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Comment Re: Everyone is moving to TX or FL (Score 1) 93

The reality is that more taxes simple mean more for bureaucrats to squander.

You are correct; however, I would like to make it more pointed:
The reality is that more taxes simply mean more for bureaucrats to send to their friend's and family's companies.

In other words, more taxes means more wealth transfer from the general public to the 'wealthy elite'.

Comment Re:Modified capitalism (Score 1) 196

Wealth inequality happens any time you have trade in value, this can be proven mathematically, and it applies to any value in any system.

Wealth inequality is desirable.

The person who is smarter/stronger/harder working should have more wealth than the person who sits around smoking weed and masturbating all day. The thing is, it is not US (people) that should be deciding what others should own, it should be 'nature' that decides. That means the smart/strong/harder working person may not end up with more wealth because they were infected by a parasite that stole their eyesight.

It doesn't matter which economic system is used, it needs to not be corrupted. I would prefer Capitalism as it represents nature most effectively; however, all Economic systems become corrupted because humans are corrupt.

Comment Re:Okay then, that was always allowed (Score 1) 187

Why would they duplicate the dev effort and take on the expense of creating software which would then make it more difficult to interoperate with their American business / trade partner?

An entity should ALWAYS be self sufficient.

Teamwork makes the dream work; however, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Comment Re:Remotely downloaded code (Score 4, Informative) 18

What, exactly, is the point or purpose of including code in your program that is downloaded from a third-party website every time you execute the program?

No, npm is literally the opposite of that.

If you want to include a function or subroutine or library in your program, why wouldn't you just download it and use that?

I run Drupal and it uses composer, which does basically the same thing. But then I want some javascript libraries that you can't get through composer repos itself, you need to get them from npm. So every time there's one of these npm exploit stories I say oh shit, some more shit I need to read. Luckily I'm only pulling in literally two packages from there. But I don't need to do this, I only do it specifically for the purpose of not having my site refer to some other site for those javascript libraries. That way, someone else changing their library doesn't automatically screw up my site, or more plausibly since I am not running any javascript on the server side, start back dooring other people who visit there. So npm is exactly the kind of thing you think people should be using, except with less oversight which is why we keep hearing about loads of compromised packages.

Comment Re:still bummed about SG-U (Score 1) 94

Disagree on this. That's like saying only shows that trek through the stars should be called Star Trek - and yet the best Star Trek series ever made was Deep Space Nine.

Yeah, they had B5 to crib from.

The Stargate is just part of the premise of the followup shows, not a required defining characteristic of them

If you're putting it in the title, yes it is.

Comment Re:8-1 decision (Score 2) 69

Dear friend,

We make certain rules so that we can live in the same nation together. For example, we must to a reasonable extent unify our motor vehicle requirements so that you can reasonably travel to other states without onerous additional inspections and harassment. Alas, with rights come responsibilities.

Signed,
Srsly

Comment They can only self-improve if they are capable (Score 3, Interesting) 156

The current "approaches" will not give any scalable results as they ignore basic physics. It's at best a very power-hungry gambling with database entries, at worst a noisy and expensive waste of time. I think that it's fitting to call users of these things for gamblers, and the tokens they use and pay for are the same as in gambling, and they are all gambling for a good result. In the end, the house always wins.

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