retsofaj - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Traders (Score 1) 791

by retsofaj on Sunday July 31, 2011 @03:31PM (#36940788) Attached to: How and Why Wall Street Programmers Earn Top Salaries

Alternatively why not change the parameters on capital gains taxes?

If the argument is that capital gains should be taxed at lower rate to attract investment and create jobs, then capital gains realized on companies that have outsourced should be taxed at a rate significantly higher than capital gains made on companies that have created jobs.

The devil is in the details (esp. wrt. productivity) but it does try to link the apparent goal of a low capital gains tax with the labour market outcomes of the capital investments.

11,000-Year-Old Temple Found In Turkey 307

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 13, 2008 @01:28AM from the chicken-or-the-egg dept.

Ralph Spoilsport writes "In Southeast Turkey, the archaeologist Klaus Schmidt has discovered an 11,000-year-old temple. Established civilization theory suggests that agriculture created cities, and cities created monuments. This discovery suggests just the opposite — people got together to build a huge monument to their religion, and in order to sustain it, communities were formed and agriculture (already in development) quickly followed on to sustain the population. Truly a startling find with significant implications."

Comment Re:Building things in the OS bad (Score 1) 285

by retsofaj on Monday May 01, 2006 @03:24PM (#15239551) Attached to: Will OSX Build In Torrenting?

I would argue that the difference is in how opaque the integration is. The interfaces to WebCore (or is it WebKit?) and other Apple-provided frameworks are well-defined and in known locations. There is nothing preventing someone from (for example) writing a facade for Gecko and changing html rendering throughout the system. I don't believe (but don't know) whether that would be possible in Windows.

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