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22d ago
They do in fact deliver tax money. Around half of property taxes in Loudoun County, VA are paid by data centers. That county allows building of data centers and reaps the rewards.
TIRM
22d ago
That is typical. Private details of as-yet-unfinalized negotiations are to be private. Once finished they will publicly announce the outcome.
TIRM
22d ago
Amazon and data centers are net payers of taxes. If AOC and New Yorkers selfishly wanted more tax revenue, then they'd approve of the Amazon headquarters. I reject the premise that data centers or Amazon headquarters are tax drains.
Loudoun County, VA approved of those data centers and they pay around half of all property taxes in the county to the benefit of the people who live there. Of course they have to pay their taxes.
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23d ago
I like that the barbarian was outcast for violating her tribe's understanding of racial purity.
TIRM
23d ago
Grocery stores are famously low profit. Like 1 to 3 percent after ruthlessly optimizing logistics and having minimal staffing. There's no 30 percent laying around for someone to take. Market prices are the price for a reason.
These are going to run at a 30%+ loss given even slightly higher than typical staffing costs. Which is feasible by subsidizing with tax dollars. The cynic in me suspects this will be yet another exercise in setting tax dollars on fire. Optimistically some poor people will get some below cost food that they eat rather than resell.
TIRM
24d ago
this means using the gold standard of physics, radioactive decay
Every day at work I battle the great and undefeated enemy: thermal noise. I recommend a thermal noise source.
TIRM
24d ago
The ECHR prevents you from directly deporting someone who makes a claim of asylum.
The term "suicide pact" comes to mind. Strange they couldn't forsee malicious false claims of asylum overwhelming them. The American equivalent being 5.8 million under Biden. Google tells me nearly a million per year in Europe. So almost as bad as the very worst of American Democratic governance.
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24d ago
Zulus were pressed into military service as older teens to 30 or 35 years old. That's approximately spending their 20s fighting in spear formations.
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25d ago
About a fifth of the Hawaiian population is native or part native. Thats significantly smaller than the east Asian population. Importing large numbers of outsiders to the point they are a supermajority of the local population prevents any hope of reconquista.
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26d ago
The school for delinquent girls arranges dances with the school for delinquent boys? They awkwardly stand around not dancing while a boomer (or gen x) teacher writes "kids these days..." articles blaming the "lumps" for not being highly motivated at delinquent boy containment school
No offense, but this is an incredible statement of ignorance. I use them at work and they are amazing. Not in any way a toy or marginal in value.
You get it. Same thing for LLMs. Most Americans regularly use LLMs. A vast supermajority of younger adults do. There's such real and obvious demand.
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