Biden administration had a regulation to make canceling subscription as easy as signing up, but the regulation got vacated by US Court of Appeals for the 8th circuit.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 &…
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…
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.…
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…
I don't think nuclear waste is a key factor, but cost overrun is. Source: https://www.vox.com/2016/2/29/11132930/nuclear-power-costs-u...
>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…
This article[1] has more details. Sen. Wyden[2] has been pushing for more funding to IRS to develop its free file program, but Turbotax has been successful via their lobbying of Republican politicians and some…
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%…
>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.…
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…
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…
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…
>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…
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…
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…
My understanding is that category theory can be considered as abstract function theory. If we can prove that a function (e.g. Haskell compiler) is equivalent to automatic differentiation with some transformation,…
Your claim is that no one wants to pay tax. I think Xylakant disproved your claim. Maybe you want to modify your claim that someone wants to pay tax so long as everyone else does the same?
Biden administration had a regulation to make canceling subscription as easy as signing up, but the regulation got vacated by US Court of Appeals for the 8th circuit.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 &…
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…
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.…
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…
I don't think nuclear waste is a key factor, but cost overrun is. Source: https://www.vox.com/2016/2/29/11132930/nuclear-power-costs-u...
>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…
This article[1] has more details. Sen. Wyden[2] has been pushing for more funding to IRS to develop its free file program, but Turbotax has been successful via their lobbying of Republican politicians and some…
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%…
>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.…
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…
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…
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…
>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…
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…
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…
My understanding is that category theory can be considered as abstract function theory. If we can prove that a function (e.g. Haskell compiler) is equivalent to automatic differentiation with some transformation,…
Your claim is that no one wants to pay tax. I think Xylakant disproved your claim. Maybe you want to modify your claim that someone wants to pay tax so long as everyone else does the same?