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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • She’s off to a great start! Most non-programmers starting off with python that I’ve seen are confused by the soaring and indexing rules, so can never get copy-pasted code to work

    My older son always rebelled against programming, mostly because i thought he’d be great at it, but finally had to pick up some for a college class, I don’t know, stats or something. He became the programmer genius getting half the class to succeed, just because I drilled him on spacing and indenting



  • There’s also the very important concept of a capital gains tax. Why does their income from stock sales get to be taxed at a special low rate, as if it weren’t income? That’s ridiculous

    We’d go a long way toward evening it out just by deciding

    • income is income. No special categories of income for the wealthy
    • when your company or trust spends money on your personal life, that’s also income
    • tax brackets keep going. They don’t even have to be specially high, but why does it top out so early?