If you had to pay the tax you could probably just finance it anyway instead of paying it all at once so it would be just like having a new (small) mortgage.
That’s what every parent hopes to leave their kids with: an obligation
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I’m curious if you’re just misremembering or if there’s some particular reason you say that.
Ooh, interesting. Up until now, I'd just imagine myself solving the problem manually, then describe that with code. I'll try to imagine building a machine to see how it feels
For me, building a machine is identical to writing code.
I can’t really see a difference.
One thing I find exceptional about your statement and also about a number of similar treatises of recent years is the seeming hopelessness of finding your own self clear of the endless subjectivity of others' conflicting opinions.
You may find it terrible, but I actually believe in objective reality. I believe I know good and evil when I see them... and I can do this without access to the supernatural or recourse to religion. I believe in better and worse outcomes for individuals and for societies. I believe some societies are better than others, because I've lived in 34 countries over 20 years and I can make honest comparisons about the pros and cons of each. Nowhere is perfect, but some actually are better -- objectively, if you believe that being expressive and embracing diversity and freedom of thought is a good thing. Personally I think good==complexity and evil==destruction, and so anything that kills life is destroying complexity that the universe demands, so is necessarily a kind of evil.
The Achilles heel of people younger than me is that they think opinions on the internet actually mean something... and the younger they are the less they seem to believe in the objective truth of the world. Call it the corrupting influence of Instagram, I guess. But I think it's due for a major backlash, because no one wants to have their morals dictated to them that way... and the objective world remains. It always remains. True things are true, false are false; evil is hypocrisy, and it's rampant. It is not a subjective, religious pronouncement.. it's a thing that is fucking right there.
2+2=4
These comments are all over the place. I can’t identify a coherent point.
Personally I believe Linux has matured to a pretty decent usability level for the average user. Ubuntu, Opensuse, Linux Mint and some of the like have taken a lot of the hard work out of managing and installing a linux OS. It used to be that you would slave hours of getting your specific hardware to work with a particular flavor of Linux. Now you have drivers that are plentiful and up to date, bugs that get fixed fast, and large communities at near enterprise levels maintaining the updates. Frankly a pretty good time to be a Linux user.
Are there any, I don’t know, archives of what it used to be like to install linux? My first linux experience was Ubuntu maybe a decade so ago and it installed fine.
Isn't this the main reason why social media pushes their apps over their (once) perfectly functional websites?
Better analytics = better product*.
* for the true customers, i.e. marketing & communication firms, governments, etc.
Why do you say “true customers”?
Is anyone under the impression that they are a customer of a service they don’t pay for?
People would readily identify as a “Twitter user” instead of a “Twitter customer”
It absolutely is. Please read his book, it addresses this claim directly.
You can't fix lawlessness by reporting the violation of law to the lawbreaker.
This is also why police in the USA are out of control. You cannot fix a criminal conspiracy from within the criminal conspiracy.
PS: nations don't exist, they are fictional abstractions. You cannot "hurt a country".
> You can't fix lawlessness by reporting the violation of law to the lawbreaker
You absolutely can, especially with something as multifaceted as a country.
> nations don't exist, they are fictional abstractions. You cannot "hurt a country".
They do and you can.
Would you really want every random corporation having some random person pick from the list of open source cipher packages? Which last I checked , still included things like 3DES, MD5, etc.
You might as well hand a drunk monkey a loaded sub machine gun.
What’s wrong with 3DES?
Can you show me a robot that grows incrementally?
Do you mean in size?
Surely you don’t think changing size has much to do with what makes humans intelligent.
Personally, I think the answer here is a continued and ongoing land tax. Occupying land should come with an expectation you contribute to the common good, because you don't "own" land. It's a shared good, just like air and water, and you should pay for use.
Primary residences should indeed not be subject to an inheritance tax - if they are continued to be used as a primary residence. Providing an ongoing home for a family unit[1] is a societal good, we shouldn't punish it.
[1] Definition of family is a hairy problem for another, longer post.