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So many people don't fully grasp the concept of liberty.

In my enterprise experience the remodeler usually just ends up bolting more shit onto the existing heap of shit.

Dev time ends up taking longer and longer, wasting more and more money.

Its funny you mention greenfield being easy in the same sentence - because IMO starting over is often the better option than the shit bolting but no one wants to go down that route because they need it next week. A whole bunch of small shit bolting projects every week instead of sitting down and cleverly engineering better broader solutions.

I think it's important to consider that tech companies are still bending over backwards to get the most talented technical skills. if those ppl want remote they probably will get it now that this forced experiment had proven it can work.

I will never go back to an office

I hope this decentralized stuff isn't too late too the party - we need easy to use decentralized platforms ASAP

Okkk now how do I import this into Cities Skylines

This is just awesome, lmao!

See Figure 10 on this chart https://www.nber.org/papers/w22945.pdf

The data in this NYT article comes from research by the same authors as the above paper, which shows the top 1% having maximum effective tax rate over the years of around 45%? Confusing to say the least what is the difference.

> like being in a nice chair driving a 17" laptop to work

This is the kind of content I'm looking for lol :)

Can someone explain to me why businesses pay any tax at all. It makes no sense to me that we want to restrict the flow of money through a business. Maybe we could tax cash holdings of a company, but why would you tax any income that ultimately goes to expansion, shareholders, employees?

People see these "tax evading" corporations as so evil, but why? Do they really even remotely understand what is going on? I suspect they don't. Or maybe I don't get it.

Edit: Maybe what I fail to realize is that income for a company is essentially what I'm thinking of as cash holdings, anything else would be an expense that would be deductible?

This is so over blown. Providing Chinese people with slightly censored search is better than no Google search at all.

Think how fucking much you use google every day, it's easy for you to sit here and yell human rights violation.

FFS Google already censors your search results here in USA, why are you complaining that they will also do it in China.

Yeah I've started doing no tip on the iPad, but I feel guilty every time, which is ridiculous really even though I wouldn't have thought twice about it 3 years ago when I wasn't prompted to leave a tip.

Also tipping a bartender for popping a cap off my beer or pulling a lever on a tap...

Also tipping in a full service restaurant is equally fucking weird. Like why am I paying you a percentage of the food I order, why don't I just pay you (how good a job you did) * (how long I sat at your table).

This ridic argument boils down to code reuse and components.

The whole reason for css is to facilitate style reuse when writing markup. In normal html pages you write a bunch of markup, chunks of that markup might represent the same "component" and so css is a great way to style those similarly using semantic class names.

If you use small components that exist in some type of template (react, vue, etc...) you can take advantage of that to facilitate your code reuse instead of a "semantic-component" css class. I think that is where utilities become valid because you still only change a components styles in one place.

I imagine it would be pretty hard. If you take it slow and learn the details as you go though I don't see why not.

Very interesting story! Reading about arrhythmia always gives me anxiety, this story even more so because now I'm thinking my elevated anxiety can cause a feedback loop that makes my heart beat differently causing even more anxiety until I ultimately go into cardiac arrest. LOL I'M FINE THOUGH!

Can someone who is part of a bigger organization describe to me how this might happen, and what is the ultimate intent? Who would make such a decision and why isn't there any push back along the way to implementing it?

Competition ALONE is exactly what drives prices down.

The endless supply of students with a government guaranteed loan is why they are not going down, why would they? It completely violates the most basic element of our economy.

Fully socializing those things is a solution better than what we have now, but that is the point where those things stagnate (US K12) which is why I prefer the free market solution and still think it is perfectly capable of producing exponentially more opportunity than the car without an engine (socialism).

> Ultimately, college is expensive in the U.S. for the same reason MRIs are expensive: There is no central mechanism to control price increases. “Universities extract money from students because they can,” says Schleicher at the OECD. “It’s the inevitable outcome of an unregulated fee structure.”

Why do people always reach for central control, when we have the ultimate mechanism of price control as a core part of our society (competition).

What happens when the government tries to provide for us: they gaurantee home loans: Financial crisis, they gaurantee drug costs: Skyrocketing drug costs, they gaurantee your student loan: Skyrocketing cost of school

By it's nature, anything the government subsidizes is going to be taken advantage of. You either have to take full central control (lets not go there) or let the free market actually work. You can't layer the two.

Honest question, the general physical differences between the sexes or even races are undeniable, so why is it so taboo to talk about the differences that almost certainly exist in our minds?

I read this a few weeks ago and have tried it a few times and think it works but I can never remember if I fell asleep the next morning.

You have this completely wrong.

The advertisers are hired to increase demand for and sell more bananas. If banana demand is actually fixed and the advertisers don't work out (are bullshit jobs), the banana company is not going to keep using the advertisers and cut out the bullshit jobs.

Haha this is awesome

You talking about the 87 key one? Its so awesome because it fits in my bag and I can travel with it.

As far as being discontinued, the low-profile switch is made by Kaihl and is still fairly new I think so I hope maybe more companies will start building keyboards with them.

Spending months (literal days worth of time) leveling, and then entire evenings raiding is just not something I have time for now.

On the other hand I have to imagine I would play a lot more efficiently/smarter than when I was 16.

Managing mental health for me consists of

- Spending time with loved ones and invest in those relationships. These types of relationships provide a comfy safety harness for my mental health. I know that no matter how bad things go in my day to day life, they are always there and will always provide help, guidance, and love. You have to put effort in here though and can't just reap all of the rewards.

- Strenuous exercise. Great for my self confidence and sense of accomplishment. It's a nice feeling to look at yourself in the mirror after consistently working out for months/years. The discipline it takes to workout every other day will leak into other parts of your life.

- Hobbies. Playing a video game instantly turns a bad mood around. Finishing a multi weekend wood working project gives me an incredible sense of accomplishment. In both cases I am improving skills which also makes me feel accomplished/important, exercises my mind and allows me to be creative.

I ate a donut this morning and I could have had a banana.

Are you involved?

Go get butt hurt somewhere else. You have no idea whether that is true so why can't you leave your mouth shut and enjoy the potential implications of the study.

There is a TWIST episode with this guy on it, and he comes of as a massively arrogant prick. The dude who created the first iPhone jailbreak in his teens and got famous at it.