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As unsettling as this is, the article doesn't seem to specify whether it's all employee income tax, or just state income tax. I doubt NC could afford to pick up the tab on federal income tax. North Carolina has a flat income tax of 5.25% -- other states, like Washington, have no income tax. Leveling the playing field, as you say, would be a significant infringement of state rights.
> you don’t want to have this situation where states are competing with each other to see who can give the most corporate welfare- it creates a race to the bottom that forces all the tax burden onto the middle class in every state.

This right here needs to be emphasized.

It's easy for everyone to look at this and go "20MM/year for billions of investment? Yeah, that makes sense, right?"

Not right. This is overlooking externalities beyond those in the local area, such as the race-to-the-bottom possibility mentioned in the parent comment.
> it is easy to get into a box again real quick, so there is some logic to keep doing it.

It's probably not a good idea to do psychedelics frequently, but you can do the therapies I outlined daily or even continuously. I'm in the habit now of noticing my limiting thoughts and emotions.
The title was altered by the submitter. "Kickback" isn't a word Apple or the NC .gov would touch with a 10ft pole. It appears nowhere in the article. I suspect it was altered that way to promote exactly the reaction you had.
You're misreading this sentence:

> I am of the opinion that resolving trauma that causes a person to "zone out" and sleep walk through life can have equivalent effect to psychedelics.

The phrase "that causes a person to 'zone out' and sleep walk through life" is meant to describe "trauma", not "resolving trauma".

You should read it as "resolving (trauma that causes a person to 'zone out')", not "(resolving trauma) that causes a person to 'zone out'".
Although the “$1 billion in economic benefits” is from an economic model assuming some multiplier effect from Apple’s spending. It’s possible for these types of projections to be wildly optimistic. I wouldn’t put much stock in it without more details, or a review of the model from other economists.
aaaaaaaaaand..it's sold out.
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Essentially they're stealing money from their own employees. That's what it amounts to.
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SVGATextMode could make these available, depending on your video card. With modern kernels, the text mode can be set on boot.
It's only avoidable to the degree that your software architecture and company architecture allow you to make the more efficient decision to move the logic upstream.

The cases where this pattern emerges are invariably because someone without insufficient access to the DB and its configuration bites the bullet and instead builds whatever they need to do it in the environment they have complete access to.

I've similar problems lead to dead cycles in processor design where the impact is critical. These problems aren't software technology problems. They're people coordination problems.
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Pretty simple question. How do you get a job. I can convince potential congressman and medium-sized businesses to give me money to make websites. But I don't want to work for myself. I want to be lazy and selfish like most of you people. But how do you get a job when you have to talk to an HR employee that failed their way through college and continue to fail their way through a career?

I can't be nice to humans like this. Why do they have so much power?
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The thing about states is that they make their own laws.

So it is illegal -- until the state legislature makes it legal. Then it is legal!

That is how democracy works.
I'm a bit tired of submitting to these lists-as-git...

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It's going to be interesting to watch this perspective drastically shift soon, likely in the next few years. The electric grid is wired just about everywhere and even worst case you can always find a boring "Level 1" plug somewhere to at least get you trickled a couple miles to try to make it a bit further. "Anywhere the light touches" has electricity (because most lamps this century are electric).

On the other hand gas is a highly volatile liquid shipped at great expense across the country to pump stations that typically sell it for low or no margin loss leaders for convenience stores and grocery stores. It's a great miracle of logistics that it seems like gas stations are everywhere, and have more than enough supply to meet demand. The 1970s isn't that far back in human memory to suggest exactly how fragile that supply chain really is and why disruptions in that supply chain are likely to snowball really quick and how quickly petrol cars may have to soon worry again about running out of fuel.
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Maybe I am wrong. I hope I am. But the Planet Money episode on this topic mentioned municipal broadband has more failure stories than success. It's worth a listen if you have the time.

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/865908114/small-america-vs-bi...
> If psql can't do what you want, resist the temptation to 'SELECT *' into a data frame and break the problem up into stages where you get the database to do the maximum work before it gets to the data frame.

Why are we introducing an additional tool (psql) here unnecessarily? Sure, if it can be a simpler postgres query, that can be useful, but introducing psql and psql scripting into a workflow that is still going to use python is...utterly wasteful. And even simplifying by optimizing the use of SQL, while a good tool to have in the toolbox, is probably pretty low value for the effort for lots of data analysis tasks.
What about Ruby? In my experience, Bundler is about the only thing I've ever needed to use.
But I am millennial. I do not have time to read any document. There must be a way to just know about this or any other thing without ever learning about it.
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> but overall I'd say it's not a good omen of how things are going at the moment.

