BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
I'd go even more basic than this: only use native everything. It's a travesty that web pages are to use use custom controls or have any kind of look and feel different from the native OS ones. The look and feel of everything (ev
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
I would rather not have Google Docs than have all the other crap that comes along with allowing every website to do stuff that Google Docs "needs".
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
I agree. I think there are ways to do that that could get more support than the way we're currently doing things. Imagine if we began processing immigration applications at a rate ten- or a hundredfold of what we currently do. Imagin
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Well, no, you just a need a coalition that collectively is more powerful.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Weird that you're getting downvoted for this. You're spot on.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
The trick is clarifying that "making money" means "increasing your wealth". Currently there are many ways of increasing wealth that don't "count" as making money.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Utter nonsense. You can't convert between a wealth tax and an income tax in any manner as simple as this, unless the wealth tax and the income tax were implemented in a simplistic way unlike any actual proposal. Most obviously, there
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
> Don't forget this is typically a short term things. When the economy improves the building will be rented again. In my experience in many cases this is not true. The shift toward online shopping, for instance, has meant that a lo
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
The big-picture view of what you're saying is "anything that does not expand dies", and I think that is a fundamental problem with the way our society works. It should be possible to succeed by just remaining stable.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Right. . . but isn't that just obviously stupid? If I say the rent is $3k a month but you get all 12 months free, why would anyone be fooled by that? Why would you base it on some hypothetical rent rather than the amount of actual m
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
That still sounds like a scam.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
I hear people say this a lot but it doesn't make any sense. Why would the value be based on some imaginary rent rather than the actual amount of money taken in? It seems stupid for anyone to say that asking, say, $2500 rent with thre
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
> Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul, ever > If you have been using Vivaldi for years, you have your setup exactly as you want it and you would not trade it for anything. The thing so many software makers seem to not understand
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
> Google and other AI companies are now trying to fix the problem. There is one simple way to do that and that is to JUST GET RID OF THE AI CRAP .
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
The way I do things is that there is no such thing as a shape that can't be committed. Committing is just like saving. It's fine to commit haphazard checkpoints and all manner of crazy stuff. You can use tags or merges or whate
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Missed a bet by not calling it something like "Detachable Nipple".
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
> "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" The groundwork for that was laid long ago with the idea of constant updates. It's been fine for years to ship bugs
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
I saw "import from LinkedIn" and closed the tab.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
If you can use Python, why have AI write your code? :-)
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
> I don't think there's any way to tell if a small company will keep their values if they succeed in getting enough market share. That is why all companies should be small and no company should ever have a huge market share.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
In most cases I think the revelation of a scandal involving a high-profile politician would be a good thing. (That is, better than it remaining secret.)
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Not to mention making the rest of the world miserable too.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Many of the central points here (in particular the quote about conflating individual freedom with that of large companies) are in no way specific to the internet, or to technology at all. The cyberlibertarian idea that me personally being
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Ideally it would be funded by the personal wealth of the people who've profited from the current situation.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
The generalized version of this is "take away something they care about". But it's not always easy to do. In many cases, schools have nothing the kids care about. If they do, rules often prohibit them from using it as leve
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
How will it stop ads if it rewards them with money?
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
I would say the way to think about it is that the revenue from this tax is never the government's money. They are just administering the transfer of it from some individuals to others.
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
We don't need to use the tax on government bureaucracy. We can just give it right back out as direct payments to the non-wealthy.
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
Many of the NIMBY property owners are not nearly wealthy enough to be affected by most wealth tax proposals (e.g., the "few tens of millions" suggested in the article).
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
> Any discussion about tax reform has to start with government spending otherwise it's not serious. I'd say almost the reverse. What we need most in terms of "tax reform" is to move away from thinking about taxes as

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