The big problem with this is that, under a simple tax system, if a government wants to increase it's tax revenue it is extremely easy for voters to understand what is happening. Governments prefer to make complicated tax laws because they are easier to spin.
Ah yes governments always trying to make things too complicated!! Argh! Why cant we replace the govt with the private sector! They never do anything that would obscure or needlessly complicate things.
Not only govt, but private companies as well. Remember when the company behind the most widespread US tax software (can't remember its name) lobbied against simpler tax code? Why? It's simple, because it would cut into their sales!
Everybody who has something to lose will vote against a simpler system, doesn't matter whether its a private company or government.
Governments make complicated tax laws because of constant attempts to make the tax system 'fair', where fairness is a pretty vague concept and can be interpreted many ways by different people and parties.
There are lots of economic arguments for very simple tax systems that prioritise revenue collection over other things. But a lot of people would see them as "unfair" and therefore unjust.
Oh come on. The taxes that 90% of people pay are perfectly clear. The exceptions only affect a very small minority of people (namely those with enough income to make it worth their while to care about exploiting the exceptions).
I can answer this question since I accidentally created a circular reference the other day. It starts syncing the recursive structure until it runs out of quota.
> It starts syncing the recursive structure until it runs out of quota.
I was curious about this myself, but I never tried it, as I feared that this was precisely the badness that would occur.
Dropbox is so good in so many respects, I just can't understand how they could have made such an utterly terrible and wrong decision on this particular issue.
This is a very naive generalisation, but, as far as I understand, psychopaths can be very good at assessing other people's mental state, but do not /feel/ it like most people do. People on the autistic spectrum find it very difficult to recognise what other people are feeling.
Very true as autisim which aspergers is part of spectrum wise are classified as learning disabilities and with that mean that the capacity to empathise is there, just not as quick at learning those aspects. A psycopath on the other hand can clearly see those connections and empathise, its just that they don't care too and do not see why they should.
Think of it as comparing somebody with a broken leg who finds it hard to walk in contrast to somebody who has fully working legs but sees no point in walking.
This could be a browser permission based feature, like location is at the moment. The app asks the browser to prompt the user to give permission for this domain to "Control your mouse pointer". The cursor should always be released when you alt-tab away or press the ESC key (maybe the would need to be a time limit within which the mouse couldn't be captured again).
>maybe the would need to be a time limit within which the mouse couldn't be captured again
Why not re-capture only when the user clicks on the game again? In fact, I don't think the permission bar is needed at all, it would be implicitly given by clicking.
Of course, ESC should always work. Which would actually work fine for most games, since ESC presents a menu where the pointer isn't supposed to be frozen anyway.
