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by tzs 8mo ago
That tax is a "use" tax. It is basically for having/using things in the state that you didn't pay state sales tax on. You don't have to tell the state why no sales tax was paid--maybe you bought it in another state
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by tzs 8mo ago
If the house is paid off it can be a lot cheaper to support it than you probably expect. For example my house is paid off. My total yearly spending comes out to under $25k/year. That omits irregular things like the occasional need to r
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by tzs 8mo ago
On Nextdoor here (Puget Sound area but on the other side of the water from Seattle) there are a lot of people who (1) post a lot about how property taxes and gasoline taxes are too high, (2) complain about any cuts to government services, a
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by tzs 8mo ago
> This is one of those things that I question the legality of, but it will never get answered because nobody is going to the Supreme Court over sales tax Someone did go the Supreme Court over sales tax on property bought out of state. He
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by tzs 8mo ago
Note that this is talking about ads when you watch via their TV app, not when you watch on your computer in an ordinary browser. The ad experience in the browser is interesting. I've watched several videos today with no ad block
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by tzs 8mo ago
Quite a few of those threads have a sizable contingent of people who say they would pay for YT Premium if it removed all ads but since it only removes ads that YouTube puts in the videos they will still see any endorsements or promotions
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by tzs 8mo ago
Oops…the first paragraph is a quote from the article but I somehow forgot the “>”.
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by tzs 8mo ago
The GPL's conditions are triggered only by distribution . If you distribute modified code, or offer it as a networked service, you must make the source available under the same terms. Offering as a networked service is not distributio
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Why right-wing media can't stop Candace Owens(salon.com)
5 points by tzs 8mo ago|0 comments
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How long do electric vehicle batteries last?(npr.org)
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by tzs 8mo ago
1. Emissions matter, not the particular fuel source they come from. Most places cannot meet 100% of their needs, or even 100% of their growth in needs, with renewables so they must use and even grow some fossil fuel sources. India has vas
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by tzs 8mo ago
> It turns out a lot of things we are told we need, we really don't. People lived without them as recently as a few years ago. It also often turns out that when some new way comes along to do something that people like to do, the wa
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by tzs 8mo ago
The expanded Medicaid was supposed to take care of poor people, but several states refused to implement that.
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by tzs 8mo ago
The US is a net exporter of petroleum (crude oil plus refined products) but from what Google tells me it is still a net importer of crude oil. It also tells me 75% of what goes through Hormuz is crude. Also, domestic crude of mostly light,
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by tzs 8mo ago
I'm basically using Docker on Mac as an alternative to VMWare Fusion with a much faster startup startup time and more flexible directory sharing. I want to avoid port mapping because I already have things on the Mac using the ports tha
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by tzs 8mo ago
I'll look into that. Thanks.
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by tzs 8mo ago
I've not done serious networking stuff for over two decades, and never in as complex an environment as that in the article, so the networking part of the article went pretty much over my head. What I want to do when running a Docker co
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by tzs 8mo ago
Note though that the court can award more than this in some circumstances. From the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988, section 97 [1]: (2) The court may in an action for infringement of copyright having regard to all the circum
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by tzs 8mo ago
What I should have said is that all their lawsuits included an allegation of infringing the distribution right. There weren't any as far as I know that were just downloading.
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by tzs 8mo ago
They are replying to what a comment said about past file sharing cases.
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by tzs 8mo ago
You are off a bit on the numbers. First, though, the RIAA suits were not for downloading. The suits were for distribution. Here is how their enforcement actions generally went. 1. They would initially send a letter asking for around $3 per
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by tzs 8mo ago
You wait until your existing heating system reaches its end of life and then you consider switching.
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by tzs 8mo ago
That got remove in Trump's first term.
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by tzs 8mo ago
Congress has received plenty of negative feedback from their voters. The intensity and frequency of Republican voters confronting their representatives over many administration policies (e.g., Medicaid cuts, ACA subsidy cuts, tariffs, Epste
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by tzs 8mo ago
They are building coal for things that cannot yet be handled by renewables because coal is the fossil fuel natural resource they have the most of. It's the same reason it was the dominant fossil fuel for electricity in the US until the
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by tzs 8mo ago
> Global warming does not care about 'fairness', global warming cares about co2 PPM in the atmosphere. When we address climate change, we have to do so at the government level, or we mine as well not bother. That is why per c
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by tzs 8mo ago
A gas furnace produces at most 1 kWh of heat from 1 kWh of gas. A heat pumps produces 3-4 kWh of heat from 1 kWh of electricity. If electricity is 3x as much as gas per kWh the heat pump should be less expensive to operate. Plus, it also gi
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by tzs 8mo ago
> The only thing that matters is gross emissions Which is why, unless you can come up with a good argument that some people have some kind of divine or natural right to a bigger share of whatever global emissions budget we decide we need
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by tzs 8mo ago
The original sweeping plan that was blocked by the Supreme Court was blocked before it had forgiven any loans. They ruled it exceeded Presidential authority. That was replaced by several programs. Lower courts issued an injunction to halt o
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by tzs 8mo ago
It should be noted that a significant reason that the average selling price (in constant dollars) is so much higher now ($50000 according to the article) than it was many years ago is that people are buying a higher percentage of large cars

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