Comment Conspiracy theory (Score 1, Troll) 229
3: Profit!
Descriptivism is dead... Language is not, nor should it be, static.
Call me a prescriptivist, but I think the way you redefined the two terms 'descriptivism' and 'prescriptivism' to mean each other is bound to cause confusion and should be proscribed.
In other news, I have now looked at words containing 'ivi' for long enough that all I can see is Roman numerals.
Your math is very wrong. FTFA: 10k ppl=$140m, that is 14,000 per person, averaged. Said another way, 250,000*.0225=$5625.
Are you completely ignoring the fact that this discussion thread right here is about the tax being marginal?
The only way it makes any sense to calculate 2.25% of 250K is if someone makes $500K, so they make 250K over the threshold.
The average 14K pp estimate suggests that the average wage they're looking at is 14,000/.0225 = ~620K ABOVE the 250K threshold, so $870K/yr.
The other concern is that randomising the link order has been shown (ASPLOS 2015) to have around a plus or minus 20% impact on performance. Having that variation across reboots for the kernel could be quite frustrating.
That variation is already present in every linked program anyway. This just changes the dice-roll from only once at build time to each and every boot time. Surely it would suck more to get a randomly slow link at build time and then be stuck with it?
What would be nice would be a tab in options in the browser that lists all the hardware you might want javascript to be able to access (mic, light sensor, camera, whatever) alongside a simple selector: allow-access, deny-access, pretend-to-allow-access-but-fake-the-result.
We have that already though.
At least in Chrome, there's global defaults for each type of thing, and per-site overrides that you can access by clicking the site icon in the address bar.
Granted, they don't have pretend-to-allow-access-but-fake-the-result, but I thought this was normal and had been in most browsers for ages?
I thought they had already switched to Mir, but the article says Wayland will be in place of X11.
Mir came crashing down a while ago.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky