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by waqf 15y ago
When corporations conduct their business by lobbying for their business model to be legally protected, trying to compete with them in the market is bringing a knife to a gunfight.
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by waqf 15y ago
I applaud the angle the Phoenix chose to take: using this as a platform to petition for copyright reform.
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by waqf 15y ago
25% going forward. When you introduce the system, of course, you have to give people credit for all their past income tax paid. Most people of working age will have overpaid and will get a windfall in the form of a huge one-off tax credit,
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by waqf 15y ago
This is absolutely true. Capital gains tax also screws people over because the value of a dollar decreases over time. If that's the biggest objection anybody comes up with I say we start tomorrow (and I'll have an inflation-indexed version
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by waqf 15y ago
You're imagining the tax rates as being much higher than they would actually have to be (and I think you also missed that the taxes you pay always end up being a tax-rate proportion applied to the amount you earned that year). Assume for s
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by waqf 15y ago
This should be combined with my even more radical plan for fixing some irregularities in the year-by-year accounting system for income tax (notably, the fact that progressive taxation punishes you more for earning nothing for nine years and
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by waqf 15y ago
Right, citizens of most "western" countries can visit other such countries (typically for tourism or business up to 3 months) without a visa. And until APIS became technologically viable, "without a visa" meant that the host country was pr
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by waqf 15y ago
Firstly, just because the border officers have final say on denying entry doesn't mean that they don't get policy guidance from their superiors. Since we can't see what that policy guide says, we have to choose between forbearing to critic
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by waqf 15y ago
Google, or Apple?
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by waqf 15y ago
How about changing your webmail provider, your mobile OS and the cloud services integrated with it?
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by waqf 15y ago
What happened to Sun? (Or rather, what are you implying about the causes of its decline?)
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by waqf 15y ago
That's true, but is it really a good choice for me to continue living in the US, afraid to visit abroad and to thereby set myself up for the hassle of getting back in?
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by waqf 15y ago
> if it is so easy to enhance brain functions, why hasn't nature done so herself? A good question to raise, but it has a lot of plausible answers. For example, maybe having better cognitive ability causes people to spend more time do
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by waqf 15y ago
I don't think it's just analysis, unless your definition of "analysis" is impossibly broad. The other big problem is, once you've built your wondrous technical solution to medical records, or income tax, how do you break into the market? N
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by waqf 15y ago
I certainly can tell you about it, because robrenaud directed me to one in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3508005 . I have just tested it and it does exactly what I asked for.
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by waqf 15y ago
It's not about a single search satisfying all of those properties. I'm just saying I want them all as defaults: that is to say, I don't find it reasonable that I should have to go find the search options page and turn verbatim search off
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by waqf 15y ago
Mostly, I'm able to search what I want but it takes me so many extra clicks that I can tell they don't respect my use cases. For example, if I could I'd set synonym replacement on but turn off assuming I misspelled what I typed. Where's th
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by waqf 15y ago
I think Google thinks that you and I, who want a search tool that does what you ask for, are a niche market not worth going after. I have no idea whether they're right.
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by waqf 15y ago
Rome's been around a while and it has had several significantly different forms of government. Which period have you in mind?
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by waqf 15y ago
As a Permanent Resident of the United States, I can assure you that "no taxation without representation" has been dead a looong while.
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by waqf 15y ago
Particularly in terms of cost to deploy.
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by waqf 15y ago
My point would be that since I already have 40% less money than I would have had in the absence of taxation, it seems that I have already endured my fair share of the tax burden. (For simplicity, forget about progressive taxation and assum
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by waqf 15y ago
That's a reasonable point of view, but here are two (different, independent) possible rebuttals: 1. You ignored inflation. Your argument gives a justification for taxing the real gain, but current CGT taxes the nominal gain, which is
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by waqf 15y ago
The first one doesn't fit, either. If the Earth were round wouldn't the people on the other side fall off?
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by waqf 15y ago
At least one person's file created with vi can be edited by someone else using emacs.
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by waqf 15y ago
This. The only regret I had about switching from Firefox to Chromium is the lack of RequestPolicy. Apparently the hooks aren't there, as with AdBlockPlus. In fact, just thinking about it now ... why did I switch? I should try Firefox aga
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by waqf 15y ago
Apparently yes: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/fertilizer-control-dhs-creat... (Thanks for making me research it, I learned some interesting stuff and I would learn more if I had more time.)
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by waqf 15y ago
I want that world! Or more precisely, I want to take that chance, due to a mixture of: * I think it likely that we'll still get quality works produced; * I think we have plenty of quality books, films, music and TV series already (more tha
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by waqf 15y ago
£40,000, because you'd surely get the Turner Prize.
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by waqf 15y ago
You missed my point. Of course it's dangerous if you want it to be, but so is a kitchen knife. The point is, stuff eventually gets regulated because of how it might be used, not because of how it's normally used.

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