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by robocat 1y ago
Cash also helps staff (tips) and small business owners avoid taxes (assuming they don't declare cash). Obviously depends a bit on your own morals regarding taxation. Although tips won't be taxed, that only affects federal taxes, s
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by robocat 1y ago
Please don't be rudely facetious. You are on YC and appear to be disagreeing with PG's "Do Things that Don't Scale" article: https://paulgraham.com/ds.html so people jump to conclusions even if you
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by robocat 1y ago
Servo and SpiderMonkey: https://github.com/servo/mozjs
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by robocat 1y ago
Google absolutely does fund ffmpeg via SPI. "and Google provided substantial donations to SPI's general fund". The amounts don't appear to be public (and what is enough!?)
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by robocat 1y ago
You've gone off on some other tangents. Most people react poorly to the word hypocrite so ChatGPT found[1] some other choice phrases for people that are well off that complain about the better off. > Why did they deserve the lions s
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by robocat 1y ago
Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit https://latinitium.com/nemo-saltat-sobrius/
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by robocat 1y ago
Through the nocebo effect.
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by robocat 1y ago
I would guess it is hard on facilitators once they're caught out. Nobody likes their beliefs to be shattered, especially when it is so brutally caring.
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by robocat 1y ago
> the CIA invented the very term "conspiracy theory" I find the best conspiracies are supported by facts
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by robocat 1y ago
Reference? And is China restricting sales of drone motors to the US? As part of the rare earth trade embargoes?
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by robocat 1y ago
> went to a psychiatrist to be evaluated for ADHD It almost sounds like you were anxious? Anecdotally I see a high correlation between taking antianxiety meds and having health issues that require doctoring. Plus I see a lot of abnormal
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by robocat 1y ago
Everybody seems to have an opinion on what someone more wealthy than they are should spend their money on. Unfortunately we don't get to look at what the commenter earns or spend... A normal car weekly payment in the US is ridiculously
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by robocat 1y ago
Recent experience with United: the SMS option was deeply broken (as in couldn't actually get one boarding pass from the link in SMS). Their kiosks were crap too (as in attendant tries to tell me I'm doing it wrong, then they can&#
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by robocat 1y ago
Author said they paid for the cover art: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45879213 (of course that doesn't mean they chose it). I actually like the art - but I'm somewhat eclectic.
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by robocat 1y ago
Do you have a link to how we can donate to you or a project you are part of? I likely won't get the book (space issues).
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by robocat 1y ago
A shame the front image is so irrationally greebled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble SciFi art continues its strange stylistic journey. Makes me want to look through my old SciFi art books. Edit: The Greeble arti
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by robocat 1y ago
Then why target TP-Link for actions? Are they the next biggest vendor after Huawei?
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by robocat 1y ago
Yet I just found an article that said that MAU was 3.065 in 2023 and 2024 and 3.07 in 2025 (i.e. MAU is flat not decreasing). Did you drop a zero? AFAIK there is no consensus that Facebook usage is declining - however that narritive gets to
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by robocat 1y ago
Yet it still might be marginally better off. The article talks a lot about replacing generators: they need complex maintenance. There will be a new waste stream... But the question is whether the waste stream is smaller than the current s
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by robocat 1y ago
> eating it in small quantities Risking your throat closing up seems Darwinian. People don't usually have an Epipen within reach?
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by robocat 1y ago
> fading popularity You made that up, or you checked stats? A quick Google says that Facebook is still growing at about 5% and that Meta revenue is up a lot.
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by robocat 1y ago
Which popular browsers are significantly leaning on individual contributors or volunteers?
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by robocat 1y ago
So easy to say free when you're expecting others to pay. Who votes for higher taxes on themselves?
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by robocat 1y ago
> healthcare MUST be decoupled from capitalistic incentives Capitalism pays for our healthcare. The problem is that Healthcare has an infinite hunger for resources - there is always more that could be spent - and it is always morally cor
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by robocat 1y ago
Don't leave your special cookies or shots where norms might consume them. A friend left her brownies in a Tupperware in the fridge at work. The colleagues decided to help themselves (good people, so I assume with the intention to repla
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by robocat 1y ago
Perhaps it's the training material! People confabulate their reasoning all the time (rationalisation etc). I regularly laugh at the double standards we want to apply to AI. So often we seem to demand AI to beat a standard that most peo
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by robocat 1y ago
> boomers Often used as a hateful word to justify some awful statement. It is mostly a synonym for retirees - something that hopefully we all have a chance to be. And for a fair comparison we need to compare our own future as retirees ag
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by robocat 1y ago
PDF here: https://ia800409.us.archive.org/25/items/thinking_in_systems...
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by robocat 1y ago
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/ Is a metalaw restricting the laws Congress can set. Freedom of speech seems to be commonly regarded as having a far wider scope than it actually does. IA
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by robocat 1y ago
A good explanation is both correct and tactful. I'm not sure your comment is either of those things. I think the root cause is that you are trying to use the one word "profit" to mean different things. Admittedly the word pro

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