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by jleyank 1y ago
More than they wish to. Less than they need to. Labour is taxed more than most things, and I can see the argument vs. Entrepreneurs but I have problems with people just living on dividends. However the system is set up, it profits from co
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by jleyank 1y ago
I was thinking of various technical reasons, but realized it wasn’t technical. Software is buggy because there little penalty for being buggy. First-mover advantage and all that - get it out and patch if necessary.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Incorrect title: ".... in the US" missing. No guarantee, maybe no possibility that such restrictions will be in non-US countries. Perhaps we'll just a whole lot of foreign trips, or (somehow) smuggling nasal or physical vac
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by jleyank 1y ago
Perhaps it's time to fork the united states and see how each half goes. One half will have food. One half will have money. There's probably enough guns and enough disorder to keep things messy. Very messy. I guess we can take
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by jleyank 1y ago
Similar to the argument "who is responsible for problems that occur with full-auto driving". It's possible litigation will damage LLM/AI faster than its lack of effectiveness will. Or it's inability to non-randoml
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by jleyank 1y ago
Boy's consistent. Just not consistent in the manner you're expecting. He's real good at profiting from the flow of events.
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by jleyank 1y ago
If they finds "casual" names for scientific principles annoying, they're going to just LOVE the names for genes. hERG activity is a bad thing that gets drugs taken off the market (cardiac arrhythmia). hERG means "human
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by jleyank 1y ago
Sorry. I might have meant Nepal. One of those small countries, I thought, are self-isolating. Thanks for the correction re: Tibet.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Puts the crimp on shipping personal birthday or holiday presents also. People will have to purchase within the US, which presents problems for many folks being unable to pay for such purchases.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Hope you forgot your /s... Otherwise, better go get a clue-stick somewhere.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Perhaps, although I can't see the point in damaging the American economy or currency. More likely, he's only talking to his proctologist and posting what they decide. Throwing away 80+ years of mostly-Republican soft power and fo
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by jleyank 1y ago
Given that their main demographic is aging out, they had to do something. Grandma-tacky doesn't really resonate with younger folks. The stuff being sold wasn't even the original "old" stuff, just knockoffs. It's
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by jleyank 1y ago
MAGAs have to deal with the shifting whims of Trump, or (somehow) keep him oriented in the correct direction. Perhaps they have to make sure they're the last people talking to him or making more effort to make consistency worth his wh
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by jleyank 1y ago
Rising bond interest rates and falling value of the USD suggests a worldwide disinterest in things US-ian. Financial market instability isn't good for the HN audience, nor the normies watching retirement account balances. How many cur
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by jleyank 1y ago
Given where Trump seems to be going, depending on him as a saviour of anything suggests fellow traveler status. Or, perhaps, staggering naivety.
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by jleyank 1y ago
No but it’s hard on the discards.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Fwiw, two factor authorization requires smartphone savvy. This is mind bending to the wall phone crowd. Not to mention the difficulty with lots of passwords that require new ones every so often. Not everybody grew up or lives digitally -
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by jleyank 1y ago
Tries to fire. Up to the courts to rule on the legality of this so the Supreme Court can give trump what he wants.
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by jleyank 1y ago
I thought us Medicare is somewhat comparable to normal healthcare in the other g20 countries? Sufficient to show how others handle the problems and possible strengths and weaknesses. Never used it, not familiar with its details. Readers
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Donating to political parties seems to work well.
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by jleyank 1y ago
There is a risk to this as the recipients of much of the federal funds aren’t computer savvy and might not have e-banking setups. Hopefully, I’m overly concerned but I’ve seen many people struggle with computer only billing or banking. No
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by jleyank 1y ago
Sponsors have to sponsor. Foreign athletes and fans have to show up. Broadcast has to broadcast. This is more important for the 2026 World Cup because the money and interest is higher. Tourism and travel for the rest of 2025 will be a bi
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by jleyank 1y ago
Or, perhaps saved as a time stamp of the state of political discourse in the us. Those who do not know history are unaware when they repeat it. And the communication alternatives available to the central government are far, far more perva
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by jleyank 1y ago
Wealthy people of any age have most of the money…. Check the prices of assisted care to see where home equity will go for the old. And ignore the yowls of the kids looking for the inter generational transfer of wealth. As far as stocks and
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by jleyank 1y ago
Canada does, and the population has grown due to immigration. Google says Germany does this. You can probably find what other g20 countries do this. There are also supplemental pensions and/or tax credits or deductions based on age
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by jleyank 1y ago
In short, a different mix of hormones and the inherent sexual dimorphism of the species. Unfortunately, both of these are continuous variables as it were. Some people lie in the middle or have individual mutations that screw up the mechani
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by jleyank 1y ago
Well, consumer choice in the us will be reduced as smaller companies or crafters can’t eat the costs. Everything coming over the border will be hit with the national sales tax, err, import and customs duties. It’ll show up in the shopping
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Also, the ultimate court seems to favour his actions. Hell of a backup plan.
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Other countries reduce the cost of meds or services for people above a certain age, or have age/income relatd tax benefits and payments. The us is the wealthiest country in the world, so doing so would have been a mere exercise of pol
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He wasn’t allowed to end the r&d system in the us, but nobody stopped him. He wasn’t allowed to create export tariffs, go nuts with import tariffs, rip up senate passed treaties, …. As others have said, somebody has to stop the process

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