Land ownership, for example, is highly concentrated with the aristocracy/gentry. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/money/2019/...
> a new group who are there to just enrich themselves. The UK’s been ruled by a relatively small hereditary aristocracy for, what, 1,000 years? A self-interested political class is hardly a new phenomenon there.
> Hopefully, some security researchers will get their hands on it, de-anonymize the data set, and then regulators will burn the industry to the ground. Who does this benefit, though?
The only compelling reason is to give broader and cheaper access to past works. If you don’t find that compelling then I don’t know what to tell you. What’s the compelling argument for them to exist as is? The big…
Congress is the one that’s dramatically extended copyright length, not the courts.
There’s no counter-argument to make beyond my self-interest in consuming creative works at very low cost and with very few limitations outweighing your self-interest in profiting from your works.
The Soviet intelligence apparatus spent a good deal of time and effort post-1945 ensuring that pretty much every state in Eastern and Central Europe would be dominated by the local communist party, parties which largely…
I don't see the point of the corporate tax at all unless people think the IRS would be incapable of auditing people that incorporate.
A carbon tax could easily be coupled with a dividend...
We would be better off with taxing the unimproved value of the land (possibly until the market price of the land itself is $0) and rolling back the barriers to building new housing. That would result in cheaper, more…
I don't know - just thinking of construction, for example, we would probably have seen more innovation in that sector over the last century if every town and city in America didn't have its own zoning and land use laws…
>I always give benefit of doubt where it's due, but Twitter has definitely something sinister going with their Indian Operations. If Indian companies goes abroad they are expected to follow local laws, and if Twitter…
>Fighting the govt is rarely productive, but they probably know something to do this crazy in-your-face stuff. Depends on your definition of productive, I suppose.
Yes, there are tradeoffs anywhere - which means we should rationally assess what we're putting into education and whether at least some of those resources can be put to better use in other ways.
There are tradeoffs, though - the resources that are poured into higher education are resources that cannot be spent on other vital things.
What’s the actual cost/benefit here?
Yes - corporate income tax should be eliminated entirely - the revenue can be made up in other, less terrible ways. Corporate incomes taxes are a poor way to address inequality because they tend to fall, at least in…
The government could tax shareholders, i.e. the people who receive a corporations profits to begin with.
Why tax a corporation's income at all when you can tax its shareholders income instead?
Capital gains taxes (paid by shareholders) are completely separate from corporate income taxes (paid by corporations). You're also forgetting (or ignoring) that the legal incidence of a tax and the economic incidence…
Those would be taxable for the employees receiving those perks, giving away shareholders' money to employees to reduce a tax bill is absolutely nonsensical in financial, and if a publicly traded company were to do this…
Only a few of the items in Gebru's "controversial" paper are even worth discussing - do we really need an Ethics department to calculate the carbon footprint of training a model, or point out that a model based on…
Somebody better let Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland know they are barbarian societies for want of a minimum wage!
>Information is not a harmless dingus. Its a weapon, just as the gun was in the last century. This is a silly analogy, what is Google doing or planning to do with this information that is dangerous, and how does that…
> Because ultimately, all the finance whiz bang talk doesn’t change common sense that only allowing trades in one direction is unfair Trump’s executive order in November is forcing Americans to divest from a bunch of…
Land ownership, for example, is highly concentrated with the aristocracy/gentry. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/money/2019/...
> a new group who are there to just enrich themselves. The UK’s been ruled by a relatively small hereditary aristocracy for, what, 1,000 years? A self-interested political class is hardly a new phenomenon there.
> Hopefully, some security researchers will get their hands on it, de-anonymize the data set, and then regulators will burn the industry to the ground. Who does this benefit, though?
The only compelling reason is to give broader and cheaper access to past works. If you don’t find that compelling then I don’t know what to tell you. What’s the compelling argument for them to exist as is? The big…
Congress is the one that’s dramatically extended copyright length, not the courts.
There’s no counter-argument to make beyond my self-interest in consuming creative works at very low cost and with very few limitations outweighing your self-interest in profiting from your works.
The Soviet intelligence apparatus spent a good deal of time and effort post-1945 ensuring that pretty much every state in Eastern and Central Europe would be dominated by the local communist party, parties which largely…
I don't see the point of the corporate tax at all unless people think the IRS would be incapable of auditing people that incorporate.
A carbon tax could easily be coupled with a dividend...
We would be better off with taxing the unimproved value of the land (possibly until the market price of the land itself is $0) and rolling back the barriers to building new housing. That would result in cheaper, more…
I don't know - just thinking of construction, for example, we would probably have seen more innovation in that sector over the last century if every town and city in America didn't have its own zoning and land use laws…
>I always give benefit of doubt where it's due, but Twitter has definitely something sinister going with their Indian Operations. If Indian companies goes abroad they are expected to follow local laws, and if Twitter…
>Fighting the govt is rarely productive, but they probably know something to do this crazy in-your-face stuff. Depends on your definition of productive, I suppose.
Yes, there are tradeoffs anywhere - which means we should rationally assess what we're putting into education and whether at least some of those resources can be put to better use in other ways.
There are tradeoffs, though - the resources that are poured into higher education are resources that cannot be spent on other vital things.
What’s the actual cost/benefit here?
Yes - corporate income tax should be eliminated entirely - the revenue can be made up in other, less terrible ways. Corporate incomes taxes are a poor way to address inequality because they tend to fall, at least in…
The government could tax shareholders, i.e. the people who receive a corporations profits to begin with.
Why tax a corporation's income at all when you can tax its shareholders income instead?
Capital gains taxes (paid by shareholders) are completely separate from corporate income taxes (paid by corporations). You're also forgetting (or ignoring) that the legal incidence of a tax and the economic incidence…
Those would be taxable for the employees receiving those perks, giving away shareholders' money to employees to reduce a tax bill is absolutely nonsensical in financial, and if a publicly traded company were to do this…
Only a few of the items in Gebru's "controversial" paper are even worth discussing - do we really need an Ethics department to calculate the carbon footprint of training a model, or point out that a model based on…
Somebody better let Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland know they are barbarian societies for want of a minimum wage!
>Information is not a harmless dingus. Its a weapon, just as the gun was in the last century. This is a silly analogy, what is Google doing or planning to do with this information that is dangerous, and how does that…
> Because ultimately, all the finance whiz bang talk doesn’t change common sense that only allowing trades in one direction is unfair Trump’s executive order in November is forcing Americans to divest from a bunch of…