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by lowkey_ 1y ago
Three notes after reading, the first one being glaringly disingenuous and weird: > The Tax Justice Network’s review – co-published with Patriotic Millionaires UK and Tax Justice UK – of the Henley report finds that the number of milliona
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by lowkey_ 1y ago
The US economy is about 1.5 times larger than the entire EU. The US is over 2 times larger by land. Population is about a quarter smaller. Still, Massachusetts has more people than Denmark, New York has the same as Romania, California has m
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by lowkey_ 1y ago
In the US, for most laws, and most judges, there's actually much less power to interpret law. Part of the benefit of the common law system is to provide consistency and take that interpretation power away from judges of each case.
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by lowkey_ 1y ago
I feel like, to say that, you haven't tried helping many older adults — or even middle-aged adults — use technology. If my older family member was scammed by something online, and someone said "lack of knowledge is no excuse,&quot
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by lowkey_ 1y ago
Not the parent commenter, but they just said that most parents don't have the technical aptitude to do so. Implying that they don't care about their kids, or shouldn't have kids as a result, is a pretty awful thing to say.
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by lowkey_ 1y ago
Sorry you're experiencing a bunch of downvotes over a counterpoint from your own experience. Even though I could predict what side HN would stand on any sort of internet freedom post, reading through all the reasonable yet greyed-out c
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by lowkey_ 1y ago
Not the above commenter, but: > stolen from the hands of the Native Americans who had stewarded them for millennia before colonialism in different forms devastated their tribes. Through invasions, plagues, violence, coercion, bribery, wa
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by lowkey_ 1y ago
If you're ambitious and individualistic (as those who create the most economic value are), there's no alternative to the United States still. If you're from a wealthy place like Europe or Canada: The United States is still fa
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by lowkey_ 1y ago
Everything you just said but imagine revenue is $500K, and you spent $500K on salaries for the team. You can only expense $100K of the salary costs this year, so even though you're break-even, you pay taxes on $400K in income. Or, even
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by lowkey_ 1y ago
Fair, but worth noting the founders almost certainly already have gotten fat secondaries, and now have a chance to build something much larger if they can execute.
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by lowkey_ 1y ago
I would define Seattle as much more friendly than it is safe — same of other similar cities like San Francisco and Portland.
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
Also, found an interesting source from the federal government during the Biden administration: https://www.gao.gov/blog/federal-government-made-236-billion...
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
Does the tens of millions in "executive coaching" and "strategic communication" contracts really not look like fraud to you, or do you not believe that they're there because it's DOGE reporting it? I think they
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
We like to use the principle of charitable interpretation on here, and to be charitable, I think it's really clear he was saying that everybody should expect to be wrong sometimes, has been wrong, and should be scrutinized thoroughly
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
ThePinkNews doesn't seem like a fantastic source but I gave it a sincere effort and read through, and yes, it seems tenuously true. None of this is okay to me, as an American, while my own citizens die in the street, homeless, of drug
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
It's all over X, including from the official DOGE account. Here's a couple: On the morning of 2/3/25, 20 consulting contracts, mostly focused on "strategic communication" and "executive coaching," wer
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
It will take years to understand the amount of corruption & waste in the federal government. We can agree that these numbers found each day are 'insignificant', but it adds up, and I think we need a hard reset on the size &amp
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
Can you share details on that? USAID, as far as I can tell, is stoking anti-US sentiment in many places by importing their own cultural values, and that's a known thing State Department officials have commented on. Additionally, to be
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
I already addressed the distinction and that I think there's both fraud and things we don't like. On USAID being independent from State: I personally would like our taxpayer-funded dollars, even if some insist on sending them over
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
No, I think you're misunderstanding. It looks like in a week, they uncovered over $100M, maybe $200M in fraud (I'm not keeping close track), if you count million-dollar "executive coaching" contracts as fraud (I do). It&
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
First, this looks great and congrats on the launch! Is it possible to use Figma designs with this? It's really hard to get something great through just a chat interface, and I've seen a lot of these AI tools don't allow me to
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
> There are more extant languages in many Eastern cultures My family comes from Eastern Europe and I've traveled it (and Asia) extensively, and while I agree skin color isn't the hallmark of diversity some call it, I think the
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
The West is clearly a culture, not a race. It's also the most diverse culture there is. Considering we're on HN, it's probably worth reading HN's founder's take on "x-isms" as a substitute for truth or hon
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
I've always agreed with this take but now as a B2B founder doing sales, I think it can honestly be interpreted a lot more charitably. I get on an initial discovery call to learn a few things, like: * How much will it cost us to support
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
The past couple years, I've consistently used robotaxis whenever in SF. Definitely not a pipe dream.
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
I wasn’t thinking about that at all and don’t think it would - I was mentioning how things have moved to the cloud these days, and what the implications are for innocent unrelated parties’ data, given that the cloud involves this overlap of
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
You'd likely be seizing a bunch of other innocent people's data too, then, no? As an American, I'd be really surprised if we let that happen. I looked and found it apparently happened once, in 2009 in Texas: https:/&#x2
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
I'd never heard of Pixelmator before (congrats to them on the exit), and: WOW their website already looks like an Apple website. The colors, the font, the logo with the same colors as Apple Photos, all the images that show a Mac window
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
I don’t think speculating on how you think Israel would react is helpful or productive. Of course Israel would “cry and whine.” I agree with you. Obviously, Palestine also “cries and whines” — they have a narrative when their military opera
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by lowkey_ 2y ago
It's a fair target to hit then — on both sides, military operations are fair to hit. It just hasn't happened to the Mossad HQ, despite attempts.

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