millamox

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by millamox 10y ago
In New York, less than half of the cost of roads is borne by drivers via the gas tax. In California, drivers pay less than a quarter of the cost. There are no states in the US where gas taxes cover more than 60% of the cost of roads. Thi
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by millamox 10y ago
RI receives a substantial sum of taxes (income, property, sales), and the residents also support (and grow) other RI businesses. It's a pretty good deal, when the realistic alternative is that those individuals will neither live nor w
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by millamox 10y ago
Most of your physical security comes from two things: 1) the fact that the rest of us lock our doors, so most ne'er-do-wells have accepted the notion that closed doors tend to be locked. It's a form of herd immunity that protect
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by millamox 10y ago
Why on Earth do you brag about taking such a one size fits all approach to hiring? Code challenges for non coders? That's just adding entropy。
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by millamox 10y ago
I strongly disagree. it would have been useful f they'd stuck to problems without well-known solutions. Sadly, they also mixed in issues which are easily solved, or in a particularly egregious case, where they just complain about a bu
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by millamox 10y ago
I paused at that one because I don't like the state's intelligence arm, or it's sub-contractors. However, I decided it was ethical for the context of this conversation, because to my knowledge they don't lie to grow reve
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by millamox 10y ago
You made an "edgy" but incorrect generalization based on sparse anecdata. It was good for your comment karma, but it's silly to stand by it. AirBNB's CAN-SPAM violating email was clearly unethical. A media company showi
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by millamox 10y ago
> virtually all of them were built on mountains of spam and bad/unethical/illegal behavior, This simply isn't true. There are a few who did that, but they're the exception, not the rule. Shady unicorns: Uber (too man