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I understand where you're coming from, but $276bn is a pretty substantial amount of money though! I think it's also worth noting that this outcome (revenue would increase due to expected economic growth, but would end up lower tha
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The "Laffer Curve" has been widely discredited by economists across the political spectrum. Tax revenues in the year after the the Trump tax cuts (the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) did indeed rise (FY2018). That being said, much of that
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Cato was the Roman aristocrat that George Washington most heavily admired and styled himself after - and indeed Cato's purported character aligns closely with characteristics that we now consider "presidential" (stoicism; pru
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One of my two examples was literally a collection of poetry. Not to mention that fiction/nonfiction is itself not a binary, as evidenced by many other Chinese masterworks. (I'm using early Chinese literature as examples because th
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> We should not cheat, by calling, say, the King James Bible a work of literature. It's hard to take the article seriously when it opens like this, because it makes a binary distinction between literature and religion. It's tri
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This is why I think it's smart to discourage most developers from rolling their own authentication. Auth has gotten a bit more complex with the rise of SPAs plus API backends (like the setup in the original article), and mistakes you m
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Yeah - you've probably got the right one. I think the real thing this shows is that if you teach intro classes well (and try really hard to get people from atypical backgrounds to take those intro classes in the first place), students
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Counterpoint: I went to an Ivy League school and studied both computer science and a humanities field. I didn't take an intro CS class until my sophomore year and had no prior experience. It was only because of quality/resources -
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> Deflation caused both world war one and two. There was no deflation (or inflation, really) prior to World War I. Prior to WWI, most countries pegged their currency to either silver or gold at a fixed rate of exchange which meant that i
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It depends, because different types of assets respond differently to inflation. The wealthier you are, the more likely you are to have more esoteric investments. The bottom 50% of the wealth distribution in most countries (including the Uni
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This lacks nuance. Who inequality "hurts most" depends on a huge number of factors. As I previously mentioned, there have been numerous historical instances in which inflation contributed to dramatic decreases in inequality. The f
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The basic assumption here is that inflation reduces inequality. That's plausible (it certainly was a strong contributing factor to the great reductions in inequality that occurred between 1920 and 1950). But inflation is also an extrem
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The Twitter API has very low rate limits (from a data collection perspective). While there may be good reasons for that, these limits also preclude doing public interest research of the type we were doing (how Twitter's various search
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It really depends. There are plenty of legitimate uses for scraping (for example, I've been involved with academic research that involved scraping Twitter search results), and it's only really feasible to collect the amount of dat
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That's a totally false choice. No one has to suffer for more (and more affordable) housing and more (and more convenient) mass transit - except perhaps the "winners" of the current system. It's also quite an entitled po
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This seems extremely unlikely to happen. If people were truly interested in renting out their cars while they aren't using them (and letting them get driven into the ground), Turo or Getaround would be huge.
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> Once self driving cars are a reality, they have a strong position to be dominant. Everyone presumes this but it may not actually be true. I used to work with perhaps the most preeminent tech journalist covering Uber/Lyft/self
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> If you’re anti-car you also need to be pro-city-shack for yourself. Many people would like to live in a city but can't afford it because even a multi-bedroom "shack" is incredibly expensive. You're basically suggest
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> Not being able to use arms absolutely is an infringement of the right to bear them. That doesn't follow. The right to own something does not imply the right to use it. > One point that gets lost about the 2nd Amendment is that
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Of course people can learn new languages, but: - A nonzero number of excellent potential applicants aren't going to work for your company because they don't want to invest their own development into learning the Clojure ecosystem
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> I suspect this would be considered a valid thesis by future historians if the United States had existed in relatively stable prosperity for hundreds of years beforehand and the result of such changes was that the US reduced in power an
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I'm not sure it makes sense to argue that a state "falls" when it reorganizes its administrative structure, makes big changes to its currency and fiscal policies, and goes through a period of violent upheaval. By those standa
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> but it seems to have started a terminal decline that continued all the way through the Early Middle Ages (with no clearly identifiable "fall" event, albeit the convention of picking 476 CE, being roughly at the midpoint, is a
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Whatever you think of foreign aid, US foreign aid spending in 2021 was $51bn, not $300bn [1]. [1] https://foreignassistance.gov/
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I'm sure that you can get away with a less thorough "pre-op", but how many times have we all made changes to code and then realized our changes didn't work after-the-fact? Even in very complex systems I've worked wi
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Google's policies explicitly differentiate between paywalled content from what they call cloaking. See the GP's link to the Google developer documentation.
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There's a number of ways that you can expose paywalled content to Google without showing it to the user. The obvious one is paywalling content on the client side and hiding it from the user. I actually think this probably explains why
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In this particular case, Google is considered the "data processor" (as opposed to GP's blog, which is the "data controller"). Google is certainly subject to the GDPR as a data processor in this case. That being said
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It depends. Based on your description, it sounds like the company in question wouldn't actually be subject to the GDPR. Simply attracting European visitors isn't sufficient; you have to be clearly intending to offer goods or servi
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The GP's blog (the "data controller" in GDPR parlance) isn't an EU entity and it's not clearly intending to offer goods or services to EU data subjects. The blog therefore isn't subject to the GDPR.

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