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by spbaar 5y ago
You say that would be double taxation, but that's only because bezos avoided taxation entirely on that appreciation while alive, a nice perk the vast majority don't get. So really with the most modest reform you tax the appreciati
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by spbaar 5y ago
OS level support for caller id, screening, redirection. stuff around enterprise, 5g https://developer.android.com/about/versions/10/features#q-t...
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by spbaar 5y ago
Google knows all this. I figured they're keeping the skeleton of a flagship, branding, marketing, and distribution as a countervailing threat to oems like Samsung that have played around with Tizen or thinking of going too propietary.
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by spbaar 5y ago
Aren't movies and movie theaters one of the only industries where that type of vertical integration is explicitly illegal?
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by spbaar 5y ago
there's also the negative pressure. We might see a Telco give 1k to 50 congressmen and think they bribed cheaply, which they did. But it also means if you betray their trust they're willing to spend 50k on your opponent. Also, mak
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by spbaar 5y ago
they're allowed to do a lot, like take it as a salary for first time candidates. they often hire family for various roles.
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by spbaar 6y ago
what could possibly cause this to start now, many many months into lockdown? just boredom?
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by spbaar 6y ago
I can't believe individual resteraunts have to deal with credit card fraud through these services, and it's not a value add. maybe that's how payment processors want to handle things, but still, it would be very easy for thes
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by spbaar 6y ago
This isn't true, but considering every Google outage is a one in a billion rube goldberg domino machine, it could be true. Put this comment in the post mortem!
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by spbaar 6y ago
At this point, even after Stadia, if Amazon is getting into, and i trust Amazon biz and market analytics more than Google or Xbox, the only conclusion I can come to is that they know the venn diagram is small but they must have data showing
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by spbaar 6y ago
So I thought the consensus among economists, hn, etc was that the best most painless way to solve climate crisis is a carbon tax, that doesn't drastically alter the economy all at once. So what to do with the tax money? Presumably inve
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by spbaar 6y ago
There wasn't even a coherent line throughout elementary and middle school in Orange County. One year, 1/3 of our curriculum was geology, which was 90% of what we covered last year. More flabbergasted than concerned. It was more st
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by spbaar 6y ago
Why do you think this? I've only ever seen Democrats push more people to vote and republicans less so. | if it were the other way around they would oppose it. ?
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by spbaar 6y ago
There is no federal id (except for DC drivers licenses). Drivers licenses are not proof of citizenship, Social Security card is not proof, university id card is not proof. Passports are expensive and time consuming to get
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by spbaar 6y ago
It's an extension of the reason we fund schools.
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by spbaar 6y ago
Stripe, Doordash, Gusto, Flexport, Shopify
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by spbaar 7y ago
Do you know why a request wouldn't contain a list of all the other apps on your phone? Seems like a foolproof way to fingerprint a device.
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by spbaar 7y ago
Seconded. I tried to dig up info on this a few times but found zilch.
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by spbaar 7y ago
Invisible cities is the only "fictional" book I've read absolutely worth using a highlighter on. It's great to read a few pages here and there
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by spbaar 7y ago
Not listed here is Tetris the Grandmaster 2. TGM2 hits the sweet spot between tgm1 and tgm3 in terms of predictability from the perspective of many fans. It increases the number of rolls to avoid dealing a piece in the 4-piece long history
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by spbaar 7y ago
1. I'm really not sure yet. They haven't given any details publicly or privately. I'm most curious to see how this will be supported on iOS. 2. The demo on the keynote gave a great use case where a school nurse called the spe
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by spbaar 7y ago
I'm surprised that Respawn has had so much trouble controlling cheaters in Apex considering they handled security in Titanfall 1/2 amazingly well. The f2p barrier probably contributes a lot to the problem. This isn't a new st
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by spbaar 7y ago
>No analyst has the nerve to ask that question point blank on the earnings call. Ooooh, I need to Google to see if this has happened. Obviously investors and analysts would prefer to have those talks privately to avoid alienating anyone
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by spbaar 7y ago
Could Snapchat be something close? I don't know all the features, but it had games, a social geo map, commercial published content, and personal social content. Although the only third party integration is for filter and ad creatives,
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by spbaar 7y ago
I highly recommend Citations Needed's episode on Perseverance Porn. If you have ever been uneasy with stories about people walking 10+ miles to work or relying on charity just to survive a common misfortune, this will open your eyes to
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by spbaar 7y ago
Bureaucracy being lenient and reasonable can look a little dystopian. I'll take it.
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by spbaar 8y ago
You're kind of burying the lede here by saying "Completely correct" and ending with "There has been court ruling around this area in the past few years". Haven't workers under a union been able to opt out of po
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by spbaar 8y ago
My understanding of finance as vaguely magical makes this easy to believe. Buy why does does engineering pay so low in UK?
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by spbaar 8y ago
Agreed. For GE or P&G that have tons of vertically integrated moving parts and the complex accounting for it, I can intuitively understand that compliance and accounting would be huge and complex. But there are many billion dollar compa
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by spbaar 8y ago
He better have the chuptzpah to come out of the meeting telling the truth that Google results do not have an ideological bias and consider his civic duty complete after showing lawmakers evidence of such. We've seen what happens at Fac

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