spiralx

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by spiralx 6y ago
A property tax is a wealth tax yes, and as you say it would be unconstitutional at the federal level, but they're enacted at the state or municipal level which is legal. At least that's the obvious position and the fact that the f
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by spiralx 6y ago
A shortage of bullion in Europe during the 15th century caused problems everywhere. That was followed by a huge influx of gold from the Americas in the 16th century, which also caused massive problems across the continent! https:/&#x2
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by spiralx 6y ago
That's definitely better for the share price, but what does the government do with those shares? Again it's paper wealth apart from maybe some small amount of dividends generated. And having the US Government "seizing the mea
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by spiralx 6y ago
A wealth tax wouldn't seize assets, but given that Musk's "wealth" is almost entirely his shares in Tesla, SpaceX, etc., how would he pay a 5% tax on his total wealth without liquidating a bunch of Tesla shares? His phys
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by spiralx 6y ago
This is exactly my journey with tooling. I still customise my environment more than the vast majority of people - and write user scripts and styles for websites I use heavily - but I don't need or want to have every single thing exactl
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by spiralx 6y ago
Yep, that is an accurate summary of every thread I've read on software developers and unions since I first joined Slashdot in 2000. The only thing missing might be "better and whiter" lol.
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by spiralx 6y ago
Could be Facebook as I think production releases are always rolled out in phases e.g. first to 10 users, then 100, then 1000 and so on. That means there's much less chance of even the worst mistake having a serious effect.
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by spiralx 6y ago
Because one of the key parts of UK law is the principle of parliamentary sovereignty - that parliament is the ultimate source of legal authority. The court cannot overrule parliament by definition, in the same way SCOTUS cannot overrule the
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by spiralx 6y ago
I get that regularly when someone quotes a tweet by someone that has blocked them since - if I click on the quoted tweet I can then see it as I'm not blocked. Could be related in some way.
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by spiralx 6y ago
Dark matter doesn't clump together though, that's part of what makes it different to light matter.
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by spiralx 6y ago
A democracy founded on the notion that all white male property owners were equal and slavery was acceptable? Some fancy words in a fancy document doesn't override the actual reality of who was considered equal or not.
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by spiralx 6y ago
Bismarck did create the first public health system back then and the model is called the Bismarck Model. The NHS is nothing like that though and is based on what's called the Beveridge Model after the man who proposed it: https:/
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by spiralx 6y ago
Less Wrong is a very opinionated site that should definitely be taken with a heavy dose of scepticism. Some of it is pretty out there. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong
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by spiralx 6y ago
I was amazed at how many photos there were on the page, and then noticed it was page 1 of 3, holy crap.
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by spiralx 6y ago
Why does believing society had an incorrect view of rights in the past entail such a thing? It's compatible both with believing that society today has a correct view of rights and the opposite, believing that society today has an incor
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by spiralx 6y ago
This site has both a lot of the sort of people who "don't see race" and use that to downplay social issues, and people who (irrationally) insist in the primacy of rational thought and view speech as a consequence-free action.
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by spiralx 6y ago
I upgraded my Atari STE to a whopping 1Mb of memory in order to play the first Civ. It's a toss-up between that and Civ IV as to which version I spent the most time on. Civ III was the only one that disappointed me.
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by spiralx 6y ago
I read a fascinating article once I've never been able to find again that said the brain actually has internal biological representations of zero and one along with a rudimentary representation of two, but nothing above that.
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by spiralx 6y ago
Well yes, being able to give priority to at-risk patients would fall under necessary use. I doubt the receptionist has your actual medical history, but they would certainly see an indicator of your risk category.
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by spiralx 6y ago
The Hill is a right-wing site cosplaying as a left-wing media source.
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by spiralx 6y ago
Nice. GraphQL to Java is broken right now, and GraphQL to Kotlin would be awesome. Are you happy to accept contributions that add new conversions?
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by spiralx 6y ago
That's a good point, but this paper seems to indicate that the amount of sunlight required over the summer in order to build enough vitamin D to last over winter isn't much for white Caucasians in the UK - nine minutes each day at
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by spiralx 6y ago
I'm impressed. I've looked through the README, the code, the tests and your comments here, yet I have no idea what this is supposed to do, how it relates to the DOM, how you would use it or why you would use it.
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by spiralx 6y ago
Who says security through obscurity doesn't work?
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by spiralx 6y ago
I loved coding CoffeeScript on my own a few years ago. Today the thought of having to review PRs written in CoffeeScript by my junior developers is terrifying.
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by spiralx 6y ago
That's misleading because Europe is on the western edge of the Eurasian landmass, meaning it gets the benefit of warm air heated up over the ocean. By the time the air gets to the eastern edge of a landmass it's a lot colder, whic
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by spiralx 7y ago
That's not true as soon as your UI contains conditional logic or a list of elements, at least one of which will be present in almost every web application.
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by spiralx 7y ago
You can't be between leases easily in the UK as without actively signing a new lease the existing one rolls over into standard rental terms (one months notice from tenants, two from landlords) automatically.
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by spiralx 7y ago
There's an old sci-fi book called Ring of Charon you might not like then :) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513160.The_Ring_of_Charo...
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by spiralx 7y ago
Cat bites are the strongest of any animal in terms of PSI because their teeth are so sharp, and they're ambush predators that kill with a single bite. I would totally go to hospital after a full-on bite from our cat.

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