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No, the richest people should be taking most of the tax burden.
Like what?
What group of people are controlling everything? Please don't let it be Jews...
> Tine Tholstrup is recipient of research grants from the Danish Dairy Research Foundation and the Dairy Research Institute, Rosemont, IL.
> Sabita S. Soedamah-Muthu received funding from the Global Dairy Platform, Dairy Research Institute and Dairy Australia for meta-analyses on cheese and blood lipids and on dairy and mortality.
> Ian Givens is recipient of research grants from UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), UK Medical Research Council (MRC), Arla Foods UK, AAK-UK (both in kind), The Barham Benevolent Foundation, Volac UK, DSM Switzerland and Global Dairy Platform. He is a consultant for The Bio-competence Centre of Healthy Dairy Products, Tartu, Estonia, and in the recent past for The Dairy Council (London).
> Arne Astrup is recipient of research grants from Arla Foods, DK; Danish Dairy Research Foundation; Global Dairy Platform; Danish Agriculture & Food Council; GEIE European Milk Forum, France.
> He received financial support from dairy organisations for attendance at the Eurofed Lipids Congress (2014) in France and the meeting of The Federation of European Nutrition Societies (2015) in Germany.
Emphasis mine.
Like, what do these commenters think they're doing? Just venting that their pet issues of FOSS isn't being worked on? What's that supposed to accomplish? What normal human being reads such a comment and goes like 'oh yeah thanks rude asshole commenters, I get right on fixing that!'??
I don't want HN threads to be just endlessly and breathlessly complaining about people not doing shit they want. Pay up or do it yourself.
This whole thread is terrible and should be deleted, IMO.
Speaking only for myself, but I'd honestly contest that.
Just to give context to perspectives people might have on this analogy, the above would be illegal in e.g. Germany.
Nonsense premise.
> [...] they'll put another layer of crypto on everything [...]
That's just unsubstantiated FUD.
AFAIK, only the versions of Windows that included the POSIX subsystem were certified, the last one being NT 4.0. Long time ago.
Not sure I would generalize that to western countries. In Germany for example the opposite is true; it's actually illegal to enrich staple foods like flour or milk etc.