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I think you have your policy preferences and you have the idea that if starlink was allowed, it would magically take much less time to go through regulation process. I think this is not true, but I think we digress.
My point is that democrats don’t get credit and votes for improving internet for rural areas and republicans don’t get punished for destroying progress. The fact that you are criticizing democrats so harsh and think trump breaking the laws doesn’t matter just prove my points.
That was an illegal move done by Trump. Biden administration proposed regulations for the conditions of the funding and allow states to apply for it. The regulations went through the necessary process to become final and the states went through the work to fulfill the requirements and the fundings were approved to go out of the door based on the trenches.
Trump administration illegally impounded the funding. This has been disallowed for decades but sadly the republican political appointees at the supreme court is allowing him.
Yes.
When Democratic Party controlled the federal government, they tried to. It is generally hard to do because it requires funding and passing laws. Another difficulty is that voters don’t reward Democratic Party for their efforts.
It is very easy for Republican Party to revert the changes. Moreover their donors reward the republican politicians for their efforts and their voters don’t punish them for their efforts.
I think most software companies hire from computer science graduates from US colleges. It’s likely that international students makes up a large percentage of these graduates.
My point is that unless we understand the government structure, we risk missing budget in municipal government. I pointed out two instances in which in Seattle the government entities managing the infrastructure (airports, transits) are separate from the city/county. They are still municipal governments supported by tax revenues but we don’t see them on the book of the city/county.
How do you draw the conclusion you like to draw if you miss these?
It is not that simple. San Francisco budget includes the SFO airport but Seattle budget doesn’t include that. That’s part of Port of Seattle, which is not part of city of Seattle.
Also, sound transit provides much transportation services in Seattle, but it is not part of city of Seattle. On the other hand, SFMTA is a department of city and county of San Francisco.
I think you are probably not comparing apple to apple. I think San Francisco is both a city and a county, while Seattle is a city within a county. Also, the San Francisco International Airport is managed by the city & county of San Francisco, while Seattle Tacoma international airport is managed by Port of Seattle, which is also separate from city of Seattle. The budget if city of San Francisco also includes Municipal Transportation Agency but city of Seattle budget doesn’t include king county metro and sound transit which are separate entity.
The US government never did that.
Russian did use facebook and other social media to influence voters. It was rather effective.
But it is totally different from Chinese government compelling tiktok using full access of its internal data to do their bidding in secret. The effectiveness will likely be much higher.
I think the issue is that China can use TikTok to run publicity campaigns to sway the voters into supporting policies or political candidates they like. They can do it more effectively with executives residing in China.
The US government won’t be able to do the same thing with the two party systems and with more checks and balances.
From this
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-merchants-enter-...The old settlement allows giving discounts to cash, to debit cards etc, but it doesn’t allow giving discounts to visa/Mastercard issued by particular banks/businesses.
The new settlement will allows merchants to pass the fees directly to consumers on issuer level thereby disclosing the fee of each card and promoting the transparency. Consumers can understand the cost associated with each card and make their tradeoffs
Interestingly there is a call out on the 2018 American Express SCOTUS judgement. I don’t understand that very well.
> Merchants can charge for using a Visa or Mastercard credit card, regardless of whether they can charge for using American Express, whose rules for merchants were upheld by the Supreme Court in 2018.
There is a ISP which provides fibre internet with great upload speed and low price a few miles away. I once called their signup phone number and asked if they could extend their service to my place. They said no because they had an agreement with Comcast not to encroach on each other territories.
>environmentalists were bought by gas extraction people
In the US, opposition to nuclear energy is more like opposition to homeless shelters - people don't want the plants near them. I don't think environmentlists are that powerful politically as to significantly impact the trajectory of nuclear power policies in the US, otherwise, they would have the power to significantly impact climate change policies too.
Besides, what I have seen is that environmentalists are pretty divided in term of nuclear energy. There are strong opponents like green peace and Sierra clubs, there are strong supporters and there are many who are ambivalent. This further reduces their political power as a group.
I think nuclear energy supporters should stop blaming environmentalists as they are pretty much non-factor if they want nuclear power.
From the linked article, the vaccine effectiveness of 10 weeks factoid you mentioned is a bit incomplete. It only talks about effectiveness against symptomatic infections. The effectiveness is dropped to about 40% around 10 weeks for people with AstraZeneca and then Pfizer or Moderna booster, or Pfizer and then Pfizer booster, and to about 70% around 9 weeks for people with Pfizer and then Moderna booster.
There was insufficient data to estimate the effectiveness against severe disease.
I think in the UK they have laws which basically say that bribery is defined by employers. It is bribery if employers don't approve the payments/gifts as part of the job. I think it is similar in the US. People in your examples probably got the approval, but this Netflix executive definitely didn't according to the article.
>I doubt its going to be mainstream anytime soon.
I would like to have a quiet and powerful machine for deep learning. The best one I found come from NVIDIA DGX station. It uses liquid cooling and is <35dB acoustics. The problem is that it is too expensive and, last I check, I think it requires buying support contract from third-party.
If liquid cooling is what it takes to have a quiet powerful machine, I hope it will be mainstream.
Source: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Cent...
I couldn't find any solid proposal for social security tax, like not splitting between employer and employee or applying to long term capital gain. If it is implemented like you said, yes, it will push the highest marginal tax rate to above 60%.
