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by rhino369 6y ago
Even governments, who get cheap access to capital, don't pay taxes, don't have to take profits, can't do gigabit in the USA for under 50 bucks. Upgrades cost money.
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by rhino369 6y ago
I'm willing to subsidize rural internet access for poor areas as a basic human right. But for everyone else, you can take part the massive housing cost savings you have over the urban part of the country and buy star link.
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by rhino369 6y ago
>someone's downloading a new game as well (and wants it now not in two hours That isn't a very compelling need case. I can obviously see why some would pay more for that. But my mom won't. The average person doesn't s
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by rhino369 6y ago
No expertise at all and no incentive to get it right. Government infrastructure is terrible and expensive in the USA.
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by rhino369 6y ago
Zoom only really requires 1.8-3 Mbps for their higher quality upstream video. There are definitely cases in which a family would want more than 20, so I wouldn't call 20 more than enough. But it's certainly usable for the average
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by rhino369 6y ago
Is their brand really that tainted in the USA.
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by rhino369 6y ago
I agree they shouldn't lie about the purpose. But they don't have to. Instead of "you have to wear a mask because VACCINES DONT WORK" (which is the current, deeply stupid, messaging), they could just say "everyone
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by rhino369 6y ago
That's exactly where I am on that matter. I don't wear one walking my dogs because virtually nobody catches covid based on walking past someone on the side walk. I'm okay wearing one inside even after full vaccination until
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by rhino369 6y ago
You only get to deduct expenses, not investments. They could have bought a 70 million dollar piece of farm equipment with that money to reinvest, but they'd only get to deduct a small portion that year. Regardless, you can't tell
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by rhino369 6y ago
Also, there are a lot of influenza studies that said mask wearing for asymptomatic wasn't very effective at all. There are some that said there was an appreciable benefits, but overall the studies were mixed at best. Nobody thought m
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by rhino369 6y ago
>>They don't have to pay taxes this year because they didn't make money in previous years? How are previous years relevant to this year? If you don't allow a company to carry forward loses you get a capricious result: C
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by rhino369 6y ago
There are some deductions for tuition and student loan interest. But I do think that student loan payments should be fully deductible against income.
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by rhino369 6y ago
Especially since US and European labs have had a lot of accidents that risked viruses escaping the lab. I really don't have any reason to believe or disbelieve it came from a lab. But that possibility certainly is not crazy.
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by rhino369 6y ago
Banning lying means allowing the government to determine the truth. Many, if not all, dictatorships ban the truth under the guise of banning the truth.
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by rhino369 6y ago
It took Victoria 3+ months to go from 700 case to 0. How long do you think it would take America to go from 70,000 cases to 0? The longer a lockdown, the less severe it can be. Supply chains don't have 4-5 months of leeway. People are
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by rhino369 6y ago
Lockdowns will only work long term if they are used to reduce the level of infection to a level that can be controlled by other means (testing, tracking, quarantine, and social distancing). US and European public health agencies don't
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by rhino369 6y ago
I don't think you need much evidence to believe that lockdowns are temporarily effective. But I'd be curious to see evidence on whether they are effective at reducing overall infections over a longer period. Because it seems like
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by rhino369 6y ago
In American English (and I’m pretty sure British English too), America generally means the USA. And we don’t consider North and South America to be a single continent. If you want to refer to both you should say the Americas. If you use the
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by rhino369 6y ago
I’ve had 900 mbit an 100 mbit and there is barely any practical difference. And like 1/10 houses are actually networked well enough to even use a 300 mbit connect. The only practical difference I’ve seen is upload. Cable internet is us
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by rhino369 6y ago
Regarding your third point, you are baking in an assumption that the UK AZ vaccine is the same as the EU vaccine, but they made in different facilities. There could be a manufacturing issue that causes this. There could be a genetic issue t
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by rhino369 6y ago
Talented people are in DC for the jobs, not the other way around. If my wife's job got moved to a more affordable place, I'd love to leave.
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by rhino369 6y ago
Lack of good BBQ in the district calls into question its southern roots :)
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by rhino369 6y ago
They aren't 99% effective against the flu. They might not be effective at all for the flu. Pre-covid studies were mixed as best, but many found that asymptomatic mask wearing wasn't significantly effective at reducing flu infecti
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by rhino369 6y ago
A lot of Europe tried. It's really hard unless you can control borders. Even if the US locked down for 3 months and got to zero, it could be undone by one group of illegal immigrants crossing the border with COVID. The US and EU were a
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by rhino369 6y ago
They would eat it up if this was swept under the rug and it later comes out there was a problem. You can't cover up and refuse to investigate merely because the investigation might have bad optics. The worst case scenario is that there
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by rhino369 6y ago
Our system was originally based on noon, not midnight. I don't think most people really care about sunrise. Humans don't seem to naturally rise with the sun. I don't know anyone who plans their day based on when the sun rose
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by rhino369 6y ago
But it shouldn't be just a villain argument. Sometimes the ends justify the means and sometimes they don't. Depends--entirety--on what the ends and the means are and the relationship between the two. But the end to Telsa throwin
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by rhino369 6y ago
Temperature control is also important if you aren’t drinking black tea. Green, white, other other teas have optimal brewing temps. While you can stop the kettle at those temps that is a lot harder than it happening manually.
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by rhino369 6y ago
Netflix has a ton of content for only 17 bucks a month. It’s only not worth it when you contrast it against piracy, which obviously isn’t a fair comparison.
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by rhino369 6y ago
Suburban Chicago, at least 15 years ago. I'd get home ~30 minutes before my siblings and I'd keep an eye on them until my mom came home.

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