Lol. Like many people, I too have $99/month service. I typed my name into the evil waitlist. I subsequently received a satellite dish that gave me space internet. For less than my cable subscription. For internet from space.
> When you reduce all-pair-shortest-paths (assuming a cubic lower bound) to your problem in quadratic time, your problem has a lower bound of linear time. However, when you speed up the reduction to linear time, your lower bound is quadratic time!
I think it seems funny because we often intuit that “lower is better” but when it comes to lower bounds higher is better (in the sense of tighter).
> That said one needs to be realistic about it, is going to college really going to make you 3x more productive at 22 than if you didn't?
Obviously this depends on what you might have done instead… If on the one hand you went to college and learned to program, and on the other hand you didn’t go to college and didn’t learn to program, then you are going to be 100x more productive (as a programmer) having gone to college.
It’s hard to disentangle having gone to college with having learned something there.
I learned plenty of things in college. The real question is how much of it is stuff I actually use today, especially for my job.
Calculus - no, literature - no, Spanish - no, English - no (HS level is sufficient), cryptography - no, networking - no, COBOL - no, assembly - no, business minor classes - barely, all those liberal arts - nope.
I learned how to program in HS. A bootcamp could also teach someone how to program. So could an associates degree. But employers just want the credentials of a BS or MS. For whatever reason, associate degrees are uncommon and looked down upon.
So sure, you could learn something useful in college, but there are more efficient/cheaper ways to do it. A lot of college is waste due to excessive employer demands for credentials and bureaucratic school requirements (liberal arts, foreign languages, etc).
A marginal sales tax would not necessarily do so. Pick a consumption dollar amount below which one is not wealthy and above which one is wealthy, according to you. Say, spending $1,000,000 per year.
Consumption up to that amount is taxed at 0%. Marginal consumption above that amount is taxed at 20%.
I think I don't like this idea for the wrong reason.
Making sales tax less regressive would be a good thing.
The implementation difficulties don't bother me per se; I think what's making me not like this idea is that it wouldn't do much for wealth disparity. If you're Wealthy with a capital W, you don't really spend that much, compared to your income.
But even if I'm also interested in tax policies to decrease the accumulation of massive amounts of wealth and the accompanying power in the hands of a single individual, I shouldn't dislike a tax policy that would do a different good thing -- if it could be implemented -- just because it doesn't do the other thing I want.
> I think what's making me not like this idea is that it wouldn't do much for wealth disparity. If you're Wealthy with a capital W, you don't really spend that much, compared to your income.
These problems can be solved via extremely high estate taxes or property taxes.
Yes, but a marginal sales tax is impossible to enforce. Countries that do have sales taxes usually have a "normal" rate and several tiers of reduced rates for food and essential goods. E.g. in Italy the VAT rate is 22%, but some listed goods and services are instead taxed 10%, 4% or 0%.
> Because I don't get involved in all that backstabbing, gossiping crap.
Making friends at work does not necessitate participating in backstabbing, gossiping crap. In fact, being a good friend generally requires not participating in backstabbing, gossiping crap.
You could try being a good friend at work? You might get even more out of life than you currently do.
It seems like the only “leap” is partnering with some other group. Which, yes, organizing is critical on large scale projects… but for those of us looking for a breakthrough, I guess we’ve been clickbaited.
Most that answer with a categorical “yes” (I want that) haven’t lived what you are suggesting.
I’ve lived next to low income + “project” housing. It’s physically dangerous, in the form of gun violence. Sucks but it’s true. When you’re in your 20s it’s whatever, what are the odds that you’ll be hit by a stray bullet?
When you’re pushing 40 and have kids? Fuck that. Build your housing elsewhere.
Pretend instead of “serious” they said “frobnozz”. You’re not a frobnozz cyclist unless you can do a handstand on your handlebars! How absolutely un-frobnozz can you get??
There’s a tendency to ascribe value to words like “serious” but it’s a temptation, nothing more. Who cares that some bozo thinks “serious” drivers drive manual transmission cars, or ride bikes in a particular way.
Context: NewRelic force-migrating people to their new alerting platform without actually implementing necessary tooling (e.g. terraform provider support).
Haters gonna.