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There is no arbitrary, technical way to tax that does not impose a value judgment.

"People who have more than they need to live are greedy and need to have their money taken and given to those who do not."

^ That is the most fair way to tax.

Because the foundations of Enlightenment society are relatively stupid. The only way to maintain them in the face of their own contradictions is arbitrary threat of violence.

I do a podcast.

A lot of that is a tried and true method of promotion for those coming into podcasting without a big following elsewhere to try to convert.

We started with a fairly large social media following that we could promote with, but others without such an existing audience are better off advertising on similar shows. After all, that's the draw of podcasting as a medium... advertising efficacy is pretty high.

Perhaps, in my case in some of these cases I remember wording / sentences explicitly that I can recite from memory, or failing that, I surely remember a string of keywords that will only appear in a handful of articles.

And like I said, it's not uncommon to find something on Google one day and have it just gone six months later.

I don't think you have evaluated the quality of your results from Google very carefully.

Research is part of my job. I routinely find things on Google that I circle back to later to check up on and find that they've disappeared (not things disparaging to anyone that one would be motivated to get off of google, talking about things just disappearing for inexplicable reasons).

For the first time in a decade, during the past year I have started using alternative search engines because the quality of Google results is bad.

> bars independent contractors from acting like “disguised” employees. It’s a world of pain if that happens.

The US allows companies to fire long-term employees without cause and replace them with indentured servants.

We're the ones who actually hosted the cotton fields full of slaves, after all.

The US predominantly posts job openings for which no one will be hired for compliance.

They actually hire H1B visa workers or contractors to churn out the code solely based on cost.

To be honest, learning to code was a complete waste of time.

No one in their right mind would jump through all of the hoops required by the software world's completely insane attempts to filter people out of their hiring processes, all while complaining about being short handed.

The obvious takeaway is that none of these companies are qualified to be writing code at all, because they can't manage themselves. How are they going to manage a codebase if they can't manage their office head count?

It's really amazing that they have managed to miss every trend for so long.

Mobile? Nope, don't care, let it go to Qualcomm, Arm, etc.

Cloud shift from on-premise hardware? Screw their power and efficiency demands, let them eat cake (buy Xeons).

If it's so good at it, why does it always need government funding?

(As testified before a congressional committee by an FDA official, his response to the question of "how many drugs receive government research funding?" was "all of them.")

But you might have a viable visual page builder. It's honestly a tough choice at times...

It seems to me that both the militant believers and the militant non-believers always have a "they" to point to as the reason for their militancy.

I suppose everyone forgot about the individualist nature of protestantism.

Maybe we should try insurance for people going to doctors and see if that turns out any different, oh wait lol....