As an American living in Europe, taxes in Europe are in your face with everything you do. You can't even leave the city without paying stupid gas taxes and then a road tax. VAT taxes left and fuckin right, my god, I'm happy I can claim that on my US taxes...
Back home in NH, 0% sales. Property tax is high, but I would be paying it in my rent so I'd never know. My income tax rate last year was 23%. Never have to pay any damn road taxes when traveling between states or even cities, unless I decide I want to take toll routes, but I'm not required to pay a road tax (Yes registration, blah blah, but Europeans have that too).
Americans have it good when it comes to taxes. I'd never start working overseas for an overseas company, that would be tax suicide.
The 3 or 4 hours of travel time I'm saving doesn't really justify the proposed ticket pricing...
"The company hopes the Boom jet will take three hours and 15 minutes to fly from New York to London for a price of $2,500 per passenger in either direction, based on its initial prototype. Transatlantic flights currently take more than twice that time."
I fly from Boston to Munich, Frankfurt, Paris or London about twice every 3 months. Ticket prices for a round trip, in the winter, range from 600 - 800$, and in the summer the prices range from 800 - 1200$ (I fly lufthansa over the ocean, then wizz air to final destination, cheap af and lufthansa offers very good service for the price).
If you are going to charge 2500$ for a one way ticket, and the only benefit is I save 3 or 4 hours in travel time, I won't even think twice about it, fuck that.
3 hours of my time is not worth proposed ticket price (~3x for one way, ~6x for round trip).
Unless they reduce the pricing structure, the only people flying this will be bigwigs with too much money to spend. The pricing structure itself sets the company up for a death spiral. Poor investors, didn't do their homework: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I will take a serious look to see if it can really improve GTM/JoinMe/etc crap services.
GTM is by far the worst offender, every version remains fully intact on your machine until you find and manually delete it. And they have a release schedule that makes Chrome look good.
Only issue is the pricing. Chime pricing seems awkward.
Do they need to disclose this? It is a private company. Sure the information is really important sometimes, but it's still a private service.
If Facebook says fuck off, we are going down for a couple hours for maintenance, are they required to forewarn us? No, that's silly, they can do whatever they please.
If CNN doesn't cover a "terrorist attack", are they required to apologize (not apologies you fuckwits at DOE) and forced to cover it? No, that's silly, they can do whatever they please.
If FoxNews spreads false information for years, are they required to apologize and forced to cover facts? No, that's silly, it's fuckin FoxNews, they do whatever they please.
To be clear, the Weather Channel and it's owners/affiliates do not own or operate weather.com.
IBM does.
"The Weather Company was previously owned by a consortium made up of The Blackstone Group, Bain Capital, and NBCUniversal. That consortium sold The Weather Company's product and technology assets to IBM on January 29, 2016, but retained possession of The Weather Channel cable network. As part of the purchase, the Bain/Blackstone/NBCUniversal consortium entered into a long-term licensing agreement with IBM for use of its weather data and "The Weather Channel" name and branding"
In the American Dream, you are the up and coming baron of some, now unknown, but soon to be discovered, market. Knowing that you will become this overlord of industry, why would you vote to put up such a strong road block as unions? Wouldn't you rather vote to ensure that they don't impede your eventual rise to wealth?
Maybe in some strange parallel universe, this will be the next habitable piece of rock in the solar system.
As the Moon spins out from Earth's gravity, it collides with a large asteroid, heating the Moon, warming up, starting planetary thermodynamics, releasing all this stored "stolen" life giving elements into the space around the Moon, but kept in place by its' new gravitational strength.
Then ultimately picked up by the sun in just the right spot...
Slashdot Mirror
When I first wrote it I didn't realize it, then during the preview I laughed a little
New research says if you let kids sleep through their hangover, it will improve their learning. News at 11.
"only applies to streams still using Silverlight"
Stop using Silverlight, or better yet, stop using anything Microsoft releases to try and accomplish what ActiveX and Silverlight try to?
H1B Visa cheap labor? Pft. Just look at home and hire some inmates
As an American living in Europe, taxes in Europe are in your face with everything you do. You can't even leave the city without paying stupid gas taxes and then a road tax. VAT taxes left and fuckin right, my god, I'm happy I can claim that on my US taxes...
Back home in NH, 0% sales. Property tax is high, but I would be paying it in my rent so I'd never know. My income tax rate last year was 23%. Never have to pay any damn road taxes when traveling between states or even cities, unless I decide I want to take toll routes, but I'm not required to pay a road tax (Yes registration, blah blah, but Europeans have that too).
