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by nickff 3mo ago
This would be my personal preference, as I believe that voters often overlook the impact of corporate taxes, and there are just too many (different) taxes.
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by nickff 3mo ago
Not the commenter you replied to, but one thing to note is that capital gains tax (at least in the context of investments in corporate equities) is applied after corporate taxes. Profits and reinvested earnings are taxed as profits, and the
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by nickff 4mo ago
> ” You can go ahead and call that rhetoric, but you are also reading in intentions that do not seem to match reports from the ground.” This just seems like standard union rhetoric, like when they talk about quality, or caring about the
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by nickff 4mo ago
The employees of the Wikipedia foundation did not create the dataset, though they definitely contributed to the infrastructure behind it. Sam Altman (and the OpenAI employees) contributed even more to OpenAI's continuing success (and t
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by nickff 4mo ago
Wikipedia has a lot of money, along with a valuable dataset (for AI); it was only a matter of time until rent-seeker(s) would come along and try to get it. As we saw with OpenAI, it is difficult to keep a non-profit dedicated to its public
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by nickff 4mo ago
Money isn’t the only pressure which influences journalism. Access (and exclusion) is a huge pressure on sports, celebrity, and political journalism. A desire for popularity/notoriety cause sensationalism. There are countless other infl
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by nickff 4mo ago
“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” ― Frederic Bastiat https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/70896-the-state-is-that-gre...
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by nickff 4mo ago
The comment you've replied to seems to be referring to OpenAI.
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by nickff 4mo ago
Yes, I agree that it is possible that the 'open source model providers' are doing the equivalent of 'dumping' in an attempt to establish a dominant market position, or at least a foot-hold. I am generally a skeptic when
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by nickff 4mo ago
If you’re happy to use the current one forever, then yes. I was amending my comment above to address this when you posted yours.
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by nickff 4mo ago
Are you saying that you think the US government is unpredictable and arbitrary, but that the People’s Republic of China is not? Do you remember all the PRoC’s strange and sudden policy shifts (e.g. steel, real estate, education, football&#x
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by nickff 4mo ago
"Good" (well-extracted) coffee is still relatively good when warm, especially compared to "bad" (over-extracted, or under-extracted) coffee. That said, many believe that the optimal temperature for serving coffee is 50-6
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by nickff 4mo ago
Why? Naming a weapons company after Aragorn's sword makes sense. "The Daily Beast" on the other hand is a rather cynical name...
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by nickff 4mo ago
Clinton damaged the White House intern program by making it look like they were either his harem or victims; having an affair in his office also made it look like he was more interested in using his position to cheat on his wife than do his
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by nickff 4mo ago
If you do something at work with a subordinate, it’s no longer personal.
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by nickff 4mo ago
This is a solved problem, and IFF was invented in the 1930s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_friend_or_foe It is believed that the Kuwaiti aircraft did not have its IFF transponder turned on (IFF is and ha
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by nickff 4mo ago
Some cruise missiles have the ability to detect targets based on camera or infra-red match; on the other side, most (currently-deployed) drone types have at most that same capability. I believe that most of the infamous Shahed long-range dr
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by nickff 4mo ago
I purposely avoided any comparison between Clinton and other presidents, as many have done bad things, and it is difficult to rank them all. I just wanted to address the parent comment's minimization of Clinton's wrong-doing, as e
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by nickff 4mo ago
The Lewinsky Affair got traction because Clinton used his position of power (literally in the Oval Office) to take advantage of a young subordinate, in a time when ‘sexual harassment’ was becoming a hot topic. Then lying about the affair ma
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by nickff 4mo ago
This is a much more difficult distinction to make than you're letting on. Cruise missiles offer no quarter, but manually operated drones might (though there is often no way to capture the opponents). The question is what is the differe
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by nickff 4mo ago
I think the line is even fuzzier than you've described. Drones are very much analogous to missiles and torpedoes. Torpedoes have long been used in sea mines, and 'automatically' activated upon detection of acoustic or magneti
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by nickff 4mo ago
> "why should something like that be dictated for everyone else let alone at such a high level of government and without a direct vote by the citizens" Not the user you were replying to, but they clearly asked why it was done
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by nickff 4mo ago
The voting issue is problematic, but the limits on shareholder class-actions seems like a good idea. Do you know of any shareholder class-action lawsuit that actually benefited the shareholders? They only ever seem to benefit the plaintiff
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by nickff 4mo ago
No; there have been a number of (controversial) pardons for people who were either not charged or had not been convicted. Gerald Ford set something of a precedent by pardoning Richard Nixon for activities related to the Watergate cover-up,
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by nickff 4mo ago
This article is about the EU food supply, and does not appear to attribute the contaminants to US exports. Why are you bringing American cultivation practices into this? If anything, this OP demonstrates that the EU regulations are futile (
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by nickff 4mo ago
> "So then enforce the rule on the receiver side: people in your jurisdiction should have the right to be free from spam, and if you want to serve customers there, you need to comply." Every anti-spam regulation or law has thi
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by nickff 4mo ago
> "It's nuts and I can't believe it works." The success rate is low, but the problem is that it's an arms race, where every competitor is spamming, so each new entrant (or non-spammer) must try to spam even hard
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by nickff 4mo ago
Telling people the reason is also likely to provoke an argument, which is often heated, and may become violent.
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by nickff 4mo ago
In additional to the car dependency (and related issues), the USA still has many immigrants (legal and illegal) from poor countries, who likely have health issues that pre-exist their US residency.
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by nickff 4mo ago
Driving everywhere has the collateral effect of ensuring that people get less exercise. Mexico has an astonishingly high obesity rate (a bit higher than the USA last time I checked), and this increases the risks of many non-car-related caus

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