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by Draiken 3y ago
Oh there's definitely lack of understanding from my part. Thanks for the thorough explanation. They do need to make sure the tax is higher than the land value growth otherwise it wouldn't really work. Maybe it's not that hard
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by Draiken 3y ago
That's very interesting. Never heard of this! Who offers these deals? Is it the government or private corporations? I'm struggling to see how one profits from this (which is normally the only reason companies do anything) so I&#x2
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by Draiken 3y ago
I can agree with the reorganization part, but can't agree with the "what Elon did" part. You can treat people well without hiring tons of managers. You can restructure a company without forcing everyone to work weekends, hold
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by Draiken 3y ago
> That is not helpful for a discussion. Fair enough. Edited that part off. I was simply extremely shocked at the implications, if I understood it correctly. > So the situation is that you have lots of old people living in houses that
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by Draiken 3y ago
> It isn't an extra tax. It is a rebalancing tax. The rich have nothing to do with this. So effectively normal people that don't own empty land will not pay this or pay an equivalent of the previous taxes? > If your lad valu
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by Draiken 3y ago
What? I must be misunderstanding your comment. Are we seriously saying that if someone can no longer afford tax on a land they already own because the rich need to get richer, you should sell? Basically you're asking for normal peopl
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by Draiken 3y ago
Because they're a monopoly. Finding creators without using YouTube is very hard, at least for me. It's hard even inside YT. But most creators are exclusively on YT because that's the only choice that matters. There is Nebula
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by Draiken 3y ago
Hahaha, haven't thought of that! I'd probably call that a feature and not a bug.
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by Draiken 3y ago
One aspect you didn't mention is the ability to not look at the ad billboard. If I see a giant ad billboard, I can not look at it, look away, close my eyes, block it with my hands, etc. In a distant future I'd buy glasses that blu
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by Draiken 3y ago
I can't see how that will ever fly with actual gamers. Playing a game with latency is horrible, be it artificial or not. If you want the pinnacle of any esport, it will be played on LANs and never streamed. It's a subpar experienc
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by Draiken 3y ago
You create a new instance and run the same setup. If your workload is extremely variable, something like k8s with auto-scaling makes sense. But a lot of applications (maybe the majority?) have very predictable loads and you don't alway
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by Draiken 3y ago
Anecdotally I've noticed new generations struggle a lot more with language and writing. Imagine the future when they all learn from badly generated AI grammar. Even the good grammar generated writing is still generic AI writing. That m
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by Draiken 3y ago
That's good! One example. But we need thousands more to be able to say this is common though. There's a reason the term "fail upwards" is so commonly used.
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by Draiken 3y ago
God the amount of unnecessary hostility coming from you is absurd. From my original comment: > So I agree with some other comments here. No it's not really a choice. From the very beginning I said it's not really a choice, bu
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by Draiken 3y ago
Well now you're moving the goalpost. Your original comment mentioned hundreds of millions of Americans so it can't be only about software developers. That's why the focus changed to everyone. Anyways, yes you have the choice
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by Draiken 3y ago
You're interpreting my mention of the US which is incidentally where tech salaries are higher as the focus of my comment. That's not it. You could replace that with whatever country could offer those salaries.
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by Draiken 3y ago
Read the article. It's about people that will retire. Unless you're trying to be facetious and say they'll never retire, which I guess will be true for many.
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by Draiken 3y ago
>Says you, but you apparently aspire to live and work here, so it's different enough. Never said that. It's just where tech salaries are bigger. >Have you checked North Korea? What does this have to do with anything? Unless
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by Draiken 3y ago
I agree with you regarding the means of living but that's not what I said. Accepting that you will have to work until you die is lowering your standard of living. So is accepting that any emergency can bankrupt you or that you will nev
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by Draiken 3y ago
Since you're so adamant I had a quick search and it turns out I'm right. >43.09% of American adults had no retirement savings >23.15% of American adults had no (or negative) retirement savings even including the extended ass
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by Draiken 3y ago
You seemingly care about this but also can't be bothered to bring any empirical evidence for any of your claims. Goes both ways. The US is not that different from everywhere else... we all live in the same capitalist hellhole last time
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by Draiken 3y ago
Living below your means is separated from your standard of living. In a better world everyone should be able to live well without having to sacrifice as much. Somehow we've convinced ourselves that it's always the individual'
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by Draiken 3y ago
10x? Financial independence is normally at least 20x, more like 30x. > How is your nationality relevant to reading stats? If you don't want to, then just say that. Sorry maybe I wasn't clear, but that's exactly what I mean
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by Draiken 3y ago
Of course! I have also never raised my spending to anything close to that. Nor I have the choice of making $500k (I wish). When I mention standard of living I don't mean spending like crazy. I mean not having to constantly worry that i
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by Draiken 3y ago
You're telling me most retired Americans have more than hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings? I'm not gonna dive into stats for that since I'm not an American, but I would be thoroughly surprised.
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by Draiken 3y ago
You can always lower your standard of living, sure. But that's a different conversation IMO. I guess technically that's a choice, but it's so bad in the long term I personally can't consider it valid.
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by Draiken 3y ago
Are they retiring with the same standard of living they had before? Can they sustain a medical emergency? Can they pay for their kids college? I'm sure some can do all this. But I'm pretty sure most can't.
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by Draiken 3y ago
If we lived in a world where money wasn't so important I would fully agree with you. But it is. I can't earn the same as you all can because I don't live in the US, but if I did I would grind all the leetcode (as insulting as
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by Draiken 3y ago
I am hoping for a renaissance of Rails + HTMX with some sprinkles of JS on very interactive pages. Using Rails with Slim/HAML is an absolute bliss. If you prefer there are also libraries like `ViewComponents` that can facilitate partia
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by Draiken 3y ago
> Saying things like "perfectly safe" I've never said that. It's always about trade-offs, but simply adding a typed system would not have prevented the issue, as it was already built in a typed system. My whole point

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