TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Yes but the companies that don't require state services aren't getting taxed. They are being told to tax their customers who are (theoretically) getting state services.
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
But again (as I said below and was completely unfairly downvoted) we have no way to raise that much money to pay the seniors. Because Tax revenue tends to stay consistent as a % of GDP( http://tinyurl.com/3dgkupq ) even when the top tax ra
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
It is when your debt is approaching 100% of your GDP and you owe 40% of it to yourself. Think about it. If GDP and our Debt are roughly equal how is 1 or 2% a year increase in revenue going to be able to pay 40% + interest of debt?
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
What is interesting to me is how much those two countries are themselves in debt. Everyone knows about Japan but China has quite a mess to deal with too: http://tinyurl.com/3upnavb
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
The problem with this assessment is a large part of our debt is owed to a shell game. Raising taxes has proven ineffective when it comes to generating large amounts of revenue. Look at history and tax revenue as a % of GDP remains remarkab
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
The answer is no one. I'm a proud American. Great, Great, Great, Great Grandparent and G/G/G/G/G Grandparent both fought in the Revolutionary war and everything. But even I have to admit, as a rational person, the world foolishly built it
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
There's a pretty serious tinge of narcissism to using a woman's death to complain about too much noise in your social stream. He couldn't have waited until the next time Apple's rumored to be building a TV to post this?
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Keep in mind when you say the Debt has lasted forever that doesn't take into account the rapid growth in the last 30 years. From 1946 to 1980 the debt growth was essentially flat (which means it went down when you consider inflation). The
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Last I heard we were estimated to be spending $533 billion per year in 2015 and that estimate was from 2009 (we've spent a lot more since then). So assuming that's brought us a little closer you can assume we'll be paying $500 billion in t
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Visualizations are never meant to be rational. What they can do, if effective, is over rule other irrational judgments. For instance, I'd contend your view (that the debt is no big deal) is irrational. Had this worked on you it would hav
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I'm not sure I know what you're talking about. I was talking about Data Binding in the context of Microsoft technology. So, for example, when you want a grid to reflect an entire database table you can define the table and this with two l
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I actually meant weary as in "tired" so there! (Just kidding, I was totally wrong on that. Thanks for the correction) As far as data binding there are two reasons I consider it sloppy... 1. It's magic box coding (as in I put these simple
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
As a Microsoft Developer and someone who has been fairly enamored with Silverlight I have to say I've always been weary of the MVVM model. It's a model built to fit a technology rather than the other way around and it shows. Though I admit
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
But I think the definition you point to is part of the problem. By saying "Luxury" it makes it sound like staying alive 20 extra years is the same thing as buying a BMW and people tend to reject that. But from a purely analytic standpoint
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I wouldn't worry. First I think Barnes and Noble is more likely to survive with Borders out of the way. But even if the local book market disappeared completely I think someone would pop up and fill the need for "a place to chill out" (as
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I agree but you'll pardon me if I still think Novell's new owners are a bunch of jerks. Just less so. That said I think this goes beyond IP for Xamarin. As you said they get the existing customers but they're also available to new custome
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I think it's semantics but I'll concede the point. Murdoch wouldn't have been outright forbidden by the law (or whatever you want to call it). But when the government of a nation expressly attacks a specific future action a company would h
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
See this is why I hate the NY Times. I get the fact that they hate Rupert Murdoch. I don't much care for him either. But you can't skew your reporting based on that. In this case Parliament was about to pass a law forbidding Murdoch from
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
It's sad that we don't seem to train young people to assess ideas themselves rather than trust in things like degrees (which can be meaningless depending on the quality of the institution that issued them) But I think there's a big caveat h
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
We just learned this lesson in California where voters recently passed an "on-time budget" initiative. The way it worked was Legislators didn't get paid after the budget deadline. In theory this would get them to pass a budget on time ins
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Box Scores A Big Enterprise Deal: 18,000 Procter & Gamble Employees Up In Clouds(techcrunch.com)
6 points by TomOfTTB 15y ago|1 comments
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
F# is probably your only valid point though I'm not sure I'd call yet another functional programming language an innovation. Seadragon is Zooming technology that is, at best, a decent demo at this point (and probably designed to be patented
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
One of the things Microsoft has done well is to pick the right pricing plan and the right industry. By making it a per unit fee on Smartphones you make it easy for manufacturers to pass the cost on to the consumer who then subsidizes it th
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Well its founder did leave Microsoft specifically to found a company that does nothing but patent trolling ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures ). Given the number of actual products that have come out of Microsoft Research
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
It's funny, I had just the opposite reaction. To my eyes it seems like we have technology that far exceeds what they envisioned but we haven't managed to be anywhere near as effective at the predicted at using it. To run down the list...
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
With all due respect to the severity of the issue questioning whether it was the Earthquake or the Tsunami is a pointless debate. The Earthquake struck at 2:46 while the first Tsunami hit at 3:27. In a crisis situation you could not make a
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
It really isn't that much. Look at it this way... The way a corporate balance sheet works you don't spend money manufacturing your product. What you do is convert the asset from money to a physical product you can sell. But that asset is
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I don't know. If a historical account gives the details it knows correctly but leaves a bunch of details out is it still accurate? There's actually a great book written about the creation of Direct3D called Renegades of the Empire ( http:/
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
The problem here is the author is mischaracterizing the debate. Right now we have a job environment where most good jobs require a college degree. The debate as to whether college is necessary asks if that environment is appropriate since
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New York, Gay Marriage and The Bible
4 points by TomOfTTB 15y ago|1 comments

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