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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
You're never going to educate away the intuitive identification of payroll deductions proportional to income with the phrase "income taxation".
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No, we should definitely include SS and Medicare. You're correct about retirement programs, but the reality is that people lump income taxes and these "forced savings" into "stuff taken out of my paycheck". When you
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That's a good start. The wealthy need to pay more. The marginal utility of money declines rapidly as you move up the income scale. $1,000 matters a lot less to me than $100 does to an average schmuck who's struggling to pay his bi
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
There has to be a mechanism for people who are truly passionate about their work, like artists, scientists, programmers, to follow their passions as far as they want. The danger, of course, is that intra-organization competition pressures p
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
I can't think of anything special about this instant, but look at prevailing conditions: the employment-to-population rate has plummeted in recent years [1]. The number of zero-margin-product people on disability has skyrocketed [2]. I
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
But I'm not sure what point you're making. If market forces can operate in a world with a 40 hour default work week, they can operate in a world with a 20 hour work week. At the macroeconomic level, we're talking about tweaki
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
Enact a 20-hour work week. Our machines are powerful enough now that we should be able to devote our lives to human dignity, not work. Technology will only turn our world into a Dickensian hellhole if we let it.
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
po1nter, We do not allow developers to criticize our revolutionary and beautiful platform. Good luck ever getting an app featured again. - Apple
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
Between on the author's explicit trademark annotations, division of the world into "junior", "senior", and "architect", pretentious grammatical hypercorrection[1], and casual dismissal of sun.misc.Unsafe u
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
Does anyone else think like this article is written in a bombastic, obfuscatory style? I feel like the author is more concerned about communicating how very intelligent he is than warning other developers about the dangers of fork-join fram
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
Bullshit. If there are no 10x programmers in your group, it's because your group is tiny, you can't hire 10x programmers, or because you're stifling your 10x programmers with bureaucracy.
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
> Every single sentence in this article is offensive, and the overall article is also offensive. While I can't say "this article is not offensive", since "offensive" is subjective, I can say that if articles like
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
I've noticed this phenomenon as well, and it's very frustrating. Let's add async-and-future-everything to the list as well. I honestly don't understand how to convince people to make an honest assessment of the alternati
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
The author's style is wooden and insufferable. What is it about Java that attracts people who want to give the impression they are very smart, but who just sound like MBA types when trying to pull it off?
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
$415 million is still pitifully low. At what point will the judge just force a trial?
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
Where can I buy Modafinil?
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
> many of the other features just stall, probably waiting for some tracker. Ubuntu adds a Firefox extension for integrating some web sites into the desktop. It's incredibly buggy and, IME, frequently breaks on Facebook. Try disablin
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
Bullshit. You can get away with that sophistry in other fields, but not tech. The compiler doesn't care about your feelings. Memory safety is not a social construct. GPU command pipes have finite bandwidth, even if you call them tools
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
In our universe, the "debugging tools" that could defeat this scheme are ones that can depackage an Intel chip and read its EEPROM directly. What do you even use for that, a scanning electron microscope?
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
> the contents of any source media...should readily provide the raw, unencrypted content data Once this crap becomes ubiquitous, why would companies ship unencrypted bits at all? They could send files encrypted with all the major OEM &q
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
> the media becomes impossible to consume without Intel Management Engine That's why Intel management keeps greenlighting this project. Intel thinks that it if it can convince content producers to distribute media as blobs encrypte
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
Firefox's model is better, I think. Plenty of sites use hidden flash videos for various utility functionality. How are you supposed to click on these hidden videos so that you can enable them?
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
Click-to-play on plugins often breaks sites that use Flash ads as overlays. The ads often have the "close this ad" in the Flash code itself, making it impossible to kill the ad layer without activating the plugin. (In my more cyni
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
More interesting is fundamental database progress like the work Google's done on F1. Now _that_'s an advancement in the state of the art.
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
What advances in computer science were necessary for HipHop? It's a bog-standard JIT system of the kind we'd been building for years. Sure, it's well-executed, but it's hardly a "revolutionary project" to those
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
Christ, it's "abuse" now to bring up inconvenient but real facts? If your tribe's thinking is that rigid and dogmatic, is it any wonder we can't seem to actually come to a consensus on gender politics?
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
> I'm very worried that MS, as an organization, has fallen from grace on a level never before seen That's what happens when a company refuses to pay market rate to its top people. Other Seattle-area tech companies have been poa