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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
"Nuh uh, I refuse to understand!" isn't science.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> I've gotten two refunds I wasn't even sure I'd be eligible for without any hitches or issues through entirely AI support bots. I'm very curious who's liable if someone goes "give everyone else a refund w
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
Talk to random non tech people about customer service bots for five minutes and you’ll find most people see it.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
That’s precisely the point. If his non-wrong acts could be criminally prosecuted like that, this case - intentional damage! - is even riskier.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
I’m in the US. We have six month waits for specialists too. And we pay almost twice what y’all pay per capita. Inclusive of both private and public spend. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Average_annual_healt...
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
It relates because they went after him for much less.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
This would sting more if the poster posting it thought the Census hadn’t heard of retirement accounts.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
Chaos, and maybe criminal charges ala Aaron Swartz.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
It went badly for everyone , including the people hoarding all the cake. Few invoking the French Revolution think it'd be good . I'd just like to avoid a repeat .
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
My account's from 2010. What if HN hasn't taken a political turn? What if politics took a giant turn, and HN is roughly the same as it was?
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> I'm grateful for LLMs, because they're making people much better and more knowledgeable negotiators. Just to be clear, we're talking about the same LLMs that were recently silently tuned to kneecap competitors? https:&#
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
This. I'm right probably 9/10 times, but I prefer it pushes back on that remaining 1/10.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
I'm not sure any amount of context is going to make your assertions that average Americans can put $140k in savings annually, that the Census doesn't account for pre-tax income, that Musk moved to CA for its low taxes etc. make an
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> followed by the company collapsing without anyone leading it Musk was AWOL running the US government for months without any apparent impact. Even after he got back to work, he's running enough companies he's clearly part-time
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-income-tax-ra... > Top marginal rates span from 2.5 percent in Arizona and North Dakota to 13.3 percent in California. (California also imposes a 1.1 percent
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
We already have all sorts of things that I like. We seem to be making most of the changes in favor of the already very well-off, instead of, say, expanding the EITC. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1960-_Tax
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
Why did he pick one of the highest tax jurisdictions in the country to do it "in the first place", then?
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> No one is revolting over even 80k. Define median for me?
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
Someone doesn't understand it, but it's not me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United... "A household's income can be calculated in various ways but the US Census as of 2009 m
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> The average person in my area makes like 250-350k between two professionals being a couple. Even in SF that's about double reality. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanfranciscocit... &g
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> Enough is not for you to define. Or anyone. You might look at history for how the "let them eat cake" approach goes. > It's part of something called freedom. Freedom is more complicated than you make it out to be. ht
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> Maybe don't look at the bottom for what should be. The people at the top should look at the bottom for what should not be. > My own wealth now would be unimaginable to myself when I lived in the USSR. Good! But apparently $10
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
The amount it costs to build a datacenter or run the government for a day is an unimaginable level of personal wealth to virtually every person on the planet.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> Elon spent less than that to fund SpaceX and Tesla... So 100 million is enough to do quite a bit with? > that person that is capable of earning 100 million will simply exit your tax jurisdiction There are plenty of lower tax juris
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
It's normal for someone to want 100 homes?
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> That's a nice gift you're giving them… I never said I was - I'll certainly try to help where I can. I don't have that kind of money; see aforementioned healthcare costs! They're gonna need loans, it's pr
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> You forget that the college expense is temporary while the taxes are forever. I see you're unfamiliar with American student loans. > And Germany still makes you get private insurance for medical. We spend about double what you
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
I will accept that, in context ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531429 ), as high praise.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
No one said it can't be improved. I'm noting that our political system seems to generate lots of folks going "this is wasteful spending!" when it's… not. That results in challenges in determining what's a &quot
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> I live in Germany and I pay almost 50% of my income in income tax and social tax. I live in the US and pay less raw tax than that, for sure. But I reported $49k in medical expenses (premiums, deductible, copays, stuff they won't c

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