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by __loam 2y ago
People who have $100 million dollars have that money because the United States is a developed, mostly politically stable country with a highly skilled workforce and a massive military. They should pay into the system that made them so absur
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by __loam 2y ago
Weirdly enough I actually had to write a college paper on the tax policy of the late Byzantine Empire. During the tenth and eleventh centuries, Roman land became increasingly consolidated under a few influential families, who used their inf
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by __loam 2y ago
Call me crazy but I don't exactly have a ton of sympathy for temporarily embarrassed millionaires. The statement that we somehow have absurd tax rates now is completely inconsistent with the reality that taxes have been trending down f
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by __loam 2y ago
Okay so are you just against progressive tax policy then? I don't really find myself having a lot of sympathy for people with over $100m in wealth, who seem to not be paying much in taxes relative to that wealth.
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by __loam 2y ago
Because ultra rich people like Bezos can dodge taxes by taking loans against their unrealized gains indefinitely.
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by __loam 2y ago
Why are you making an argument using a law from over a century ago?
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by __loam 2y ago
I'm under the impression that this policy would only apply to individuals with over $100m in assets. I'm sure there's reasonable provisions that could be applied to this with respect to liquidity. These proposals are obviousl
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by __loam 2y ago
Clearly more than right now given that all of those cities have a severe housing affordability crisis.
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by __loam 2y ago
We could also ask the Soviet Union which despite being an authoritarian shithole, did not have homeless people. In any case, most cities in the US have obvious supply side issues with housing. It doesn't matter who builds it, we need m
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by __loam 2y ago
This is bizarre reasoning.
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by __loam 2y ago
We should build large numbers of commie blocks until PE firms regret buying residential properties.
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by __loam 2y ago
The billions spent on R&D, legal fees, and inference?
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by __loam 2y ago
I recognize it's useful. I don't think it justifies the cost.
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by __loam 2y ago
That's the neat part, it doesn't
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by __loam 2y ago
I still don't understand the hype behind rag. Like yeah it's a natural language interface into whatever database is being integrated, but is that actually worth the billions being spent here? I've heard they still hallucinate
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by __loam 2y ago
There is absolutely no reason to allow this kind of strict anti-labor bullshit in almost any case barring high level leadership positions. Giving you 100% of your salary for a year doesn't cover the damages incurred by foregoing potent
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by __loam 2y ago
Local compute is also getting progressively harder to make faster. I have a CPU from 6 years ago and checked some benchmarks to see if upgrades would be worth it. It's a 90% increase in performance with a 27% improvement in single thre
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by __loam 2y ago
Ironically it also led to Turing and modern computation. Some of the earliest computers were built to decode enigma and help develop the atom bomb as far as I know.
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by __loam 2y ago
Procreate is what more software should aspire to. It's industry defining tech run by people who care deeply about their users, and it costs $13 one time. No predatory bullshit, no multi-tier licensing structure, no subscription. Just s
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by __loam 2y ago
No it doesn't. The end state of a Google search is a human interacting directly with a site.
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by __loam 2y ago
What Google does is mutually beneficial. Stealing content to reheat and serve in an LLM is very different.
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by __loam 2y ago
You're taking someone else's labor and profiting off it, without any credit or compensation. To add insult to injury, the person you're scraping pays money to support your traffic. It's a one sided transaction.
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by __loam 2y ago
Why are you bringing up metaphysics when the concern is that the student has seen the exam, so to speak.
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by __loam 2y ago
Riding this taxi cab directly to privatization of fire fighters.
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by __loam 2y ago
Google is so critically important to the infrastructure of the internet itself that I really struggle to understand why a for profit entity with incentives that are not aligned to the public should be in charge of the most important search
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by __loam 2y ago
Asking why the artists are mad at the corporations that are trying to profit off their labor without permission and not the fed or other artists is definitely a take.
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by __loam 2y ago
I'm very excited for discovery.
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by __loam 2y ago
How about his claim that AI companies should just steal everyone's IP then pay the lawyers to clean up the mess after the fact?
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by __loam 2y ago
Creative work costs money to make. People who make it should have the right to make a living off it. It's not hard. Most of the people on this site make their money creating intellectual property. How many piracy activists here would b
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by __loam 2y ago
Yeah I know. It's nice not have to run cables through the frame.

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