Shocking then that 12 do then, and they're mostly low-tax states
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12 states, mostly low tax states. Texas has 2, both from the 19th Century.
Tour buses line up on 5th Ave, people are pushy, lines are hours long, etc. It's an incredible place, but sometimes it feels like the fact that it's free means that people treat it like it's cheap. It turns into the default thing to do, which to me feels like it devalues one of the greatest institutions on the planet.
I'm a member at MoMA, and it's a totally different situation - it's quieter, people are more respectful, and it's a lot less crowded. I'm sure the fact that MoMA is non-negotiably $25.
Pro-tip: If you're in New York, on your first day buy a MoMA membership, and the next morning go to Member Hours (you can't buy a membership during Member Hours). Being in the Warhol room alone is a remarkable experience.
I blame Larry Ellison for inequality wayyyyyyy more than anyone that works for him. When you've been out of power for this long (presidency doesn't count because he has very little real power compared to the House and State Gov't) you have to be _really_ careful about biting the hand that feeds you.
It's a basic idea, and HN prides itself on being smart, but there aren't global laws. No one gets to enforce civil penalties outside of their jurisdictions, without exceptional circumstances. If they fine you and you don't have offices there just ... don't pay? The EU might not exist in 10 years anyway.
A better move might be to pay people to leave dying counties. I've heard it discussed for Coal Country in West Virginia, and in parts of Kansas that have been shrinking for the last century.
As farms and rural industries mechanize, and as cities become the primary focus, why swim against the current?
Hell, there's a suburb outside of Miami that just vetoed a rail project because "self driving cars are right around the corner!" which sure sounds like the flying car predictions of the 50s-70s.
It can't be that hard, the CSS selectors for posts are really simple.
I'll give you the batteries included part, but you're missing the critical component here, which is Python's dep mgmt story is terrible. Pyenv seems cool, but it's basically NPM - which is a critical part of what they're trying to do here.
Customer Service is a huge, overlooked industry mostly based around classifying requests and then performing a rote action, which is a great use case for AI.
Replacing fast food with healthy food is good, but we should all be trying to cook more, and be with our loved ones (or hell, even roommates) _more_, not less.
Something is going to happen - you can't pull the ladder behind you, keep everyone you don't like out of your neighborhood, and reduce mobility to protect your assets without serious backlash.
Eclipse seems to be a magical combination of hard to use, slow, and hated.
Was there a golden period? Was it great for awhile, and now is past it's prime, like MS Word?
You see a lot of Tundras in Texas because they're made there, for example
https://mises.org/wire/if-sweden-and-germany-became-us-state...
Now, if you want to talk about Quality of Life, instead of per capita income, I think there's probably a lot more going for the EU - much lower crime, better infrastructure, less absurd politics, more vacation. I'd definitely live in Nice over Minnesota, and I love Minnesota.
There's a reason the preponderance of his examples came from countries that were transitioning to democracies, and there are very few examples of violent overthrowing of democratically elected governments.
A lot of things that work seem like they shouldn't (flight, capitalism) even after a lot of consideration - similarly, a lot of things that don't work seem like they should (Mendelian genetics). Maybe this unfortunately just doesn't work?
I don't know a single person that's said a single good thing about Oracle, including people that work there. I know a ton of people that have been burned by Oracle and their lawyers.