If I'm reading the IRS data[1] correctly, "debts and mortgages" are considered a deduction on the estate valuation, which means any money left in the estate (i.e. instead of in a trust) solely to cover loans would not be taxed. I think the idea is that you would roll the debts until death, at which point the estate can sell the securities with their stepped up cost basis, thereby avoiding (nearly all) capital gains tax.

I'm not an expert on this, and I could be misunderstanding some subtlety here.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-estate-tax-fili...

I don't have anything to add, but I wanted to thank you for sharing this story. I have also noticed this lack of empathy, in myself and others, and I don't have any easy solutions.

It's not exactly what you're looking for, but I've always been fond of Raymond Chen's "What if two programs did this?" thought experiment:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050607-00/?p=...

Does this not work?

https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_install_nix_in_home_(on_anothe...

I've not personally tried it. From reading that document, it seems inconvenient but possible.

My understanding is that the hard-coded paths are needed to ensure compatibility of the binary caches, since store paths are often embedded in other artifacts (e.g. RPATH in binaries, shebang line in scripts). You could always run your own cache using another prefix if that's a problem.

What an incredibly misleading statement. Even a minimal review of the history[1] shows that the 27th amendment was not under consideration for 203 years; rather, it was originally proposed in 1789, and interest in it was not revived for roughly 200 years.

As to the other amendments[2], 203 years is an extreme and unrepresentative outlier. The original bill of rights took a little over 2 years to ratify, and nearly all of the rest have taken under 1.5 years. The only one to take longer than 3 years was the highly controversial 16th amendment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_th... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_to_the_Unit...

The wikipedia article you quote doesn't back up your claim. In fact quite the opposite.

From the article. 1) The 27th amendment was first introduced in the house in 1789. It was first ratified by a state in 1789 "Maryland – December 19, 1789" It was last ratified in 1992 "Michigan – May 7, 1992"

Here you go: http://www.classnamer.com/index.html?generator=spring