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>(Ireland—where their EU hq is based, of all places) You still have to cross the border to get to an Apple Store!
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>So the 4 biggest payers in 2018 were New York, New Jersey, Massachusets and Connecticut. Aren't these all "blue states"? Yes, but my point is that those states are subsidizing almos…
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Inoreader, the real successor to Google Reader.
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The article is an example of malicious omission. The actual Rockefeller Institute data ( https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-... ) shows that it's…
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(I'm going to respond to your original comment, which I quote below.) "Thanks the reason I was asking was that in that document I don't see data about which state voted for Clinton or T…
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>Taxes in the usa are not accurate above, you need to add in healthcare and social security type payments too. The OECD definition of disposable income is after healthcare and social security costs…
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>My favorite example is the Haber-Bosch process for fixing nitrogen and producing synthetic fertilizer (invented 1910). Surely a far more “undervalued” technology than the iPhone! It enabled us to …
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The second URL in my comment.
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Is there a place in the US, outside maybe some really rural areas, where a credit union isn't available that doesn't offer accounts to the general population? In my experience credit unions&…
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The state of California or any other state does not pay a cent to another state or to the federal government. It is residents of California that pay federal taxes, which in turn provide funding and se…
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If necessary. He'll cite the 1957 Little Rock and 1992 Los Angeles precedents.
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>Question for HN: What do you think will happen in November/December? Nationwide violent rioting[1] after Trump wins more comfortably than expected, including nationwide swings toward him even…
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> Another issue is that TikTok relies on advertising for revenue and if US companies are banned from doing business with TikTok, they would need to run the app at a loss in the US at least. They co…
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This is consistent with what Karl Friston said in May ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/31/covid-19-exper... ): >For example, it looks as if the low Ge…
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>California was, in Presidential politics, a Republican stronghold, not a swing state, prior to 1992. (Between Truman in 1948 and 1992, the only Democrat to win in California was Johnson in 1964; p…
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California was a Republican-leaning swing state before 1992. It has a long, long history of being such, such as unexpectedly going to Wilson and giving him reelection in 1916.
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Texas today isn't Texas of the early 1980s, or Alberta today. Texas barely noticed the 2016 oil crash.
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If TikTok were a Canadian, British, French, German, Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese company, the US government wouldn't have intervened in the first place. It's mainland China that concerns p…
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>Then why force them to sell to a US company specifically. Why wasn't Germany or any EU company with strong privacy laws allowed to buy them? There is no one outside the US with both the tech …
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Not at all. It's my way of saying that the US government would not bother forbidding the transaction. Further, did the US protest when China ordered Google out of the country in 2008? (And Facebo…
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People, including Chinese, buy iPhones because they're from Apple. No one, including Chinese, would buy Huawei "iPhones" because a) everyone would know that they're not from Appl…
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>A significant portion of the FS are second or third career people. Such as the head of the American Institute in Taiwan (the de facto embassy), Brent Christensen ( https://www.ait.org.…
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Woz explains why the original Apple II (1977) doesn't support lowercase letters. That's not surprising, in retrospect; neither of its major contemporaries, the Commodore PET 2001 nor the TRS…
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> Or look how long the Russiagate narrative dominated the headlines, only to dissolve in a day. I've heard that the word "impeachment" was not mentioned once during the Democratic co…
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> > In 100 years I hope to have grandchildren who knew me still living. When asked what he wants people to say about him in 100 years, Woody Allen said "'He looks good for his age'…
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I carry a Swiss+Tech multitool https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AY2WLU/ . Its pliers acts as a keychain, and no blade means I can keep it through airports.…
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Because you didn't say anything meaningful. Your comment said that you * maybe possibly might think about someday driving around the US (with the implication that you've never been there) * …
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I have a four-letter Yahoo account from the 1990s. I have never used the address anywhere. It gets lots and lots of spam.
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That "underperformance" is part of why the Fed feels comfortable with this approach. There is room for the Fed to now accept >2% inflation, because it is saying that the average over a pe…
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>We have people traveling form out of state to start fights Kyle Rittenhouse is from Antioch, which is on the northern border of Illinois and Wisconsin. Kenosha is 20 miles from Antioch by car.