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  • I am -not- in academia (so I can’t upvote), but this makes me somehow feel kinda better about myself.

    Please tell me that, idk, “thoughtful” people need more time to review things (carefully), or something, and that explains this fault... Right? Hello? Is this thing on?

  • What two pieces of software, if you don’t mind sharing?

    I ask because a relative who is a software developer could somehow barely finally leave windows, because of WinSCP, which is, afaik, a GUI for secure copy commands. Why rsync or sftp commands cannot be enough for a software developer without WinSCP was beyond me. But perhaps there is something I don’t know about each of these pieces of software.

  • If Zucman is a fan, this is great news indeed. A 25% minimum tax on billionaire wealth sounds great, and with broad support, as the article notes (even 51% of Republicans).

    Much better news, too, for those of us who only saw this part reported on til now:

    The campaign spokesperson called the move—which would still leave the corporate tax rate lower than it was when Trump first took office in 2017—a "fiscally responsible way to put money back in the pockets of working people and ensure billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share." (emphasis mine)

    IIRC, the corporate tax rate was slashed by Trump from 30-something percent, maybe 35%, to something like 18%, so to see that Harris was not interested in reversing this Trump tax cut fully (only to 25%) felt til now like yet another depressing instance of the ratchet effect, where the right does what they do, and neoliberals only undo part of it when they are in power.

  • Is it me or is there something very facile and dull about Gartner charts? Thinking especially about the “””magic””” quadrants one (wow, you ranked competitors in some area along TWO axes!), but even this chart feels like such a mundane observation that it seems like frankly undeserved advertising for Gartner, again, given how little it actually says.

  • Because it’s Zach Beauchamp and he essentially hates the left.

    I know everyone is giving you tidy, case-solving “it’s-always-like-this” responses, but indeed you are on to something.

    Let the anti-anti corporate work begin (Walz and Harris being the [somewhat] anti-corporate).

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  • Agreed with “fuck Oracle,” but isn’t the JVM the same regardless of where you compile it, Linux or something else?

    Something seems off with the idea of a conflict between Linux and Java (and I am no fan of Java!)

  • I want her to listen to climate experts

    Yep!

    public health experts

    Yep!

    economic experts

    You lost me.

    Economics is just political economy somehow supposedly divorced from politics.

    The economics Nobel prize is not even a “real” Nobel prize. No kidding, look it up.