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  1. Premise is wrong. on 'The Fundamental Problem With Silicon Valley's Favorite Growth Strategy' (qz.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Neither Uber or Lyft think they will ever be monopolies.

    This article is what you get when you do economic analysis based on reading Marx.

  2. Re:Complicated issue with no simple solution on Apple Reaches Deal With France To Pay Estimated $571 Million In Back-Taxes (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Capital is mobile. If a nation's after tax ROI isn't competitive it gets no investment.

    Most first world nations have about the same effective tax rate on investments. They just split it differently between corporate tax and cap gains tax (plus 'corruption tax' some places e.g. India). Remember it's all multiplying average ROI, so that matters too.

    Lower corporate tax to 0 and treat capital gains as normal income. In the USA you would land (for high earners) at about 45%. Which is about the world wide investment tax rate.

  3. So what?

    All you have is a definition from books full of fallacies. We have history. That makes you _wrong_.

    Totalitarianism is wrapped into all command economies. Marxist economies are command by definition, having no way to self organize, no price signals etc.

    You are like a Hubbardist who cites Dianetics. Circular in reasoning and clueless.

  4. Re: Protectionism by another name NO IT'S NOT on Apple Reaches Deal With France To Pay Estimated $571 Million In Back-Taxes (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    How convenient. They can arrest anybody any time they want under that code. I'd move ASAP.

  5. Re:"We won't raise rates." on Ex-FCC Commissioner Advises T-Mobile, Sprint On $26 Billion Merger (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't do it.

    The check is in your mouth.

    I would never ever cum in your mailbox.

  6. Re:Orwell wins again, sadly. on Internet is Getting More Civil, a Study by Microsoft Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't smirk, it's facecrime.

  7. Re:By their fruits you will recognize them on Internet is Getting More Civil, a Study by Microsoft Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Cthulhu will eat you last.

  8. Re:The two sides have stopped talking to eachother on Internet is Getting More Civil, a Study by Microsoft Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    A 75th trimester abortion is not 'infanticide', it's 'adolesenticide'. I'm all for it.

  9. Re:The two sides have stopped talking to eachother on Internet is Getting More Civil, a Study by Microsoft Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    They all put on the 'other side'. They all pick morons to represent the 'other side'.

    Fox news loves Antifa tards. MSNBC loves David Duke. Just two sides of the same dimwitted coin.

  10. Re:Nations will do anything to stop global warming on Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers By 2100 (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm a hard nosed engineer. Quit with the stupid lies. Solar panels don't have a ten year lifespan anywhere except on orbit. Even there they don't degrade to zero.

  11. Re:Nations will do anything to stop global warming on Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers By 2100 (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    'Some people' are idiots.

    I can find people who claim 'rhythm method' is effective birth control, all that proves is there are morons in the world.

  12. Re:Nations will do anything to stop global warming on Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers By 2100 (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    As 'must run' duh.

    Alternatively they bid into the power pool at 'free' and collect the clearing price.

  13. Re:www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/cost-nuclear-power on Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers By 2100 (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    You need to 'research' outside your usual circle jerk. All you are doing is 'confirmation bias'.

  14. Re:www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/cost-nuclear-power on Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers By 2100 (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    They run on near weapons grade fuel. There is no technical reason they can't scale.

  15. Re: Liberal = Dictatorship on Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers By 2100 (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm in favor of 75th trimester abortions. It would make a kids 18th birthday really special.

    Also the kid would spend the eve of his/her 18th birthday on his/her knees begging his parents not to abort him/her.

  16. Think again. Look at what indoor pot growers did with CO2 supplementation (until legalization puts them out of business).

    This isn't even debatable.

    But it isn't the first negative feedback mechanism I'd think of regarding climate. We don't know if CO2 induced global warming (which will be a tiny effect by itself) will cause positive feedback through additional water vapor greenhouse effect or a negative effect though additional cloud cover lowering the planet's albedo.

    The safe bet is, both will be in play. One will outweigh the other. But which will dominate and by how much is a guess.

  17. Re: That's a lot of people involved on Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers By 2100 (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    That's an overstatement.

    I've made my living on economic models of electric grids. Granted everybody involved knows they have a fairly short useful time horizon.

  18. Re:That's a lot of people involved on Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers By 2100 (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit!

    Show me a climate model that spends any effort on backcasting. It's pointless as there isn't good historical data. The models are validated for shit and are published with ranges. The ranges are then ignored and worst case publicised by the idiots in media.

  19. Re:That's a lot of people involved on Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers By 2100 (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Or Alger Hiss. The now _proven_ soviet spy (and FDR's chief of staff). Would have gotten you called a Bircher once.

    Or 'what's his name'. Feinstein's long time driver/insider, proven Chinese spy.

    How did Pelosi get to be worth about 200 million? Never earning more than 150k/year?

    The fact that history is full of proven conspiracies is not proof for any current theory though. They each stand on their own.

  20. Re:What am I missing? on Adobe is Considering Whether it Wants To Design Its Own Chips (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Buy long out of the money puts in Adobe!

    The fact they are considering this is a terrible sign for where their exec's heads are at. They think they can become like (Wang word processors of the 1970s and 80s/Bloomberg terminals of the 90s and 00s). Leasing single use machines for a fortune. It will never happen.

  21. Re:Corporate America's way... on The World's Biggest Spice Company is Using AI To Find New Flavors (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Creten. You NEED pink Himalayan salt or you might as well use road rock salt.

  22. Re:here's an idea on Adobe is Considering Whether it Wants To Design Its Own Chips (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Gate's law: Every year software becomes 40% slower.

    Sucks that Moore's law has broken, but Gate's law is going strong.

  23. Re:Single or Married Man's Brain? on Women's Brains Are 'Four Years Younger' Than Men's, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I did that when I was a teenager myself. Lucky to be alive.

  24. GP is just flat wrong. He likes to post that incorrect fact.

    It is true that a lucky few always lived to old age. But the death rate was high throughout their lives. Particularly high for infants, but high for everyone at every age. Especially child bearing years for women.

  25. Re:I know why... on Women's Brains Are 'Four Years Younger' Than Men's, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A sex change is more drastic than simple castration. Castration being a part of the operation.

    Did you wake up screaming, like LIthgow's character in Garp? I think I'd miss my boys.