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Progressive tax structures are also arbitrary but I don’t see anyone here complaining about those.

Ultimately the problem is that the tax code is altogether too complex. I filed by hand up until a couple of years ago when I had to start accounting for things like capital gains a…

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It is - the book of Matthew, specifically.

This makes sense to me. Sometimes it’s not even about more money but existence entirely. Seeing as that VisiCalc was _the Spreadsheet_ up until Lotus came along and ate their lunch…

Remember when browsers were for, you know, browsing?

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Oh man, you came to the wrong town, my friend.

They each basically tried to start their own trilogy so yeah, episode nine is gonna be tough.

I sometimes wonder if bringing Scott Forestall back in would fix things, even temporarily. He wasn’t necessarily pleasant but then again, neither was Steve.

I agree with the problem (“wanting to freeze the city in amber”), but not the solution, at least as the author wants to implement it. The solution would be to deregulate housing (r…

I’ve heard this argument in a lot of contexts, and it has always struck me as saying, “if hitting yourself with this bat hurts, try wrapping this towel around it and maybe it will …

I think there’s a grain of truth to this. However, I would ask a counter-question: by what standard do you define “morality”? Or “hate-speech”? Or “extremism”? What gives one perso…

I see 2 problems with this. The first is that most of the algorithms they’re using are probably based heavily on machine learning, making them inscrutable not just to the general p…

I mean, it shows (in Hurd, for example).

And it completely ignores what the company has done for Minneapolis and the surrounding area. But it’s easy to disregard local knowledge when Internet outrage is the preferred reac…

The basis for this claim seems to hinge on the facts that Cargill is a) big and b) privately owned, both of which are sins in today's political orthodoxy. As a Minnesotan, I was wo…

This sounds eerily like what happened with the railroads, and I suspect it would have some unintended and unsavory side effects. At the very least, it would open up opportunities f…

They could, but then the costs will just be passed down to the tenants (i.e. increased rent).

Funny how expressing the opinion that regulation will lead to harm gets you downvoted while calling someone, “stupid” doesn’t have a single effect.

Should we then require restaurants to install cameras to make sure waiters/waitresses are fully reporting their paper tips? Seems to me that fits within the category of tracking bu…

Which is exactly why creating more government will exacerbate the problem.

Apparently everyone is about the, “right to privacy” until their own envy overrides it.

It doesn’t.

I wonder if perhaps RMS is annoyed by the lack of GPL v3 adoption.