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https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/social-security-for-200-...
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If one earns X currency, and X/2 of the earnings are absorbed by government in various forms, then the tax burden is high, no matter the pettifoggery offered by those arguing against what is in front of one's lying eyes.
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The specific response is the elephant in the room, the debt/budget deficit. My interpretation of your reply is that nothing short of catastrophic societal collapse will constitute an effective argument?
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> https://www.usdebtclock.org More specifically, a stable system requires feedback loops. Ours, like a vehicle without brakes, is running open-loop. I guess that if all one cares about is blame management, then we can all jus
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> America has low taxes For whom, pray tell? Look at your combined burden, top to bottom, at all levels.
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> But how did you make the jump from that to SSA being unconstitutional? The 10A was intended to preclude scope creep. In defense of FDR, the voters let the Progressives run plays. So here we sit, decades later, waiting for a debt bomb t
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Not laughable: the ridiculous deficit/debt. > The spending is systemic and has built up over decades of various policy changes throughout many administrations of both colours. Strong concur. Time for reform.
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If a fraction of the lurid tales of corruption prove valid, then this is not a bad thing. The SSA was never anything other than a Tenth Amendment violation to begin with, as shown by FDR's court packing threat[1], so a bit of external
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"Serious"
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A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design (2024)(dl.acm.org)
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I'm not sure how to balance Dr. Krugman with the empirical evidence: "US Army Hits Annual Recruitment Goals 4 Months Early" => https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/us/us-army-hits-annua...
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Grok3: "The phrase "There is no royal road to geometry" is attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid. According to historical accounts, particularly from the philosopher Proclus, Euclid reportedly said this to Ptol
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Even if UTC itself is a bridge too far, at least consider a 24hr clock, in order to obviate that AM/PM ambiguity.
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"You really need to take the upgrade. Enough centuries have passed." "Oh, all right." > A modification also saw the installation of a mechanised winding system, ending the requirement for somebody to climb the narrow,
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Sites like Stack Overflow are a DMZ[1] where one can solve problems and build skills. Conceiving of them as a teaching/recruiting market might be a way to help matters, but keeping the focus on the strategic mission of developing peopl
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See your 14th Amendment; raise you the 10th Amendment, an ignoring game the whole government has been playing since the year 1913 laid the foundation for an über-State.
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I see the GPL as treating source code files closer to chess pieces, and insisting they remain in view. What partisan pretensions are on offer with the GPL are unclear. While a FSF member for decades, I take a syncretic view that the GPL is
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Oh, like https://www.hillsdale.edu ?
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I chef a monthly breakfast for the fellas. We're working through R. Kent Hughes "Disciplines of a Godly Man". https://a.co/d/7jeAATr
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Politicizing software has all the appeal of proprietary licensing. This is just the inevitable fallout of our inability to have nice things. May all find joy in their choices.
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The Good News is that He is en route; the other news is that His driver is named Godot.
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Market decay?
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8.2n individuals, sure. But look how hard it is to wage peace in the Ukraine...
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People don't scale. This is graphically implied in Maslow's Hierarchy[1], shown as a pyramid. The area of the abstractions occurring up the individual's pyramid is dwarfed by the area of the base needs. The more people you co
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Now I must work on a hieroglyphic extension, so that I can "Sqawk Like an Egyptian". I'll show myself out.
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Where? Was there anything substantial on offer, or are your replies so many crude fragments from the Argument Clinic?
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The article is a recounting of historical facts. Do you feel that relevant facts were omitted, and if so, what? Merely asserting "lying" is unhelpful.
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> The article is lying. A legless assertion. Could you be more specific with the objection, please?
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I specifically quoted the component of your reply that seemed to qualify as innuendo...and you attempt to shift the focus...
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> We both know what this is. It's an historical overview. Was there a substantive rebuttal on offer, or just what sounds like innuendo?

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