How do you figure that one? Oil and gas are about 30% of the UAE's GDP. They're something like the fourth-largest exporter worldwide. And leaving OPEC will allow them to increase production however they see fit, unrestrained by OPEC rules.

OK, so if the press dropped the word "war" altogether and instead used the phrase, "the United States and Israel's unprovoked attacks on Iran," would you be satisfied with that?

'this?'

By this, you mean /.? For at least a third of /. race is the preferred tool to attempt to discredit, demean, or dismiss your apparent adversaries.

I expected better from a 6-digit, but hey,

I remember when Reddit wasn't Reddit. When dialogue was often intended to reach understanding.

Making it continuous avoids having strange behaviours near bracket limits (where a pay raise can result in an actual pay cut). This is something the rich fear as much as anyone, hence the anxiety around whether earning more will get you more. With an S-curve, you can provide that as a hard guarantee whilst also making the current notion of high-scoring (billion and trillion dollar pay packets) completely senseless economically -- without denying the rich the glory if that's the kink they're into.

It also means that you don't have an "upper bracket" where people well beyond it are essentially getting free cash. It's also more computer-friendly. It also becomes possible to make a much higher maximum tax.

But, yeah, you're correct in principle.

There is no ideological, economical or scientific reason for Trump's stance against wind turbines. It is purely out of spite.

This article sums up the background:
How Trump's loathing for wind turbines started with a Scottish court battle.

Back in 2012, Trump had objected to 11 wind turbines which were planned within view from his new golf course in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The wind turbines were eventually built.
He had objected up in the Scottish courts and even appealed as far as the UK Supreme Court.
He lost all the way, and because he is a sore loser he has been an enemy to wind turbines ever since.

BTW. Trump calls wind turbines that creates electricity "windmills".
There is a British idiom "Tilting at Windmills" which means to attack imaginary enemies. It is a reference to the classic novel "Don Quixote". So for a Brit used to the expression, Trump appears even more ridiculous.

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How Trump's loathing for wind turbines started with a Scottish court battle.

Back in 2012, Trump had objected to 11 wind turbines which were planned within view from his golf course in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The wind turbines were eventually built.
He had objected up in the Scottish courts and even appealed as far as the UK Supreme Court.
He lost all the way, and because he is a sore loser with unbounded meanspiritedness he has been an enemy to wind turbines ever since.

I remember BBEdit from ages ago. But these days, hell, I just use VS Code.

Totally curious how your prompts went for this. Did you give it an existing code base? Just told it what the game looked like? Assumed it knew already?

Personally, I would agree with you entirely.

Now, everyone has their own preference on what a "simplified" tax code would look like.

For myself, I'd use something similar to an S-curve. Maybe even use that family of curves directly. What you want is for those who earn very little to pay very little, for there to be a region where this increases substantially (because life ain't cheap, even when you can use scale efficiencies meaningfully), and for an asymptotic region for the mega-wealthy. You feed in the expected earnings for the year, you integrate over the curve, and you divide by 12. That's the tax per month for the financial year. If a person changes earnings, either due to a raise, unemployment, or whatever, you use a weighted average, recalculate, then subtract what has already been paid.

This is simple, quick, easy, and only requires that you have expected earnings reported to somewhere central, which needs to be true for taxes anyway.

No tax brackets, no deductions, just a straight calculation by a computer. And, as computers do the taxes anyway these days, that's not much of a hardship. You simply set the parameters for the curve to be such that nobody really needs anything to be deductable.

I'm sure there will be plenty of others who advocate flat taxes or other schemes, and some of those may even work out better than what I'm suggesting. I have no ego at stake here, so if others can do better, go for it. My point is not that my idea is somehow good, it's rather that we can indeed close the loopholes and simplify the tax code - enormously - without creating massive unfairness and without having to rely on naive assumptions about economies.

Except, a hundred years ago, they didn't. And the government knows this. As do many in the public. The taxes in the 1960s and 70s were around 90% for the rich, not 5%, and yet billionaires stayed in America.

You can hate taxes all you like, but even with posting, you're using services that were invented because those taxes existed and for no other reason. The commercial sector FAR preferred the X.25 technology they were using, because they could charge a fortune and get away with it. You have Internet today because of those taxes you loathe.

Meanwhile in reality per-pupil spending in the US is some of the highest in the entire world and it's far left policies like abolishing phonics and claiming expecting the right answer in math is "white supremacy" that lead to this, because a neurotic and ignorant population is easier to radicalize.

Not the only motivation, but the various interests promoting limits on 3D printing all have similar goals.

Imagine it feeling your where your fingers are holding it and using it to distort the image on the screen to make it resemble squeezing a transparent gel ball. .. just to take the current user interface analogy to its extreme.

*shudder*

Up until the mid '90s, most computers were made to have a CRT monitor sit on top of it. I don't think that was a problem.

I used to lug CRT monitors to LAN parties back in the 90s... It was just the way we did it back then.

The mouse here was a common design from Mouse Systems, who also made the same model adapted to the IBM PC and for several other Unix vendors.