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by vgetr 7y ago
Progressive tax structures are also arbitrary but I don’t see anyone here complaining about those.
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by vgetr 7y ago
Ultimately the problem is that the tax code is altogether too complex. I filed by hand up until a couple of years ago when I had to start accounting for things like capital gains and dividends from stock sales, and at that point it became t
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by vgetr 7y ago
forrester.com
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by vgetr 7y ago
It is - the book of Matthew, specifically.
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by vgetr 7y ago
This makes sense to me. Sometimes it’s not even about more money but existence entirely. Seeing as that VisiCalc was _the Spreadsheet_ up until Lotus came along and ate their lunch, it’s easy to see that sometimes features and other externa
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by vgetr 7y ago
Remember when browsers were for, you know, browsing?
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by vgetr 7y ago
So...?
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by vgetr 7y ago
Oh man, you came to the wrong town, my friend.
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by vgetr 7y ago
They each basically tried to start their own trilogy so yeah, episode nine is gonna be tough.
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by vgetr 7y ago
I sometimes wonder if bringing Scott Forestall back in would fix things, even temporarily. He wasn’t necessarily pleasant but then again, neither was Steve.
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by vgetr 7y ago
I agree with the problem (“wanting to freeze the city in amber”), but not the solution, at least as the author wants to implement it. The solution would be to deregulate housing (rent control, etc) and let scarcity take over. Yes it’ll be p
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by vgetr 7y ago
I’ve heard this argument in a lot of contexts, and it has always struck me as saying, “if hitting yourself with this bat hurts, try wrapping this towel around it and maybe it will hurt less.”
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by vgetr 7y ago
I think there’s a grain of truth to this. However, I would ask a counter-question: by what standard do you define “morality”? Or “hate-speech”? Or “extremism”? What gives one person the right to define it and another to be held accountable
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by vgetr 7y ago
I see 2 problems with this. The first is that most of the algorithms they’re using are probably based heavily on machine learning, making them inscrutable not just to the general public but also to any experts they have auditing them. Fact
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by vgetr 7y ago
I mean, it shows (in Hurd, for example).
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by vgetr 7y ago
And it completely ignores what the company has done for Minneapolis and the surrounding area. But it’s easy to disregard local knowledge when Internet outrage is the preferred reaction.
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by vgetr 7y ago
The basis for this claim seems to hinge on the facts that Cargill is a) big and b) privately owned, both of which are sins in today's political orthodoxy. As a Minnesotan, I was wondering how long it would take before someone would not
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by vgetr 7y ago
This sounds eerily like what happened with the railroads, and I suspect it would have some unintended and unsavory side effects. At the very least, it would open up opportunities for the Wesley Mouches of the world.
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by vgetr 7y ago
They could, but then the costs will just be passed down to the tenants (i.e. increased rent).
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by vgetr 7y ago
Funny how expressing the opinion that regulation will lead to harm gets you downvoted while calling someone, “stupid” doesn’t have a single effect.
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by vgetr 7y ago
Should we then require restaurants to install cameras to make sure waiters/waitresses are fully reporting their paper tips? Seems to me that fits within the category of tracking business operations.
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by vgetr 7y ago
Which is exactly why creating more government will exacerbate the problem.
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by vgetr 7y ago
Apparently everyone is about the, “right to privacy” until their own envy overrides it.
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by vgetr 7y ago
It doesn’t.
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by vgetr 7y ago
I wonder if perhaps RMS is annoyed by the lack of GPL v3 adoption.
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by vgetr 7y ago
I feel like things were mostly fine until the 2016 election, after which journalists became _very_ concerned. If I had a nickel for each, “The algorithms are coming! The algorithms are coming!”, I’d be rich. I mean, I didn’t like the outcom
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by vgetr 7y ago
I liked 1984, but probably enjoyed Animal Farm even more. It was likely a combination of the narrative itself and the fact that 1984 is more about what _could_ happen while Animal Farm describes through fiction what actually _did_ happen (n
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by vgetr 7y ago
I think it’s instructive to note that they also manufactured rifles: http://www.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticle...