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Where are you writing from? I should hope it's not from Milwaukee, WI

As a quick reminder to readers of the parent comment, there are A LOT of details related to the Khashoggi murder that may invalidate the reference being made in the above comment. To elaborate more would take this discussion even more off-topic and likely would lead to a rapid gray-down and flagging of this comment.

Excel? LibreOffice Calc?

<quote>Tipping is an anachronism from slavery and should be banned.</quote>

Oh gawd! Says someone who's likely never worked in nor almost certainly never owned a restaurant.

Yep, that's SOP. Lionize the D's. Brutalize the R's

In what part of the world do you live?

Interesting possibilities for sure, but it looks like this project hasn't seen much enthusiasm for a long while.

Absolutely!

Yes, it is sad. I believe moral people have a moral obligation to have and to raise moral children. Ideally...

C'mon. What if your future children want to live?

Well I suppose these goofy women won't be giving birth until the Earth ends. Actually this is probably a wise decision on their part, but not for the reason they believe.

Berlin wall? Imagine my distress at having tuned in to the modern world during the Watergate fiasco. My father had to explain to me that it was the name of a hotel and not some sort of earthworks.

Doordash is "valued" at $7,000,000,000? What planet am I on? How many people use doordash and how much food would they have to order to justify that type of valuation?

I guess that shuck-and-jive with the tip payouts is done out of necessity. Pretty crappy though?

Thanks for that! And I hate to say this, but Buffett is almost damnable for saying this because of the party and candidates he almost exclusively supports.

I'm not questioning or disbelieving the veracity of your statement, but do you know where Buffett made those comments? I'm not seeing anything in a casual search and that would be interesting to parrot around.

Those conservative democrats seem to be pretty well hidden these days :-)

I don't know where you hail from, but what you so snarkily describe is not happening...at all. Taxes in the US, at all levels, are going up as evidenced by the continual rise in tax revenue collected by virtually all levels of government.

There has never been more regulations placed on businesses that deliver middle class wages. Trump may have rolled back a handful of redundant regs, but that's just a finger in the dike. Healthcare costs and costs of coverage continue to geometrically increase because of government interference. IIRC, employer-provided healthcare may even be diminishing in some fashion. Not sure.

As for IP laws, I'm not sure how you're relating that to the collapse of the US/Western middle class, but I'm sure you have a reason to mention it.

Back in the day I would inherit or have to work on large codebases written in Delphi/Pascal from several different authors. While there were a few eyerolls here and there, I never recall being overwhelmed or overworked trying to discover what I needed to know.

But then that's Delphi; a pure pleasure to work with. I only wish I had more use cases for it. I would put back in the lineup immediately if I did.

Perhaps widely held by a very small and very loud group of people.

I really enjoyed reading this piece right up until he labeled Steve Bannon a fascist. Because this comment is so wildly nonsensical, I lost interest in the rest of the piece and hit the back button.

Damn