I wouldn't say it's a bad omen, either. There is clearly insufficient information to reasonably declare it a sign of anything meaningful[1].

1. https://templatetraining.princeton.edu/sites/training/files/...
Yeah, agreed, that's my whole point. Stating anything in economics like it is a known fact is mostly a fallacy IMO
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Ah, but we can defund, ruin, then shut down public schools too!
Difference in quantity has a quality all of its own.

There are kinds of behavours that are acceptable for an individual or a single groceries store, but if a large company adopts it across the country and puts it in the policy, then they are beaking the law.
Here's a detailed critique of this paper: https://twitter.com/AtomsksSanakan/status/137594206799050342...

Basically it sounds like Ioannidis extrapolated from a lot of statistically non-representative seroprevalence samples to make his case.
In California, anyone selling a lock pick needs to keep the driver's license number of the purchaser on file and available to police for a year. Other state by state laws on lock picks are at [0].

[0] https://toool.us/laws.html
> In fact, many states (such as Texas) have no income tax at all, yet they manage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
Changing minds on guns, cars, and red meat is exactly as easy as setting up and constantly reinforcing the original (toxic) narratives around guns, cars, red meat, sugar, and the rest.

It isn't difficult or expensive in its own terms. You don't do it with "public education", you do by consistently dramatising the results you want in popular media, and demonising the results you don't.

Give it ten years of consistent messaging from multiple seemingly independent sources and it's done. Give it twenty five and it's so done the alternatives are no longer thinkable.

The difficult and expensive part comes from the enclosed nature of political power in the US, which has a choke point on the kinds of messages that are allowed to appear in popular media.
Excellent article, no doubt in my mind it was a lab escape and the fact is that Dr Fauci helped fund this appalling irresponsible “gain of function research”, so he’s partly responsible for this historical calamity.
I think the difference is that FAANG's regulatory capture isn't an explicit part of how our government works, it's implicit.
That article is working really hard to say that Apple is getting paid $845M. Are they not getting refunded that amount, or do they get paid that no matter whether they bring the jobs or not? There really is a difference. A refund as a percentage amount indicates some positive increase in taxable income (though not necessarily enough to cover additional expenses).

Calling a rebate a payment is just a deliberate attempt to fan the flames. I'm all for not playing favorites, but articles could at least make an attempt at being accurate.
The water quality is fine, and I haven't had sewage problems. But they are both pretty crazy expensive given how much accessible clean water there is in the PNW (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/rain-soaked-s...).

I'm not impressed with trash or recycling pickup, which are intermittent and expensive.

Electricity is fine I guess, but we have solar and don't end up paying anything on net so I don't pay attention to the price.
What people kind of miss is that outside of FBA it's the actual logistics companies that are handling the logistics for all merchant fulfilled Amazon sales. The normal logistics companies are also handling a ton of the work involved with getting goods to FBA. There are lots of 3PL solutions that can deliver FBA style performance at a lower cost to the seller. There are other advantages to not using Amazon as a seller or just using Amazon as one additional channel among multiple ones.
> Every piece of technology faces a time of obsolescence.

That is true for most technologies that experience entropy and the problems of real world. Real physical devices of any kind will eventually fail.

However, anything build upon Claude Shannon digital circuits do not degrade. The digital CPU and the software that runs it are deterministic. Some people see a lack of updates in a project as "not maintained", but for some projects that lack of updates means the project is finished.

> obsolescence

What you label as obsolete I consider "the last working version". The modern attitude that old features need to be removed results in software that is missing basic features.

> replacing dependencies is no longer feasible without manual intervention to mitigate problems

This is simply not true. Have you even tried? I replaced a library to get proprietary software working last week. In the past, I've written my own replacement library to add a feature to a proprietary program. Of course this required manual intervention; writing that library took more than a week of dev time. However, at least it was possible to replace the library and get the program working. "Market opportunities" suggests you think I should have bought replacement software? I'm not sure that even exists?

> ABIs and APIs are not as stable as you'd think.

