brianary

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So it sounds like you don't believe progressive taxation works. I guess that's an understandable viewpoint. But if you think complexity is the problem, I have a hard time accepting your assessment of me as naïve. People that want simple solutions to complex problems are showing the lack of sophistication that defines naïvety.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

When did they last get their way via shutdown? Usually it costs Republicans politically.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Correct, they are different. But if you accept that evaluating a person's wealth happens successfully for taxation, there's no reason why the same metric can't be used for fines.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

So you don't think progressive taxation is possible?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I doubt even the usefulness of polls. Who answers polls anymore? We've been polled and surveyed to death. Nobody has time for it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Maybe there's some precedent, but I can't see why equally proportionate punishment should be unconstitutional.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I learned this from Professor Moby.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Literally the opposite of what Mr Burns did.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

There's a little historical baggage, but look at Windows: multiple letters for drives, and all of the paths can be modified, so you have to ask Windows where any important directory is physically mapped (like SystemRoot or Documents or Temp or Roaming AppData or many others), because it doesn't have this nice consistent structure like Linux. Linux presents a logical layer and manages the physical location automatically. Windows makes you do the logical lookup yourself, but doesn't enforce it, so inexperienced programmers make assumptions and put stuff where the path usually is.

That's part of why logging in to Windows over a slow connection can take forever if you have a bunch of Electron apps installed: they've mismapped their temp/cache directory under the Roaming AppData, so it gets synched at every login, often GiB of data, and they refuse to fix it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I'm just shocked at the vanity of people aggressively voting third party. They value the purity of their voting record more than other people's lives. They think they're the first generation to figure out morality or the secret cheat code to change the system.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If intent matters and results don't, I'll write in my favorite fictional candidate!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Most people can't afford to move.

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