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by coldpie 2y ago
> The whole idea we allow “safe levels” of anything toxic is a concession to industry at the expense of the environment and consumers You are conflating hazard and risk. A thing can be hazardous without being a risk. If you eliminated e
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by coldpie 2y ago
> seems to be advocating for products to be lead free & I think that's a perfectly reasonable position to take Is it? What harms would that prevent? How much would preventing those harms cost? Is the cost worth the gain? They ma
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by coldpie 2y ago
Well put. The argument the testers want to make is that the allowable levels set by the FDA are too high, but they don't seem to be providing evidence (in this particular study) to back that up. Per the article, they've only shown
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by coldpie 2y ago
Agreed. The trouble is, will those agencies & jobs still exist 6 months from now?
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by coldpie 2y ago
Social media is this generation's cigarettes. It feels good to use it for a bit, and there's an enormous amount of advertising for it and social pressure to use it, but it's extremely addictive and the long-term personal and
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by coldpie 2y ago
> and become a woodworker Hey we can't ALL have the same plan, man! The tech oligarchs that own all of society's wealth will only need so much bespoke furniture! More seriously, my plan had been to build a decent savings and go
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by coldpie 2y ago
> I wasn’t always a Luddite, but damn they made me one. If this industry didn't pay so well, I would've been gone years ago. I'm lucky to work in a job that I think is ethical and improving the world, but it's so godd
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by coldpie 2y ago
> in their zealotry against the perceived status quo, Perceived, not actual, because spreading lies and misinformation is what makes the most money for the ad sellers that make up 90% of our industry.
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I guess you could include intentional fraud under the phrase, "What if I get it wrong?" but that seems pretty far outside the intent of the question.
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by coldpie 2y ago
> Who the hell is telling you this? The OP of the currently highest voted HN comment thread on this news article, for one: > Me: What if I get it wrong? > Gov’t: You go to prison
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by coldpie 2y ago
That's not the situation described in the post I was responding to, and I don't think it applies to most tax filers.
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by coldpie 2y ago
> Are you saying that I should have imported the 1099 and overridden the basis of those shares to be exactly what the sale price was? Yeah, you never leave income forms out, you always provide them and correct them if needed. My broker p
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by coldpie 2y ago
You do not go to prison. This is a lie the tax prep lobby wants you to perpetuate. The IRS sends you a letter letting you know what you did wrong. If you agree, you either pay them the difference or cash the check they sent you. If you disa
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by coldpie 2y ago
Towards the end of this article, the author recommends and links to another article about doing your own taxes[1]. I think this is a good suggestion. I've been doing my own taxes for years. In my experience, it is about the same level
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by coldpie 2y ago
Yeah. I think the tax prep companies try to spread the image of the IRS as some giant evil fiend who will steal all your money and/or apply the death penalty to you if you file your taxes wrong. But no, they just want what they're
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by coldpie 2y ago
Oh, I looked. To my knowledge, Harris was the best choice even including third parties. Stein and West are both whackos and no one else even made it on enough ballots to win.
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by coldpie 2y ago
Woo, I get to vote for yet another slate of billionaire-picked, barely functional, walking corpses repeating the same bland pro-corporate slogans and accomplishing nothing of value for four years before we hand the country back over to the
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by coldpie 2y ago
I'm not a billionaire. What I care about doesn't matter.
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by coldpie 2y ago
> A president should not be essentially day trading the economy. US voters disagree.
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> They did not vote for any of this. Me either. I'm afraid you'll have to ask the people who did elect the copper thieves for an explanation.
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by coldpie 2y ago
> How are businesses supposed to plan anything in this environment? Who cares? Business leaders & the politicians they helped elect are stripping the copper from the country. Whatever's left when they're done is someone els
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by coldpie 2y ago
That's called a search engine. We've had them for 30 years. Ahhhhhhhhhhhghh. It's blockchain all over again.
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by coldpie 2y ago
I don't understand how that's an improvement over a link to a project homepage or a news article. I also don't trust the "verbatim snippet" to actually be verbatim. These things lie a lot .
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by coldpie 2y ago
How do I know the LLM isn't lying to me? AIs lie all the time, it's impossible for me to trust them. I'd rather just go to the actual source and decide whether to trust it. Odds are pretty good that a programming language&#x2
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by coldpie 2y ago
Right, so we have two competing ethical problems: extending life is good, but also, it removes the one (ethical) tool we have to handle the problem of accumulation of power in individuals. This is the conflict I'm grappling with. I don
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It bums me out that you're not interested in engaging on this topic. I think it's super interesting!
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by coldpie 2y ago
> The idea is that people can't take new ideas in as they age makes zero sense to me. Hmm. My counter to this would be that I agree it isn't impossible, but would take such an enormous amount of voluntary effort that no one wou
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by coldpie 2y ago
Yeah I don't know either. Thanks to modern medicine, we already have enormous and growing problems with the accumulation of power and wealth in individuals. Currently, death is the only (legal/ethical) check we have on the people
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Sure. Is something happening to it other than newspaper OPEDs?
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I can't really think of any? Like sure, there's not going to be 100% agreement on every possible thing, but by and large Republican policies mean more power for big companies, and less oversight and consumer and employee protectio

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