In fact, this discussion is a demonstration of my point. We are both attacking one another's intellectual and moral reasoning abilities via speech. This is better than than us having a fist fight over the matter.

I consider your crime worse than murder... I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-Bomb years before our best scientists predicted Russia would perfect the bomb has already caused, in my opinion, the Communist aggression in Korea, with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason.

Comment 2: > Solving disagreements through discussion is better than solving them through violence

lol, always amusing when I assume both intelligence and good faith when discussing things on the internet.

You think I'd learn.

All of human moral progress can be briefly summarized as "talking, not hitting."

Weird.

http://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/flyingtoasters/index.shtml

I was.

I don't like it, but telling the truth, like riding a bike to work, is a luxury that only the extremely rich and extremely poor can afford today.

There is such a thing as a gifted child.

Friedman also implemented income tax withholding. So, despite what he wrote, he was no friend of practical liberty.

Yeah, no.

Look, I'm not a rah-rah capitalism guy, but the fact is that the vast majority of wealth is based on human labor, the labor of individuals, applied to nature. While the latter certainly has a strong claim on being public wealth (a commons) the wealth produced by a human's labor belongs rightly to that person. (Economic rents then tend to concentrate that wealth, but that's a separate topic.)

There is an economic third way alternative to capitalist rent seeking and socialist totalitarianism: distributism. For a modern introduction to this idea, this is a good book:

https://www.amazon.com/Vocation-Business-Social-Justice-Mark...

Some people will be put off by the catholic moral basis, others by the term "Social Justice", but it's a good read for a different way to look at both the history of economics and the economic situation we find ourselves in today.

Most of the web apps that are being built today have no need for a complex front end and, if they do, it's only in a few places. But, as you quote, programming is pop culture, so every new Form => Datastore app is going to be built using a toolchain more complicated than quake was built with.

You are married to someone who makes enough money to push your marginal tax rate on income to the point (it can hit 55%+ in places like CA) that you might as well take a flier on a startup rather than pulling a W4.

When I pulled the trigger on it I was terrified that I was screwing us over by not using Angular (which was the cool tech at the time) or some other more javascript-oriented solution. Thankfully it has worked out well, and my co-founders don't hate me any more than they already did before hand. (And maybe even a bit less.)