based on Q4.
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by dlp211 8y ago
There is nothing that you said that requires Android to be open source.
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by dlp211 8y ago
It prevents wage competition.
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by dlp211 8y ago
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. The US government has not invested enough in higher level education for its citizenship.
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by dlp211 8y ago
The middle class pays more for needs and less for wants then it did 40, 50, 60 years ago.
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by dlp211 8y ago
Or don't believe you can time the market. You can be bearish on a company and still think shorting it would be a disaster. The market can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
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by dlp211 8y ago
Economics is inheritantly political. To not talk about politics in an economy class is to deny reality.
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by dlp211 8y ago
You do know that CBP themselves have said that they are cages. The CBP is uncomfortable with reporters using the term "cages" but have stated that it is not an inaccurate description. -CBS morning news.
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by dlp211 8y ago
Citation needed that they will have a better retirement.
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by dlp211 8y ago
Or, and this may just be a crazy thing to think, unemployment is at historic lows so why aren't real wages rising is a valid question to be asking and explaining.
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by dlp211 8y ago
That and most wage workers are not part of the public insurance pool and are therefore mostly insulated from the ACA. Any increased costs due to insurance requirements or regulations should be stabilized by now for employer plans.
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by dlp211 8y ago
I'm not sure what economist your listening to that is telling you these things, but I suggest you stop listening to them post haste. You can't simultaneously discourage investment and increase savings. They are the same thing in e
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by dlp211 8y ago
This is such a lazy argument.
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by dlp211 8y ago
This completely ignores the marginal rate of utity of a dollar and is a regressive and disastrous policy.
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by dlp211 8y ago
AMP can be and is hosted from multiple locations. Anyone can launch an AMP cache.
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by dlp211 8y ago
I didn't. I made no qualifying statement about the allocation of money in government. If you (the collective) are going to make an assumption, be ready to defend it.
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by dlp211 8y ago
I think your expectations are out of alignment.
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by dlp211 8y ago
Why do attribute that to poor resource allocation and not under funding? And I've used all of them with little or no issues. The DMV being the biggest pain point in one state, but it works quite well in my current state.
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by dlp211 8y ago
Why do you presuppose that the money was spent irresponsibly?
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by dlp211 8y ago
More importantly, you can insure yourself against burglary, you can't insure yourself against wage theft.
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by dlp211 8y ago
In what world are 401k limits low? Between you and your employer, you can contribute up to $55.5k/yr to a 401k, more if you are over a certain age, I think it's 50.

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