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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Yes but not as a percentage of their income. A wealthy person with 100000x your income does not buy 100000x times as much stuff as you.

    This is the problem with a flat tax. If we had a flat 20% tax on income for someone who makes 50k a year, that is 10k and leaves them with only 40k. For someone who makes 5M a year that is 1M but still leaves them with 4M.

    Losing that 10k when you only had 50k to start with matters a lot. Losing that 1M isn’t a big deal when you still have 4M left!











  • Windows 95 crashing for the 5th time that day corrupting another high school paper.

    I knew nothing about Linux, but bought a red hat 6 cd and installed it. I never dual booted or ever went back.

    This was in the day of getting a modem that actually worked on Linux was a PITA as everything had turned into software based winmodems. And it wasn’t like you could just order one online. You had better have hoped Best Buy/circuit city/compusa had something.