stiva

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   by stiva 9y ago

   I am a political scientist by education, working in a planetarium. - Downloadable Content, the Penny Arcade Podcast - The West Wing Weekly - GovLove (from ELGL, about local government) - Pod Save America - Main Engine Cut Off (about launch
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   by stiva 9y ago

   > The tax that hurts the poor the most is obviously the sales tax. Right, which is a flat, or proportional, tax.
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   by stiva 9y ago

   There has never really been a compelling scheme for a flat tax that solves the problem inherent to it -- that a flat tax hurts those with a lower ability-to-pay.
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   by stiva 9y ago

   > I'd argue that having a 'war chest' is actually detrimental to agility [...] I believe that's what the parent is saying as well. I read it as saying that larger companies with a 'war chest' are able to wea
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   by stiva 10y ago

   Networks, by and large, do not intercept messages like this. The only reason someone running an IRC network would see your messages is if they are in the same channel as you.
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   by stiva 10y ago

   This really is an interesting story, but I wish he'd taken it to a journalist instead of writing it himself. The narrative is choppy and has a lot of holes in it. I would have loved to see this done as a feature from someone with a lot