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by nerdponx 2y ago
> Your blend of comment was also directed at the likes of Google and StackOverflow. Apparently SO is not a problem anymore And it kind of was a problem. There was an underclass of people who simply could not get anything done if it wasn&
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Right, I get what you said. I am arguing that it is in fact a fraud perpetrated against the taxpayer, even if it's not legally categorized as "fraud" at this time.
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It's fraudulent in the sense that it's a fake loss, as you say created by clever accounting.
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Fraudulently reducing tax revenue by 1 entity/individual effectively shifts the burden of taxation to everyone else who is not willing or able to commit the same fraud. At the macro level, this adds up to billions more dollars every ye
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It's wishful thinking. These people know what they're doing and won't regret it as they live out their days in comfort and luxury.
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Prisoner's dilemma. The one person who goes out on a limb gets punished, unless everyone around them does it too.
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Except for the fact that they are (and were at the time) expected to still work. It would be like if you had a known batch of badly-bound books that fell apart prematurely even under good storage conditions.
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> What's the scenario look like where multiple LLM providers like Anthropic and OpenAI both live up to their valuations? Protectionism by the US federal government.
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If only there was a way for the people to pool their collective resources, maybe each contributing a fraction of their annual income (with a greater contribution proportion at higher incomes), and put those resources towards development of
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> People voted to transfer wealth to the rich, reduce benefits for the masses cut taxes for the rich, scammy corporations, general immunity for the crony rich who are exploiting the government, customers, and employees. Not only that. Th
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I remember when "privatizing social security" was considered a horrifying prospect under the W Bush administration and became unpopular very quickly. I'm not so optimistic this time around.
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No, but that's the whole point of progressive taxation. The old and wealthy who voted us into this mess should be the ones to pay for the solution.
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OP is talking about Social Security, not your 401(k).
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It's not only social security though. Broadly, wages are too low relative to living expenses, so people can't save on their own. There's probably an argument that social security actually subsidizes low wages, as is often
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This predates Thiel. The wealthy elite want a return to the 19th century gilded age and spent the entire 20th century working at it. The Trump administration is the latest success in a continuous campaign of American internal self-destructi
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The idea that democracy is broken is a convenient piece of propaganda, promulgated by people who have something to gain by weakening the American government, whether that's financial or geopolitical.
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The alternative of no or tightly-limited government is potentially worse. It's an economic form of the paradox of tolerance. One can imagine all kinds of exotic forms of government that don't resemble a traditional large and centr
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I noticed this too. Something about the perspective is unnerving, like an amusement park ride. You can see clearly that the moon is small, the craters are big, and the orbiting spacecraft is moving really really fast, all at the same time
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Conspiracy theory: this is a coordinated publicity stunt intended to demonstrate that wealthy individuals are better positioned to serve the American people by way of altruism (funded by business profit) than a large federal government (fun
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> Reduction of scope is required to decrease cost and waste That doesn't follow at all. Plenty of cost and waste arises while carrying out things that are solidly within the scope of a federal government in the eyes of belief system
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Recall that we are posting in a thread about DOGE cutting one of the more effective and efficient departments in the federal government. Popular support and good reasons for it notwithstanding, it's clear that the actual mission is n
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No, and that's why Netflix switched to thumbs up/down instead of 5 stars.
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The problem with Python CLI tools is startup time. Just firing up the interpreter and importing modules can take a frustratingly long time if you're a twitchy CLI user. That's much less of a problem for a GUI tool that tends to si
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> "private" ad tracking My guess is that they're aiming to pivot to become a Brave competitor, and either find a new (profitable) niche in the market, or just ride the business down to collapse. Don't forget that priv
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Kagi is making the Orion browser, which you can pay for. I am a happy customer. There's also Ladybird and several Webkit wrappers.
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The brilliant thing about the first example is that differentiating "important" items with the icon actually allows multiple forms of categorizing items in the list, whereas your suggestions only allow one. The items in the list a
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Did they really need a photo of a leech in the article? I get the connection, but it's gross and reminds me of a Taboola/Outbrain chumbox.
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Yes, and it's a legitimate problem in science. In principle (not that anyone does this), you should probably apply some kind of FDR or FWER control procedure to the entire body of literature in each field . And that's before you
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Correct, FDR control procedures have been part of the statistics literature for at least 50 years, and are relatively easy to implement by hand. There's no excuse.
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The fact that the President was granted that immunity in the first place by a so-called "conservative" Supreme Court should make it abundantly clear that the "conservative" movement fully intends to take it as far in the

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