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Taxes *don’t have to be about revenue*. You can institute a wealth tax because inequality is bad, just like you can tax cigarettes because smoking kills. Inequality, as a social ill, is a problem to solve, not just a source of revenue.
I Read Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty on August 21, 2020
Tom MacWright
The trickiest part of speeding up a program is not doing it, but deciding whether it’s worth doing at all. There are few clear principles, only rules of thumb.
Mature Optimization: An Introduction
bueno.org
The only good advice I have here is to re-evaluate your metrics often, and change them. I guess there’s also a lesson to be learned that improvements can also cause their own uncertainty and that these successes can themselves lead to destabilizations.
Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops
Ferd.ca
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