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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. https://www.p…

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 i…

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 t…

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 vot…

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 entit…

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. …

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 Internati…

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 …

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 effecti…

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 discou…

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 se…

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 the…

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 Re…

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 effe…

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 i…

>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 li…

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 sa…

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…

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…

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, …

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 …

>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 agains…