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by jellicle 7y ago
3% of global emissions being due to air travel, when 4/5 of the world population has never set foot in an airplane, is incredibly huge, not quite small. This is an activity almost entirely engaged in by the very wealthy, that has a hu
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by jellicle 7y ago
I would absolutely expect that the total amount Amazon paid in property taxes in 2019 to be round-off error compared to their income, yes. Particularly because local governments seem happy to reduce their property taxes to zero or even neg
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by jellicle 7y ago
IP is a huge governmental tax on the general public that accrues to a small number of wealthy people. (Any governmentally-enforced monopoly would be the same.) Taxing it would effectively reduce that somewhat, but it's easier to simp
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by jellicle 7y ago
I've never seen a vote to kick system actually function for the purpose of banning disruptive players. For instance, if only one vote can be conducted between rounds, then all the cheater has to do is be the first to pick some random
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by jellicle 7y ago
Sure, it should take 15 minutes and several flights of stairs to walk across a single street, why not? Quite a few cities do do this (Florida, I'm looking at you!). It's a terrible design, might as well have a machine that punches
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by jellicle 7y ago
Great that you had a sidewalk that went somewhere. Many suburbs do not.
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by jellicle 7y ago
You can walk in the countryside all you want, but you'll be walking on the asphalt roadway with vehicles zooming along at 70mph and limited sightlines, so you'll probably end up dead in a ditch by the side of the road if you make
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by jellicle 7y ago
HN runs at least one story a week along the lines of "I got banned from the app store and no one will tell me why".
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by jellicle 7y ago
You can say nothing about the many other taxes they pay because there aren't any that are more than round-off error. What, they pay sales tax when they buy pencils?
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by jellicle 7y ago
There's no UBI for Native Americans in the US.
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by jellicle 7y ago
Citizens do demand it, but the US does not have a government that is in any way responsive to the demands of the general citizenry.
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by jellicle 7y ago
I'd say it's a Dutch company. https://fortune.com/2019/09/09/uber-tax-breaks-losses/
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by jellicle 7y ago
Even if your phone insisted that each cell tower authenticate itself as an authentic Verizon Tower(TM), then Verizon would just provide 500 extra authentic tower keys to various police agencies for their use. shrug emoji You can't t
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by jellicle 7y ago
I think it would make a difference if some TVs came with large stickers mandated on the box, advertising, and included within, that said: "THIS TELEVISION MONITORS ALL OF YOUR VIEWING HABITS AND THE DATA IS SOLD FOR PROFIT. ANY TIME I
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by jellicle 7y ago
Which health conditions are improved by solitary confinement?
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by jellicle 7y ago
Literally the only "improvements" that are ever going to happen to audio in your lifetime will be a) internetifying it and b) adding more restrictions to how you use it. We've hit peak audio (best reproduction, no restriction
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by jellicle 7y ago
All of the data indicate that the wealthy commit the bulk of tax fraud. They are less honest per capita, and defraud the government of much more money overall, than the poor do.
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by jellicle 7y ago
I often find people first assume something that isn't in US anti-trust law - that one must have a "monopoly" in order to be problematic - and then use a narrow definition of monopoly to conclude that no legal problem exists.
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by jellicle 7y ago
But the least fashionable prediction is just completely false. No one is using less stuff. The book he cites just notes that that less stuff is being consumed by manufacturing within the borders of the continental United States of America,
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by jellicle 7y ago
No, it wouldn't. The commenter's actions make no difference at all on a global scale. Zero. That's the point: understanding that individual virtue does absolutely, totally, precisely nothing. Only collective actions count.
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by jellicle 7y ago
If they did exist, we would take their effects as baseline assumptions and just ratchet down our opinion about the crisis, if that makes sense. To the extent there are buffers, we just assume their effects, and we'll be unpleasantly su
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by jellicle 7y ago
The immediate extinction of the human race would result in a significant temperature increase; we've already baked that in, today, and it would have to play out. Probably a full degree C over what we have now (which is +0.84C). The max
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by jellicle 7y ago
The difference between them is that the rudder flaw could be fixed; once the problem was identified it was a trivial fix. They replaced a single part the size of a soda can. The 737 Max can't be fixed. The engine location unbalances th
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by jellicle 7y ago
The "good" thing about dangerous chemistry is that it is dangerous, first and foremost, to the chemist. Inspiring some caution in the majority of chemists. The bad thing about dangerous tech is that it is usually someone else who
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by jellicle 7y ago
Luckily these cheaper alternatives to hotels appeared out of nowhere and didn't come out of long-term housing stocks, pricing people out of the city. And luckily these affordable car transportations don't drive around the city emp
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by jellicle 7y ago
An administrative subpoena, as the name tells you, is not issued by a court and does not require a court to be involved. It's a police agency, acting on its own and without supervision, requesting documents believed to be related to a
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by jellicle 7y ago
They have no need to. They can simply repudiate their debts, as numerous states have done in the 1840s, 1868, and 1870s. Puerto Rico's problem is that it is neither fish nor fowl, neither a city which has a legal escape route through b
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by jellicle 7y ago
Seems like Twitter is looking to embrace, extend and extinguish Mastodon, etc. This is good, in a sense - means Twitter is feeling the competition. But any open source developers out there should trust Twitter just as far as you can throw t
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by jellicle 7y ago
The allegations (made by quite a few people, not just one) were that Apple was turning down/giving worse terms to women that had better income/credit scores than their husbands.
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by jellicle 7y ago
There isn't a lot of oxygen in water to start with, as solubility is low. If we somehow made the Earth's oceans completely oxygen-free, it wouldn't add noticeably to the amount of oxygen in the air.

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