maerF0x0

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by maerF0x0 5d ago
In canada on many products the taxes are hidden in the shelf / advertised price iirc Gas, Alcohol, and Tobacco products have this feature. IMO it should be everything (still show the breakdown on the receipt, but instead of advertisin
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by maerF0x0 5d ago
We need a national law and FTC teeth to say "The price advertised is the final, final, all-in price you pay" and the right to demand the product be delivered at that price if you were advertised a price. This should include limits
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by maerF0x0 9d ago
Fully agree he should not pay less tax % than his secretary, however I also would contend he should not pay more either. that is if his secretary is paying 20% so should he. I do think he should pay more absolute tax than his secretary...
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by maerF0x0 9d ago
The context of the convo is the bottom quintile of earners. I do think people in the bottom quintile should not have kids (until they remedy their income issues), I do think people in the bottom quintile should take more serious measures to
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by maerF0x0 9d ago
Probably pays better than minimum wage though.
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by maerF0x0 9d ago
Not really a fan of Kiyosaki, but one thing he did well was educating people on the cashflow quadrants Employee, Business owner, Self employed, Investor. It sounds like you have opted out of one quadrant, but there are still 3 left for you
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by maerF0x0 9d ago
That's not mass surveillance though. That's cops breaking existing laws with or without flock.
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by maerF0x0 9d ago
SNAP, medicaid, foodbanks... plus don't risk what you cant afford to lose, beyond your own time. I'm not saying go take $100K loan and buy a warehouse of t-shirts hoping they sell. I'm saying use your time to create products
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by maerF0x0 9d ago
While you might be talking about the exceptional cases where rich are paying a lower marginal rate than 1%-er W2 earners, for the basic tax brackets the more you earn you exponentially pay more than those who earn less. Fair tax is either F
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by maerF0x0 10d ago
You're making a lot of assumptions of what I meant. Gen-z seems to get this well, a lot of them are starting micro businesses where with very little capital besides their own labor and computer/phone they already own. Getting a si
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by maerF0x0 10d ago
> want to pay any of it back in tax If they dont pay it back in tax, they pay it back in debasement of their savings and entitlements
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by maerF0x0 10d ago
Last time interest rates went up, Startups and SaaS went down, which many on HN 's livelihood depends.
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by maerF0x0 10d ago
Do you verify every input and output of your car's fuel system map? No, if the car runs well enough most of the time for your purposes you stop looking. That is where chatGPT is for me these days on the kinds of tasks I throw at it, an
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by maerF0x0 10d ago
> LET THE DAMN THING FAIL Fully agree, enterprise failure is one of the most important mechanisms in market economies. This also applies to gov't bailouts
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by maerF0x0 10d ago
That's an interesting point, reminds me of the dark pattern of donation options at checkout used to check for disposable income which the store could have captured.
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by maerF0x0 10d ago
It wrote a program and used publicly available numbers as the inputs. We're not in the "how many r's in strawberry" era anymore.
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by maerF0x0 10d ago
> and most managers fail to punish at least some of these slow learners of theirs False, they punish by not crediting that work as work. Glue work, keeping things tidy, dealing with that annoyance that everyone else has been able to get
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by maerF0x0 10d ago
Interesting, yes. I put my approximate youtube numbers into chatGPT and it estimates $2.40-$9 a month, so at most I'm earning them on par with their cheapest offering.
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by maerF0x0 10d ago
But the part they seem to miss (or I get lost in the statistics) is that I wont use the service if I get annoyed by the ads. So they turn me into a churn which I wouldnt have been.
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by maerF0x0 11d ago
> Everybody hates ads, but no-one is willing to pay a penny for a service they use daily. I wish they would price the service commensurate to what they earn with ads. My ad watching gives them a few cents, and yet they want $8.99 for a m
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by maerF0x0 11d ago
Steam is in big trouble the day I can tell Claude to make me a game, and it can for few $ of tokens than the title would be on Steam.
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by maerF0x0 11d ago
What freedom is being impinged? AFAIK we have no fundamental right to not being recorded in public, presuming it's not indecent. And I'd reiterate what i said elsewhere: I believe people respond to incentives. What we need are mor
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by maerF0x0 11d ago
I believe people respond to incentives. What we need are more laws governing the law makers and law enforcers.
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by maerF0x0 11d ago
It's my observation over time that there has been a sharp increase in the what people would call the "bare minimum" life. I think it's a combination of credit, a loss of stoicism, and social media pushing a distortion of
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by maerF0x0 11d ago
> Those rules are actively negotiated for majority benefit This is a presumed goal/value. A more conservative take is that the rules are actively enforced based on values or justice. A value could be that we do not support ill gotte
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by maerF0x0 11d ago
Housing and healthcare are both mentioned and covered. > sharing a room with someone > medicaid in the top 10 CoL metros one can share a room with another person for about $600 a month. I note that on your links the poverty wage is pr
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by maerF0x0 11d ago
There's nothing wrong with the accumulation of wealth. I fully agree that Citizens united (not capitalism) has created a distortion and corrupting force in the market place. It's not the wealth that is evil/wrong/unjust&
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by maerF0x0 11d ago
The capital of those 3500 might be. The P/E Ratio of the S&P 500 is at a historic high level. Interpreted another way, there rarely is a better time to create a profitable business -- You can get paid $30ish dollars per annual doll
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by maerF0x0 11d ago
To me everything you've identified is either 1) Corruption or 2) Consumers being sheep. If the kids sports is a profit seeking cartel that you do not agree with, then do not give them your money. If enough customers do that they will n
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by maerF0x0 11d ago
correct on the typo, edited it to fix. My whole point is that to the extent accumulated wealth is happening by playing by the rules, there is no injustice in accumulating wealth, nor in accumulating more than those who did not do the action

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