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This is misleading. I'm not sure replacing income tax with sales tax is a positive change. The state is still collecting taxes, but the tools are pretty regressive.

Inline reduces round trips.

This analogy is quite misleading, because, in addition to California, there is also Wyoming, with a population of less than <600k.

Lots of experiments show that babies develop import capabilities at roughly the same times. That speaks to inherited abilities.

Except that the plural of anecdotes is definitely not data, because without controlling for confounding variables and sampling biases, you will get garbage.

Also see wok done on topological optimization. Mechanical designs no human would design, but AI not required either, just numerical optimization.

Sorry, but a VAT is paid for by the final consumer. US suppliers paying taxes would be a manufacturer's sales tax (MST), but they went out of style decades ago. If any states are dumb enough to still have an MST, maybe they should start there.

Except that all the people using left-pad weren't paying for left-pad, and didn't have a contractual relationship with the author. IANAL, but I'm doubtful the courts would find there is enough of a relationship for the author to be liable.

You shouldn't compare the unemployment rates between countries. There are different criteria for "unemployed", so measures in different countries don't measure the same thing.

Labor participation rates are more comparable. The US rate is worse than the EU rate.

There is nothing wrong with some income inequality. Too much inequality is known to be destabilizing (sorry, don't have a reference on hand).

Actually, lots of circuits can be built with components specified to within 20%, perhaps with some key components specified more tightly. Good designs are robust against component variation.

If rule #1 is don't break userspace, we might need a rule #0, which would be don't support insecure behaviour. In the end, people might need to balance competing concerns...

Go is surprisingly good in this role. Super easy cross compilation, good platform support, and easy distribution means that it's very easy to get the tool where you need it. For a lot of file munging, Go is serviceable.

That fact is certainly a stain on history, but sidesteps the observation that European powers were able to militarily overpower so many other regions because they were already richer and technologically advanced compared to other regions.