Reading the letter in full, it is clear that when he says he expects and hopes to pay more taxes, it is because he expects and hopes that profits will increase.

It's also a joke, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXINZxodu9U

But doesn't that go both ways? It's a bad path if you are only allowed to post your thoughts on Twitter if you put forward exactly the right (according to you) political or social views publicly.

Both are bad, yes.

Sure there is: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html

The owner of a GPL project doesn't own the copyright for contributed code (and therefore can't license it themselves under GPL), unless they receive a copyright assignment.

In some states, suburban and rural folks find out they like concentrated areas made for people, not cars, once every year. They love the state fair.

For an authoritative source, you might try "Caring for your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5", by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

https://www.amazon.com/Caring-Your-Baby-Young-Child/dp/05533...

It's authoritative though less than comprehensive, and more (though, unless I'm conflating it with something else, not entirely) focussed on physical health.

But, yes, I absolutely do think it's a good one.

Credit card rates with your own merchant account are 3% - 8%, depending on your industry and chargeback history.

Federal Marginal tax rates are 10% - 38%, plus maybe 5% in MN.

If they are giving you a 5% - 10% discount for cash, sure, it's probably because they appreciate skipping the credit card. If they give you a larger discount for paying in cash, they probably aren't reporting the income.

CC rates can be negotiated down below 3%.

For card-present goods and services it's likely lower, but for card-not-present online software sales from a small company, rates with your own merchant account can be even higher than 8%. This is a big advantage of using Stripe and the like.

Depends on the business.

Yes that's for sure, I'm just stating all the causes of the proliferation of this problem.

UWP XAML is fine for targeting Windows 10, but if you consider cross platform to at least include Windows 7 and 8 also, it is a non-starter.

"WinRT" XAML runs great on Windows 8+ and is mostly forward compatible with UWP XAML (especially 8.1+ universal XAML). (Though statistically "everybody" that was on 8 is now on 10. It's 7 that will be the next XP.)

Windows 7 is the outlier, but this isn't that much of a different argument from the complaints that Windows XP had terrible out-of-the-box support for WPF. The same arguments stopping people from using UWP today seem very deja vu to the arguments against WPF even back when in Windows 7.

UWP XAML isn't even that different from WPF XAML. I've got a feeling for some LOB applications maintaining a UWP and WPF build side-by-side is relatively straightforward (and definitely more straightforward than those of us that for various reasons worked on side-by-side XAML builds for WPF and Silverlight).

Eto.Forms is nice for this. It targets WPF, Xamarin.Mac, and GTK, so you get Windows, macOS, and Linux support with a single codebase.

My favorite of his is Mother Night. The moral being: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."