I'm very familiar with the stability of ABIs and APIs. I've been debugging and working around this type of problem for ~25 years. Experience suggests that interface stability correlates with the quality of the dev team. A lot of packages have been very stable; breaking changes are rare and usually well documented.
Well for facebook, and any other big ones they could just click "sign in with facebook" thats common enough.

The problem is when you have a bunch of enterprise customers and you're not sure which custom login to use, and you dont want to list all your clients.

Ideally, this is solved by the client company telling its employees to use an internal link that authenticates and redirects. Though I'm sure not all clients are capable of this, and still want to use SSO. In that case, I think my solution is much nicer than requiring a two step login.
I think it was in no small part about selling ads on Yahoo-owned media or through a Yahoo ad network.
I would agree the 'glitch' it more appropriate for electronic system since they can be affected by an unexpected purturbance in physical reality. For instance if noise on the power supply causes some issue, I would consider that a glitch. Computers are more or less deterministic so when they crash it's because of some logic error, not a physical reality 'glitch'.
If the companies will be collecting incentives, will they pay for the vaccination and the time spent getting it?
Thank you for this thoughtful post. You hit the mark on the situation at hand.
That sounds like the Hegelian wound.
Average without median doesn't really tell me much. Not that it's likely (more or less playing devil's advocate), but could just as well be 2999 minimum wage jobs and a single person doing millions.
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There is plenty of research on such tax breaks; much of it says that they don't pay off (except for the company), though I don't know it well enough to say that's a consensus.

Note that taxes per job, and thus community investment and services per job, will be lower. In that sense, these jobs are less valuable to the people of NC. Think of it this way: They are reducing education funding - future prosperity for the entire state - as a trade-off for a certain number of current jobs.
I wouldn't mind seeing the federal government say if a business gets a better tax deal than any other business in the locality, the federal government raises taxes to wipe out the difference. (That said I don't know in practice if this can be implemented)

This wouldn't prevent states from competing on tax rates, but they couldn't compete on special tax incentived to large businesses.
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> Why do companies like Twilio make me put my email in first and hit the arrow before i can even type in my password?

Because of lazy UX implementations of SSO.

You'll see logins like Google, where this is common. If you submit an email that has an SSO authentication associated with it, they can redirect you to the right auth form.

However, for everyone that's not an SSO login this is a worse experience.
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Why do the skills matter? I have never had a job, but never had skills been brought up during an interview. It is all ideological nonsense
It's a race to the bottom. Let those other places harbor the biggest tax avoiders. Those companies will have to risk the chance of regretting that decision in the future.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis

Now do California. Clearly high taxation doesn't correlate to stable electrical power.

There's a handful of states without income taxes. They mostly manage just fine. Or about as fine as the states with income taxes. They raise similar revenues in other ways.
Whatever are you talking about? The article is about interest rates in Denmark.
It's not a miniature language, nor is it a real language.
I hear this a lot, but the problems I’ve had seem to be during dem and republican administrations and in dem and republication controlled states and counties.

So the problems that I’ve witnessed seem unrelated to budget pressure issues.

So I suppose it’s curious how some places are awesome despite the “crusade” while other places suck.

Of course I’ve only had my own experiences as I can’t find any real performance data. Seems actually odd how USPS doesn’t track these metrics much less publish them. For example, what percent letters delivered within 2-3 days. Why isn’t this tracked to the sorting level? Seems like it would actually be pretty easy to add a code to the postmark when received and track it in the sorting machines, etc etc. But this isn’t done.

Anyway, this may be the fault. But perhaps it’s a result of the crappiness and lack of efficiency, etc. It’s hard to tell, but hard for me to do anything with as it seems to me like performance depends so much on local post offices and performance was either good or bad consistently, over time.

If there was a crusade against the post office that affected performance, I would expect degradation over time, over all locations.
> Compared to pandas? No, it's not.

I'm not saying you shouldn't use pandas, it depends on the size of the data. I'm working right now on a project where a SELECT * of the entire fact table would be a couple hundred gigabytes.

The flow is SQL -> pandas -> manipulation, and as always in pipelines like those, the most work you can do at the earliest stage, the better.
People don't like them because the information density of pandas chains is soooo much higher than the rest of the surrounding code. So, they're reading along at a happy place, consuming a few concepts per statement

...and then BOOM, pandas chain! One statement containing 29+ concepts and their implications.

Followed by more low density code. The rollercoaster leads to complaints because it feels harder. Not because of any actual change in difficulty.

/that's my current working theory, anyway