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> People keep describing Trump as transactional. He doesn't appear to be anything of the sort. I think they are using the word transactional as a euphemism for something else.
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> This is the same sort of person that MAGA and tech workers want to discourage coming to the United States. Tangential, but let's not forget that there are also Indian MAGAs like the current FBI director. There are also influential
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I suspect that many of the accidents that happen with touchscreens are frontal collisions with slowed down cars when the driver is distracted with the touchscreen. A few regulations that might help with this: All cars with touchscreens nee
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> I think it is telling no programming language has settled on YAML or JSON as a syntax. It's not telling, it's impossible. Neither JSON or YAML are Turing complete. That said, the JS in JSON is for Javascript, whose syntax i
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> I'm guessing NVidia didn't do this by choice. Propping up Intel doesn't seem in their best interests In a top-down oligarchy, their best interests are served by focusing on the desires of the great leader, in contrast to
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> In this metaphor we're all going to the gulag together You are wearing the metaphor thin. The point was that intimidation by government of media organizations has been happening for months, this is the latest. Suppression of free
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> Wouldn't I notice when they put me on the train in the first place? Welcome aboard. We left the station a few months ago.
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> Getting a job is now becoming much more about luck, circumstances, and who you already know, much like getting your first starring role in a movie -- not about your abilities. Getting a starring role in a movie has a lot to do with abi
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> sure, but does government prevent wealth inequality, or maybe the very cause of it? Neither. Government is just the system through which policy that either greatness or lessens inequality is implemented. For example, government can d
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> Japan is such a high trust society I would be shocked if this is the reason Trust works both ways. There's also the trust that nobody will report anyone for the fraud, especially if it is widespread and normalized. However, it wo
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Credit to State Senator Senator Scott Wiener (SF) who has been the primary champion of this and other related legislation.
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> tax resources are limited and therefore all governments must ultimately allocate those limited resources and cannot simply spend unlimited amounts on any "good" projects that they'd like. That's a strawman. There a
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> Instead, they said "you cannot solve everything ever, and everything has tradeoffs", along with "because if you try, you run out of money no matter what". > This seems like a fair statement. Would you care to add
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> Sure, you can tax more up to a point, but eventually that tap runs dry and you're forced to reallocate existing resources. Since the 1980s, we have been consistently taxing less. If the tap is dry, it isn't because of over-t
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> man that is depressing Only if you had a misconception about what and whom the big tech CEOs represent. Otherwise these actions are very expected in an oligarchic society.
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> Trump's economic views have at least as much in common with Bernie Sanders (as Bernie keeps pointing out!) as with pre-Trump Republicans This is a myth that has the effect (intended or not) of normalizing Trump's economic pol
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> I think it would be fair to characterize them as broad based taxes Tariffs are broad based regressive taxes, falling predominantly on the lower deciles of the income distribution. The OP seems to be proposing broad based progressive
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> Trump has certainly dragged his party towards the left economically speaking Only rhetorically, but that's just fodder for his blue collar base. In practice he's done the opposite. His massive tax cuts for the wealthy and gu
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> I don't think Trump is anyone's idea of a textbook conservative, especially not economically I'm just going off what you said above: > The US is a very right wing country. > It's politicians are better able to
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> It's not just water where the UK has a problem with this. Transport for London has also been forced to underprice its services for years by London's socialist mayor In the US we have a problem with fantastically underpricing
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> Has the United States ever had an effective tariff policy though? All I’ve ever seen is a lengthy history of bumbling fuckups that make things worse for the consumer for no benefit. The primary point of narrowly applied tariffs coupled
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> They'll probably play it safe and not make any investment at all. Wait it out. Yes, but they will fire many workers in the interim to save costs, and put more load on those who remain. That's happening now across many indust
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> Stuff like physical automation is going to require a lot of capital investment in equipment coming from outside the US. If that's going to be 15%+++ cheaper if the Supreme court rules against the tariffs, or when Trump chickens ou
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> How can a company invest without any idea if the tariffs will be around in a year? They can invest in methods that will lower costs in a way that will outlast tariffs, like replacing/reducing domestic headcount with the more phys
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Instead of the blunt hammer of disinvestment of brands, the government should be putting limits on Big Tech's ability to lock consumers and business into their platforms, whether via exclusive search deals, preventing alternative app s
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> And why not just use LIDAR that can literally see around corners in 3D? Based on what I've read over the years: it costs too much for a consumer vehicle, it creates unwanted "bumps" in the vehicle visual design, and the
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> Isn't that how the whole system operates? Everyone is a conduit to allow rich people to enrich themselves further. The amount and quality of opportunities any individual receives are proportional to how well it serves existing cap
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> The practical alternative is to use JSON everywhere, possibly with some additional tooling to generate code from a JSON schema. Protobuf has a bidirectional JSON mapping that works reasonably well for a lot of use cases. I have used it
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> Fungi and Animalia split from Eukarya. Fungi didn't exist before then. Plants are also Eukaryotes but Fungi and Animalia have a more recent common ancestor than either has with Plantae. We and fungi are both Opisthokonts, a distin
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> SWE figures dropped mid-2022 (almost magically in line with interest rate hikes) and LLM-copilots werent introduced for another year It was pretty clear by late 2022 that AI assisted coding was going to transform how software developme

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