I suspect that is why they posted this here to be honest... currious if it works
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What it does do is make it easy to reason about how pointers are used across the application. Also worth noting that even with legacy libraries, you can wrap a given pointer with std::unique_ptr or std::shared_ptr and provide a custom deleter and maintain reasonable safety guarantees.
That article goes out of its way to paint a picture of someone purchasing stock in a C corp with money earned from earned income and then eventually sold.
And yes, the corporation would pay a corporate tax rate (although almost certainly south of 30%), and then when that stock is sold, there is likely a 15% hit on the gains.
It is an unconvincing argument though; since salaries from a c corp are taxed too; if previous taxation was a deal breaker c corps wouldn't exist at all.
It is also unconvincing since capital gains are only taxed at the time of realization, it is an entirely different mechanism. As taxes goes, I can't choose to hold off paying taxes on income for a decade and invest that money; essentially compounding that money. But that is exactly how long-held unrealized capital gains work.
And insult to injury -- the entire idea of 'carried interest' is a give away to hedge funders. Even if you kept a low capital gains rate, carried interest as a concept should just be removed from the tax code.
We are _nowhere_ near that point. And no one is saying tax capital gains at 100%; but I've never seen a convincing argument that it shouldn't be at _least_ the same as income tax.
Inherited wealth was already taxed at one point too. All money is taxed multiple times as it moves throughout the economy. That by itself isn't a good reason to dismiss any tax plan.
Theoretically there are good economic arguments to back up a 'wealth' tax as a replacement of income tax or an adjustment to it. In theory, it could discourage keeping enormous reserves and keep money flowing through the economy -- it'd essentially incentive corporations hiring and building out operations rather than sitting on a rainy day fund or paying dividends.
As I said though, in practice it just isn't entirely feasible even if you decided it was a policy worth pursuing.
Sure, that is a reductionist argument but so was yours.
The real argument against taxing wealth is that it isn't really feasible; you'd just encourage banking in other countries or buying up a lot of land.
I also agree that capital gains being taxed at a lower rate is insane and makes sense only when you realize that's how politicians tend to get wealth.
Super unfortunate wording. I spent a second wondering how you could encode that much precision in two 'bits'.
This seems like a good case for open source; and pay bounties for anything untoward. I really am curious what the code looks like for this.
> This makes CMake-generated projects almost useless: you cannot source control them or share them in any other way.
Yes, and this is a good thing. I'm surprised anyone would want to do this on a visual studio solution of all things -- managing solution and project file merges in source control is incredibly tedious.
A lot of things about CMake irritate me, but its treatment of out of source build files as purely intermediate is a major plus to me, not a negative.
I could see how this would mess up your use case; but you have to admit your use case is very narrow -- I guess you want to be able to just rename the build folder; if you moved it more than that even the relative path to the source dir would be off -- and the justification for the limitation seems sensible.
He hasn't been silenced though, if anything his voice carried far further than intended.
I'm not sure Google did the right thing here. The argument that this is the precise sacred cow he was talking about is strong.
But it isn't censorship. His speech wasn't abridged. He isn't in jail. There is no freedom from reaction, nor is there a freedom from outrage. If he had sent out a racist tirade, dropping racial epithets, would you still say his right to free speech was infringed when he got fired?
What rights were deprived from the author exactly? Did I miss a story where he got arrested?
- Traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman, is the foundation for a free society and has for millennia been entrusted with rearing children and instilling cultural values. We condemn the Supreme Court’s ruling in United States v. Windsor, which wrongly removed the ability of Congress to define marriage policy in federal law
The implication here being that letting gay people get married is going to erode our foundation as a free society and obliterate all of our values as a culture. There are plenty of other callouts in that document to homophobic non-sense.
And then watched it get blown away by next congress as soon as the GOP gained 51 seats to do whatever they want. Blowing away the fillibuster is an awful, terrible, no good idea and there is almost no legislative agenda which would validate it.
And to be clear, the GOP senators were and still are slimey bastards for basically everything they did leading up to Gorsuch. It should have never been done. They will almost certainly regret it as soon as they lose the senate.
And that is counting Lieberman as a D; a person who backed McCain for president and who later personally killed the public option.
I do think we will get to the public option at some point. It just makes too much sense not to and would strengthen the healthcare as a whole while allowing people more choice.
Googles 100k assertion here is bullshit. They did a calculation that handing that data over, or even just collating it, would leave them in a worse position than fighting it.
They have lobbied for a variety of anti-tax payer causes. Namely stuff like: https://psmag.com/h-r-block-and-intuit-are-still-lobbying-to....
There is a really good reason to think that the government would do a better job -- most peoples tax situation is dead simple. Even if H&R block found deductions every once and a while that the IRS didn't -- which I doubt would happen realistically -- H&R block charges something like 200 dollars. It seems incredibly unlikely that they would save more than 200 dollars on average.
And if that was the case, let the market sort it. H&R block could say bring in the returns, and if the IRS messed up we'll find it and split it with you in some fashion.
The nuclear plants in Switzerland are safer and more efficient than coal power plants.
Which isn't to say it isn't a good system; but its definitely a draw back. Supporting IRV seems like a good first step in which we don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
Yes; but you typically do that before you buy the property, we've had texas for a while now.
All the talk about trade deficit with Mexico makes it sound like people think we just cut Mexico a check every year. As a nation, we receive goods and services for that deficit. It isn't money on the table.
This isn't true even on the face of it; it went up from ~10 trillion to ~18 trillion. And aside from that; the national debt exploded due to the economic collapse that happened months before Obama was sworn in. The accusation is wrong on the facts and disingenuous.
Also those twenty people likely weren't in a union so I doubt they had service jobs like running the coffee shop.