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by mw1 4mo ago
Wow, I like to actually see the numbers laid out like this. Most of the ultra-wealthy pay almost nothing on their income taxes from investments because they have found ways to avoid capital gains, and even if they were paying long term capi
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by mw1 5mo ago
The law says if you murder someone you go to jail. Therefore, it’s following the law to murder someone as long as you take the punishment. Of course not, the punishment is actually what happens because you disregarded and didn’t follow the
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Ask HN: Best practices for AI agent safety and privacy
2 points by mw1 8mo ago|1 comments
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by mw1 8mo ago
The only solution is to provide stable long-term housing and social support. Most else has been tried, but it doesn’t seem that you can punish people and make them less poor. Cops continue to sweep through and steal their belongings, but th
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by mw1 9mo ago
It’s not trivial to concoct a short position in TSLA to offset your index holdings. For one, it has large borrowing costs. You already admit that short sellers haven’t fared well, and shorting over a long time period can be very costly. Con
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by mw1 9mo ago
Xfinity cable modem / router combos will create public Xfinity networks by default for many years now. Absolutely is something Xfinity could be selling access to for other corporations.
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by mw1 2y ago
The majority is convinced. Nearly 70% support Medicare for All across multiple polls and that’s with the leadership of both major parties, corporate interests, and news media aligned against. https://thehill.com/hilltv/
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by mw1 2y ago
The article I posted makes a case that eliminating private health insurance will be VASTLY more than 5% savings and people can read the article to see why. You’re choosing to avoid all of the other cost savings that will come from eliminati
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by mw1 2y ago
The article I posted did not claim they were the whole problem, nor did I. They are, however, a large part of the system that no one likes to deal with and can be fully eliminated without obvious negative consequences. Health insurance does
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by mw1 2y ago
One reason you may need to continually plead with people about this is because so many of us have had lived experiences with valid medical claims that should be covered under our policy, denied outright. Not a health insurance company sayin
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by mw1 10y ago
I'm the developer, and this is a work-in-progress demo of a software package that processes and summarizes the statuses, photos, videos and links pulled from Twitter's streaming API. After supplying a list of hashtags, user accoun
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Show HN: Trending media via Twitter API filtered by topic; Olympics example(topicaltracker.com)
4 points by mw1 10y ago|1 comments
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by mw1 14y ago
Hypocrisy is not always an empty criticism, but you have picked an example that is. Someone who smokes saying "smoking is bad for you" is not a serious hypocrisy -- it could actually be informed wisdom, and they are just stating a fact. Som
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by mw1 15y ago
That's pretty much what participation is OWS is... The realization that we don't have a political system that can deliver and that it's time to take back control.
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by mw1 15y ago
As one of those younger Obama supporters, I feel betrayed. Look to the Occupy movement to see how many of us are moving on and looking elsewhere for hope.
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by mw1 16y ago
Amazon makes two claims as to why they kicked wikileaks. The first, is this portion of their TOS: "you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content" It is clear that many of their customers do not