travisathougies

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by travisathougies 4y ago
I mean property tax is already rent.
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by travisathougies 4y ago
Actually, zoning laws are not part of your property rights. Zoning restriction dictate what you can build on your property, but ownership interest in your property does not entitle you to 'buy' zoning laws. This is easily seen as
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by travisathougies 4y ago
Sweden and Finland should not be allowed to join NATO until they pay backdues. It is obvious that a large portion of countries depend implicitly on the United States for their defense against certain bad actors, like Russia, North Korea, an
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by travisathougies 4y ago
NATO is not just a defensive alliance as we saw in Afghanistan. Defense activities don't result in a twenty year occupation.
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by travisathougies 4y ago
Umm... Europe is not the only territory in the world. There's all of central asia, and Mongolia, former soviet territory.
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by travisathougies 4y ago
> How do you know who filled in the ballot at the polling place? All I would need is to show up and know someone else's name and address and I could vote for them Presumably by some kind of voter identification? Like the way most co
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by travisathougies 4y ago
In the United states, including in Mississippi, which started this case that went to the Supreme court, there is no government intervention at all in your approval to have an abortion. If you're past fifteen weeks and meet the criteria
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by travisathougies 4y ago
> regurgitating Tucker Carlson and “just asking the questions” in bad faith In my experience, non-conservatives tend to believe conservatives are 'regurgitating' Tucker Carlson. Most of Carlson's audience are actually demo
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by travisathougies 4y ago
> vote by mail which helps alleviate the latter while, as far as I can tell, not being significantly worse than voting in person for security. How anyone could state this with any particular confidence is beyond me. The truth is, when so
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by travisathougies 4y ago
> Your friends may be for election integrity, but the people they're voting for most certainly are not. I mean they have a name for these people: RINOs. I think I read an article that showed that most conservatives distrust their ow
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by travisathougies 4y ago
I don't understand the us v them mentality. I have lots of right wing friends and family and many of them have been against electronic voting from the beginning. For example, in my home state of oregon, many right wingers are against v
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by travisathougies 4y ago
My point is the following: 1. Photonics is a new technology. It is more expensive than silicon 2. Silicon can do the compute as fast as photonics, and we understand silicon. Building a silicon chip is 'easy'. 3. The problem is dat
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by travisathougies 4y ago
> Student debt forgiveness is an incredibly far left idea Student debt forgiveness is an incredibly aristocratic idea by which the slowly establishing american aristocracy seeks to tax peasants for their failed lavish lifestyles. It&#x27
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by travisathougies 4y ago
> The way it currently looks is the right want to ban abortion no matter what context. While it's true that some republican run states are going this direction. If we look at the original case that will likely lead the SC to overtur
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by travisathougies 4y ago
I'm going to guess most electronics is not going to be super high-speed. Sort of like how fiber optic was once the realm of only large businesses, then small businesses, and now is commonly available at home (although nowhere near 100%
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by travisathougies 4y ago
I agree. I understand volunteering to make Linux work, since Linux is an open-source project. But why do all this work for Microsoft for free?
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by travisathougies 4y ago
Tennessee law has changed and there are now minimum ages. Surprisingly, there is no minimum age in CA; it's up to the courts.
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by travisathougies 4y ago
There are several companies doing photonic computing (some with commercially available or soon-to-be-available chips). Unfortunately, it's currently all for naught, as existing available silicon hardware accelerators can currently do t
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by travisathougies 4y ago
> But the fact is fathers could marry their daughters and mothers could marry their sons to avoid taxes before that law was passed, yet it wasn't done. No fathers cannot marry their children. Nor can mothers. That is illegal in ever
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by travisathougies 4y ago
I've not worked a job with on call for many years now. Highly recommend. I am not an infra engineer. They would have to pay me a lot more to be.
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by travisathougies 4y ago
Sure... I've been the subject of this for sure. However here are two options (1) Leave the company. There are plenty of companies that don't do this. Just keep changing jobs till you find one (2) Make sure you defensively program
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by travisathougies 4y ago
I have no doubt this exists, because I've seen it with my own two eyes. However, as someone who's also built a career doing none of this, I also realize how much of this is due to the participant's willing participation in th
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by travisathougies 4y ago
I was responding to the claim that most of the societal harm comes from demonization. No it does not. It comes from the behavior of the addicts.
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by travisathougies 4y ago
So you can't name anything, but want me to? Behaviors I disagree with include things like flaking on a commitment with friends, forcing your children to do activities they don't want, etc. The effects of drugs are a whole order of
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by travisathougies 4y ago
Rabies is also a health issue, yet that doesn't mean we let rabid people out on the streets to terrorize others. The government is also responsible for the reasonable safety of the public, and psychotic people (regardless of the cause)
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by travisathougies 4y ago
> That said, we're a half century into the drug war and it's obviously not working. You know... despite what is commonly claimed, Prohibition worked great. During Prohibition cirrhosis was down, deaths from liver disease were d
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by travisathougies 4y ago
I'm not sure exactly what you're talking about, but certain behaviors towards money are discouraged, and in many places... outright banned. For example, the vast majority of states ban gambling outright, except in small sanctioned
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by travisathougies 4y ago
You're redefining what the goals are for the rational CEO, not the rational nature of the CEO though. But suppose I believed your goals were proper. I fail to see how 'cutting costs' is going to help a company better meet its
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by travisathougies 4y ago
> Obviously, a rational CEO would see $1m cost savings the same as a $1m gain in profits, but CEO's are not rational beings (nor is any human) and understanding that they usually prefer higher revenue to lower costs is fundamental t
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by travisathougies 4y ago
> Stimulus/Rescue: I heard a stat on a podcast that said the vast majority (maybe 2/3?) was unspent, so it seems unlikely this is a major driver. What does it mean to be 'unspent'? If it's put into bank accounts

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