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by webXL 11y ago
Gotta love the guy who chimed in with "The worst part of the CHIP is the GPU, which is more than trash." Phewww! I almost spent a whopping $9 on a tiny computer that cannot process media as well as computers 50x more expensive and
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by webXL 11y ago
Yeah, but where do those loophole savings go? They flow to shareholders in the form of earnings, which get taxed again, or to consumers in the form of lower costs. You really need to look at total tax revenue per GDP, and we're at the
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by webXL 11y ago
U.S. corporations have a much higher tax rate than the rest of the developed economies. The vast majority of corporations aren't sitting on mountains of cash like Apple. Additional tax expense is financed by a combination of higher pri
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by webXL 11y ago
Where do the taxpayers get their money from?
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by webXL 11y ago
Nordics have a leg up on us because they don't spend so much on their militaries and don't have such a diverse electorate to appeal to. The U.S. has them covered to some extent. Alphabet should be pushing for more efficient govern
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by webXL 11y ago
Many of those "handouts" are legitimate tax breaks that all manufacturing companies receive, even Apple and Microsoft, only oil companies get capped at 6% on their section 199 [1] where everyone else gets 9% [1] http:/&#x2F
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by webXL 11y ago
I'm not paid and I don't want the status quo, but until we shift electricity production away from coal, there is absolutely no reason to subsidize these cars. The linked article never mentioned investment. It just highlights to ut
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by webXL 11y ago
What's up with all the hotel hacking today? First towels [1], now light switches?? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11265849
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by webXL 11y ago
I know some software maintainers who might disagree. But I like PopClip ( https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/ ) as an enhancement on top of that one.
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by webXL 11y ago
Do you honestly think there's no level of taxation that would cause people to physically leave a populated state? There is, and this is why states are forced to keep it relatively low, just as they are forced to not impose "dement
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by webXL 11y ago
Don't be so pedantic. My point was that when selecting a new state, should the opportunity arise, you can factor a state's laws into your decision. Many people, particularly entrepreneurs do this everyday. Moving to get the law yo
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by webXL 11y ago
Why isn't it true? There may be a high cost involved for some people, but it's not outside the realm of possibility. Can you provide an example why I couldn't move if the government was "targeting" me?
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by webXL 11y ago
Ok, you can decide not to move to a state, because my haunch is that you'll do that once or twice in your lifetime.
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by webXL 11y ago
Unless all 50 states democratically permit warrantless surveillance, you'll have a place to go to get away from it. Now you might have to live with other kinds of government intrusion, but it's in a state's interest to stan
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by webXL 11y ago
It couldn't possibly take over if vengeance against guys with hockey sticks was a primary utility-function-maximizer. Perhaps in Canada, but it would be easy to defeat, having never trained against artillery and whatnot.
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by webXL 11y ago
Yikes! As long as it has some parameters about human safety being more important than batteries or fuel, then by all means...
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by webXL 11y ago
Do those "extreme" conservatives have any political power in the cities where this is the biggest problem? What about the liberal yuppies who live closest to the problem and who are most vocal about it?
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by webXL 11y ago
When I first saw that commit, I was all wtf?? wtf?! Thanks for that explanation.
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by webXL 11y ago
"the basis of private ownership" is not threatened at all. These goods are still privately owned by those who have incentive to maintain and improve them. That's efficiency. You buy and maintain the car if that's your co
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by webXL 11y ago
> I don't have practical uses for lots of things that I do. Seems like you're trying to come up with one! My only point about practicality is that I don't know what I would use this for. Wrong term I suppose.
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by webXL 11y ago
Isn't there a name for this? Poison pill? Logic bomb? Honey token? http://www.sans.edu/research/security-laboratory/article/log...
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by webXL 11y ago
Alright, who else saw this on Alec Muffet's twitter feed while reading about the Sun 2's secret message? Cool, but I'm not sure about the practical uses. Perhaps to test the accuracy of all the flight trackers out there??
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by webXL 11y ago
This sentiment is what's sad. You appear to want something good, free and quick. Life is all about picking 2. Accept that and be happy.
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by webXL 11y ago
> I want somewhere I can conveniently find most things I need from my laptop for a reasonable price. That sounds like Monoprice or Newegg. Slightly more focused for our needs, but not as fast search results or affordable shipping.
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by webXL 11y ago
How is it a monopoly? There's Lyft and if anything, we see how easy it was for technology to inflict serious harm to these publicly protected cartels. Incumbants will have to innovate or perish.
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by webXL 11y ago
Feds don't mind popping their heads on the evening news every once in a while. What better venue than CES?
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by webXL 11y ago
Today, the top 1% control fully half of the planet's wealth. That is awfully close to the second extreme. I can't stand this malthusian, historically myopic, zero-sum thinking. Using that same distribution, if I started a busin
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by webXL 11y ago
US House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, for whom the mainline tunnel is named, cajoled and persuaded Congress to pay 80 percent of the project... Ah yes. Immortalizing those who appropriated other people's money with absolutely no
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by webXL 11y ago
So... the answer is Ford, I suppose.
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Freedom Caucus Unable to Strip Intrusive Cybersecurity Bill from Omnibus(reason.com)
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