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Sure, they tax figured out how to tax dead people, so they probably figure 'why stop there?': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_State...
Yup, we should just go to full oligarchy and let real wealth stay with the 1% families while we fight for their scraps!
But thanks for the donwvotes, sorry about the humor.
It honestly doesn't matter. Nobody at the FCC is going to read these things - it's there because it has to be there, not because they intend on listening. They've set their agenda, now they're executing it. They have absolutely no plans on listening to anyone along the way. Nobody in this entire administration does.
Q: if public opinon would prefer to treat the internet like the internet like a utility would you vote the other way?
Pai responded with Not really an answer saying they have to look at the evidence, but his answer was no.
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/05/05/526...
His solution to problems with ISPs is for consumers to complain to a regulatory agency. After taking away regulatory authority.
I hope that when I die I can stay as far away from politics as possible.
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Sure, they tax figured out how to tax dead people, so they probably figure 'why stop there?': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_State...
According to your link, "If an asset is left to a spouse or a federally recognized charity, the tax usually does not apply. In addition, up to a certain amount varying year by year can be given by an individual, before and/or upon their death, without incurring federal gift or estate taxes:[2] $5,340,000 for estates of persons dying in 2014,[3] $5,430,000 for estates of persons dying in 2015,[4] and $5,450,000 (effec…
I hope that when I die I can stay as far away from politics as possible.
Since ping times from the afterlife have such bad latency, they don't mind letting ISPs get away with whatever they want.
That's reasonable. Politicians have long searched for a way to exploit the dead vote.
Sure, they tax figured out how to tax dead people, so they probably figure 'why stop there?': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_State...
Comparing it to another popular complex learning system, neural networks, might provide insight on failure conditions.
Income taxes can be thought of as gradient regularizers. Basically limit the amount of weights accumulated per training session (wealth per tax year). Estate taxes can be thought of as weight regularizers (that occur once per lifetime). Maybe it would be more palatable as a tax on wealth yearly.
One of the ways that networks fail (and capitalism can fail) is with extreme values on weights (wealth) on small portions of the network. There are ways to counter this on a neural network - some are heavy handed (l1, l2 regularization), but some are just clever without direct analogies (dropout, batch normalization, etc).
I wonder how the conversation would change if we had to calculate our income tax as a percentage of total wealth each tax year.
It honestly doesn't matter. Nobody at the FCC is going to read these things - it's there because it has to be there, not because they intend on listening. They've set their agenda, now they're executing it. They have absolutely no plans on listening to anyone along the way. Nobody in this entire administration does.
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But it does matter, because it shows malice and intent. All three data points have to be taken together (FCC Opens up comments, Comments criminally spammed, FCC decides the issue X). Given the clear and convincing evidence of malfeasance in the comment stream, the FCC's actions can be judged as reasonable or unreasonable. So what matters is that we shine light on their agenda so that it is not possible for them to cr…
Shine a light for who to see?
That's reasonable. Politicians have long searched for a way to exploit the dead vote.
Sure, they tax figured out how to tax dead people, so they probably figure 'why stop there?': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_State...
It honestly doesn't matter. Nobody at the FCC is going to read these things - it's there because it has to be there, not because they intend on listening. They've set their agenda, now they're executing it. They have absolutely no plans on listening to anyone along the way. Nobody in this entire administration does.