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by watchandwait 15y ago
The truck driver and his company is also exploiting the highway "commons" and passing most of the costs on you, the auto driver. Almost all damage and wear on U.S. roads comes from heavy trucks, and the gas taxes paid by truckers come nowh
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by watchandwait 15y ago
CL is free and arms-length for rentals, while AirBnB is an active broker and financial participant in their rentals.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
And there is nothing from stopping other companies from using the same techniques to sell individual browsing data.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
It isn't disappointing, it is predictable. AirBnB has skirted the rules from day one, when they launched by spamming Craiglist. AirBnB brokers a service that is illegal in many jurisdictions, and they go out of their way to mask the serio
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by watchandwait 15y ago
A victim host might be violating the terms of the lease by subletting their apartment, or could be violating local zoning or hotel permitting laws.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
It is dishonest to call the Farm Bill a "Bush Policy" when it was passed over his veto, and then-Senator Obama voted for it!
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by watchandwait 15y ago
The quote on your homepage comparing your service to Jesus is offensive.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
You're mistaken. Unfunded liabilities are a net present value calculation that factors in a discount rate. They take inflation into account.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
The best way to fund science is to cut taxes on capital and to cut tax rates on the wealthy.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
Article is from 2005. I do think the framework situation has improved a lot since then.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
Reduced taxes on profitable oil companies are not the same as non-recourse taxpayer loans for 100 times the revenue of Tesla. And it isn't "us," the Germans and Toyota are equity stakeholders in Tesla.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
The point is that when someone invests speculative venture capital, which is what the U.S. did when it provided nearly half a billion dollars to a company with almost no revenue and no track record, that investor should get SERIOUS equity.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
This deal is being underwritten by U.S. taxpayers, who have given Tesla several hundred million dollars in loans (in exchange for zero equity). I suppose there's now a slightly better chance that some of those loans will actually get repai
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by watchandwait 15y ago
I thought the same thing, but ran it by my sister (a busy working mom) and she said the benefit wasn't the value of the clothes, but her time-- this system would save her from having to go shopping.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
If a TLD registry deliberately creates a TLD in order to shake-down existing trademark holders, they are probably violating U.S. RICO (racketeering) statutes. I won't hold my breath, but I'd love to see some enterprising attorney general su
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Why My Father Hated India(online.wsj.com)
241 points by watchandwait 15y ago|112 comments
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by watchandwait 15y ago
Oil is not in high demand. US demand is actually down b/c of the recession and the higher price in dollars. It just takes more dollars to buy the same amount. You could also measure against corn, or gold, or the cost of college. It's bee
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by watchandwait 15y ago
Please don't just rely on the nonsense they taught you in econ 101. You need to understand the relationship between debt, the currency, interest rates, and a government's ability and willingness to repay. These factors make government deb
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by watchandwait 15y ago
None of the American "Keynesians" calling for deficit spending today called for a balanced budget 5 years ago during the boom. I'd argue there are no true Keynesians, just politicians looking for an excuse to continue spending.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
Safe place? Ask investors in Argentine, Russian, and Greek government debt about that. The U.S. government is already working to cheat its debt investors by repaying them with devalued printed paper. One could argue that U.S. government d
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by watchandwait 15y ago
Japan is about to hit the wall though. They've lived off of a culture of savings, and those savers are all retiring, so Japan is going to see a reduced ability to finance its debt domestically. (This is also already beginning to impact th
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by watchandwait 15y ago
This is an example of the beauty of American federalism. The states can push forward with innovation, as appropriate to their local needs.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
Funds to provide for the victims of violent crime.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
CloudFlare looks cool but the sit does a lousy job explaining the service. I even watched the video. I'm actually more confused than when I started...I thought it as a cloud layer like Heroku, but you keep your current host, and don't ins
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by watchandwait 15y ago
UPDATE: AWS restored us after midnight last night. The sky didn't fall for us but it was pretty touch-and-go.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
UPDATE: we were fully restored after midnight last night. It is a very happy feeling!
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by watchandwait 15y ago
Sony Music's meddling is the reason Sony failed to make a successful Mp3 player, all the more remarkable because Sony created the individual portable music market and dominated it with the Walkman.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
People forget that PayPal got started by literally giving money away -- $10 -- to get people to sign up.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
The AWS outage is definitely not over. Apparently RDS is built on EBS and they have not all been restored, I can tell you that first hand.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
The AWS Outage is not over! Many RDS clients are still experiencing all kinds of issues. SimpleGeo got lucky, our RDS was also not in east 1-a but we still got creamed.

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