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New comment by googlehater in "Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center"

googlehater — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:58:38 +0000

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.

New comment by googlehater in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

googlehater — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:18:06 +0000

i noticed your profile has a lot of great info onthis. where did you learn?

New comment by googlehater in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

googlehater — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:16:32 +0000

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

New comment by googlehater in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

googlehater — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:20:52 +0000

what's the point of your comment? it's a thread... on a forum of non experts... and he asked a question.

New comment by googlehater in "Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations"

googlehater — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:27:29 +0000

Same specs/prompt, but with Max plan.

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

New comment by googlehater in "Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov"

googlehater — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:28:46 +0000

hm.. i wonder where their lithography tech was patented?

New comment by googlehater in "A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela"

googlehater — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:54:05 +0000

As someone who knows nothing about networking, this felt really easy to follow. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by googlehater in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

googlehater — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:28:26 +0000

I often forget just how much smaller and less siloed the internet was just ~13 years ago.

New comment by googlehater in "Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack"

googlehater — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:31:54 +0000

Can you elaborate?

New comment by googlehater in "Google is winning on every AI front"

googlehater — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 01:56:50 +0000

> A couple months ago it felt like people were sure that Google completely fucked it up for themselves

Hey it's me!

New comment by googlehater in "France's new high-speed train has Americans asking: Why can't we have that?"

googlehater — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 05:48:00 +0000

being, built, right, and now.

four words that do not describe CHSR

New comment by googlehater in "Bored of It"

googlehater — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:21:30 +0000

absolutely nothing wrong with restarting a decomissioned nuke.

New comment by googlehater in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

googlehater — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 03:57:28 +0000

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.

New comment by googlehater in "Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat"

googlehater — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 03:42:53 +0000

Hey great find man!

New comment by googlehater in "Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds"

googlehater — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:11:43 +0000

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!

New comment by googlehater in "Everything is Ghibli"

googlehater — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:09:59 +0000

this is your brain on boomer nostalgia

New comment by googlehater in "Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight"

googlehater — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:38:32 +0000

jessica chastain lookalike no?

New comment by googlehater in "Duterte's ICC arrest is a victory for a faltering rules-based order"

googlehater — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:04:24 +0000

Thanks I did not know this.

New comment by googlehater in "Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle"

googlehater — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:39:39 +0000

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!

New comment by googlehater in "Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly"

googlehater — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 03:22:59 +0000

what was the purpose of that analogy?