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by saghm 4mo ago
They seem to conveniently not have enough time to provide that in the comment
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by saghm 4mo ago
I also don't think they addressed how borrowing against the wealth doesn't require any immediate taxes (and is often low interest, given how being a billionare means you get more favorable terms). There's nothing stopping som
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by saghm 4mo ago
If the income was earned through dividends, maybe this would be a reasonable argument. Most of the time stock just gets bought and sold by investors rather than the company itself though, so it's not clear why corporate tax would have
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by saghm 4mo ago
How do you know that you're not the one hanging around the "wrong people" to know better? You could just as easily be surrounding yourself with wealthy people as they could be with non-wealthy. Without data, it just sounds li
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by saghm 4mo ago
You seem to be missing what part of that implies "spending time in the sun with sunscreen is risky". Wearing sunscreen doesn't magically make you not exposed at all to the sun. I also think you're assuming it's easy
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by saghm 4mo ago
Or the right ones. Maybe celebrating a holiday or whatever doesn't need explosives...
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by saghm 4mo ago
More context for those not familiar with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R...
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by saghm 4mo ago
A discipline that often likes to model things in terms of perfectly rational actors probably will struggle to consider Hanlon's razor
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by saghm 4mo ago
This may shock you, but not all numbers greater than zero are equal. Something might cause a price to go up by some amount, but something else might make it go up by an even larger amount, so stopping that first thing might not stop it from
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by saghm 4mo ago
I'm not sure I've heard anyone claim that Harris is "far left" (other than people arguing against her during an active campaign, which doesn't really say much)
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by saghm 4mo ago
From the Wikipedia article: > Markus Allard initiated heavy debate in 2025 by claiming that Sweden is "the land for/belongs to the Swedes" > In a debate hosted by Studio3 with Liberal member of parliament Martin Melin,
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by saghm 4mo ago
> I was simply responding to this idea that parents don't want to parent. It's not true, they do, they just can't. I never claimed otherwise. > A solution is needed, and I think age verification is a good start - divide
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by saghm 4mo ago
> I know what point you were trying to make, but I’m pointing out that your argument works against you much better than it works for you. Sure, if you go out of your way to try to ignore pretty much everything about the conversation up t
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by saghm 4mo ago
> We’ve had nearly zero privacy for all of human history. A lockable door in your own home was an enormous revolution. There was a brief period where you could do super secretive things in your own home in America because it was the cult
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by saghm 4mo ago
No, in this scenario I'm defending the idea that sometimes "a lot of studies" that come out "kinda at the same time" aren't necessarily due to robust science but can be pushed by a specific agenda. If you actua
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by saghm 4mo ago
Oh good, there have never been studies coordinated to come out to influence public opinion based on shoddy science before; just ask the tobacco industry
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by saghm 4mo ago
> If you give your kid WhatsApp access because that's how 95% of their peers text each other, then your kid has access to a hidden chat that can only be revealed by typing a secret code in the search bar. So the solution to parents
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by saghm 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure the parent comment is not being serious. They're making a point that some solutions are worse than the problem they're trying to solve.
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by saghm 4mo ago
> The only way I can see to even begin to combat that is to constantly surveil the operator of the computer to attempt to detect when its operator changes. Do you have a superior method? The idea that I should have to figure out a mechan
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by saghm 4mo ago
They're implemented in a way that people who don't ever buy alcohol or cigarettes get effected by though. I can't feasibly opt out of the entire internet that I use to pay bills, schedule doctors appointments, file taxes, etc
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by saghm 4mo ago
There has also never been a single point in history when everyone in the planet was over the age of 70, but there are also a lot more people who are over 70 now than 1000 years ago. I don't understand why you think that all fractions b
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by saghm 4mo ago
If you're concerned with the fact that the government might have misaligned incentives to use a system beyond the originally given intent, I think the actual approaches that are in danger of being implemented should probably be somethi
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by saghm 4mo ago
Forcing literally everyone else on the internet to give up privacy. No kids ever use my devices (there are no kids in my household), but in order to protect the non-existent children who theoretically would use my devices, I'd be force
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I also must have a weird vocabulary. "Fete" was treated as an uncommon bonus word, which doesn't seem particularly esoteric to me, but "tarragon" was one of the ones I needed to finish a certain puzzle, and I had ne
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by saghm 4mo ago
The rules should probably explicitly mention the minimum length of four letters. (It's a reasonable rule; it just wasn't obvious from reading the info in "how to play")
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by saghm 4mo ago
I'm not convinced that they needed to be conned. That assumes that they're normally able to correctly make this type of decision without a dedicated effort to trick them. (Not saying there wasn't any dedicated effort, just
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by saghm 4mo ago
The legal ruling that makes what he does legal even if he didn't get permission (although he does) is about parodies; it's not clear why you think that would apply here. If all he did was change the title and the phrasing of some
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by saghm 4mo ago
The law cares about the process you took to get something, not just the final output. Stealing something and then changing some stuff to try to make it not look identical doesn't invalidate the fact that you stole it. I can't down
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I feel this, especially with the crazy lengths people go to mock things sometimes. A couple years back I was having a discussion with a friend/former coworker about testing (I was griping about unnecessary mocks I had to deal with for
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Alternate revenue source to keep them in business as they probably hemorrhage customers due to being maybe the least secure password manager ever? I have to wonder how they have any customers left at all at this point

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