lol. Thanks for this. GOOSE VALUE!

Eggs do not lay eggs. The goose was not valued.

"Backlash was immediate, however, when Vineland’s mayor and council proposed giving DataOne a $6.2 million loan."

These poor data center operators do really need a hand up after all. Incredible. Of all of the things your municipality could use its development funds on, this would not make my shortlist.

I've had this same experience with Oracle shops. I've been in data roles for most of the last 20 years and it'd still give me pause to take work on an Oracle platform if only because they're doing their own thing so often.

Maybe not for the HN crowd, but it's a requirement for applying to a lot of places if you're just an average person and/ or not in tech. I only started getting interviews after I finally put a picture on my profile. It sucks, but its used by a LOT of employers if only to try to verify you're an actual person.

Have they never heard of the telephone?

You'd have to ask them. They asked why people would use LinkedIn. "I have to have a LinkedIn profile in order to complete this application on Indeed" is a reason.

Cars are also one of those things that can be an emotional purchase and people do weird things. I spent way more than I needed to in order to get the car I wanted and I wanted it because it's a cool vehicle that, when I squint, still fits my needs. It wasn't smart financially but I'm extremely happy I did it. My wife could not care less about a vehicle outside of it being ergonomic and not having a payment. We'll be looking at depreciation curves and the like during that exercise.

Depends on what value you place on the vehicles I suppose.

No, but the article doesn't really do that either.

I haven't worked on campaigns for a LONG time but I don't think the basic answer has changed much. It's media and labor.

Presidential and statewide elections are a little different, but in most races the average voter isn't putting a lot of thought into an individual candidate. The bulk of that money isn't being spent to convince a voter to vote for an individual, it's convincing them to vote at all in full knowledge that most will break for one team or the other. It's part of why so much of the messaging is based at the lowest common denominator - it's more effective to spend money telling people that the "GOP hates women!" or "Dems want boys on your daughter's volleyball team!" in order to get the emotional response that will encourage action. Once you identify one of your "team", you basically spend money harassing them to vote until they do.

The groups that tend to spend more money win for the same reason that a product that is advertised more heavily, all other things being relatively equal, will outperform the product that advertises less.

Who involved in the Citizens United case was at risk of imprisonment?

Absolutely. They've just put themselves in a pretty poor situation to do even that. Whoops.