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by jdasdf 9mo ago
Yes, education is welfare. I'm not sure how anyone could possibly argue otherwise...
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by jdasdf 9mo ago
As per the UK government for 2026-2027 9.2 Chart D.2: Public sector spending 2026-27: Social protection - 400 b personal social services - 54b health - 294b Education - 145b industry agriculture and employment - 51b housing and environment
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by jdasdf 9mo ago
>It’s hard to deal with that when people have been paying into the system for their whole working lives on the promise that they will be looked after in old age. They weren't paying "into the system". They were being taxed
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by jdasdf 9mo ago
>People wonder where all the money is going and there's no particularly good answer. The answer is welfare. That is the original sin of all of this, and the one people refuse to acknowledge. You need to let people fail.
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by jdasdf 9mo ago
What do you mean? If don't take a principled stance on something even when it hurts, you don't have principles. Copyright is evil. Disliking LLMs doesn't change that.
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by jdasdf 10mo ago
>What lead it to being "banned in dozens of countries all over the world, including the United Kingdom and China"? political pressure. Same reason lots of stuff is banned in the EU even when it's safer than other things th
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by jdasdf 10mo ago
>I’m not moving away from my kid’s grandparents because my local costs have gone up, for example. If you're unable to eat because you spent all your resources paying for that residence near the grandparents you would certainly move.
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by jdasdf 10mo ago
>If you're the elected authority who, by your rule, creates corporate winners and losers That is the actual problem, and you're not fixing it by stopping them from buying stocks.
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by jdasdf 10mo ago
> for a country, the constitution is probably more important than a treaty. The constitution is always supreme, because the ability to agree to the treaties derives from the constitution.
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by jdasdf 10mo ago
>It's because some prices, like salaries or rent just refuse to go down. a common argument, but one that doesn't bear out in the absence of regulation enforcing that.
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by jdasdf 11mo ago
>You're 'technically correct' but the total amount of land being created is so small as to be meaningless in a global sense. By that argument we don't even need to create any land at all. There is plenty of empty or n
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by jdasdf 11mo ago
>Real estate(the land, not the mansion) is a really good long term storage of wealth as it is fixed, finite, and doesn't depreciate in value except through market trend and it basically only go up as long as the economy itself grow.
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by jdasdf 11mo ago
>There's literally 0 startups I've been part of where data protection laws or even the infamous cookie banners have been anywhere near relevant (unless your business was literally profiling). Thats kind of the point...
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by jdasdf 11mo ago
> clearer safe harbors for small actors Different rules for different people huh? Just because you like the group you're benefiting and dislike the group you're harming doesn't mean that is good policy.
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by jdasdf 11mo ago
>Like, if you overstayed Schengen visa for one day because you messed up with counting entry and exit days, but used it otherwise for its intended purpose, the border officer likely won't even notice. When that wasn't automated
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by jdasdf 1y ago
I can reduce reported crime rates by simply not doing anything about the crime that is reported for extended periods of time. People understand that reporting does nothing and so they stop bothering to do it.
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by jdasdf 1y ago
No one should be compelled to aid in their prosecution.
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by jdasdf 1y ago
-What about KDE NEON?
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by jdasdf 1y ago
Those problems are artificially created by regulation. There is nothing inherent to these topics that makes servicing them physically impossible. Charge backs, etc... can be effectively solved by appropriately pricing in such risks (or not
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by jdasdf 1y ago
>The minimum wage can be an effective policy tool for mitigating economic inequality, but public demand for higher minimum wages has not kept up with rising levels of income disparities They could start the paper by not stating something
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by jdasdf 1y ago
>I reject the implication, that corporations are always better at solving most problems. The only person mentioning corporations was you.
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by jdasdf 1y ago
>Most of the stuff the UK is struggling with (transport, healthcare, energy) are "state capacity" issues. None of those are state capacity issues. Those are "State is pointing a gun at anyone who would fix them" issue
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by jdasdf 2y ago
>So the alternative is to defend democracy by letting a foreign authoritarian entity take over your country in the name of (their) freedom? People being convinced to change their countries geopolitical policies seems to me a perfectly le
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by jdasdf 2y ago
>That would make legitimate civil asset forfeiture impossible to execute. There is no such thing, so that is not a concern.
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by jdasdf 2y ago
I see you didn't answer the question i asked (probably because it would make it obvious how untenable your argument is), so I will ask again. If i pay some money to google to run some ads for the 2 main parties, and don't report i
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by jdasdf 2y ago
>The EU is not involved in directly financing candidates or political parties in Romania, they've already given us tens of billions of dollars to develop our country. Wow, seems like they're spent tens of billions of dollars in
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by jdasdf 2y ago
>You would be in legal trouble for breaking electoral law. Based on what happened today, if there is proof that the electoral process was tainted, the elections can be annulled by the constitutional court. So, your stance is that any for
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by jdasdf 2y ago
>Literally, that is what he declared he spent on his election campaign. >The million euros for the TikTok & social media storm that got him elected has to have been paid by someone though, and according to law this money has to be
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by jdasdf 2y ago
Oh? Is there some dispute that did EU called Tik Tok about these elections? https://apnews.com/article/romania-tiktok-elections-european... If Russia had called them in for not blocking or censoring pro-EU candidates w
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by jdasdf 2y ago
If i spend money on all the other candidates and don't declare it, will they get disqualified? Or is this a rule that only gets applied when the wrong person wins=?

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