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by sverige 9y ago
>Total private land value in the US is in the trillions. >Landowners don't make profits from automation as much as corporations do. Much of that land value is due to demand for space rather than productivity. Corporations generat
902.
by sverige 9y ago
Why link it to land value, which could hurt retired people who own their homes but have fixed incomes? Wouldn't a better alternative be to tax corporate income and close loopholes that allow them to pretend they're Irish (or where
903.
by sverige 9y ago
I have yet to hear a compelling argument for any form of voting that involves networked computers. I worked with a guy who was in charge of the IT for Colombia's elections years ago. He had many interesting (i.e., harrowing ) stories
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by sverige 9y ago
I suspect that people who don't use buses avoid them because they can't choose the other 29 people who will be riding with them.
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by sverige 9y ago
Shouldn't "users" include everyone who benefits from the roads being used to bring things to them, like groceries to the local store and laptops from manufacturers?
906.
by sverige 9y ago
Um, you just contradicted yourself.
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by sverige 9y ago
Some have speculated that Fuchsia will eventually replace Android. I remember back in May that some prototype UI was introduced by Google. Anyone know of any recent developments on this front?
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by sverige 9y ago
Maybe that will be the result of the author's master plan of organizing insurrection through the power of software and the internet is successful. But he doesn't say what happens after the insurrection, so there's no real al
909.
by sverige 9y ago
The way I read it was that OP's concern about the Solaris firings was just one example of Oracle's general bad behavior, and their tendency to not only suddenly stop supporting products but actively working to extract money from o
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by sverige 9y ago
With the current divorce rates, the odds are greater than 50% that bank balances will come into play eventually. Love doesn't pay the mortgage at that point.
911.
by sverige 9y ago
Income is one factor, but it's still a crap shoot even if both make similar salaries. That's why divorce lawyers make such a good living.
912.
by sverige 9y ago
There's also the high risk of marriage ending in divorce and losing half (or more) of your financial assets when the relationship falls apart. That has been keeping a lot of men from marrying, which is another factor that drives some
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by sverige 9y ago
...which control at least one plant in Canada (though recently it was replaced with an emulation.) And apparently they solved the 16-bit data problem, but maybe not the 32-bit date problem. "A current generation DCC system resides at
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by sverige 9y ago
>We can't just replace all the existing interfaces with 64-bit versions, of course - we need to continue suporting the existing interfaces for existing code. The backwards compatibility problem in a nutshell. You can put off breaki
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by sverige 9y ago
If the tip of the iceberg is automatic watering of gardens, the iceberg is nuclear power plants designed to run on PDP-11s.
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by sverige 9y ago
My experience has been that, in general, lawyers who negotiate contracts go way too far trying to eliminate risk. If you are talking about a really big contract with serious money on the table, a good practice can be to befriend a lawyer w
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by sverige 9y ago
A little digging seems to indicate that the author makes a living as an engineer whose livelihood relies on customers paying for solutions provided by the company he works for, so naturally it is offensive that someone would criticize infla
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Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals(latimes.com)
198 points by sverige 9y ago|230 comments
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by sverige 9y ago
>But seriously, screw ticks and fire ants. Yes. Burn them with fire.
920.
by sverige 9y ago
Tough because they're not making money.
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by sverige 9y ago
From the creator side, the internet sidesteps the need for the huge investments needed by all other content-delivery systems. No need to print thousands or millions of books. No need to set up a TV or radio station, or a movie or recording
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by sverige 9y ago
I just realized that I've worked with quite a few CIA plants, especially in the insurance industry.
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by sverige 9y ago
I totally agree. The US should withdraw all its military personnel and equipment from Europe as quickly as feasible.
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by sverige 9y ago
They now have my email. There are these things called "relational databases" that allow one to collate lots of other data with a unique identifier. There are organizations that do nothing but gather that data and resell it. I do m
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by sverige 9y ago
Yes, you have possibly valid use cases. I should have clarified that my objection is to Internet connectivity specifically, although I am not yet persuaded that a 1% efficiency gain for my refrigerator or other appliance (regardless of con
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by sverige 9y ago
And they need my personal information for that because...?
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by sverige 9y ago
I hate all smart devices. The TV should just be a TV, the dishwasher should wash dishes, the refrigerator should keep stuff cold, the washing machine and dryer should clean my clothes, and speakers should just produce sounds. I have yet t
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by sverige 9y ago
The short version is that I became a christian. Since that time, the mental health issues I had previously have dissipated. These included diagnoses by various sorts of mental health doctors that included alcoholism, drug addiction, clini
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by sverige 9y ago
>My understanding is abstinence programs are for those that have tried to moderate and cannot. I hope I did not suggest that abstinence is not the correct answer for some. It just isn't the answer for all, which is what is gene
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by sverige 9y ago
Chemistry teaches us that alcohol is a solution.

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