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Not sure why the snarky response, obviously most people have very little direct influence over these things. So you oppose green tax policy on the grounds that it isn't punitive en…

If you want less of something, tax it. Support consumption based taxes like the FairTax in the US which would tax new goods at a high rate while used goods would be tax free. This …

Western European nations have gotten a pass in recent history because they've been deferential to the US, are liberal democracies (ideologically aligned), and are not especially ri…

Anecdotally, the person on my team who is producing the most output and the highest quality happens to explicitly shun LLMs and is also relatively young. Other team members embraci…

Libertarian principles encourage relationships built on mutual consenting parties rather than coercion. This implies that both parties have the freedom to choose. Imagine being stu…

The shortcut is fine if it's a bog standard canonical arrangement of the piece. If it's a custom jazz rendition you composed with an odd key changes and and shifting time signature…

I also like the idea of sales taxes over income and especially wealth taxes for a number of reasons. 1. It limits the opportunities for the government to use force on the general p…

They brought it back this year as Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+. Same vibe, the animation is more polished but still simplistic.

If you care about minimizing child mortality, increasing literacy, pulling people up out of poverty, you should be a capitalist, as it's empirically the best way to meet those goal…

Nothing the government provides is free. It's paid for with taxes that are forcefully collected and would have been spent or invested privately otherwise. I'm not someone who's aga…

Netscape 6, which was released in 2000 and based on the Mozilla Suite (now SeaMonkey) recommended 64MB of RAM. The Mozilla Suite was the basis of the Phoenix project (later renamed…

How I yearn for when their marketing had everyday people touting how "Windows 7 was my idea!" Every Windows release since then has felt like they are hostile to user input.

Thank you for that. I agree, the data does indeed show that Republicans have more voting power per capita, as they have advantages in the bottom 3 quintiles. However, I don't think…

Counting the two Independents as Democrats, who they caucus with: Top 25 states: 2 Democrats - 52% 2 Republicans - 40% Split - 8% Bottom 25 states: 2 Democrats - 36% 2 Republicans …

It's privately funded so it doesn't fit under "waste, fraud, and abuse" in the same vein as things that use taxpayer money. Conflict of interest by attempting to curry favor for hi…

I've seen it where a project needs to get done but the company can't hire anyone for it due to firm wide hiring freezes. So in come the consultants to bang out a sloppy version 1. …

Morgan Stanley was a heavy user of AFS for deploying software and might still be for all I know. "Most Production Applications run from AFS" "Most UNIX hosts are dataless AFS clien…

I know some large financial institutions that still use it. They were building big systems using the stuff in the 90s and early 00s. It still works and nobody has the appetite to r…

Nice case! I actually do the same thing, PC lives on the floor next to my desk. I definitely rejected cases that had didn't have the buttons and front I/O on top for that reason.

Most people probably never upgrade their machines at all. In my case I used the same PC from 2009 until about a month ago. Over its 16 year lifespan it saw 3 GPUs, the memory was d…

> He pays less next year because Oracle stock is worth less. Just like property taxes on people's houses. Does he get a refund if he loses money or is it just tax if you win, tax i…

Yeah it functions like a wealth tax, but the claim was that it was a capital gains tax, which it isn't.

Capital gains receive favorable treatment under US tax code but are also a realized gain by definition. That is you actually have to sell the asset and are taxed based on any profi…

His net worth increased due to asset appreciation. Nobody physically transferred him any money and it can fall back down tomorrow. Should he get a refund if Oracle stock tanks?

Proto2 let you do this and the "required" keyword was removed because of the problems it introduces when evolving the schema in a system with many users that you don't necessarily …