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by topaz0 5mo ago
And there's the indirect capex that their revenues will pay for indirectly, like in the case of oracle
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by topaz0 5mo ago
Even if an audit never comes they could be incorrect.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
That's fine as far as it goes, but I don't think that gets you what this article is for, which is things like using the same binding context-dependently to navigate between emacs splits and regular window manager windows, context-
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by topaz0 5mo ago
Right, the point of the person you replied to was about the scenario where inheritance taxes are small or non-existent - they literally said step up in basis makes sense when inheritance is taxed meaningfully.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
You and me both
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by topaz0 5mo ago
Which argues in favor of the inheritance tax mentioned. There could be other solutions too -- say, require a virtual wash trade at time of inheritance, so the capital gains from the parent's lifetime are taxed at time of death and the
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by topaz0 5mo ago
"taxes only ever go up" is an incredible belief to hold in a historical run of decades of tax cuts.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
At most times during the last 50 years, wages have been growing slower than inflation.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
A sane taxation scheme should of course be paired with a humane social safety net that could pay you a comfortable pension.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
Rich people have been borrowing with their stock as collateral to access their wealth tax free for decades.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
Or it could have had way more bang/buck by feeding a family of real brains for a year or two
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by topaz0 5mo ago
... And some of us would rather have old google
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by topaz0 5mo ago
As a younger man I would have been with the commenters mansplaining probability, but I've aged into realizing that thinking of the election like a marble pulled from an urn whose contents we have probed with polling is just as bad as t
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by topaz0 5mo ago
Chewy.com is not pets.com. They're in the same market, but it's not useful to say that a business built around limitless hypergrowth is the same as a business built around medium sized sustainability.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
The old man yelling at the cloud is often correct, just powerless.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
I should say that I disagree that office 97 era ux is necessarily worse than "modern". Office 365 is barely more capable than office 97 in any way that I care about.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
Several years ago they added like 4 new "modern" UI styles that you can choose that are more fashionable. They're definitely innovating here, though I still find I'm most productive in the older style. And the sidebar fo
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by topaz0 5mo ago
Just add "do what I'm intending to ask, not what I actually asked" and it'll be fine. Works on genies too, or so I'm told by Clod.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
"unable to tell what is real" is an an accurate characterization of the people he's describing imo.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
Libreoffice is also pretty good these days if you need to edit office files, impress has the most compat issues but they are rare even there. In many ways it is more capable than office ime.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
Would you say you prefer windows 11 to all of those though??
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by topaz0 5mo ago
The distro-hopping and vanilla installs are the problem imo -- with Linux it is possible to strip your system down to the basic functionality so that you can actually understand everything what's going on and not be surprised. What is
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by topaz0 5mo ago
It's also the enemy of evil things your company does.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
That was a delicious read. I love this kind of mathematical writing.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
From the description of the recommended tool it sounded to me like something that you use to deterministically generate code from a spec, which you could then modify if you like. That would be the same kind of dependency as the LLM workflow
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by topaz0 5mo ago
It's a huge mistake to jump from "all recent presidents have abused executive power in some way" (accurate and bad, and we shouldn't stand for it) to "they are all the same/their abuses are equally extreme&#x2F
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by topaz0 5mo ago
I don't know or care about that specific tool, or really what you do at all, I was just reacting to how the principle you stated conflicts with the practice you described. How you reconcile those is up to you.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
Sounds like you're just fine depending on an extremely imprecise abstraction (natural language) and an extremely opaque third party (anthropic).
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by topaz0 5mo ago
GP is talking about what they [the companies in question] accept/expect as work product. That has always differed from what they look for in a job candidate. Not surprising that AI psychosis amplifies the discrepancy.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
Do you know how much it would have been at API prices?

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