Americans have it good when it comes to taxes. I'd never start working overseas for an overseas company, that would be tax suicide.
Literally the next sentence in TFA:
"Sleep disruptions, apparently, can cure sleep disruption (and Mr. Olsen, like all good sleep entrepreneurs, has the research to prove it)."
Someone's an opportunist.
Don't tell Trump! We can't let him know that Obama sprayed all his very long, made in China ties with this stuff to record everything he says!
Sometimes the customer is wrong
"This "hyper scaling" allows computing power to continue to increase while needing fewer changes in the manufacturing process."
This "hyper scaling" allows Intel to continue to milk customers who expect more than modest gains with every generation.
FTFY
"You need to have a fast edit-test-debug cycle without waiting for someone else to fix the server side."
Fast? Try yesterday fast. And that someone else? Nope, that's you too.
With Trump in office and his views on climate change/world power, we are all endangered species.
The 3 or 4 hours of travel time I'm saving doesn't really justify the proposed ticket pricing...
"The company hopes the Boom jet will take three hours and 15 minutes to fly from New York to London for a price of $2,500 per passenger in either direction, based on its initial prototype. Transatlantic flights currently take more than twice that time."
I fly from Boston to Munich, Frankfurt, Paris or London about twice every 3 months. Ticket prices for a round trip, in the winter, range from 600 - 800$, and in the summer the prices range from 800 - 1200$ (I fly lufthansa over the ocean, then wizz air to final destination, cheap af and lufthansa offers very good service for the price).
If you are going to charge 2500$ for a one way ticket, and the only benefit is I save 3 or 4 hours in travel time, I won't even think twice about it, fuck that.
3 hours of my time is not worth proposed ticket price (~3x for one way, ~6x for round trip).
Unless they reduce the pricing structure, the only people flying this will be bigwigs with too much money to spend. The pricing structure itself sets the company up for a death spiral. Poor investors, didn't do their homework: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I love digital tickets, but sometimes, on long journeys, i like the reassurance of having a paper ticket in case anything happens to my phone.
"Every person for himself"
Single payer, but not what you were told was single payer
"The goal is to ensure that the commenters have actually read the story before they discuss it"
A+ idea.
+1 insightful
Too many RTFA's...
This SO answer is a pretty good attempt at explaining it:
https://stackoverflow.com/ques...
"common denominator suitable for every callers"
You just set the bar so god damn low...
I will take a serious look to see if it can really improve GTM/JoinMe/etc crap services.
GTM is by far the worst offender, every version remains fully intact on your machine until you find and manually delete it. And they have a release schedule that makes Chrome look good.
Only issue is the pricing. Chime pricing seems awkward.
Ah, I missed that bit. Thanks.
Hmm...
Do they need to disclose this? It is a private company. Sure the information is really important sometimes, but it's still a private service.
If Facebook says fuck off, we are going down for a couple hours for maintenance, are they required to forewarn us? No, that's silly, they can do whatever they please.
If CNN doesn't cover a "terrorist attack", are they required to apologize (not apologies you fuckwits at DOE) and forced to cover it? No, that's silly, they can do whatever they please.
If FoxNews spreads false information for years, are they required to apologize and forced to cover facts? No, that's silly, it's fuckin FoxNews, they do whatever they please.
To be clear, the Weather Channel and it's owners/affiliates do not own or operate weather.com.
IBM does.
"The Weather Company was previously owned by a consortium made up of The Blackstone Group, Bain Capital, and NBCUniversal. That consortium sold The Weather Company's product and technology assets to IBM on January 29, 2016, but retained possession of The Weather Channel cable network. As part of the purchase, the Bain/Blackstone/NBCUniversal consortium entered into a long-term licensing agreement with IBM for use of its weather data and "The Weather Channel" name and branding"
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's an intrinsic part of the American Dream.
In the American Dream, you are the up and coming baron of some, now unknown, but soon to be discovered, market. Knowing that you will become this overlord of industry, why would you vote to put up such a strong road block as unions? Wouldn't you rather vote to ensure that they don't impede your eventual rise to wealth?
I wonder if they still want that backdoor to that encryption sitting there for someone to stumble on...
Maybe in some strange parallel universe, this will be the next habitable piece of rock in the solar system.
As the Moon spins out from Earth's gravity, it collides with a large asteroid, heating the Moon, warming up, starting planetary thermodynamics, releasing all this stored "stolen" life giving elements into the space around the Moon, but kept in place by its' new gravitational strength.
Then ultimately picked up by the sun in just the right spot...