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Congratulations to all in America on the election of their new president.. Not sure how I would have voted had it been an option (UK resident here) I always liked the idea of Obama as president with Elon in his DOGE role. Whichever way it had gone I'm sure it would have been fine but I am...

Tax collection is independent of what tax is used for.. If someone's else's wealth is not at the expense of your wealth you should always encourage wealth creation. I've demonstrated that there are examples of tax being lowered at the higher rate and this increasing the total public purse. I...

I know they aren't flavour of the month at the moment but Russia implemented flat rate taxation in 2001 Here's a link... The following year real revenue from tax collection increased by about 26 percent. I actually attended a lecture at Edinburgh University by Alexei Kudrin who was the finance...

No we should not I personally want less taxes which are simpler... So I would go for lower income taxes at flat rates.. I would however max out capital gains tax on land and buildings UNLESS you actually build.. BUT this would be for everyone not just the wealthy. I would have low capital...

Chat GPT is definitely good when you have focused code problems like this... which is great at the moment when I can check what it produces. When and if we get agents that can do pretty much do everything there is no way we will have enough time to check all the code that it will be able to...

One thing I wished I had learnt earlier on in my journey was how to show most recent or latest records of a child table.. This means rather than updating the parent table with say the latest owner of a valuable asset. You add all the owners to a child table and simply show the latest child...

In the UK what I picked up from the COVID vacination advice was that it reduced the chance of catching it and would reduce the severity if caught. Not particularly different from the advice on all vacinations. The isolation stuff did get totally out of hand. Married couples were in supermarkets...

One thing - if the brain is not somehow outside of physics (magical) then logically it can be replicated in silicon - its just a matter of knowing the right implementation of physics through hardware. If you believe that then its just a matter of time.

I think its a logical position not to vote if you don't understand what you are voting on.. Lets say there are four engineers discussing a bridge and they can't decide on a particularly crucial part of the design. 2 each way. They aren't going to get the secretary in to cast a deciding vote...

I like first past the post - it forces the electorate to concentrate more on the candidate rather than the party and to my mind pulls parties back to the centre and local issues. Even Nigel said he was looking to up tourism in Clachton. I think the logic behind why it was originaly used was...

I think the majority of people are very bad at judging the validity of what they are being told. People tend to develop a viewpoint and then pretty much stick to it only accepting evidence which confirms their beliefs. I admire people that can change their viewpoint based on coherent logical...

Very cool - my only thing I might suggest (which might not be practical) dynamically adjust the width of the drop down window to the width of the widest selectable item... One thing I used to do in my MS Access applications in tabulated forms was to have the labels activated and set to sort...

Congratulations on making a legacy application Pat Those that look down on legacy software are missing the point.. The central principal of the digital age - immortality. Software engineers / cloud providers are destroying their own foundations if they don't remember this... Its usually just...

ChatGPT - good for functions and SQL - can give some guidelines on configuration but that's IT would not do anything else with it... It is really great with SQL though. but yes test thorougly. Webfront ends for CRUD applications? The following are all php generators of some shape or form - I...

Thank you Mike I will try and check out those books.. I would only say that as long as you realise that you are basing your reasoning on your feeling that the universe needs a creator. A central concept of many religions ... the position that it cannot be any other way.