SlowBro

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by SlowBro 2y ago
I was reminded that Google Cloud offers a free forever 1GB RAM server with 1GB of network egress. In the US, additional egress costs $0.02/GB. A server sending 5KB/data every hour of every day for 30 days will cost you about 25 ce
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by SlowBro 2y ago
I've been looking into how to survive low bandwidth/high latency/frequent disconnecting internet, because we may need to save money at home and temporarily switch to an unlimited 2G speed (64kbit) cell data plan as our primar
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by SlowBro 8y ago
> Ok so tell me more about how building LAX was "make work". No, I'm asking if that's what you're proposing for the 21st century. What projects would you have be initiated that would fill the gap of some roughl
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Back in 2002 I built an LFS on a 400 MHz HP desktop with 256MB of RAM. Took about eight hours. It was quite a learning experience, to see Linux's guts all put together. I highly recommend it to everyone :-) Don't use a 400 MHz mac
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Automation in farming has made calories cheaper. Who in the United States is really starving?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Sounds like you're proposing makework programs? Wouldn't they use more automation to build roads and airports?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
But the question is whether automation across all sectors would free up all kinds of pursuits, not just programming. Maybe that wasn't clear in my question, but that's what I was proposing.
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by SlowBro 8y ago
105 years ago in the United States, there wasn't.[1] So it sounds like you believe the current level of tax take is sufficient and we needn't press for more? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_history_
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by SlowBro 8y ago
How many of today’s politicians have the conviction and perseverance of Roosevelt? Especially in the face of donors?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
I can’t see that bubble being sustained.
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by SlowBro 8y ago
“...were high” What you did there. I see it.
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by SlowBro 8y ago
YouTube and free SDKs, IDEs, and cheap servers are quite a democratizer. But is it true to say that automation would fail to free up higher pursuits because there is a shortage of programmers? What would you be doing right now if there were
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by SlowBro 8y ago
But there’s a huge difference between making a moral case for taxing the wealthy, and making it possible to tax the wealthy, isn’t there?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Equality, comrade.
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Could that success be repeated in the 21st century? If so, how?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Apparently the answer is, more than is being paid now.
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Who would pass these capital gains taxes? Politicians, right? The same ones who can be influenced by lobbyists? When these laws are passed, will assets be sheltered by accountants? I know a Bitcoin millionaire. He avoided capital gains taxe
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Does anyone here believe the top 1% and 10% are being taxed enough ? The most oft-expressed opinion I’ve seen, even expressed below, is that the rich don’t pay enough as a percentage of their income.
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by SlowBro 8y ago
> If, say, US would pass laws that allow them to tax everything that touches/ does business with a wealthy individual - that would make it very hard for said individual to avoid taxes Who would pass these laws; politicians, right?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Would a land value tax be priced on farms as well? I wouldn’t think so, else you risk pricing farmers out of business. Have you noticed how many wealthy people own vineyards? Put some greenhouses on it and call it a farm. The wealthy are cl
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Did you notice that those conservatives and liberals are wealthy, or have wealthy backers? Have they been aggressive in raising taxes on the wealthy? Why do you suppose that is?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
And those in that party working hard to lower taxes are... wealthy. They seem to be having some modest success this political season.
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by SlowBro 8y ago
How many wealthy in the Soviet Union or China were still there after their revolutions?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Google loopholes in capital gains taxes. Lots of ways to avoid them. The wealthy can hire experts.
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by SlowBro 8y ago
You mean, the same politicians who are receiving donations from the wealthy? Those politicians?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Has it ever worked? Any examples in the long term of sustained taxing of the wealthy?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Oh that’s right, the PR firm mails me my check today ;-) No seriously, am I wrong? Has taxing the rich ever been successful in the long term? Take for example the much-lauded United States marginal tax rates of the 1950s. Do your research a
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by SlowBro 8y ago
What is financial security but the ability to afford to pay for one’s needs? Automation in farming has cut the price of calories, and perhaps too automation in other sectors will reduce the cost of living. Automation in medicine could be a
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Taxing the rich seems to be one of the hardest things in the world to do. They can afford the best lobbyists to influence politicians to write loopholes in whatever laws you can think of to tax them; they can hire the best accountants to sh
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by SlowBro 8y ago
There is a presupposition in this article: The automated jobs will leave a vacuum. That is, routine jobs will be taken away with no other jobs to replace them. What if reducing routine jobs frees up minds for higher pursuits? In the same wa

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