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by stouset 2y ago
Symbols are just other letters in the alphabet. Something like <‘_> is as natural for me to read at this point as any of the other words in this sentence. Math is also symbol soup. But those symbols mean things and they’ve usually bee
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by stouset 2y ago
I am 100% going to link to the original post and these replies next time there’s a jj thread and people express bewilderment about needing anything else because “git is so simple”.
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by stouset 2y ago
It’s almost as if there are two(!) components to deficits. If it isn’t spending, what could the other factor possibly be?
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by stouset 2y ago
It turns out that the tax-and-spend moniker Democrats were labeled with is infinitely preferable to the spend-and-spend-and-spend behavior Republicans have implemented in practice.
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by stouset 2y ago
Ah yes, I “fondly” remember constantly being told that tax cuts would stimulate the economy so much they’d be revenue-positive. This, it turned out, was a lie. And not a very convincing one to anyone with even half a functioning brain cell.
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by stouset 2y ago
The stated mission is unavoidably at odds with the implementation. The gains to be had are pointlessly minuscule in comparison to the federal budget and the actual cost to Americans is extreme.
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by stouset 2y ago
The right wants everything related to taxes to be as difficult and painful as possible, in the hopes it will encourage the government to lower them.
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by stouset 2y ago
> "just remember to take and release locks" If only it were so easy.
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by stouset 2y ago
In addition to the other answers, to drive multiple APs.
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by stouset 2y ago
I’m sorry that you feel that shallow and uninformed opinions need to be coddled. As an analogy, if someone comes in and says global warming isn’t happening, the goal isn’t to eviscerate that opinion. That is the outcome of the opinion b
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by stouset 2y ago
In addition to that, to spend on things that produce net positive returns for society, but whose benefits are diffuse enough that every smaller entity isn't incentivized enough to do it. Also, to adjust market dynamics to shift things
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by stouset 2y ago
If this type of opinion is getting eviscerated in the comments, maybe the problem is with the opinion itself and not the forum on which it's being expressed.
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by stouset 2y ago
“Cut all of it” is a lazy and exceptionally dangerous response. There are an enormous number of government services for which the benefit to society is straight multiples of the cost. Throwing out the baby with the bathwater is an phenomena
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by stouset 2y ago
All sorts of complex discussions are had here on a daily basis. This topic is no different. Using that as an excuse to ignore the actual question which was asked so you can throw yourself the softest of softballs is what is unbelievably laz
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by stouset 2y ago
Countless amounts of money has been lost off-exchange. The entire reason people use exchanges is because holding your own crypto is laughably hard. Forgot your password? All your money is gone. Hard drive crashed and no backups? All your mo
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by stouset 2y ago
> The Dollar is expected to lose almost all value over the lifetime of a person. Warren Buffett once noted that the Dollar already lost over 90% of it's value during his lifetime. With Bitcoin, there is no such expectation. You’ve t
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by stouset 2y ago
Sure, let’s just discard the evidence that doesn’t fit our preconceived beliefs!
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by stouset 2y ago
The problem is, RFK is a conspiracy-minded nutjob. If you want to have an honest discussion there’s no real avoiding that fact.
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by stouset 2y ago
> But if the question is 'do you think an effort should be made to look for things to cut', I'd say 'yes, of course.' This is such an unbelievably lazy response. Every single person in existence thinks there’s so
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by stouset 2y ago
What DOGE has claimed to have cut is a similarly meaningless amount (and likely significantly overinflated), and what's worse, the value we were getting from those expenditures likely greatly exceeds what we were paying for them. $50
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by stouset 2y ago
2% in 45 years is a completely meaningless amount. You are technically and pedantically correct, but in the context of the actual conversation being had it is so little as to be irrelevant.
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by stouset 2y ago
> Yes it has. In 1980 it was 34.25%, in 2022 it was 36.25%. Honest question, do you expect people to take your position seriously when this is the stat you’re putting up in defense of your argument?
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by stouset 2y ago
As a homework exercise, I’d like you to consider just how much gold would be necessary to back the current amount of dollars in circulation.
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by stouset 2y ago
I’m not sure you want to go down the path of comparing the rate of total failure of fiat currencies vs. cryptocurrencies. Yet another crypto collapse is in the news every week .
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by stouset 2y ago
In 17 years, the value of my traditionally-invested assets (VTSAX) went up 700%. I didn’t risk losing everything to scams. When I forgot my password my brokerage was able to restore my access. When I made a mistake in a transaction I was ab
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by stouset 2y ago
Have you seen the absurd lengths people have to go to to actually scam people out of significant sums of actual money? It doesn’t even remotely compare and if you can’t acknowledge that, you’re willfully ignorant or a future mark yourself.
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by stouset 2y ago
In the face of the never-ending list of these kinds of events, the laughably impossible task of average nontechnical individuals protecting their own assets (and the consequence of total financial ruin when they fail to do so), the overwhel
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by stouset 2y ago
If your best argument is that people who’ve been lied to and misled for decades voted to let the wolf into their henhouse, so just lie back and let it happen, that says volumes. Do. Fucking. Better.
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by stouset 2y ago
No, that’s not how this works. This isn’t a matter of fucking opinion. You can opt to be on the side of fantasy and belief or the side of fact. The average American is surprised to learn that Obamacare and the ACA are the same piece of legi
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by stouset 2y ago
It’s been done another way. We literally have independent agencies within the government that perform this job openly, carefully, with actual transparency, and by teams of experienced personnel. It’s not their fucking luxury. It’s our fuck

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