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Regardless of the actual policies and intentions, a person who pays money to the government in taxes is going to see someone getting money from the government as being partially funded, or taken, from themselves. For what it's worth th
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> You realize the top 1% have stolen >$10T from us overdecades of tax evasion You're gonna have to provide a citation for that kind of claim.
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That's why the key is to help people understand the cost and benefits of the system overall and not try to change their perspective on individuals. If the system is effective for the vast majority and the cost of those abusing the syst
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Ironic how uncharitable you're being while accusing others of the same. It's pretty easy to understand why someone who perceives themselves as working hard and paying taxes would be upset when someone else seems to be using their
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Why is that depressing? Unless you have some silver bullet to remove the need for oil or prevent any future oil spills it seems like creating innovative technologies to detect them as soon as possible is a good thing. It would be like if so
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by pythonaut_16 5y ago
Unrelated to the outage, but I hate headlines like this. Facebook is down ~5% today. That's a huge plunge to be sure, but Zuckerberg hasn't "lost" anything. He owns the same number of shares today as he did yesterday. An
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Yep. The decision for Google to have access to the contents of my email is mine, not Amazon's (or whoever else). It's the decision I make when I use a Gmail account, and it's up to me to decide that based on Google' priv
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I think the term echo chamber specifically denotes something bad. An echo chamber happens specifically when a group's internal belief's enter a positive feedback loop and become insulated from any external (and often internal) dis
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by pythonaut_16 5y ago
B2B SaaS have a much clearer/easier value proposition than B2C. There's already a cash flow and profit motive in a business, so if a SaaS can demonstrate that it enables more value than it costs, there's a tangible advantage
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That's why it matters that it's also open source. It's similar to Big-O notation, seeing that it's in Rust gives me an idea of performance profile to expect. If it's a Rails project I know that the best case scena
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It's a useful signal though right? This being written in Rust tells me it's probably going to be fast/lightweight. Go would be a similar expectation. If it's written in Rails I'd have different expectations. Python
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The long term consequences of those things are fairly well known/intuitive at this point. People are bad at optimizing for low and long term risks, but doing something knowing it's bad for you is different than being anxious about
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One thing I've picked up on that I especially hate is when a cut scene has you press buttons solely for the sake of interactivity, i.e. they don't utilize game mechanics. "Press X to..." in a situation that you will neve
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The legal form of "but I had my fingers crossed so it doesn't count"
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That's the exact problem with the bill. Of course a car that refuses to be driven drunk sounds like a great way to stop drunk driving. But the technology to feasibly and reliably do that does not exist.
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Bands still seem helpful to the discussion. If Mark is making 60k then its clear the company is valuing him more and that might open the door to a beneficial discussion. Seems like it at least gives you some metrics to compare to rather tha
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by pythonaut_16 5y ago
I honestly don't understand what you're getting at. In the above comment you seemed to suggest that companies would already be charging more for rental cars if they could. So I pointed out that consumers might be willing to pay mo
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Charging a new owner to unlock the feature again is slightly different than charging the original owner a subscription. However, I still see selling features as a software upgrade strictly as an alternative means* of selling upgrades. So th
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Customers will pay more if they think they're getting more in return. If they can increase the rental prices without extra features, then they can charge even more for extra features. Ultimately it comes down to the business's own
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That's really the only answer. Do the research and the math for your own business/use and see if AWS is a better value than colo or your own hardware.
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A rental car would at least make sense though. You're already paying a cost for temporary access to the car, adding on extra features doesn't seem outrageous. It could improve availability of those features because a rental compan
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Paying a one time unlock fee and paying a subscription on a hardware feature are vastly different things. You might still disagree with both, but they are different. Heated seats are a pretty standard upgrade that people will pay for, so I&
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You would declare a higher valuation and get taxed extra... all while still not preventing Jeff Bezos or anyone with sufficient wealth from swooping in and buying it.
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This is outrageously favorable to the uber-wealthy (and anyone who is an order of magnitude more wealthy than you.) Piss someone off? Maybe they'll just come in and buy your house. Cherished one of a kind item? Jeff Bezos likes it, so
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That's an argument for a tax on those assets then. Corporate taxes for stocks, property taxes for real estate, etc.
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I've generally had less typing issues in Elixir than I had when working in Python (which generally wasn't a ton but varied a lot depending on the library). I've found that Elixir's functional programming model generally
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Sales needs to adjust to the new reality. Recognize that people have options and other sources of information and focus on answering their actual questions instead of trying to sell them on something. If I walk into a car dealership it&#x27
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In that world, what is local availability except that someone happened to already ship some quantity to a location closer to you?
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I can also go online and buy it from any retailer living in 2021 for a similar or better price. It's really not practical to call up the store and ask about every single item I'm looking for. You're not wrong that those are o
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Monetization systems aside, the game development work on Fortnite is pretty innovative.

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