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eggs_and_avoon Why American Workers Pay Twice as Much in Taxes as Wealthy Investors

No, that's a post-facto justification trotted out whenever someone questions the capital gains rate.

eggs_and_avoon Amazon's Whole Foods Price Cuts Brought 25% Jump in Shoppers

Here's a table of price changes by Bloomberg measured at mid-town Manhattan Whole Foods: https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iu.8ONC0rkk...

eggs_and_avoon Messenger.com Now 50% Converted to Reason

You're correct. It performs terribly. On my 2016 macbook it takes 20.48 seconds just to load the interface from refresh according to Firefox devtools. Yes, a lot of this is network traffic. It's still terrible for a chat app. I have PS4 games that start in 20 seconds.

eggs_and_avoon Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 (2013)

Check out Compatible Versioning 1.0 (2016): https://github.com/staltz/comver

eggs_and_avoon The Electric-Bike Conundrum

5,000+ pedestrians killed by vehicles in 2015. But let's start worrying about e-bikes!

eggs_and_avoon The Electric-Bike Conundrum

Here's a conundrum: Cars kill ~30,000 people per year in the USA. Vehicle emissions cause ~58,000 premature deaths. That's a problem. Not bicycles, not E-bikes, not bike sharing programs, not motorcycles, not skateboards, not rollerblades – Cars!