Muzza

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by Muzza 13y ago
> There's no excuse for not contributing. My effective income tax rate is 50%, and then there is an additional 25% VAT on everything I buy. How much more of my income does the all-knowing Eli Gottlieb suggest I "contribute&quot
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by Muzza 13y ago
> "Here's a thing," young white dude founder blogs... If he would've said black instead of white or dudette instead of dude, Hacker News would have had this guy's header on a platter. Racists, the lot of you.
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by Muzza 13y ago
I just want to take this moment to point out to all the good little leftists of HN that we can learn so much from tribal life in Papua New Guinea: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/jan/06/jared-diamond-...
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by Muzza 13y ago
This is not the answer HN is looking for, but Iceland is safe because it's full of Icelanders. England was safe when it was full of Englishmen. Not anymore. Sweden was safe when it was full of Swedes. Not anymore. Etc.
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by Muzza 13y ago
Yes, we do enjoy our 50-60-70% tax rates here in Europe. Thankfully Sweden recently stopped pissing away the Swedish taxpayers' money by paying for the university education of foreigners.
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by Muzza 13y ago
I used to do this when I worked for the post office (not in the US) and it was by far the dullest thing I have ever done. Truly loathsome work. It was referred to as "coding". There were rules in place so you could only do it for 20 minutes
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by Muzza 14y ago
I don't think you've thought that through. A straight-out bachelor tax would simply make bachelors work less. Tax revenue would fall, and there would be even less money for you leftists to redistribute to women.
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by Muzza 14y ago
I see I hit a sore spot. I don't really want to remove childbearers from the workforce, but I do want a frank discussion about who bears the costs. Actually, just an admission of the inherent injustice of the system would be nice. Ten bucks
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by Muzza 14y ago
> Women should have the right to take lengthy maternity leaves And the cost should be borne by single men.
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by Muzza 14y ago
Presumably a propaganda piece designed to win over the remaining 50% of the American voters who still haven't bought into the idea that the Democratic party can turn the US into a leftist utopia. "Democracy will cease to exist when people r
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by Muzza 14y ago
Really now. He doesn't blame "the Chinese" as you would have us believe; he blames one particular Chinese.
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Leftist tolerance(telegraph.co.uk)
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by Muzza 14y ago
> Yes, if proven they would cease to be sexist, because they'd be discriminating based on facts, not based on his apparent prejudice. (However, since the conjecture does seem to come from a combination of sexism/ageism/confirmation bias
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by Muzza 14y ago
> No, he should disregard them because as written they're sexist, and don't even have good methodology to try and stand in their defense. So... If he had a sufficiently good methodology which proved his assertions, they would cease to b
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by Muzza 14y ago
> Imagine if those 2 million kids that get saved by the Gates Foundation instead of being forced to remain in conflict-prone Northern Nigeria or Kenya or Uganda were given the chance to come and work , legally, in Europe. And I suppose
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by Muzza 14y ago
Those are not the only choices.
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by Muzza 14y ago
Funny. Larry Summers was fired from Harvard for saying something very similar.
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by Muzza 14y ago
> System admins even more so. Really? Honest question.
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by Muzza 14y ago
> Keep in mind you're posting this to a site where most people, or at least the most vocal people, don't think the arts and letters have much value and think that pure technocracy is a fine thing. Please. There is a difference between c
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by Muzza 14y ago
Your point is not complicated, but on the other hand you didn't actually make it until now. You relied on me understanding that you consider you consider judgement-by-Github to be equivalent to judgement-by-terminology. But honestly: how wa
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by Muzza 14y ago
cynicalkane didn't say that you said that ezyang was incompetent. > Looking at your GitHub your resume is nowhere near as illustrious.
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by Muzza 14y ago
There is a great deal of absurdity in modern society, which demands that everyone have spaces which they can call their own - except whites/white males, whose spaces must be open to everyone. Tell me, do women-only gyms also have bad connot
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by Muzza 14y ago
Using the same logic, a company can never be said to "do" anything. Everything is (ultimately) done by a real person.
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by Muzza 14y ago
Surely the set of all .co.uk domains is a proper subset of all .uk domains.
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by Muzza 14y ago
> (Dare I guess it was written by a white affluent young male?) Yes, us awful young white males are never sick.
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by Muzza 14y ago
Strange. A common complaint among Swedes is that we don't talk to strangers... like they (supposedly) do in Greece (or Spain or France).
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by Muzza 14y ago
I don't get it. NetAxept appears to be some kind of payment processor for web shops; certainly not something a bank would use for its internal processing. It would be the height of stupidity for Mastercard and Visa to allow banks to issue c
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by Muzza 14y ago
Both! I think the the complexity stems from the fact that an order (or an invoice) is a "human" and "fuzzy" artifact, while a relational database or TCP/IP stack is a mathematical-technical artifact and therefore much more amenable to the c
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by Muzza 14y ago
Yes, it's a common flaw among those who don't have any experience with this kind of business software to think that anything "purely technical" (like an operating system) must be more complex. I work on a piece of business software and the
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by Muzza 14y ago
All mandatory school systems are despicable and horrendous. The first major issue is the coercion involved: they control a child's life for 9 years (or even 12 years in some countries). It's absurd. This alone should be reason enough to di

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