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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
While I am not personally a fan of ultra-progressive tax rates on the ultra-rich, I do think it’s time that conservatives start considering higher taxes. With the top 400 income earners having paid an average of 23%, vs the nationwide avera
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Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality (WSJ)(wsj.com)
5 points by LeftHandPath 7y ago|1 comments
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It's interesting that people worry about "the basilisk" and all of this happening with AI, but not about the fact that future governments and revolutionaries are equally likely to look back on old data and judge you for it -
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
The number of times I've taken a google search that gave me useless results, copied-and-pasted it into duck-duck-go, and immediately found what I'm looking for, is astounding. I do think that they are starting to lose the power-us
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I remember doing a due-diligence on Tesla during the Oil Crisis of 2015. The stock was at 195 or so, the company hadn't released anything other than high-end sedans, and the cars were still sold in stores. If you went to their website
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
This is why you just go to the [EDGAR files]( https://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml ) and think on your own. If you want entertainment, read the interpretation given by a news organization with your preferred bias. If you want real
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
They are functional, durable, and extremely common in my office of Learjet and King Air pilots. I agree with you on the battery life. Personally I'd rather have some world-timer, but I'm an asshole.
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
Funny things start to happy on online discussion boards when billions of dollars are at stake. Comments deserve as much skepticism as the headline.
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
> Good conversation piece, everyone has an opinion on the subject, but the experiment is rubbish. Agreed. The paper also seems to be promoting a view of wealth inequality that would support modern socialist policies. The paper seems to
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
It all boils down to just how deterministic you're able to believe the universe is. Is there a such thing as my own willpower that allows me to improve my position more than an equivalently-placed person would, or is the willpower to a
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
> Refusing to serve a customer when you disagree with that customer's goal is pretty far from being a "moral arbiter for society." Keep in mind that anyone is free to use other services (or roll their own) and gitlab can&#
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
It also seems that the title is misrepresenting the facts. Needing more to reach the top one percent of an arbitrarily separated population should suggest that the rest of the population is also benefiting. E.g. if you needed less to join
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
We're all going to be fucked, when it comes to employment in twenty years, then. Forget the M&M's. Video games are a skinner box on steroids. Kids are going to learn fast . Edit: I may have missed the point -- it looks like
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
You see, it's actually something that almost anyone will start to think about when they abuse ritalin on a daily basis for a little too long. Just look at the microdosing community.
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
It's partly a flex but I think it's a common experience. There are lots of things that the kinds of people who are on this site - for the most part, intelligent people - will pick up on subconsciously. When we realize it's n
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
It really does. I've been a professional developer/programmer for a few years - since I was 18 - and I'm only just going back to college (at the behest of my employer). Really enjoy taking advantage of it and reassuring the
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
Interesting. I've used PHP on the IBM i Series, for the sake of not using COBOL or RPG (...or C, or C++ - since I'm most familiar with PHP). I think it really does just come down to what language you're most familiar with.
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I usually get into stuff like this for professional reasons. However, as someone in the aerospace industry, it’s not very common that we go through the hoops to get a drone out at the airport. We’ve talked about using one strictly inside
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I never got into them for the same reason I never got into football or (before I had to for professional reasons) Linux - everyone who is into it turns it into an evangelism project. I’m sure I would love them if I tried them, but I don’t w