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midhhhthrow
·2 года назад·discuss
Will you also blame the telephone companies and mailman too?
midhhhthrow
·2 года назад·discuss
Healthcare attached to employment makes no sense ina world where people constantly need to switch jobs
midhhhthrow
·2 года назад·discuss
This why we need the tiny home movement combined with progressive property taxes - 0 prop tax bracket for lowest 20% property values If you have mortgage then you don’t really own your house.
midhhhthrow
·2 года назад·discuss
Correction, Beat the CPI, not inflation
midhhhthrow
·3 года назад·discuss
Paywalled
midhhhthrow
·3 года назад·discuss
Yes but they’re also politically biased. Not to mention, the enormous amount of web content that is effectively banned from seArch engine results due to low prestige
midhhhthrow
·3 года назад·discuss
Considering just how toxic the modern day diet is, I’d say most people are in big trouble
midhhhthrow
·3 года назад·discuss
They said t was a boat fuel. So how do you avoid it? Just don’t eat seafood??
midhhhthrow
·3 года назад·discuss
I agree with most of these but the cause isn’t computers. Computers are just another thing to add to the list
midhhhthrow
·3 года назад·discuss
They’ve got a lot less time than that. Check out Nate hagens work on resource depletion and you’ll see to simplify it x1000, it’s a matter of a century or two left before the high tech comes to a halt.
midhhhthrow
·3 года назад·discuss
And to realize that mistakes are a normal part of the pro drive work you do. In fact the most productive engineers also make the most mistakes
midhhhthrow
·3 года назад·discuss
To be clear, it wasn’t ruined by lawyers. It was ruined by copyright laws
midhhhthrow
·3 года назад·discuss
The copyrights by gosh 18k per month. Either fiat has continued its crash or their overcharging for copyrights.

It’s a disaster that these things exist quite as long as they do
midhhhthrow
·3 года назад·discuss
Do you think there’s a threshold at which point non libertarians would agree taxation is theft? Perhaps when gov spending is 80% of gdp ? 90%. 100%? 110%?

We’re already now at 44% here in the US. And if you’re in the Bay Area or tech, almost certainly your paying a lot more if you count all the downstream taxes like property taxes permitting sales tax, and all taxes you pay when you buy stuff.
midhhhthrow
·3 года назад·discuss
Yes. Switching from usage charge to more fixed charges will increase bills for low usage users and decrease bills for higher usage users. Not exactly a green solution
midhhhthrow
·3 года назад·discuss
Taxation should be done by government not utility companies. I’m deeply disturbed that such a thing could even be proposed

And handing out subsidies for electricity/energy usage is the last thing global warming needs.

And this is huge subsidy to high energy users from those who are saving and reducing their energy usage.
midhhhthrow
·3 года назад·discuss
Sure a carbon tax would be ideal but if you can’t accomplish that then outright ban might be needed in desperate times
midhhhthrow
·3 года назад·discuss
This will come a surprise to many but we’re a lot closer to peak oil than most people believe. Some of the latest research from scientists like Nate havens shows it’s happening within the next few years. Even she’ll has said their production peaked and will decrease 1 to 2 % per year
midhhhthrow
·3 года назад·discuss
Yes! Thank heavens people are finally starting to see the light. All these nonsense “modern” frameworks with their broken layers of abstraction need to read that article by Joel spoelsky on leaky abstractions.

And don’t be afraid to use this approach outside internal tools.
midhhhthrow
·3 года назад·discuss
Yes. For the longest time everyone was saying there’s no way the fed can raise rates above 2% without completely crashing the economy because the entire world was “addicted to low rates”. Whatever happened to the crash?