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by petersellers 2y ago
It's not inaccurate. While it is true that they didn't pay the rates on paper, their effective rate was still significantly higher than it is today (even with all the loopholes).
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by petersellers 2y ago
That is false, at least for the top tax bracket (which is what I'm referring to). Even the Tax Foundation, which is a biased source that is anti-tax in general states that the effective rate for the top bracket was 6% higher then than
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by petersellers 2y ago
No? We aren't a communist country, so bringing up communist revolutions is irrelevant here. We used to tax the rich much more than we do now, and government bureaucrats were not obscenely wealthy then as you seem to be implying. Also,
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by petersellers 2y ago
> It's clearly not about the power imbalance and exploitation, because someone genuinely interested in curbing those effects would address them directly. The fact that everyone who claims to care about the destabilizing effects of c
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by petersellers 2y ago
Regulations are removed all the time in the US (see the repeal of Glass-Steagall act as a recent, prominent example)
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by petersellers 2y ago
> I spent too many years of my life on Java. It was okay until someone wrote a thing in php (!!) in a day that would be have taken at least a month in Java. Maybe two. Really curious to hear what that was, because I'm having a hard
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by petersellers 2y ago
> I think the free market is probably a better outcome as long as there is oversight and regulation. The problem is weak regulation. Public services can be regulated and have oversight, too. What properties do private services have that
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by petersellers 3y ago
Isn't it more likely that you can catch yourself during the planning phase if the amount of work being estimated exceeds your budget? That seems much cheaper and easier to pivot from than if you were to make that realization halfway t
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by petersellers 3y ago
I can't speak for the person who posted it. Seems like it could have been an honest mistake to me. An "appeal to authority" means something more specific (e.g. the logical fallacy "argument from authority") and thi
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by petersellers 3y ago
How is that an appeal to authority?
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by petersellers 3y ago
Where is the appeal to authority? I'm not seeing it.
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by petersellers 3y ago
That's not critical thinking though, it's fallacious thinking. Whether or not someone is a "thought leader" has no bearing on the quality of the article.
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by petersellers 3y ago
You are attacking the person's writing capability, implying that the article is not good because they wrote something before that you disagreed with. You're trying to argue semantics here, but it doesn't really matter becaus
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by petersellers 3y ago
In your original post, you dismissed the article because you read previous books of his and thought they were bad. That is literally an ad hominem.
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by petersellers 3y ago
I think it's more likely that if you can't find anything constructive to say about it, that maybe you don't have a valid argument (your original post was an ad hominem attack after all).
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by petersellers 3y ago
I find this kind of empty criticism frustrating. Do you have anything constructive to add about this article specifically?
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by petersellers 3y ago
Let's put aside for a moment your extremely broad characterization of the behavior of "all parents". Do you not think that society should have an interest in ensuring that children are properly nurtured, educated, cared for,
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by petersellers 3y ago
Not in the US, you can't.
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by petersellers 3y ago
If the second chart is accurate then the first chart should be showing continual upward progress over time, but what we see is that the first chart is starting to flatten out around 2023. Either the term "cumulative" is being used
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by petersellers 3y ago
Even more egregious are those stupid "RemindMe!" bots which in a very ham-fisted way create noise for everyone except the one person triggering the bot (ironically, a 3rd party app would be way better suited at implementing this s
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by petersellers 3y ago
> Twitter is better for users now This is a totally subjective statement. For me its the opposite: All I seem to see there in replies lately are tweets about culture war bullshit talking points that are 100% noise and 0% intellectual va
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by petersellers 3y ago
> But Twitter is better, leaner, and more popular than ever now, and deservedly so, now that that sinking ship was righted. Hopefully this is sarcasm, because in reality the opposite is true (except for the leaner part). https:/&#x
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by petersellers 3y ago
> Again, my point is that I believe this is absolutely intentional. If in these emotional pleas to the community somebody comes out and says, “$1 per user per month is what we’re willing to accept”, you’re going to see the people that we
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by petersellers 3y ago
> If nobody is demanding free API access, why has the “movement” not put out a counteroffer for pricing that they’d be happy with? I don't think this "movement" of third-party client developers is as organized as you think
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by petersellers 3y ago
> “We have no option and no way to exist unless Reddit gives in to our demands.” That's a strawman. The complaint isn't that Reddit is charging money for API usage, it's that the pricing is extremely expensive. > But
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by petersellers 3y ago
Not sure what your point is here? We're talking about the fact that Reddit's API prices are going to be extremely high going forward. Your response was a dismissive "just charge 9 dollars". Obviously that is going to c
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by petersellers 3y ago
Doing that is going to kill a huge percentage of Apollo's user base. It's not a foregone conclusion that the app will die, but the chances of that happening are much much greater now than they were before. If you were the develo
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by petersellers 3y ago
I wonder if the observed decline in discussion quality has any correlation with the "boost" that is given to comments from accounts with blue check marks.
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by petersellers 3y ago
> Carmack had been pushing for an all-out device but got sidelined by Zuck's push towards cheap and scale Is that true? From this article[1], it sounds like he had been pushing for cheap headsets, not expensive ones: > There he
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by petersellers 3y ago
What are the software sales people going to sell if there are no software developers to build their product? In a way you're both right - software developers (usually) don't create/design/sell the entire product end-to-e

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