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by codexb 3y ago
> suffering is a result of holding on too tightly, as opposed to observing intently. Once you observe, the suffering goes away. This is a new quote to me and I love it. Do you remember where it's from?
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by codexb 3y ago
I think it would be more accurate to state that the Prime Minister's power and authority exist at the pleasure of the British Monarchy. Legally, the British Monarch, and by extension, the Governor General of Canada has ultimate authori
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by codexb 3y ago
The same is true for Music. I spend ~$120 a year on music streaming subscriptions. That's somewhere on par with 8-12 albums per year, or 100-120 individual songs. I don't think I've ever purchased that much in my life. I&#x27
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by codexb 3y ago
No, the structure of society matters little. Like I said, technology will benefit the people who are able to harness it. The man who can make and use the spear and the atlatl will outpace the man still throwing rocks. It doesn't matter
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Why would an owner do that? The owners would be incentivized to increase production of widgets and try and find even more uses for their widgets, because the margins on them all just increased exponentially. It's also not just capi
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It's a fallacy that an increase in a workers productivity due to better technology or innovation *on the part of someone else* should result in an equal share in the profits of that increased productivity. If I have a factory that make
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by codexb 3y ago
True, but if data is available commercially, it's available to the government, as we learnt earlier this year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36300410 Even when companies are only selling anonymized data, with en
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by codexb 3y ago
VW for sure
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It's literally a 1st amendment violation. Seems pretty extreme to me.
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by codexb 3y ago
No, commercial airplanes all use unleaded jet fuel. But the small, 2 and 4 seater general aviation planes you see are almost all using 60-year old engine designs that run on leaded fuel because the FAA doesn't want to devote time to ap
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by codexb 3y ago
The problem is that they won't approve engines for general aviation that use unleaded gas. All the engines used in general aviation are basically 60 year old designs. General aviation is not a major concern for the FAA. It's an af
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by codexb 3y ago
It's a natural law so long as you have a framework for incorporated entities and you want to allow international trade. Incorporated entities are intangible. They are just ideas. They don't have to exist in any particular geograph
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All taxes are ultimately born by the consumer. All. Of. Them. It doesn't matter how much you try and obfuscate the tax by introducing it at different points in the supply chain. If you charge a tax anywhere in the supply chain, supplie
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by codexb 3y ago
> It's regressive Corporate tax is already flat in the US (21%). For the majority of corporations that pass-through their tax, I don't have data on it, but I'm willing to bet the individual marginal rate is higher than 21%
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by codexb 3y ago
If a corporation has profit, and doesn't pay dividends, then the income is taxed at the corporate rate, so they're not avoiding the tax. And even if you got rid of corporate income tax, this income would be better captured as a VA
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by codexb 3y ago
Dividends aren’t capital gains, they’re taxed as income at the marginal rate. Unrealized wealth is exactly that, unrealized, which is why we don’t tax it. If you want to live a wealthy lifestyle and all you have is unrealized wealth, you wi
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by codexb 3y ago
Taxing corporate income is a flawed concept. Corporate headquarters are easily moved, and Corporate income is easily shifted between corporations and individuals in different tax jurisdictions all over the world. You have to tax the income
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by codexb 3y ago
Relevant xkcd - https://xkcd.com/1095/
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by codexb 3y ago
I'd say the breakup of Ma Bell actually made things worse for about 30 years for consumers. It wasn't until they began consolidating again over the past 20 years that things began to improve.
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by codexb 3y ago
I totally agree. I've had audacity and pro-tools setups before, but my best songs came out of a Boss digital 4-track. I was also insanely fast on it, too. I could come home from work on lunch break with a song idea and bang out a near
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by codexb 3y ago
I would skip the tape and get a Boss digital 4 track like a boss br-532. It has a drum machine, some basic effects. Each track also has 8 "virtual tracks", so you do have some room to record variations, but more importantly, it le
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by codexb 3y ago
Unlikely. This isn’t a problem of education. The primary benefit of hybrids is fuel efficiency. People who buy large SUVs have already decided that fuel efficiency is not a high priority.
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There are many examples. Many SUV's in the US these days are only able to meet emissions requirements by automatically turning off the engine at stoplights or whenever the car comes to a stop. Many people find it annoying because there
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by codexb 3y ago
A small number, perhaps, but most of these are likely components that enable more aggressive tuning to increase fuel and airflow for more horsepower and performance.
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It's going to be a bit harder to win on this end I think. Manufacturer's require retailers to agree to this type of restriction all the time time (and it's mandatory, not voluntary) like it is with Amazon.
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Plex supports allow lists and deny lists. Nice to be able to gate most movies by rating and then allow some others on a per-movie basis.
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The only goal is self-preservation. It's universal. All individual "moral" decisions are based on this one goal.
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This, exactly. I think most people don't even realize why they feel something is right or wrong or what it even means for something to be "moral" At our core, everything we feel is based off self-preservation -- for ourselv
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Eyewear isn't ubiquitous.
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> if there is a valid case for divorce then absolutely nothing should stand in the way. If children were not involved, I would agree with you. But because children are negatively affected by divorce, there should be disincentives for div

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