jrs95

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811.
by jrs95 9y ago
Why do these make it to the front page like once a month? Do we really need to say "we don't need electronic voting" this often?
812.
by jrs95 9y ago
Personally I like the conspiracy theory that the government likes using drug money to fund black ops. The less crazy but somewhat similar explanations are that institutions which enforce criminalization are resistant to change and don’t wan
813.
by jrs95 9y ago
Is it still targeting Windows XP though? Or is it just Windows NT more broadly now, albeit with a much older looking interface?
814.
by jrs95 9y ago
Built-in anti-virus and Edge as the default instead of IE are pretty big improvements themselves, for the average user.
815.
by jrs95 9y ago
It's worse in the midwest. 95% of the available tech jobs are boring as hell, so there's not much left to look for in them except money.
816.
by jrs95 9y ago
So much for that theory about protectionism not working because other countries will retaliate in the same way. Apparently they won't if they're run by people that worship the free market.
817.
by jrs95 9y ago
You're not up to date on the current rhetoric, it's been decided that all white people are in fact to blame. That's probably why you're getting downvoted to hell.
818.
by jrs95 9y ago
So, is Windows 10 not really the last major release? Or do they have an end of service date for it just as a formality, and it'll probably get extended repeatedly?
819.
by jrs95 9y ago
Personally, as a Millennial, I blame Boomers for everything.
820.
by jrs95 9y ago
Ugh. Typical Gen X cynicism and nihilism. ;)
821.
by jrs95 9y ago
People are still using i386? I'd assume even if they are, it's such a tiny minority that it shouldn't be an excuse to hold everyone else back.
822.
by jrs95 9y ago
It was definitely never achieved, but at least people gave a shit about it. Thats no longer the case, and it's not in the mainstream monoculture that people seem to be convinced is somehow anti-establishment.
823.
by jrs95 9y ago
People are doing what feels good and what makes them look good. Social incentives have been highly politicized, so in many environments the sort of behavior you're talking about is seen as the highest virtue. Meritocracy or traditional
824.
by jrs95 9y ago
Well we have 4. That's more competition than we have in a lot of other software platforms.
825.
by jrs95 9y ago
This really should have ended with a Jesse Pinkman-esque " Bitch ".
826.
by jrs95 9y ago
That's funny I was just doing that in response to your comments ;)
827.
by jrs95 9y ago
Totally forgot about that one. Having nearly everyone on one the same framework probably helped a lot with that. I don't think anyone else really has that advantage. Except maybe Ruby and Rails... Perhaps some good concurrency stuff wi
828.
by jrs95 9y ago
Flask is a great fit with smaller APIs but not tiny like this in my experience. Great support for SQLAlchemy and database migrations. Better than Django ORM in my opinion.
829.
by jrs95 9y ago
FWIW I've never had these issues with Rails, though it does make sense that this would be more common with Rails than most things.
830.
by jrs95 9y ago
Especially when a platform doesn't have libraries that support it fully. Node and ASP.NET are the only fully async platforms I'm really aware of where this isn't a huge problem. Of course there are others with great but not a
831.
by jrs95 9y ago
It's not inherently async, but it supports async. Although database support for that isnt great, so I'd recommend just sticking to synchronous stuff for now unless you don't mind using raw SQL. If it were me, I'd probabl
832.
by jrs95 9y ago
I suppose you could ultimately try and place some blame on him but I feel that it's more likely an issue with middle management. Is that his fault to an extent? Perhaps, but it's hard to tell without knowing a lot more than we eve
833.
by jrs95 9y ago
Perhaps it's not too late for rebranding it?
834.
by jrs95 9y ago
Thats not the full picture though. You've got the rate changes and the increased standard deduction. Most of the changes you've mentioned are bad for upper middle income people who are going to benefit the most from the lower rate
835.
by jrs95 9y ago
The credits and the expanded standard deduction outweigh the removal of the personal exemption, especially with the rate changes. The House bill is fairly straightforward in regards to low to middle income families.
836.
by jrs95 9y ago
It's been forever since I've read about this, so I don't have much, but even just looking at the wikipedia page[1] the view expressed in this article seems to sort of fit with the Keynesian and to a lesser extent Marxist view
837.
by jrs95 9y ago
Perhaps that's what the Senate bill was like, but last time I checked the House bill did the opposite by expanding the child tax credit. Based on what we've seen them advocating for within the last decade or so, I would expect the
838.
by jrs95 9y ago
It doesn't seem quite that similar. They're not as on board with some of the same culture war absurdities as HuffPo.
839.
by jrs95 9y ago
Not that I'm an economist, but there's more of an intuitive link between tax cuts -> profits -> stock market gains than there is between tax cuts -> ... -> underconsumption -> Great Depression. Edit: Although after
840.
by jrs95 9y ago
I was under the impression that underconsumption was basically a discredited theory of what caused The Great Depression.

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