Many of them do pay taxes on their income, as you note the cost of living structure just doesn’t scale with your assets. While you can spend serious money, and there are whole industries exploiting the rich to spend money on crap nothing stops you living like a normal person and many are pretty modest in their…

It’s usually the middle class that hate taxes, most reach people don’t think about them as they aren[t a significant impact even if they take significant amounts of income out of their wealth.

That’s how companies work, you run a company, hire workers, they pay taxes...

I don’t mind the moon is not the moon yarns, but an adaptation of Webers Dahak or something would have been good if there were doing something like that. It doesn’t have the moon is out to get you vibes, but it has the moons not what you think it is and its the only thing you’re going to save you from the way worses…

Taxing unrealised gains is idiotic, and he does correctly point out any way to do it would be so arbitrary and artificial it would set a totally unhelpful precedent more widely. Just make your tax systems simpler and more egalitarian so that there are fewer loopholes and less complexity so that everyone pays the same…

Why is it a problem, their capital is what’s driving in many cases economic growth and job creation and by definition you can’t live off unrealised gains and dividends and realised gains are both taxable. Also you absolutely should be able to do that, we can now live far longer than you can reasonable work. You can’t…

They’ve leaned hard into the comic bookness of it, there really isn’t any reason any sequel can’t do exactly what the previous one did and totally ignore the previous version. It would be kind of refreshing to be honest.

The plans for different diseases where a lot of countries were well prepared don’t really cause much of a different impact and the ones that were well prepped for Covid also got hit with similar issues. You just can’t strip out margins and then have something massively changing the operating variables and expect…

It should be about investment not payment, you want to operate higher bandwidth services than we have available faster than we are willing or able to invest please provide the capital and share the equity. That’s the correct way to go about things like this that doesn’t have any impact at all on neutrality. 

If 50% of the population dropped dead evenly split between genders it would still entirely fall apart. If you take out whole sectors of the economy that are largely male dominated then it is a forgone conclusion. Many industries are only just starting to get parity in general with younger workers, and we still haven’t…

The space station has some of the most significant infrastructure for on orbit communication that has ever been built, and it barely manages to get good live content. The live stream they hve done is about as good as it gets and the quality was as rubbish as always. It’s better to just wait and get some quality…

How is mandating testing impacting businesses? If you have over a 100 employees you are hardly hurting for admin to process tests, and a lateral flow test is pretty cheap at about $10 per unit at cost, PCRs if not for a broken medical system aren’t that much more expensive anymore. An employer should more than be able…

Absolutely, at the moment US police forces are totally fragmented and totally inefficient and that wastes huges sums of money. You have multiple layers of police who almost all have some overlaps with other kind of police and no common training standards.

Thing is what you want is more actual police officers with high quality training being out in their communities. If you defund the police you can guarantee they will fall back on the most economic police option... which is data analytics, intelligence gathering and predictive policing.

If all french fries had the probably very resistant startch a molecular replicator could reproduce I would eat 400g a day easily. And in your 90s you should be able to eat whatever you want!

It’s not any worse than communism where they built all that space infrastructure, and just because some of them are criminals it doesn’t mean they’re not businessman and space is big business.

Any metal strucuture over time will develop cracks, it could well be in 5 years time the US modules start suffering the same issues.

Skylab was basically just a Satrun V upper stage so there isn’t actually any major obstacle to doing exactly that. With a slight tweak to add more airlocks you could simply use a modified SS as a station core and simply have any country that wants add a module. And thanks to it being an actual rocket you can actually…

I don’t think they put out so much propaganda that the owner or operator of one of the vehicles would ignore the great big warning the car gives you... are people genuinely that gullible, and if they are should they be allowed to drive cars?

I don’t think I ever said they couldn’t do all of those things? They all still need pilot supervision, even RPAs still need piloted supervision despite being entirely mission capable without them.