In the USA, many taxes are set at the state and local levels, with income taxes and sales taxes (somewhat like VAT but not collected at all stages of the process) being the most common. This article is about a percentage tax on income. Some states do not tax income; some have a single tax rate for income; others have variable tax rates based on income. California's highest income tax bracket is 13.3%, for income over $1 million. So if someone claims to not be in California, and is a high earner, the state has reason to check up on that. As an interesting aside, a recent baseball player signed a $700 million contract to play for a California team for 10 years, and $680 million of that is deferred and will not be paid until after his 10 years completes. If he moves to a no-income-tax state at that point, his deferred income would not be subject to those taxes.

Silly Microsoft! Google doesn't fabricate its own chips. Broadcom does the physical design and TSMC builds them. It's public knowledge. https://www.theinformation.com...

And it's not getting better... there are only 58 across the US and Canada right now, and some are closing soon: https://www.hydrogeninsight.co...

Fellow Bolt owner here. Took a recent vacation, 180 miles each way. Wanted to use the EV but drove the old pickup instead, because the cute California vacation town had all of six chargers, none near our hotel. I don't take it camping either, for the same reason. The Bolt is my happy daily driver, but I can't cut out the gas pump entirely yet.

I think that it will be an attractive feature for some, and required by city governments for new construction in other cases. To read the news, this country has a history of not building cheap affordable basic housing but instead targeting the high-earners and the luxury market. So if they install chargers, they can get the Tesla and Polestar drivers to consider renting from them. If you can afford a pricey car, maybe you can afford a pricey apartment. Not everyone will do it, but it can happen.

I count Goodnight Moon as one of the books I've read. Sure, it's shorter than the Silmarillion, but I've also read it 20 times to my kids. If you read a bedtime story per night to your kids, and have a well-stocked public library nearby, you can easily read 150 new books per year for a while.

Good! You got the joke.

Japan had a quality issue. Remember that? They fixed it. China can too. And if they don't, do you really expect the hordes at Walmart to complain? And it's not just Walmart; it's also all those people who look at the major price difference, see the smaller quality difference, and say, "Meh... good enough." Harbor Freight sells "junk" tools that no contractor would proudly carry, but they're more than sufficient for your average homeowner.

We certainly change with time. Convince me that literacy is important, and memory isn't. Remember, 2500 years ago the Odyssey was a story told around a campfire, and today people can't recite a single line of it if their Kindle runs out of battery. I'd propose that we are better adapted to our time than a feudal lord is, and that our odds of survival are lower than the average peasant if dropped into his time.

"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."

Have you visited Colorado? The weather changes every 15 minutes, nevermind this "tomorrow" business.

But the economy is different. In America, there are both men and women in nearly every profession. 100 years ago, far more women were homemakers. People rarely moved out of state for college and then across the country for work. And as for (our understanding of) economic principles, they've certainly changed in the past 100 years. Keynes, Friedman, stagflation, supply-side economics. Shall we continue?

The makeup of the economy has shifted significantly. Work that used to be done within the family is now outsourced. For example, most people buy most of their food, rather than growing it. 100 years ago, childcare was not the giant industry that it is today. 100 years ago, the majority of Americans lived in rural areas; now they live mostly in cities. Because of these and many other changes, I don't think Standard Oil vs Apple is a relevant rebuttal.

Citation please? https://ourworldindata.org/int... pegs 1914 international trade around 30% of world GDP and over 50% today.

If today is simply an extrapolation of trends, then the future should be easy for you to predict, and you should be an incredibly wealthy individual.

And with what do they increase the supply? If the soil in which the crop grows has the same level of trace minerals, an increased supply means a decreased mineral content for your GMO product. In some cases, industry documentation has perceived this as an advantage: you'll have to eat more to get your nutrients! You can increase the supply of soup forever if you just add water ... but it's not the same. I want to know how my food was grown to make my own determinations about nutrient content, and if I have to pay a little extra for that, I'm willing to choose that.

They already retool labels regularly, touting "new and improved! Now with XK-29 for added freshness!" So if they do it for their own marketing purposes, they can do it to inform consumers.

No, I don't know if a specific GMO modification is beneficial to the human species and the global environment or not. Yes, some people are absolute party-line types about GMOs (for or against) just as they are about political parties. That's not a reason to avoid giving the rest of us some information.

Well said. Next they'll say I'm stealing the newspaper that I read, simply because I skip the sections marked "Paid Advertisement" and don't read the Classified Ads thoroughly each day.

While we do a lot of our lifelong learning outside of formal structures, I think it would be dangerous to rely on this until it can demonstrate that people did not merely watch, but actually now know and understand the material. That may be difficult to measure in an unstructured environment, but without it, the system will be ripe for abuse and ultimately fall into disrepute. Especially because you can't even confirm that someone watched a video, but only that it played for its full duration on a specific machine.