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This covers federal income taxes only, excluding payroll taxes such as Social Security and Medicare. Including those the top 1% pays ~25% of all federal taxes while earning ~22% of…

Weed in the US is starting to get this way as well. It’s amazing the amount of actually useful drug information you can get from products sold at weed shops these days. Meanwhile y…

They’re incredibly convenient. It allows smaller groups of people to accomplish more in a shorter amount of time by providing a standardized interface that does a great job of inte…

Do you have a source on this? Most I know are impressed by SpaceX despite Elon’s public image.

Like you said I imagine it was less effort. Less effort can be very valuable if you’re still producing something useful. Perhaps you could use a simple transpilation approach yours…

> claim that cats (of all animals!) should stay at home at all costs. that's also weird. But these are mostly internet people, I've never found one in real life... I’m one of these…

You seem like you very much actually know what you’re talking about. Do you have any recommendations for books for laypeople for understanding modern agriculture?

Do you find yourself refusing to read articles or papers unless you’re first 100% sure that everything stated in them is absolutely true? Having to approach something with a certai…

The common language most often used when people from Japan, China, or South Korea visit each other’s countries is English. All three groups of people are more likely to know Englis…

Interesting! Sorry if this is getting off topic, but how does the Catholic Church feel about using sex as a method for developing closeness and intimacy with a partner, rather than…

Most people are not able to install a heat pump themselves. I consider myself a fairly technical DIY sort of person but was not comfortable installing it myself. Installation is go…

That's an imperfect solution for a problem that didn't need to exist in the first place that might even produce its own list of problems.

I have to agree with this comment. More often than not one-liner rewrites of even trivial functions are unreadable and can't easily be modified, all for the sake of having the appe…

Don't forget Python - 28 years

I particularly enjoy how going to http://javascript.crockford.com/ doesn't load any javascript.

You're right, this article is missing the bigger picture, but I don't think that was ever its target. It's simple, accessible, and piques peoples interest into something much bigge…

> But it's a long way off from becoming a sensible alternative Electric vehicles aren't going to flood the market overnight, just as renewable energy isn't going to suddenly become…

> the US grid is currently 12.x% renewable Overall US power consumption has gone from 8.9% renewables 10 years ago to ~12.2% today. Vehicles that use fossil fuels as their primary …

"Electric cars aren't green" is a myth spread by a few op-ed pieces written in the LA Times and WSJ. The production of a battery is a tiny constant in comparison to the lifelong us…

If Microsoft markets Windows as a mobile platform I'll compare it to the existing competition. Sure, it might not be fair, but ultimately I'm looking for results, not fairness.

I've always been curious, what makes Excel better?

Aside from the bookmarklet, I love it. Without an extension, though, I don't see myself using it. Hopefully we'll see one soon.

It seems that the 'bigger is badder' mentality has snuck its way into this discussion as well. The Humble Bundle allows its customers to donate every penny they spend and promotes …