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I think most of the confusion arises because when you are tunneling X via ssh, the X client/server is the reverse of the shh client/server.

Add to that that the user manages the ssh connection while the X connection is managed for them...

> Did big businesses in the West really think “investing” in China would lead to “freedom” and such? Isn’t that framing a bit naive?

I think the OP would frame this as the Western governments allowing Western businesses to invest in China.

> How did you forget that Apple offers alternatives to almost everything Microsoft has, and is one of the world's largest companies?

I think the point is to avoid dependence on US based companies as opposed to getting away from Microsoft specifically. You will notice they did not mention obvious Google products as an alternative either.

Isn't a wealth tax just an expanded capital gains tax?

If last year I had wealth X and this year I have wealth X+Y, I have to pay a wealth tax on the gains, in addition to the the tax on the amount I had previously.

So my gains are still taxed.

Did you consider log4js?

> It's a shame that maintaining the web is so hard that only a few websites are "good citizens"

It's not hard actually. There is a lack of will and forethought on the part of most maintainers. I suspect that monetization also plays a role.

My secret agenda is to get gift ideas for my college aged child

> How did we go in 20 years from holding these companies to account when they'd misbehave to acting as if they are poor damsels in distress whenever someone points out a flaw?

Honestly I think the problem is more a rosy view of the past versus any actual change in behavior. There have always been defenders of such companies.

> Micron is chasing AI glory.

Sounds to me like they are using the tried and true method of selling equipment to the people rushing for gold

>> This North Korean world map is centred on the Pacific Ocean, which gives Korea a privileged position on the global stage.

> Not going to lie, sometimes it feels that some of the Westerners act like that they don't even think of the remote possibility that they might not be the center of the world…?

Westerner who also thought this was a strange comment and that the centering of the Korean peninsula was a totally natural decision for this atlas

You have missed the point.

The situation where pennies exist already has all the problems concerning rounding after sales tax. Things are rounded to whole pennies. The same solutions can be applied to round things to whole nickels.

It's the same way with the penny.

Tax on a 0.99 item isn't coming out to an exact penny multiple.

So stores are already dealing with this situation

I'm pretty sure the OP was talking about a far future where a $100 bill is worth less than the current penny

> Being able to instantly return to where you were without having to navigate apps is probably appreciated by a lot of people.

The back button supplied by the OS is perfectly capable of this (at least on Android I have witnessed this)

I don't understand the down votes, I had the same reaction. Other posters have suggested some better resources, check those out

I don't think so.

Anecdotally I know someone with aphantasia and they report having an internal monologue.

> Yeah, US hospital billing is based on the idea that the patient has insurance and won't really care about what their insurer gets charged. (The wider implications of this are left to the reader.)

Don't leave out the part where the consumer doesn't even shop (or sometimes pay) for the insurance policy either, it is determined by their place of work.

So the consumer of healthcare is doubly shielded from any price signals the market might supply.

I say keep the 12 hour clock, it is too ingrained, instead let's have twice as many days. April 42nd anyone?

> I've found that nearly every game in my embarrassingly-large Steam library works fine on Linux.

I have on occasion been scared off of buying a package from Humble Bundle when the games are available on Steam but not explicitly marked as linux. (Some of the games are marked with linux and some are not.) Are you saying I am being unnecessarily cautious?

For example, there is a "momcore" bundle at the moment where some games claim linux support and others do not, if you want to see what I'm talking about.

> which is the longest in pro sports, longer than baseball's season, despite being less than half the games

You are clearly referring to calendar time, in which case the NHL season is longer

> People voted for cheaper eggs, right?

I suppose people who don't understand markets did, yes

They recently stepped up their game.

So they do the thing where they set breaks to sunset in order to make the bill revenue neutral according to the CBO.

Then, later on, when the tax breaks are ready to sunset, they convince the CBO that the tax breaks constitute the new baseline. So now when they pass the next budget they are not considered "new" and they do NOT need to be balanced with cuts or increases any more.

It's a total end run around the intention of the process.

> Budgets in the US are supposed to be revenue neutral.

To clarify - budgets passed via the reconciliation are supposed to be revenue neutral. The reconciliation process takes away the Senate's filibuster. When the filibuster is in play, it effectively requires a 60-40 supermajority to pass anything.

(No this is not how the founders imagined the process going when they wrote the rules.)

>That seems like a passive-voice way of saying "We could steal from millions of people, pocketing the retirement savings they worked for their entire lives."

You brought up cancelling the program. I was just pointing out that your statement about it having no effect on the deficit was incorrect.

> they could cancel the [social security] program entirely and it wouldn't affect the deficit

I don't think this is true. During the surplus years the savings vehicle was US bonds. So social security lent the US government money.

Now that we are not in a surplus situation, we are using money from those bonds to pay benefits (we are also using SS revenue of course, only part of the payouts come from the bonds).

So if the program were cancelled, the bonds could revert back to the US government - in other words a bunch of debt would be forgiven and would not need to be paid out. Deficit (and debt) reduced.

> Immediately post-college, I shared houses with other 20-somethings. It was always a single lease

I did this in grad school BUT they were 100% separate leases (in NY state, not the city though). Not sure if the whole thing was just illegal or what TBH but that was the standard for apartments around the university.

There are plenty of locales where broadcasts cross state lines. I grew up in an area where we got Boston (Massachusetts) and Providence (Rhode Island) stations. NYC stations cover three states. I'm sure there are plenty of other examples (probably involving even more than three states).

So the justification for federal intervention (interstate commerce) is there.

Of course, that doesn't prevent the feds from letting the states handle it, but it does create an incentive for some states to want the feds to handle it.

They are quick to refund/replace because most of the items sold are returnable and "replace" is just a second order. Basically you have the ability to self service this. So it's a quick way for a CSR to satisfy a customer without doing anything special.

I would appreciate some links if you have them

My take:

It should be an auction.

The annual salary should match the fee (unless below some minimum).