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by sclarisse 3y ago
Pretty sure Starbucks, its franchisees, and affiliates all pay state and federal fuel and payroll taxes, and state/local sales taxes. When they own a location they will also pay state property tax; if not, their landlord will pay that
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by sclarisse 3y ago
It’s not necessarily the worst idea ever to launch a Bakersfield to Fresno high speed line and to have your train traverse the Bay Area and LA corridors at a lower speed until work on those are complete. But my understanding is that they we
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by sclarisse 3y ago
The embarrassing part is the “2.8 KWh” figure. For comparison, since the number doesn’t seem to resonate with you, that generous estimate of the energy involved is comparable to about 0.1 gallons of gas, maybe a little lower. It’s an expens
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by sclarisse 3y ago
California’s bullet train delays have basically nothing to do with fundamental challenges like seismic engineering, and everything to do with planning permission issues / NIMBYs and California specific regulations on one hand, and with
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by sclarisse 3y ago
The Chilean government is under the delusion that mining firms will supply expertise and most of the capital in exchange for a minority stake under a government that’s already demonstrated its interest in nationalization. This is a terrible
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Debatable. The latest Cleveland Fed nowcasts have inflation forecast to dip just under 5% starting this month, while the federal funds rate is 5-5.25%. So in real terms, that’d be the first time it’s positive, and it’s still a very very low
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Specific phrases many people will read as political allocation of capital: “Most objections to allowing significant quantitative growth of central bank balance sheets, in fact, reflect the underlying concerns about the qualitative, composit
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by sclarisse 3y ago
No, they’ll be replaced by something like The People’s Ledger, as proposed by Comptroller of the Currency nominee, Saule Omarova, in her paper of the same name. (She was nominated by President Biden in 2021. Not just a random kook!) Under s
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by sclarisse 3y ago
If we’re going to include taxes in the figure, we should include the Earned Income Tax Credit and other transfer programs, too.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
I don’t understand what you’re saying is dangerous exactly, because the thread you’re replying to is full of people pointing out the ludicrousness of “terraforming Mars” compared to doing anything-at-all on Earth: pointing out the massive g
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by sclarisse 3y ago
If we want to make the temperature on Mars like the one on Earth, it’s not going to take 2C and a feedback loop. It’s going to take like 75C.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
It’s not because it’s “expected” in the abstract. It’s because everyone is competing for money with the US Treasury, and the rates on those Treasury bills are looking better than they have in a long long while. Did you have a growth busines
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Mass might matter more than count.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
In this jurisdiction, you don’t lose your rights (e.g. to free speech) because you also pursue profit.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Why does everyone incorporate in Delaware? Stable, predictable law, commonly used and understood by others in the industry, and — I say the following as a top tier cryptohater — somewhere the regulatory authorities aren’t out to get you as
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by sclarisse 3y ago
It is seldom more-convenient to represent your property as a thing that has rights. But if we did decide to speak as if it had rights, it would have its owners rights. It would have the right not to be searched by the government, without du
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Corporations have rights because they are owned by humans and those humans have rights. Corporations are just a convenient way to do things together, like conduct a business and own property. Corporate personhood is just a legal abstraction
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by sclarisse 3y ago
My experience is that no matter how good you make the database logic, a problem will remain: the logic is in the database. Want to do nice things to reason about your data changes using your code, or maybe show someone a preview of their ch
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by sclarisse 3y ago
And indeed as I have said: A reason this is a big problem is that we have like 1.5 competitors out there (for search: Google, Bing) and they’re all trying to sell ads into all the jurisdictions ever. As a result all of us who have nothing e
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by sclarisse 3y ago
This is an action that applies to Google, not the defamer, using Quebec law, where American law would not find liability. This fine included liability for posts that were visible in America, invisible in Quebec. The fact libel law exists in
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by sclarisse 3y ago
We fought a revolution against self-righteous European moralism (and taxes), so, yes.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
“JK Rowling critic forced to publicly apologize for calling her a Nazi after lawsuit threat. Self-professed 'drag queen' and 'jazz hands enthusiast' apologized to JK Rowling 'for causing potential upset'” Can’t
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by sclarisse 3y ago
“Restoring a link to content Google had indexed which called someone a pedophile” is a lot different than the content itself and was just fined $500k. That’s a lot of liability for a link. That means any time someone asks for content to be
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by sclarisse 3y ago
No, this is called looking beyond the single issue in front of us, to see the broader trend which confronts us Some day it may be fines for carrying links tho content that says mean things about a noted UK author with controversial opinions
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by sclarisse 3y ago
As an American who enjoys America’s freedom of speech, I find it distressing that the largest companies, who play a real role in the distribution of that speech, are so very large and global that they are beholden to the law of other jurisd
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Sir, this is HN, where dismissive comments of this sort are generally viewed as unhelpful and unwelcome.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
If you’re presenting this big article with an attention getting headline, in the middle of this big debate that’s filled with misinformation and rhetoric reaching fantastical heights about “forced birth for cheap child labor,” it is part of
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by sclarisse 3y ago
There’s a big stupid online/news debate the past few months about teen employment, and I mean it’s long on noise and short on facts about what laws have been changing (mostly very procedural paperwork changes), what laws there are, whe
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by sclarisse 4y ago
Short version: You’re high off your own stash.
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by sclarisse 4y ago
> Or was it LaGurdia? The OTG managed hospitality experience at LGA is the worst crime against aviation in the last 21-and-a-half years. Try their $20 burger. I dare you. JFK at least has ShakeShack.

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