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Indeed. Using tribal signaling when trying to reach a wider audience requires at least a small amount of skill.

It does not appear that you are wondering. It appears that you are making assertions, while using the word 'wonder'.

....is not some magical incantation. Please state your point, in the context of the article.

Capital can move away from taxation much faster than labor, so capital has to be taxed at the maximum possible rate that does not encourage too much of it to move away from the taxing authority in question.

So, now we have a billion people who think they're communications are secure, as opposed to just encrypted.

Okay. One constructive remark coming up...

What's your definition of "good schools"?

I disagree. Everyone is someone else's underling, even at the top of the corporate hierarchy, where you have the executives reporting to the investors/shareholders.

It then follows that everyone has to be taught presentation skills, just as they're taught evaluation skills.

Design counts. Execution of that design counts. User Experience counts.

''I don't really understand the problem here.''

I agree.

I went to the exhibition at the ICA in Boston. It was a fascinating look at the birth, life, and death of Black Mountain College as an institution.

The artwork, coursework, and ephemera from the college are an interesting record of what it means to "teach art".

Definitely recommended if the exhibition ends up near you.

You have a chance to add more to conversation than the OP, then. For myself, I'd be very interested in two or three relevant links, if you can provide them.

You're not sorry. Just accuse the person. It's more honest.

It's definitely one of the densest Amazon Associates linkfarms I've seen in a while.

EDIT: I stand corrected. It had high link density to Amazon, but did not have associates tags.

Does it being said in anger make it any less applicable?

Many Chinese words are two characters in length.

I'm sure you have about fifty more strawmen in your back pocket, but whipping them out and waving them around is a bit unseemly, don't you think?

I view the point of #savedyouaclick as a way to fill in the missing noun/verb/adjective in a clickbait title, so that someone can make a more informed opinion on whether to click through.

The point is not to save you a click in all circumstances, but to save a needless click due to frustration/curiosity.

"The Federal Communications Commission has hired Jonathan Mayer, a rising star in privacy circles, to serve as its technical lead for investigations into telephone, television and Internet service providers."

#savedyouaclick

I'm guessing you're not sorry at all. Just blame her. It's more honest.

Everyone makes bad decisions. Poor people don't get the benefit of trivially recovering from most of them.

What it sounds like you're saying is "I believe I know how a bridge is built, but I have no idea what a cloning factory entails, so the latter is more impressive."

In my experience, raising an issue is followed by "okay, so fix it.", which reduces to a previously noted problem.

[IANAUKTL]

That would appear to run directly up against the Ramsay Principle.[1] Specifically, if a company does a series of pre-ordained business transactions with no commercial purpose, specifically with the goal of reducing their tax burden, Inland Revenue can look at the whole transaction and assess payment based on what would have happened otherwise.

A similar case happened in the US with Gregory v. Helvering[2], with the out-of-context quote from Judge Learned Hand in the predecessor case (Helvering v. Gregory[3]) saying roughly the same thing as Lord Clyde.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsay_principle [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_v._Helvering [3] http://www.leagle.com/decision/193487869F2d809_1591/HELVERIN...

[IANAL] Given that that's there for legal compliance, they're screwed either way:

If they knew, and didn't do it, they're criminally negligent, and have willfully endangered the lives of numerous prisoners.

If they didn't know, then they're incompetent, and have endangered the lives of numerous prisoners through inaction, which could still be considered criminal negligence.

"Every contract or duty within the Uniform Commercial Code imposes an obligation of good faith in its performance and enforcement." US UCC 1-304.

Every contract starts with the assumption that both parties are inclined to perform as stated. Viewing a contract as "putting a price tag on bad faith" is a very good way to get hit with treble damages in court.

I'm having trouble parsing that series of statements. How does your second sentence relate to your third sentence?

Even with a zero-liability policy, the money is coming directly out of your bank account, and will be put back in eventually, after investigation.

Since the only person that's out money is you, no one has financial incentive to speed the process.

Between the privacy concerns and the fact that it's ACH only, it sounds like it has a tremendous benefit for retailers.... and precisely none for me.

No.

My retirement funds have, as some of their holdings, a comparatively small handful of shares in companies, as part of a fund managed by an institutional investor, whose goal is to deliver shareholder value to people who hold shares of the managing organization, which may be completely separate.

Saying "Your interests should be aligned with exceedingly wealthy individuals because you hold shares in some companies which they control." is wrong at best, and disingenuous at worst.

More specifically, large businesses are accountable to owners with sufficiently large stakes.

It's harder to buy votes in government.