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Yep, ad money has suddenly dried up and auction prices have plummeted so might as well give away the ad credits to inflate the auction prices allowing both a higher tax deduction and better looking performance.

>It's ridiculous that Google has to

It doesn't have to. This is a choice Google is making on how it wants to conduct charity.

>The federal government should be providing interest-free working capital and guaranteeing the sale of every glove and mask

Sale at what price? It has to be bounded or else it sounds ripe for fraud (people are monsters).

> anyone can produce.

So is the loan for anyone that wants it? Or just for companies that have proven they can make gloves and masks? If the former, what stops people from just using the loan to fund salaries while making a ritual display of making masks for a few months and then declaring bankruptcy after collecting salaries during that time?

>It's like when people build a house next to an airport, and then complain about all the damn airplane noise.

Not really. Buying near an airport requires explicit acknowledgement that you're doing it and that's why homeowners don't really have a leg to stand on when they complain to their local government. IIRC last time I looked at a home near a bunch of transmitters, there was no such disclosure required.

It works when it's just software that you can support on your own later (open source). It doesn't work when it's SaaS.

> still less loud than any restaurant in the US

Sounds like you might need to try some restaurants in the US. It's more than McDonald's and TGI Fridays.

It's Tempe, not Temple and the neighborhood doesn't exist yet. Just announced recently.

The tax is not based on living in it. Nor is it based on the space it consumes.

Said everyone during a bull market

>For a value that includes the bigger perspective on our culture

Sure

> and what it means to live a good life

That's just self-aggrandizing bullshit. There is no class that will tell you what it means to live a good life. Anyone who thinks so is dearly lacking perspective.

>an exclusive focus on STEM is indeed 'super specialized'.

An exclusive focus on STEM will include the philosophy of science and what it means to seek truths about the physical world. IMO that has immensely more value in a philosophical sense than you seem to imply.

Most STEM courses aren't vocational training and aren't super specialized. I think you might have a biased negative view for what STEM courses are?

Edit: Let me state it a different way that might shed more light on my point. A CS major can pass all of his/her classes with a perfect GPA and still be incapable of writing software ready for a production system (even at small scale).

The STEM degrees emphasize fundamentals that are rarely (if ever) used in day-to-day "real jobs".

Well nobody tried to use lead-acid batteries for storage of anything on the significance of grid base-load and replacing a huge chunk of transportation energy capacity.

> that capital is a positive feedback loop

This requires a lot of the investment environment that isn't a given. Capital loses its feedback loop if inflation outpaces economic growth or if the quality of investment opportunities declines significantly.

There is no given that just having $10 million dollars means it will be easy to outpace inflation and not end up with less.

Is it? The main difference is additional connectors and access control filters. Both are not really hard from a technology standpoint.