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by jack_h 1y ago
> I wish Americans still believed in American freedoms I wish people understood the American system at a philosophical level. What you call "American freedoms" are largely based off of negative rights, i.e. John Locke. Our bill
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I posted elsewhere about my displeasure with what is happening in congress. A large chunk of the Republican base is not willing to address the national debt; the $5 billion in cuts from the Senate bill going into reconciliation is a roundin
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I think we’re actually broadly in agreement. I’m unfortunately busy at work so I’m not articulating my position as well as I perhaps should, but I don’t think all debt or deficit spending is bad. It absolutely has a place and should be util
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Even if those attribution studies are 100% correct that doesn’t mean this system optimally allocates resources. The ultimate issue with our social programs is due to demographics. An aging population whose replacement rate is projected to g
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by jack_h 1y ago
I suppose that’s fair, but kind of tangential. The point I was making was that if discretionary spending, approximately 25% of outlays, could be completely cut we would still have a deficit. I’m not suggesting this is even possible, I’m mer
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To be clear, I think raising taxes on everyone is going to have to happen along with spending cuts.
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I fully expect uncomfortable spending cuts with raising taxes while trying to balance economic growth in order to correct this problem. Im dissatisfied with what both sides of the isle are actually doing.
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No.
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I have no idea what you’re talking about honestly. The data for government spending can be seen in multiple places, here is the CBO numbers (this might be an older article or out of date, I don’t have time or access to a laptop right now).
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This has nothing to do with Trump beyond the fact that his plans could hasten how quickly this blows up. Bond rates were already going up before the election, the bond market was already nervous. Your indication that the world isn’t startin
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The economic projections I’ve seen have shown taxing the rich will increase tax revenue by around 1.5% of GDP. We’re slated to borrow 7.3%. That math doesn’t work. To be fair, the republican math with cuts (assuming no tax cuts) also does
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> In 2025, with the abandonment of U.S. government support for university research, the long run of U.S. dominance in science may be over. I find it amazing that this is the conclusion when earlier in the article it was stated that &quot
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by jack_h 2y ago
Code maintainability could be analogized to 5S in the manufacturing world. As a hypothetical let's say someone started assembling some product on the bare concrete warehouse floor because they had a pressing order to fill. A few months
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Resume driven development is the flip-side to stagnating compensation that falls below market rates over time. If an engineer knows they will have to look for a job every so often they will try to bolster their resume in an attempt to diffe
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by jack_h 2y ago
My abortion example may have muddied my point more than it helped, sorry about that. Let me try to articulate it more clearly. I'm (mostly) not discussing common law as I am focusing on the federal level. Common law tends to be more of
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by jack_h 2y ago
> Free revenue for universities. Many years ago when I went to university my state created a fund to pay a certain portion of a student's credit hours. This was implemented in my second or third year from what I remember. I noticed
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Just to add a bit more credence to this post, I'd point to Thomas Sowell's "The Vision of the Anointed" which is 30 years old and discusses the intrusion of the federal government in shaping culture from the perspective
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> Did you look up her platform at all? I did. I also knew what she campaigned on during her brief presidential campaign in 2020. I also know her Senate record. I also know what she did as AG and DA. Harris' problem is that her platf
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I feel like if our ethics tells us procreation is unethical we may want to re-evaluate the foundations of ethics.
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by jack_h 2y ago
I was mostly responding to the second part of your statement, "[i]t sounds like an 'appeal to authority' of the small government crowd." It is very difficult to find statements from historical figures, especially philoso
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by jack_h 2y ago
> Do you have evidence of that? It sounds like an 'appeal to authority' of the small government crowd. It's well known that people like John Lock, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, William Blackstone, David Hume, Franc
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True, politics tends to amplify this problem quite a bit as people tend to be very emotionally invested. I have absolutely noticed this same phenomenon at work in non-political stories though and the problem seems to be getting worse, altho
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by jack_h 2y ago
I think the incentive structures created by adding the concept of voting and flagging posts destroy the possibility of productive conversation long-term. If a user can control the visibility of opinions with less effort than defeating those
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by jack_h 2y ago
> Right, but what is “executive power”? The enumerated powers in article 2 along with the implied powers that are necessary to carry out the constitutional responsibilities of the president make up the executive power. > Article 2 Sec
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Article II Section 1. The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America It doesn't say "some of the executive power", nor does Article I mention anything about being able to create new executi
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> Software technology is in decline despite appearances of progress. While hardware improvements and machine learning create an illusion of advancement, software's fundamental robustness and reliability are deteriorating. Modern sof
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What you've said echoes the concept behind the quote "I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one." This, or some variation of it, has been around for quite a while. I think this reveals a fundam
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> This is logic of post-2008 fail-capitalism instead of 1970’s and China’s aspirational, problem solving capitalism. No, this is reality. It does not matter if you're working under capitalism, socialism, communism, mercantilism, or
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> Because money is just a tool for allocating resources. > often devolves into rationing Just to expand upon what you're saying a bit; most people don't view things in such terms which I think is unfortunate. You often see d
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> The term "assault weapon" usually indicates larger magazines and higher rate of fire than firearms that are typically used for self defense or sport. This is incorrect. An "assault weapon" is semi-automatic and it h

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