nicker

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by nicker 15y ago
I wish there was a way to hold legislators accountable/liable for badly written laws. Our statute books are overflowing with junk. It is like we have a mammoth code base with no source control and no one even trying to clean it up. Just a
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by nicker 15y ago
At TechDirt < http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110713/11244515079/can-we... ; they argue that by default the photos are in the public domain. We don't want to fall into the trap of assuming everything must have some copyright owner.
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by nicker 16y ago
I'd prefer it just redirect to the top of news.ycombinator.com/. The ranking of stories change over time, so at some point "more" has no meaning when the underlying list has changed. Since everyone who sees the expired link page, goes bac
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by nicker 16y ago
Does anyone else see the irony of public campaign financing as a solution to problems explained in the this article? In the same way that companies distort regulations of their industry to thwart competition, politicians will ensure that pu
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by nicker 16y ago
The problem with passwords is that ideally they are long random strings and different for every site. But humans are not good at remembering such passwords, so they tend pick shorter passwords and to re-use them on lots of sites. But compu
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by nicker 17y ago
First, it costs a lot (accounts and attorneys) to game the tax system. So only "the rich" can afford it. The net result is progressive taxes wind up hurting the "doing well but not rich yet". Second, if I go to a store and buy a chair th
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by nicker 17y ago
A non-zero second deriviate invites gaming. The tax rate (e.g. 20% or 35%) is per "unit". If the marginal rate is too high, you can always break up into smaller units (e.g not get married or split up a company) or defer realizing income u