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by triceratops 2mo ago
I'll say something controversial: Clinton and Harris were both better options than the guy who started his campaign mocking a reporter's disability. If voters had any sense it should've ended right there. The rationalizing, t
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by triceratops 2mo ago
Does that make the UN American?
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by triceratops 2mo ago
> how about plumbers (and the like) who need a vehicle to carry what they need to work? They pay the fee and pass on the cost to their customers. And now they can find parking near where they work so they'll save some time.
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by triceratops 2mo ago
They can already do that. It's called a mechanical cover license. In fact if all of copyright operated with mechanical licenses it would be a much better system.
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by triceratops 2mo ago
If you react to this you're giving the administration exactly what it wants.
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by triceratops 2mo ago
To the King of Canada, actually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada#Personifica... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada#Foreign_vis...
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by triceratops 2mo ago
> they are literally probabilistic token generators Trained on tokens written by humans, with human values and behaviors. They train on HN comments too. A little bit of you (and me) is in every LLM.
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by triceratops 2mo ago
Do you perhaps live in a place where people answer the door with a gun in their hand?
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by triceratops 2mo ago
Yes true.
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by triceratops 2mo ago
It's actually 12%, not 6%. EDIT: 12% is all of Europe. This thread is about the EU. https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
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by triceratops 2mo ago
EDIT: Europe as a whole emits 12%. https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
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by triceratops 2mo ago
If environmentalists are so powerful how are fossil fuels, automobiles, and meat still around?
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by triceratops 2mo ago
I blame fossil fuel companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_deni... They're the ones who lied about climate change. They also funded anti-nuclear propaganda.
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by triceratops 2mo ago
It actually does. You've been too busy insulting me to read anything I wrote.
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by triceratops 2mo ago
Thanks for conceding that I'm right.
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by triceratops 2mo ago
> Those are goods. Potato property. A property is whatever you own. Do you or do you not own the contents of your fridge? > Shares are also not property, in the real sense. I assume by "real" you mean "land". Who c
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by triceratops 2mo ago
To tax automation. That's where this thread started. Someone said you can't tax automation and I showed how you could tax it. I'll expand on a theme I've written about many times before. We want businesses to become more
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by triceratops 2mo ago
> Shares are proxies for ownership/control. But they don't have to be. There could be a law that shares paid as tax have no voting power. The government gets capital gains and dividends but no votes. The sovereign wealth fund c
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by triceratops 2mo ago
Not at all. Before the widespread availability of currency, taxes were always paid in property. Farmers paid with bushels of wheat or turnips or whatever.
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by triceratops 2mo ago
What's your point? I only showed a way to tax automation. The labels are left as an exercise for the reader.
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by triceratops 2mo ago
> Automation can’t be taxed. Sure it can. Take shares in companies. Put them into a sovereign wealth fund.
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by triceratops 2mo ago
They say that themselves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468552
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by triceratops 2mo ago
It's a great plan. Why didn't Congress pass that?
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by triceratops 2mo ago
So there's 2 reasons to not install apps
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by triceratops 2mo ago
> and lead was standardized only because it was patentable That doesn't make much sense to me. It would be more profitable to sell gasoline without lead tetraethyl because you wouldn't be forced to buy a patented product. Jus
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by triceratops 2mo ago
> Do the octogenarians in power not remember when they couldn’t breathe because of the lead in the gas Lead causes brain damage and memory impairment...
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by triceratops 2mo ago
> at the time it was not mean spirited or wildly offensive. That's what "the past is a foreign country" is meant to communicate.
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by triceratops 2mo ago
You're saying multiple wrong ways to do a thing is evidence that the thing is undesirable? Why don't you want an auto repair shop in the house next door, and why won't you let them pour old engine oil on your lawn? Are you an
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by triceratops 2mo ago
That doesn't mean what you think it means. Management has to act in shareholders' best interests especially when those conflict with their own. That's not the same thing as shareholders above workers (or anyone else for t
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by triceratops 2mo ago
Everything you said is objectively true, except for one thing. > a company's duty is towards shareholders first, workers second. This is just like, an opinion, man. There's no reason a company has to be like that. It just ben

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