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There is no arbitrary, technical way to tax that does not impose a value judgment.

"People who have more than they need to live are greedy and need to have their money taken and given to those who do not."

^ That is the most fair way to tax.

Because the foundations of Enlightenment society are relatively stupid. The only way to maintain them in the face of their own contradictions is arbitrary threat of violence.

I do a podcast.

A lot of that is a tried and true method of promotion for those coming into podcasting without a big following elsewhere to try to convert.

We started with a fairly large social media following that we could promote with, but others without such an existing audience are better off advertising on similar shows. After all, that's the draw of podcasting as a medium... advertising efficacy is pretty high.

Perhaps, in my case in some of these cases I remember wording / sentences explicitly that I can recite from memory, or failing that, I surely remember a string of keywords that will only appear in a handful of articles.

And like I said, it's not uncommon to find something on Google one day and have it just gone six months later.

I don't think you have evaluated the quality of your results from Google very carefully.

Research is part of my job. I routinely find things on Google that I circle back to later to check up on and find that they've disappeared (not things disparaging to anyone that one would be motivated to get off of google, talking about things just disappearing for inexplicable reasons).

For the first time in a decade, during the past year I have started using alternative search engines because the quality of Google results is bad.

> bars independent contractors from acting like “disguised” employees. It’s a world of pain if that happens.

The US allows companies to fire long-term employees without cause and replace them with indentured servants.

We're the ones who actually hosted the cotton fields full of slaves, after all.

The US predominantly posts job openings for which no one will be hired for compliance.

They actually hire H1B visa workers or contractors to churn out the code solely based on cost.

To be honest, learning to code was a complete waste of time.

No one in their right mind would jump through all of the hoops required by the software world's completely insane attempts to filter people out of their hiring processes, all while complaining about being short handed.

The obvious takeaway is that none of these companies are qualified to be writing code at all, because they can't manage themselves. How are they going to manage a codebase if they can't manage their office head count?

It's really amazing that they have managed to miss every trend for so long.

Mobile? Nope, don't care, let it go to Qualcomm, Arm, etc.

Cloud shift from on-premise hardware? Screw their power and efficiency demands, let them eat cake (buy Xeons).

> so I guess my point was right?

No, it was not.

US Tax Dollars Funded Every New Pharmaceutical in the Last Decade:

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/us-tax-dolla...

How many new drugs rely on government-funded science? All of them:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/drugs-government-funded-scien...

If it's so good at it, why does it always need government funding?

(As testified before a congressional committee by an FDA official, his response to the question of "how many drugs receive government research funding?" was "all of them.")

But you might have a viable visual page builder. It's honestly a tough choice at times...

It seems to me that both the militant believers and the militant non-believers always have a "they" to point to as the reason for their militancy.

I suppose everyone forgot about the individualist nature of protestantism.

Maybe we should try insurance for people going to doctors and see if that turns out any different, oh wait lol....

Should be noted that Duke Energy spilled a massive amount of coal ash into the river near Wilmington during hurricane Florence in 2018.

Also, dozens of pig waste ponds the size of football fields overflow and wind up in rivers during every hurricane as well. 33 of those overflowed during Florence. 46 in the storm before that.

Something tells me that North Carolina's conservatives are far less concerned about open-pit storage of hazardous waste than cars sold from an out of state dealer.

> When is it time to change jobs because of it?

It's always time.

If you weren't being paid, would you still go in there every day? The answer is clearly "no."

Therefore all of the other things companies and people tell themselves about how people like working there are really not true. Because no one values anything more than the money.

And if you aren't getting any benefit from the money, because the job is making you depressed, then you have lost the one thing that motivates you to go in there every day.

The only solution is to stop going.

Thanks!

We are using it for our own recently launched podcast and it's working fine for us so far. As a minimal example, we customized the bootstrap css, about 8 HTML block/page templates, and built our header/footer in the CMS editor. Otherwise we're completely stock from what's on the git repo.

Wagtail is a pretty nice compromise between wysiwyg and completely headless, I think. I would hope that people not willing to do a complete custom UI for a non-tech business find this a good middle point to work from.

If I did it would require a bit more planning on my part.

Sticky points:

1. Your own Nginx is required, to serve premium media securely you really need X-Sendfile to proxy not just the WSGI requests but also the media files themselves.

2. The design is for the back end to not really care how you manage your Stripe account. It only cares that a user has a subscription tier, and is "active." So there's the consideration of how to handle that in terms of who touches the money bits.

All that said, in the meantime I would be happy to assist people with deployment on their own cloud / Stripe accounts. Feel free to reach out to me via git contact info, I'd be happy to do a call with anyone about it.

A lot of this is why Ansible scripts are provided in the repo to minimize the learning curve in the initial deploy. A deployment to host premium media is a bit more complex than a simple website Django app.