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by webXL 9y ago
Was there anything special about the center core other than boosting longer and needing to land out at sea? Seems like they've landed plenty out at sea, but not while landing two on land. I thought this was impressive: "With a tot
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by webXL 9y ago
Yeah, a while ago I discovered this slick JS notebook app called Tonic, and could never remember the name until one day I came across this thing called RunKit and I thought that it must be a clone. Nope, name just changed when Striped acqui
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by webXL 9y ago
We should be investigating ways to sequester that CO2 as quickly as possible, via photosynthesis or industrial uses: https://futurism.com/a-plant-1000-times-more-efficient-at-co...
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by webXL 9y ago
Wow, there have only been 74 recorded instances of people leaving Google. Some even two or three times! /s
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by webXL 9y ago
That's my question as well. Judging by this thread, it appears we're not thinking hard enough about the unknowns, like what if Martian life is hostile to the microbes we depend on? Are we welcome there? Will we have to engineer so
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by webXL 9y ago
Other companies are putting that cash directly into those businesses, not the state. The ones with the tax liability just get to keep more of their cash, again not the state's!
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by webXL 9y ago
It looks like you listed every sacred cow of public finance, but I'll just pick on the first... sure, for the most part, roads are publicly financed/owned (although built by privately owned companies). But, conversely, if you appr
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by webXL 9y ago
No, you come on. You are not giving me the money in my bank account just because you say I don't have to give it to you.
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by webXL 9y ago
Wait, Wisconsin wants to "give" $4Billion to foxconn? Is that in cash or tax breaks, in which case, are isn't Foxconn really just keeping their money?
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by webXL 9y ago
Then the market loses faith in the currency and that bag is suddenly a lot smaller, perhaps gone.
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by webXL 9y ago
What? "only big companies can afford to comply" means that competition is eliminated in exchange for bought politicians. How is that not a win condition?
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by webXL 9y ago
> The idea is... I hope this is satirical. One could just as easily state that pro-regulation ideology is anti-competition ideology. The idea is to create a regulatory burden so large that only big companies can afford to comply, or lobb
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by webXL 9y ago
Do NN proponents really believe that they could prevent the loopholes here?
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by webXL 9y ago
> allowing you to make even more money Is there any evidence to support that claim?
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by webXL 9y ago
When was that? Seems to be not much of a problem anymore if this is correct: https://broadbandnow.com/California/Orange
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by webXL 9y ago
What city? Provider of what?
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by webXL 9y ago
So a universal NN law is what we need to supersede the "universal" anti-trust laws? I fail to see the logic.
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by webXL 9y ago
> Exerting control over what people see and can say Who has done this? If monopolies can just raise prices, why would they bother only doing it for certain information? Seems like a BIG money loser!
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by webXL 9y ago
> And that would be just fine under the new regulations. But would it be good for business? A lot of what is already legal is not good for business, even though it might appear to be in the short term. Raising your prices by 100% is perf
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by webXL 9y ago
So we should have a one-size-fits-all law? You're not that unimaginative, are you?
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by webXL 9y ago
I think you're conflating a legal term with actual people, who do the existing, offering, and building. These people (who work under a legal entity with rights, protections, and regulations) pay taxes while they exchange their product
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by webXL 9y ago
> Competition surely can help, but currently there is no competition in a lot of places. Places with a lot of people? People who have been harmed by what NN is intending to fix? > Monopolists also created a lot of blockers that preven
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by webXL 9y ago
Are you sure about that? Seems more like 2-to-1 according to this: http://www.wisdc.org/pr072512.php
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by webXL 9y ago
> Many of these institutions of higher education are entirely or partially funded with taxpayer money. This is a tell . I should have seen it coming. Another "you didn't build the ROADS!" guilt trip. As if a big part of t
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by webXL 9y ago
I love stuff like this. Seeing the disassembly somehow adds to the nostalgia for a childhood pastime. What's this endlessloop for: https://gist.github.com/1wErt3r/4048722#file-smbdis-asm-L712 (Yes, please ;)
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by webXL 9y ago
Or let any third party [view a photo | talk to you on the phone | listen to a voice memo ] with everybody else in the room. We already have answers to those "worth it" questions, largely. The more important question is whether a t
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by webXL 9y ago
Au contraire, mon ami: javascript:window.dispatchEvent(new Event('offline'))
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by webXL 9y ago
Can of worms doesn't even begin to describe these half-baked, feel-good, shortsighted, "shore up a few voting blocks" measures. Parents who petition the city council for soft playground surfaces have done humanity a great dis
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by webXL 9y ago
Hmm... Nazis are typically white & male. Do I need to ask all my white male patrons if they're Nazis before I serve them?? /s
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by webXL 9y ago
Why are you even going down this road? Human beings are tribal. Tribes based on "choice" and tribes based on our DNA. We form numerous institutions based on this fact. Stop pretending otherwise. If I don't initiate force agai

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