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sighs wistfully I still remember the first day I was able to exit vim without looking it up. It's right up there with that one time I wrote a function that compiled and worked on t…

Carried-interest loophole?

While you ARE technically correct, the alternative in the wild is progressive taxation. That makes flat taxation a de facto regressive tax, as it will be more regressive than the c…

> Say 4 of the high earners stop working as much (since their marginal rates are so high). I know you're just using this as an example, but it begs a question I've struggled with: …

> Despite all the different changes in the income tax rate/other progressive taxes. This supports an overhaul to the tax code to a more simple, flat tax system. From another data s…

I've wrestled with it, and settled into prioritizing humanely-raised meat. I have far more qualms about the inhumane treatment of most farm animals than I do about the concept of r…

Yeah I was having this thought the other day: Why own a home when you could own a self-driving RV? Obviously there will still be advantages to owning land, but there's some real ap…

This was a complaint I heard from several people I work with who took the course.

Right. People forget that there is no such thing as a truly "free" market. Literally everything we consider a "market" has regulations, from contract enforcement to currency standa…

Allow me to followup in support: I work for a private VPN company (that coincidentally used to be a dial-up ISP), and the owner/leadership is very active in lobbying state and fede…

My advice would be: Do learn functional programming, don't learn Lisp.

a) The biggest instigator by far is a dog we adopted at the age of 3 who was abandoned in the street and then spent another 9 months in the dog shelter. Each dog's mileage will var…

> These five words are, as far as I can tell, the poison in the pudding of American politics today. In the abstract, you're right, but I feel like it's worth noting that there's no…

> I have two young kids - pre-fb age - and they already have some questionable habits on my wife's iPhone - as soon as it comes out, they wanna look at pictures, go on youtube and …

I hadn't thought of that, but it would explain the runaway valuation more than any other theory I've heard.

I'd argue the better analogy is "If you have a great idea, what's more important to get it to market: your first engineer or your first investor?" The next is always going to be "w…

This sounds more like a mobile security camera than a replacement for a security guard. I'd be surprised if a large chunk is taken out of that employment market anytime soon.

MY company does hybrid remote/on-site, and one of the best ways to mitigate issues with off-site communication is part-time work from home. Since on-site workers spend some of thei…

> rather than have inventory, they relist competitor's inventory at lower prices Wow. No wonder Wal-Mart bought them, they're cut from the same cloth.

Well that's because he's publicly backed Trump, who is as un-libertarian as you can get.

You're right, that's why we have elections every few years to make sure there's an opportunity to make them care about voters, if only for a bit.

This is a good generalized process for getting better at anything, but it's still awfully subjective and squishy once you try to apply it to a given domain. How do you `Identify wh…

I've found audiobooks (and podcasts) to be great for lighter reading, but I tend to drift in and out. That's not a great system for something more scaffolded like a textbook where …

Sure! Our company has been working on a "whole-house, always-on" product for a while, but it hasn't taken off because of the difficulties involved with having users flash Tomato on…

Full Disclosure: I work for a private VPN company This depends on the VPN provider. Private VPN services share IPs between customers, and the extra layer of privacy they provide co…