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Saturday, August 13, 2016

Miscellany: 8/13/16

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We didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. 
We built it for ourselves. 
We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. 
We weren’t going to go out and do market research. 
We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. 
When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, 
you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, 
even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. 
You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. 
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
Steve Jobs

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Trump v Clinton on Taxes: Trump Finally Wins One



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(National Review). Anti-Trump conservatives who say they’re standing on principle are chauffeuring Hillary Clinton to the White House.
Whatever happened to #NeverTrump National Review? First of all, Clinton was beating Trump consistently in the polls all the way to his capturing the nomination. Second, Trump is unprincipled and untrustworthy. Just look at how he shifted opinions on abortion and Syrian refugees during the campaign. Third, Trump is an authoritarian and does not seem to recognize the enumerated powers of the Presidency. Fourth, Trump is a Statist; he is not sympathetic to individual rights (Fourth Amendment, eminent domain) and does not have a credible plan to balance the budget, devolve authority to states and municipalites, or cut the cost drivers to federal spending, entitlements. Fifth, Trump radically departs from the GOP pro-trade, pro-immigration, shrink-government orthodoxy for decades. Let's remember that Trump was a registered Democrat during the Bush 43 presidency, and his positions often align more with leftist Democrat rhetoric. In essence, we are choosing between two liberals. Sixth, Trump is ill-tempered, incompetent, impulsive, unqualified and economic illiterate. He is like Nixon redux, a compulsive narcissist. Clinton is a leftist but less likely to go rogue beyond Obama's behavior. Trump has openly suggested exercising authority the Presidency doesn't have: imposing tariffs, dictating changes to existing treaties, etc. The risks of a mutually destructive, unnecessary trade war and impulsive foreign interventions are too damn high.

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Diana Ross, "Last Time I Saw Him"