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by anonym29 2y ago
>having to pilot a huge deadly vehicle everywhere is vastly more stressful than just walking to handle my groceries. That's a nice luxury to have. I take it you're fortunate enough to live in a very temperate area with palatabl
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by anonym29 2y ago
Maybe for late 90's, but major metro areas like ATX, DFW, Houston, and SA have grown much more progressive in the last quarter century. Also, statistically speaking, you're less likely to be shot in a Texas LGBTQ-friendly venue th
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by anonym29 2y ago
6-year Texan who grew up in New England here. Yes, those roads do get more slippery than regular ones. Unfortunately, many Texans drive worse in light rain than most New Englanders drive in the snow... and don't even get me started on
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by anonym29 2y ago
I am not asserting that such a company necessarily exists, though Lavabit comes to mind. I am simply responding to the assertion that any kind of legal noncompliance, including something as simple as refusing to compromise user privacy, nec
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by anonym29 2y ago
Selectively disobeying laws that infringe upon user privacy is an act of civil disobedience, not evidence of broad willingness to disobey all laws, commit fraud, harm users, etc.
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by anonym29 2y ago
I want to point out that low income earners in the states pay far less out of pocket than the middle class - the expenses of the poor are covered by Medicaid, and that's just the tip of the spear in terms of the sheer number of social
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by anonym29 2y ago
Put another way, everyone in Germany except the rich are forced to pay for a full-price family plan that includes coverage for spouse and kids, and do not even have the option to instead opt for a much cheaper individual plan that only cove
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by anonym29 2y ago
If the inflation is strictly caused by "corporate greed", and not by an expansion of the money supply, then yes, the prices would drop. If the inflation is caused by an expansion of the money supply and "corporate greed"
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by anonym29 2y ago
The people who are expecting benefits in 2033 and the people under 40 are two entirely separate generations. The latter will not inherit a Social Security system that is more fiscally stable than the former, only worse.
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by anonym29 2y ago
And what do you reckon the chance is that Azure and AWS and GCP are extracting ephemeral TLS session keys for every inbound HTTPS traffic stream bound for their customers, and decrypting every single stream? The chance that cloudflare is ge
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by anonym29 2y ago
The difference is, legitimate non-criminal providers don't flagrantly ignore abuse reports, but thanks for leading with a petty criticism of my citations rather than refuting the core of my argument, which you can't do.
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by anonym29 2y ago
Cloudflare has been infamous among sysadmins and threat hunters for over a decade [1,2] now for having an almost-nonexistent moderation program. Their services have been routinely abused by malicious actors for years [3,4,5,6,7] They'v
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by anonym29 2y ago
To clarify, it sounds like you're just arguing against the validity of the Laffer Curve, not of the integrity or accuracy of Federal Reseve data, or of Jerome Powell's speech? If this is incorrect, please feel free to correct me.
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by anonym29 2y ago
>The government will fund social security for as long as it exists in this current form, at 100% of expected pay out. You are entitled to this belief, but I'd be remiss to not remind you that the Social Security Administration itsel
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by anonym29 2y ago
I don't believe I've posed the arguement that 21% and 100% are the same thing, just that an automatic 21% reduction is where we are headed if nothing changes, as the way the program is currently structured and funded is unsustaina
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by anonym29 2y ago
I already noted that this is a political impossibility, we're talking about strict hypotheticals from a budget analysis perspective, not serious proposals. I'm sympathetic to your struggles if OASI is the difference between you be
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by anonym29 2y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-... Note that LEAB of 60 does not imply that fewer than 1% live beyond 65, nor does a payer:payee ratio above 100. For most of human history, deaths fo
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by anonym29 2y ago
Yup, wrong Razor, my bad - corrected my original post.
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by anonym29 2y ago
Yup, my bad here, my brain had a segfault. I was thinking of Occam's Razor. Updated my original post, laughing at the irony now.
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by anonym29 2y ago
>The most rational explanation for this is Temu is using a Javascript framework that also expects to be run offline (it's localized in multiple languages), they are querying some dead resource that shows this naive lazy error, and n
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by anonym29 2y ago
Another factor to keep in mind is that life expectancy has changed dramatically since the introduction of these programs, which is ultimately good if you're pro-humans-living. When SS was formed in 1935, average life expectancy at birt
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by anonym29 2y ago
How do you figure that boomers, as a collective cohort, are uniquely responsible for the increases in college tuition and housing prices? I'm not stating your assertion is false, but I don't see the connection.
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by anonym29 2y ago
Hyperinflation is a different mess from unsustainable debt. I took "getting out of this mess" literally, rather than meaning "getting out of this mess while avoiding getting into any other messes in the process".
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by anonym29 2y ago
>Both are required to get us out of this mess. Disagree on multiple counts. First - you don't need both - if you cut Social Security and Medicaid altogether, and use the surplus to start paying down debt, that solves 100% of the d
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by anonym29 2y ago
Social Security's current obligations are the largest single spending category of the entire U.S. Federal Government, and are continuing to grow rapidly. The SS trust fund is projected to be depleted by 2033, at which point benefits
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by anonym29 2y ago
Since WW2, US tax revenue as a percentage of GDP has never left the range of of 13-20%, and spent a lot of time in a much tighter cluster of 16-17%. [1] This time span covers top marginal tax rates from as high as 90% to as low as 35%. The
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by anonym29 2y ago
This, like so many other issues, is an issue that a small but powerful contingent of moneyed interests (e.g. the debt industry, also known as the financial industry) works very hard and spends lots of money lobbying on, in order to ensure w
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by anonym29 2y ago
Mozilla draws a large amount of funding from Alphabet (Google), I suspect this influences their decisions as an organization to a greater extent than is publicly disclosed.
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by anonym29 2y ago
I'd double check whether a denial of service is out of scope, it often is. Additionally, I'm not intimately familiar with Redshift, but being able to create a table suggests the attacker would already need a fairly high privilege
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by anonym29 2y ago
A paragraph of accurate historical details about government atrocities is undone by a single rhetorical remark at the botttom to drive the point home? TIL.

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