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by zeveb 6y ago
> It could certainly be done in a regressive way, but I don't see that as innevitable or any worse than the status quo, since income taxes can be raised just as easily. I am not (here) worried about it being regressive: I am worried
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by zeveb 6y ago
Citizens United was not about buying politicians: it was about a group of citizens wishing to show a movie critical of a politician. How is that not legitimately-protected speech?
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by zeveb 6y ago
If it taxes the income of normal people at a higher rate than they deserve, why do you think it would refrain from taxing the wealth of normal people higher than they deserve?
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by zeveb 6y ago
> So he'd currently be worth $145B instead of $188B. > PG is saying Bezos would have left the US because of that? I think most human beings would do most things for $43,000,000,000. Whether they morally ought to or not is beside
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Wealth tax proposals I've seen don't kick in until $50 million or $100 million. The very first U.S. income tax, imposed during the Civil War (the nation's bloodiest conflict), was 3% on income over $12,720, rising all th
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by zeveb 6y ago
> They haven’t, NYC is also boring now. Not as much as it was. De Blasio has been an unmitigated disaster, and NYC is rapidly approaching 90s-level (if not 70s-level) squalor. Only time will tell if the voters will throw him out and el
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by zeveb 6y ago
> If you consider a post-covid world 5 years from now, do you think that SF with its museums, bars, restaurants, and proximity to nature will be an unattractive place to live? As long as the city & county and state governments are as
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by zeveb 6y ago
I hadn't figured out why my Amazon notifications no longer include details; this theory makes a lot of sense. Yet another step down the road of user-hostility. Or perhaps 'serf-hostility': in 2020 we are digital serfs.
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by zeveb 6y ago
I use X11 and a custom keyboard firmware: both of my hyper keys generate USB left super and both of my super keys generate USB right super (or vice versa), and X11 turns left super into hyper and right super into super.
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The least-liked programming languages(oreilly.com)
2 points by zeveb 6y ago|1 comments
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by zeveb 6y ago
Same here, particularly with the latest release of GNU Emacs.
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by zeveb 6y ago
That is not an argument for more non-modifier keys; it is an argument for more modifiers. Why? Each added non-modifier key adds X more modifier+non-modifier keybindings (e.g. C-n) and X-1 more modifier+modifier+non-modifier keybindings (e
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by zeveb 6y ago
Utter claptrap. 1. I cannot imagine why anyone would think that the Free Software Foundation would ever sign anything to assist in the production of proprietary software. Signing an affidavit always exposes one to risk; why would they a
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by zeveb 6y ago
I love QMK, but I do worry about the physical security of a keyboard running a flashable firmware. It would be so easy to snarf passwords off of one, even less detectably than by installing a keylogger.
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by zeveb 6y ago
The thing is, one also needs to learn how to effectively share opinions. 'Rewriting software systems is stupid,' while (arguably) true is almost certainly unlikely to be effective. 'Iteratively evolving and improving our s
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by zeveb 6y ago
Doesn't HN count as social media? Other than HN, I maintain a very light social media presence. Like smoking, in moderation it is fine but in excess it can be fatal.
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by zeveb 6y ago
Looks useful, but if ever a site needed to be viewed in elinks or eww …
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by zeveb 6y ago
JavaScript delenda est. It is to the 2010s as Java was to the 2000s and C was to the 1990s: unjustly popular, and a step backwards from better, deployable technologies. Its deep design flaws are obscured by its superficial design flaws. C
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by zeveb 6y ago
FWIW, Apple's Power Macintosh 8500, released 25 years ago tomorrow, started at 120MHz & 16MB RAM, but went up to 200MHz & 512MB RAM. As I recall, it was pretty snappy! I think it would still have been sufficiently snappy had i
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by zeveb 6y ago
What I was getting at can be reduced to a single word — a single letter, even: C. The fact that any software is written in C (or C++) is IMHO sufficient proof that the developers care more about performance than they do about anything else
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by zeveb 6y ago
We spent a lot of time these last 40–50 years chasing performance above all else, prioritising it before safety, expressiveness & development time. I think that modern computers are so amazingly fast that a little cleverness can go a lo
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by zeveb 6y ago
You are right, but none of those criticisms apply to Tcl, which is both beautiful and integrates really well with the Unix environment. I won't say that it is perfect , but it is really, really good. A better choice than Perl where
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by zeveb 6y ago
> The CIA was more or less trying to clean up a British mess when they installed the Shah. The CIA didn't install the Shah; he already was the ruler of the country. Nor did the CIA overthrow his insubordinate minister Mossadegh; th
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by zeveb 6y ago
I quite like the concept of contexts, I just wish they were implicit rather than explicit. The idea of a function taking place in a dynamic context makes perfect sense (because, after all, it does ); the only thing which doesn't real
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Programming Network Sockets in Lisp(sinax.be)
1 points by zeveb 6y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 6y ago
> (Saint) Nicholas of Bari Of Myra, actually — his relics were stolen from his tomb in Myra by sailors from Bari, where they remain today, but he probably never even visited there.
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by zeveb 6y ago
The idea was to allow prices to quickly return to their current level after going down, in what would normally be a violation of rent-control policies. That would easily be spun as allowing landlords to raise rent more quickly than they
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by zeveb 6y ago
I think that was most typical when the party declaring the debt jubilee was the lender itself (e.g. the government), or when the lenders were despised by society (e.g. Jews in mediæval Europe). A debt jubilee would not fly so well now when
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Sure, but are they doing $1k+ worth of maintenance work a month per unit? There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. In a market with units for sale and for rent, prices tend to reach an equilibrium. The only difference is that
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Has there been any consideration by state/city governments to temporarily lift these restrictions until the pandemic is over so long as prices don't exceed the prepandemic price once we return to normalcy? Can't you imag

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