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by jeffbax 8y ago
UNIVERSAL CARGO SHORTS NOW
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This is all true, but the mortgage interest deduction should be $0, particularly in the rich cities that refuse to let enough homes get built and fix things like zoning. It's an awful distortion that's a handout to the wealthy to
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… and Google Play Services, which is the bigger angle and what took Android from being "open" to arguably impossible to support the bulk of "Android" software https://stratechery.com/2018/the-europea
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Again, you are missing the point that there's a huge problem with our regulators trying to control the content on Google as well as when the likes of Apple flexes their muscle and every other company falls in line. That is a speech cri
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I just have my keyboard totally glitch out at times, my wireless mouse is using the USB in the keyboard and that sometimes just dies, and it seems like it gets into weird modes at times that I had no intention of going into requiring me to
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I wasn't talking about Apple specifically as the nature of digital companies is different, but US Corporations on the whole faced a ~38% tax rate globally vs. most countries being closer to 20% and this is something even the Obama admi
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Until the tax law change this year, US companies were generally at a tax dis-advantage. Whether or not tech companies were more advantaged I don't think is as simple to say as the headlines would want you to believe but a large swath o
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I also use a Kinesis (Advantage) which… glitches out sometimes, but once you get past the first month of being totally incapable of typing it's a pretty excellent coding keyboard comfort wise (gaming - particularly RTS - can be some wo
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To the Chinese government that's a feature, not a bug. This will be very interesting to watch whether Google's able to overcome severe hometown advantage in a way most companies aren't with the possible exception of Apple and
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PWA are not native UI for the platform, and the web browser isn't meant to do everything on a computer. Sure, replace some things but PWA Twitter is no Tweetbot. PWA is lowest common denominator like electron apps. There's a place
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The point is that these companies have immense control over the economy and speech. They should be as neutral as possible, otherwise it will be a tug of war to control them just like everything else in society is becoming. Also you realize
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Apple and others are within their right to not promote him, but it's definitely a form of censorship when the entities that are nearly 100% responsible for actually searching and easily adding the content remove the listing entirely. F
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I'm not sure its that simple, presumably part of the subsidy is that we want less physical mass/waste going into landfill so there's an argument to making recycling artificially cheap vs. making new stuff. While I am hopeful
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I mean, it is likely just access to deploy the new wires. LA is far larger and likely has much more cost/hoops to jump through for companies to deploy anything. Ex: "No deploying new fiber unless you do it to the entire area simul
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Same for OmniWeb… still though, I imagine they just had too much of an uphill battle keeping up with the other big 4 engines that it was untenable to maintain Opera's renderer
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I try, really hard… but for me its nowhere near 80-90% successful, particularly for anything particularly new -- I find the results tend to be much older. `!g` has almost become a default reflex.
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Removing some things from the Chinese App Store like VPN, Apple absolutely leads on privacy, by miles. Who knows what is going into the software for 100% Chinese phones, and Google's new iMessage answer isn't even going to be encr
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Maybe that's where all of North Korea's nighttime electricity and lighting goes
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I don't think browsers make the best feed readers, but it'd be nice if they at least offered a button to detect them by default. I guess its fine to want an extension to do that, but anything that gives RSS more visibility is a wi
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Manufacturing output has grown the past many years in the USA - higher productivity technology with fewer workers. It's untrue that manufacturing as an industry is in decline, it's just that the low end has while higher end has ri
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This is a naive caricature by people who don't understand libertarianism in the first place. Posit that a lot of laws on the books are unjust, and incredibly hard to reverse. See marijuana prohibition, which has caused countless societ
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Really hope this means that DJ Pro can finally use Apple Music like it can w/ Spotify
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They literally just announced that at WWDC
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Agreed, the amount of times it defaults to finding something a thousand miles away is significantly more infuriating than the rarer case when I want to specifically do that. If its a fairly fresh app launch, default to around me
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The problem with articles like these is that they leave out the fact that non-wage benefits are consuming more and more of the compensation growth that may have otherwise gone into wages. Particularly healthcare costs… largely accelerated s
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Second Book plug because you're correct on all counts (I really want this to get funded :( ) https://unbound.com/books/rocket-jump/ 90s FPS was my most treasured era of gaming… watching the tech evolve inspir
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Obligatory plug for the Book about this: https://unbound.com/books/rocket-jump/
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That is the lefts way of saying "only immigrants from Norway" It would devastate the poor worldwide. Nations that are rich are the only ones that can spend to care about the environment. If you want clean air in India and China yo
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Please, go work on a field and get back to us.
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I find these articles more likely to make me numb to actual abuses because they're so one dimensional and banal. At the end of the day, these are of the highest paying jobs in the country. "Fair pay" is highly relative and th

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