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by bpt3 10mo ago
We can afford both, because we already pay for the elderly and children are extremely inexpensive to insure overall.
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by bpt3 10mo ago
lol, you beat me to it. Some people are so eager to be outraged they can't even bother to read anything.
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by bpt3 10mo ago
I don't disagree with anything you said, but the simple answer to your question is that most American households are happy with their current health insurance and don't want it to change, so we keep patching the current (severely
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by bpt3 10mo ago
> If true (seems dubious to me), that's a ~20% difference. The difference in wages is a lot larger than that though, at least for tech workers. So that doesn't really explain why German tech can't compete against US tech.
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by bpt3 10mo ago
I'd be interested to see the article if you have it, but thanks for the reply.
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by bpt3 10mo ago
I wonder how many people will be scared off by them killing off the lightning pretty quickly. I'm in the market for an EV truck but none of the current offerings have made me want to pull the trigger, and my 10 year old ICE truck keeps
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by bpt3 10mo ago
It's believed by whom? I think AOL Time Warner still has the record at over $50 billion, unless you're talking about some specific form of impairment.
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by bpt3 10mo ago
The only hope the EU has is that Trump fucks up the US enough in the next 3 years that we aren't able to continue to attract the vast majority of the people worldwide who actually want to work and reap the rewards of their efforts. The
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by bpt3 10mo ago
They have done very well in the manufacturing sector via IP theft starting in the 1970s. I don't see how that's relevant to much post-2008 in the tech sector, which is primarily software driven and where China has very intentional
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by bpt3 10mo ago
Please explain how US patent and copyright law prevents "the rest of the world" (which I assume really means the EU, because China seems to be doing just fine in their own sandbox) from developing a meaningful tech sector?
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by bpt3 10mo ago
We already do have universal health care for the most expensive groups to insure (lower income households and the elderly), and technically have it for everyone in that hospitals aren't allowed to deny life saving care to anyone regard
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by bpt3 10mo ago
Software development is a tiny portion of the AI value proposition. Content summarization and generation for natural language is a much broader use case, among others.
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by bpt3 10mo ago
All forms of entertainment are considered useless by some, and there are millions upon millions of people who responsibly participate in gambling. See fantasy sports, March Madness bracket pools, and the vast majority of casino customers as
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by bpt3 10mo ago
How is it anything but a moral debate? The definition of "good" and "bad" are completely subjective and based on personal perspective, experience, and preferences. On top of that, we don't have the granulatity of da
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by bpt3 10mo ago
No, long term thinking didn't go out the window. It is definitely a problem for the company. How is it a problem for the senior dev at any point? What incentive do they have to aid the company at the expense of their own *long term* ca
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by bpt3 10mo ago
How does age verification work for online vape shops?
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by bpt3 10mo ago
Why is that a developer's problem? If anything, they are incentivized to avoid creating future competition in the job market.
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by bpt3 10mo ago
I see this argument almost exclusively from the fuckcars crowd, because their existing environmental arguments against ICE vehicles don't apply to EVs. If you're claiming that the oil and gas lobby is facilitating their criticism
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by bpt3 11mo ago
People talk about the market for assets: cars, precious metals, collectibles, and houses are examples. They are not normal expenses because you have something after the expense, unlike fuel or groceries. Assets often function as stores of
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by bpt3 11mo ago
You might be right about the 1031 exchange, but that has almost nothing to do with property taxes. The homestead exemptions are very small or non-existent in some states, but I believe they are fairly substantial in the south. Ultimately, m
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by bpt3 11mo ago
You mean you refuse to believe hard data on vacancy rates over sensationalized opinion pieces or outright misinformation that sounds more appealing to you? Your proposed "action" is comically obtuse and will be ineffective at best
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by bpt3 11mo ago
No, you just do what most people (and corporations) do and create a new entity (normally an LLC) for each property. There you go, you've sidestepped this inane policy.
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by bpt3 11mo ago
What about a non-ruthless corporation? How do you test that? What about the fact that most homeowners get the vast majority of the money for said purchase from a (presumably ruthless) corporation?
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by bpt3 11mo ago
> I wonder: if you added it all up, would a flat tax (which is nominally regressive) actually be more progressive than the regressive taxes we have? Absolutely not. The US has the most progressive federal tax code in the OECD, mainly bec
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by bpt3 11mo ago
In many states, there's a homestead exemption on property taxes that doesn't apply to non-owner occupied properties, so the opposite is true. Also, I don't know what you mean about rolling paper losses into the next deal, but
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by bpt3 11mo ago
Yes, agile is a reaction to spreadsheet driven development and some very dumb ways of tracking progress towards completion and managing work in general. In my experience, people don't forget they're estimates, they just want to fo
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by bpt3 11mo ago
I wouldn't consider something like "1-6 months" as a valid estimate, as that would indicate there is too much uncertainty and it needs to be broken down into subtasks that can be estimated with much less variance. I've w
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by bpt3 11mo ago
I already said this to your fellow interlocutor who is also responding to nearly every comment of mine with the same thought process, but I'll say it here as well in different terms: The product owners, customers, salespeople, supervis
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by bpt3 11mo ago
You aren't doing what you're doing without performing what is commonly known as estimating, you just avoid using what seem like triggering words to you and the one other person who is almost spamming responses to my comments with
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by bpt3 11mo ago
So you would consider a CRUD app with some basic business rules to be novel? Basically meaning that any software that requires any development effort is novel? That's a completely valid definition of worthwhile software, but to claim i

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