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googlehater··on Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center
Sure, in Loudon County, which has the highest concentration of data centers in the world, has seen its property tax rate fall about 40% since 2010. This is due to data centers representing about half the tax base now.

Key difference with this and TFA though: Loudon has never offered a tax abatement

There's one example. I'm not saying on the whole they're positive.

googlehater··on EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
i noticed your profile has a lot of great info onthis. where did you learn?
googlehater··on Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them
As soon as I saw that headline I knew it had to be on Middlefield... lo and behold. I've been aalmost hit there twice and actually hit there once. once with a car taking a left. another with a car taking a right
googlehater··on Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts
what's the point of your comment? it's a thread... on a forum of non experts... and he asked a question.
googlehater··on Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations
Same specs/prompt, but with Max plan.

Rendered it in the right pane, instead of inline. Dark theme. 2% of Daily limit.

googlehater··on Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov
hm.. i wonder where their lithography tech was patented?
googlehater··on A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela
As someone who knows nothing about networking, this felt really easy to follow. Thanks for sharing!
googlehater··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
I often forget just how much smaller and less siloed the internet was just ~13 years ago.
googlehater··on Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack
Can you elaborate?
googlehater··on Google is winning on every AI front
> A couple months ago it felt like people were sure that Google completely fucked it up for themselves

Hey it's me!

googlehater··on France's new high-speed train has Americans asking: Why can't we have that?
being, built, right, and now.

four words that do not describe CHSR

googlehater··on Bored of It
absolutely nothing wrong with restarting a decomissioned nuke.
googlehater··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
Thanks for pointing this out. As a follow up, if the US has a trade surplus, they seem to just slap 10% in both columns.
googlehater··on Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat
Hey great find man!
googlehater··on Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds
As with all nutrition """science""", studies should only be used to generate ideas for your own routine, not provide any conclusions.

Try it and see if it works for you. If it does - great! If it doesn't - great!

googlehater··on Everything is Ghibli
this is your brain on boomer nostalgia
googlehater··on Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight
jessica chastain lookalike no?
googlehater··on Duterte's ICC arrest is a victory for a faltering rules-based order
Thanks I did not know this.
googlehater··on Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle
Completely agree I love the incentives this tax creates, even though it isn't the most progressive tax in the world.

City planning seems to be a particularly inflexible issue on this forum, possibly because the majority of this board are upper-middle income, urban, childless, 20-30s males.

Most in the thread seem to miss the fact that flat congestion pricing (even with the 50% reduction for those making <50K), is regressive, like a carbon tax. It's made progressive by allocating the revenues to transit upgrades, which would outsizely benefit lower income communities. But as you say, the redistributions aren't liquid, so progressive feels like a slight stretch.

Here in Canada, the carbon tax is regressive (carbon consumption is not graded as steeply as income is). However, the canada carbon rebate redistributes all revenues flatly, and makes this scheme truly progressive. Though some debate can be had about liquidity diffs of tax-at-use and rebate at end-of-year.

It is okay to admit a scheme is not progressive, and still support it!

googlehater··on Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly
what was the purpose of that analogy?
googlehater··on ‘Bloody Saturday’ at Voice of America and other U.S.-funded networks
I find this interesting as well, so I think it's unfortunate you are downvoted. In a similar vein, the ultrapatriotic type that loved the USA being #1, having influence everywhere, also seem to be cheering on the dismantling of the soft (and some hard) power structures. But I get the feeling there's some granularity we are both missing, and the group saying those things then and these things now (pro/anti Trump reactionaries), isn't as big as we think.
googlehater··on The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment
From your own link:

- Large metropolitan counties had the highest gun homicide rate compared to rural counties.

- Rural counties had the highest rate of gun suicides compared to metropolitan counties.

:)

googlehater··on Duterte's ICC arrest is a victory for a faltering rules-based order
To add some context from the other side:

- "Additionally, polling firm PUBLiCUS Asia reported in Duterte's last month in office that Duterte received a 75% approval for his entire six-year tenure, making him the most popular post-EDSA president"

- The murder rate halved under his administration: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/PHL/phi...

I am completely against killing people without due process, as he did, and bragged about. But it does seem that most people in the Philippines were happy with his policies, and his policies do appear to be "effective" wrt murder, though are extrajudicial killings by police any better? I don't think so

googlehater··on GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)
code monkey writing ozempic fanfic.
googlehater··on ChatGPT Search
omission by negation. just like "no offense, but" or "i don't care"
googlehater··on All political ads running on Google in the US
i kneel
googlehater··on Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing "lifetime" price lock
this may be one of the most entitled comments ive ever read on this website.
googlehater··on 18,000 Miles Later, an American Woman Has Cycled the World
therapeutic use exemption for salbutamol. same reason the entire norwegian winter olympic team "has asthma". or why the a ton of russian athletes "had ischemia" and needed meldonium. or why many gymnasts "have ADHD"

all your favorite athletes are cheating, especially from rich countries :)