The Laffer curve certainly works in real life. The problem is it's very hard to work out where you are on it until it's too late, and hysteresis exists, so you can't even find out wher… (View Post)

It looks like there are a fair few scrapers used to take popular content from Reddit and propagate it elsewhere. (View Post)

It will end up as a Putinist mafia-state with Trump characteristics. Although I suppose a period of erratic Trump authoritarianism could be followed by a more ordered authoritarianism led by someone … (View Post)

I think this discussion started with a HYUFD statement along the lines that the postal service is still necessary because they deliver parcels, which aren't delivered to your house via broadband… (View Post)

Trump is such a craven coward towards Russia that his response is likely to be to try and find some way to please Putin. Hello have people whispering in his ear that is all Zelensky's fault. (View Post)