If a person makes $1.2m paycheck over 6 year evenly, they have $200k paycheck per year. They are subject to about 23% of federal income tax, and about 7% of social security and medicare taxes, so the average tax rate is about 30%.
I think the new federal long term capital gain tax is a new tax bracket starting at 1 million, so the tax rate of the $1.2m will be broken down as follows:
* first 200k: 15%
* 200k-250k: 15% + 3.8% (ACA Medicare Tax)
* 250k-441k: 15% + 3.8% + 7% (New state Tax)
* 441k-1m: 20% + 3.8% + 7% (Federal capital gain tax increase to 20%)
* 1m-1.2m: 39.6% + 3.8% + 7% (New capital gain tax increase to 39.6%)
The tax rate wouldn't be 60% even at the highest marginal rate, which is 50.4%.
The average tax rate is about 30%.
I think if real estate is like stock, most real estate holders will be happier. Real estate is subject to property tax, which is pretty much a form of wealth tax.
I think SALT deduction is an overlooked factor. It is unlikely that CA taxes or will tax capital gain more than the amount taxed by federal government. Before the 2017 tax act from, CA residents could have unlimited deduction on their state tax. This means that Musk would pay the same amount of total taxes whether he lived in CA or Texas or almost anywhere in the US.
I refer to virtually all outlets except the conservative ones (e.g. the ones you listed except Fox). As I said, the problem with the coverage is that it is based on their framing, i.e. running USPS like a business. There are so many articles about whether USPS should be run like a business because of this framing. This is a false permise. Trump administration simply co-opted "business" for sabotage. Mainstream media fell into the trap. By arguing whether USPS should be run like business leads to the impression that Trump administration was running USPS like a business. Also, there are many articles in which if we read beyond headlines, we would find comments from opponents of Trump that Trump administration sabotaging USPS. This is merely both-side-ism at work. To learn the truth, one needs to already distrust Trump and disregard their statements.
Then, all of a sudden Trump administration said that they would suspend/revert the changes. The mainstream media all rushed to report the statements, even though they were lies. There were no reporting of similar scale once the lies were uncovered. This is also the reason why Bill Barr was able to destroy Mueller's investigation - by first lying that there was no wrongdoings to gain enormous coverage and then escape scrutiny when truth was uncovered due to subdue coverage. As I also said, the mainstream media knew that Trump administration lies consistently. They should really ignore what they said and simply report what they do and don't do.
In summary, the mainstream media are really poor in conveying the big picture because Trump administration successfully hacks them and because they are unable to adapt to this adversary.
The mainstream media provide unlimited and free ads to Trump. Trump is a savvy marketer. He plays the mainstream media like a fiddle. The outrageous remarks he said or tweeted are reported relentlessly by the mainstream media. The way I see it is that whatever Trump said or tweeted are like campaign ads. What the mainstream media have been doing is nothing but playing campaign ads with rebuttals. The relationship between Trump and the mainstream media is pretty symbiotic.
The things that the mainstream media have not reported enough is his corruption and incompetency. Instead, they constantly chase after his remarks. I will give you an example. The way USPS is undermined is nothing but sabotage. Trump and his officials claimed that they run USPS like business. The mainstream media simply reported it along this frame. However, no reasonable business would run like what they did to USPS. Besides, the moment they claimed that they would revert the changes, the mainstream simply reported what they said. No, they didn't revert their changes. By reading mainstream media news casually, we wouldn't know that USPS was sabotaged. Many people think that Trump administration simply tried to run USPS like business but they decided not to due to opposition. The reality is that USPS was sabotaged and the damage is done.
>what's the motivation for each car to do its own self-driving computation in busy metropolitan areas?
There are a few reasons I can think of. 1) latency - the same argument against data center approach 2) security - we can't trust other computers as once a hardware is owned by somewhere the security battle is lost 3) unnecessary and insufficient - there are human drivers and there are cases when there is no other self-driving car around.
It's for safety. As explained in the article, it is not an option to shut down power to manually install the fibre because the power outage would be too long. The installation must be done with power transmission. This work is too complex for human to do safely.
>on their 2020 taxes (basically paying less in taxes after a major stock market rout)
because of additional language that applies the policy retroactively “so losses in 2018 and 2019 can be ‘carried back’ against the past five years.”
Some states need to lock down now because there are too many active cases. When the active cases get down and there are few new cases, we can end the lock down if we have cheap and abundant and quick tests, and have robust contact tracing. In addition, these measures can help us to bring down the new cases more quickly. Also, there are quite a few states where the active cases have not exploded yet. They can use these measures to avoid the fate of locking down.
> What's the point of using security keys with services that require regular SMS or app-based 2-FA as a fallback?
It addresses the problem with phishing. The main problem with Authenticator is not that an attacker knows the one-time password, but that an attacker tricks user into entering the one-time password to their UI and uses that right away to take control of the user's account.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/google-security-keys-neu...
Having fossil fuels makes it harder to introduce incentives to promote alternative energy. Countries with fossil fuels tend to enrich a small fraction of ruling class (and foreign oil companies) which uses fossil fuel subsidies to maintain power. Norway managed to escape this curse because of foresight (
http://web.archive.org/web/20100123225932/http://www.ft.com/...).