I would argue that what Steam did for video games is what Netflix did for movies and tv shows. They made the legal option way more convenient and affordable it wasn’t worth the hassle to pirate. That has changed now (at least in Netflix’s case).

The gator is playing the long game I bet.

I would argue that sales taxes are regressive and hurt the people social programs are supposed to help. The one case I have seen where a sales tax would make sense is for a local zoned area for development of that area. Say there is a new public transit system being built and a business is within 5 blocks of it. They would massively benefit from that public transit and having a 1% sales tax that goes towards funding the public transit is in my opinion a case where that would work. Even better if the businesses can only increase prices to cover at most half the cost of the sales tax (so the business pays part of it and the consumer pays part of it).

Really what taxes should be focused on is getting the rich to actually pay their fucking taxes. The amount of good that could come from the rich getting properly taxed would be enormous. Along with reducing sales taxes and increasing taxes elsewhere would probably be better as a whole (outside of the above scenario where it’s highly localized).

TL;DR I think it’s too high cause other forms of tax revenue are in my opinion better than sales tax. See for example how Missouri rejected a proposal to remove income tax and let the state set sales tax to whatever they wanted in an 80% vs 20% vote.

If you would be so kind I’m having trouble finding it.

I upvoted both cause I’m being a fence sitter and can’t decide which I agree with.

That’s how a lot of execs think though. Short term gains while ignoring any long term losses that out weigh it.

The amount of content on here is less plentiful, so browsing all and blocking the communities you don’t like has been how I curated my feed. If a community doesn’t exist you can always make one (easier said than done I know).

I would say no, unless he referred to Trebek as Alexander throughout the show. I don’t like that answer but it’s the one that makes the most sense to me.

Just be careful of that flammable helium! I kinda hope these things make a comeback would be cool to take a trans Atlantic flight in one.

They’re burning to see deez nuts! Got 'em!

Yeah I think space stations have to literally worry about not radiating enough heat away. If there is no medium to transfer the heat into the heat can’t really go away. One of the many unintuitive features of space

You’re still using windows 7 so yeah /s . But jokes aside your fine all credit card numbers are automatically redacted. Put yours below with the CCV code and expiration date, and watch the magic happen.

Damn it I forgot about the duration part of ISO 8601 (which is also super useful and I love it). I’ll amend it to RFC 3339 to be more exact in what I mean (even though the specified format should prevent the more esoteric formats).

ISO 8601 RFC 3339 (yyyy-mm-dd) for storing dates in software. Any format that that goes in the order of day, month, and year for conversational/presentational purposes, preferable the format is dynamic depending on the user’s locale (even for those that want the month first). There now everyone is happy.

Edit: switched to RFC 3339 since it is a subset of ISO 8601 that is more strict, and I love semantics.

If he was upfront with adding a block list, like a little message that pops up, and giving the user the option to opt out, then this would’ve been a non-issue. I can see some people wanting a curated block list to not have politic, rage subs, etc., but doing it in a hidden way will always leave a bad taste in my mouth.

I knew it was going to be a chording keyboard. I really want to play with one of those, but they tend to be a little too expensive for a thing I might lose interest in quickly lol.

My job is a lot of writing code so I have that ability whether I want to have it or not. I have also gotten half decent at swiping phone without looking. Usually one or two words are wrong though

If an editor has plugins then there is more than likely a vim extension for it. I know VS Code has one, and it has worked consistently for me. I think someone also made a Firefox extension for vim like navigation if you want to really go hard.

If it’s version 0.2 then clearly they’re still in beta/alpha development. Give 'em a break 😭.

When I did them myself I would get them done by March at the latest. Now that I have a financial advisor that also does my taxes, I get the documents to them ASAP (assuming ADHD isn’t getting in my way), and they tend to have them filed around the time I would’ve gotten them filed. Also nice to see that I didy taxes pretty accurately as how much I owed/was owed were effectively the se amount. Really wish the tax system was simplified for at least regular W2 employees where the taxes are basically all boilerplate with some numbers filled in.