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   by mannanj 3mo ago

   That's so cool. And +1 to Beeswax candles. I have a dream we will orient ourselves with greater agency and autonomy and after traditional careers die if we get a UBI and still choose to work we would orient ourselves around the sun nat
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   by mannanj 3mo ago

   I had this too. Started after lay off in October. What helped was a sleep and work system, oriented around being offline that was inspired by nature and from my earlier days in working in tech while car camping across the national parks. Ba
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   by mannanj 3mo ago

   I thought these were examples > Simply asking specific questions about health, about diseases, about diet, about social media addiction, about controversial topics like politics, etc release hostility from a handful of people. These peop
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   by mannanj 3mo ago

   > By law in VA, all cars that are garaged in state for longer than 90 days must pay the car tax. This is a lie. The law is that someone must register and through that process pay the registration tax. However you can't register a
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   by mannanj 3mo ago

   Let me first get our agreement on the word hostility: > a state of unfriendliness, antagonism, or ill will Do you agree on this definition? Assuming so, I hear you asking how can asking particular questions get you this? I'll assume
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   by mannanj 3mo ago

   it is not me who thinks the vehicles need to be re-registered, but those who are making the argument that you need to register a vehicle you dont own simply because you drove it in a state or garaged it there.
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   by mannanj 3mo ago

   I address this below. Adding my personal interpretation onto it, I think it's fear-mongering and the only enforcement and successful litigation I've seen on it is when tax is actually not paid. If you're worried, seek legal c
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   by mannanj 3mo ago

   I hear you bringing up 2 separate actions that can trigger a registration requirement. 1) Garaging a vehicle, for x days or more. 2) Driving a vehicle, for x days or more. Have you looked into what the specifics are, and how they are trigge
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   by mannanj 3mo ago

   Tax advantages are not tax evasion. Otherwise, why bother with doing anything that is tax advantaged if when anyone calls it tax evasion or accuses someone of a crime the accused just give up and takes guilt (assumption of guilt over innoce
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    by mannanj 3mo ago

    Here's a reminder that a Montana-LLC registered car is a legitimate privacy-preserving use case and not the tax-evasion that Straw Manners and Ad Hominem attackers make appear to be. You can still pay your use tax and be a good citizen
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    by mannanj 3mo ago

    > As the person holding the money, it's my job to look at what is effective and what the act ingredients are in any given product. I wish the industry, our health organizations, and most people in general acted as though this were t
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    by mannanj 3mo ago

    Okay well which ones do you subscribe to? And I wonder what definition of engineer do you and OP subscribe to, because this conversation probably goes nowhere when everyone sees it as meaning separate things. Here's one simple one we c
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    by mannanj 3mo ago

    I think you are mixing "engineering" with responsibility. You could literally take away "engineering" and put in any other word and it wouldn't mean much at all except just saying 'be responsible'. Yes hav
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    by mannanj 3mo ago

    The same reason you can be pessimistic? Maybe if you look for evidence to be pessimistic, you find that, and if you look for evidence to be optimistic you find that. I'd rather choose the more positive, hopeful perspective than the neg
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    by mannanj 3mo ago

    I'd love to have this as a norm, as long as the AI doesn't lie and impersonate and deceive humans in speech by saying things as though it were the human like "I ate breakfast" or "I was saying this to my team"
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    by mannanj 3mo ago

    I think you are forgetting about the decency and dignity part of "respect". Yes there's a quality component to the role of communication in how it respects other people. There's also honesty, transparency, truth and vect
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    by mannanj 3mo ago

    I disagree, that it's not tiring to hear - because it's deception and lying as it gets used and presented today. I believe it's dangerous to a culture of cooperation that I think cooperation requires trust and truth to suppor
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    by mannanj 3mo ago

    This reminds me of a time in COVID-health response when certain scientists said their evidence was real evidence and yours was not. "There's no evidence to prove xyz" then they would say, as your evidence was never as rigorou
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    by mannanj 3mo ago

    I remember hearing something about this. Reminds me of the many lies that political candidates make to garner interest and approval. Except who's holding them accountable - like there's not even a list anywhere tracking these lies
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    by mannanj 3mo ago

    So isn't this how all major US capitalist companies function now? They look at unethical behavior and fines as a cost-benefits equation. Hardly new that when people make lots of money from something, they pay off your leaders to let th
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    by mannanj 3mo ago

    Why are we still so obsessed about maintaining code when rewriting it is very low cost now?
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    by mannanj 3mo ago

    Location: Alexandria, VA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python, FastAPI, Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Cloudflare, agentic AI (Claude, Claude Code, MCP servers, agent harnesses, RAG) Résumé/CV:
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    by mannanj 4mo ago

    Do you feel this is true for government agencies too?
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    by mannanj 4mo ago

    If the goal was to extract more tax dollars and drop them into the laps of rich socialites and their bourgeoise friends, then it succeeded.
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    by mannanj 4mo ago

    yeah. over here, most people are sick and hostile to each other and under some spell of propaganda where they think only others are under the spell while being falsely certain they themselves are not. it leads to an environment where if you
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    by mannanj 4mo ago

    GPUs and computer hardware prices have been on the rise. I can see a twisted perspective where it’s stated that the US government needs to closely control computer hardware that can run particular LLMs, as a national security interest. At l
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    by mannanj 4mo ago

    I was in the process of learning how to register a car. I learned in Texas, Texas previously paid fines and that a statement was made Texas would no longer sell your vehicle registration data to 3rd parties. I heard California would do some
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    by mannanj 4mo ago

    How soon until the digital distributions are owned by just a few cartels, and later when it’s suitable for them, they also modify digital movies to suit a political agenda without letting you know?
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    by mannanj 4mo ago

    I see. That’s at least workable. Now you have a face and a group of people responsible for your suffering and problems. And what are you going to do about it?
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    by mannanj 4mo ago

    A big problem is "U.S. government" muddies the conversation because of how undefinable and large that group is. Who is deciding who gets to use GPT-5.6? Which organizations? Which leaders? Focus on that to have a clearer conversat