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by vel0city 11mo ago
Who doesn't review all the several megabytes of minified JavaScript for every page they visit?
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by vel0city 11mo ago
> Obviously the hypothetical is assuming a uniform 10% sales tax > Meanwhile you can exempt necessities from a consumption tax to various degrees So, a non-uniform sales tax. So not the thing you were arguing for just a few comments a
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by vel0city 11mo ago
Sure it does. There are caps to those tax advantaged savings accounts. There's no cap on not spending money. You're still designing a system where the highest effective tax rates are paid by the lowest income people and the lowest
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by vel0city 11mo ago
Yeah, so secure. https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notific... https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5183 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail&#x2F
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by vel0city 11mo ago
Virtual machines are never a security boundary. If you configure them correctly, avoid all the footguns, and pray that there's no VM escape vulnerabilities that affect "correctly" configured VMs then they can be a crude appro
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by vel0city 11mo ago
You're comparing firing someone who serves a statutory term limt at the pleasure of a position that gets changed out every 4-8 years also with statutory term limits compared to trying to fire someone serving for life who takes 218 Hous
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by vel0city 11mo ago
There is only so much land where people actually want to live. Governments put restrictions on what can be built. It might end up costing $20 to build a 100-story apartment complex, but if the government says buildings can only be five stor
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by vel0city 11mo ago
But if the law says "this person can only be fired for cause", and the President is supposed to faithfully execute the law, shouldn't he only be able to fire the person for cause? Or what, the President can just choose parts
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by vel0city 11mo ago
It takes however long I need to charge it to reach my next destination, whether that be the final destination or the next charging stop. Maybe I'm charging for 10 minutes, maybe I'm charging for 20. When I'm on a road trip, t
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by vel0city 11mo ago
Its totally my business when their choices make my family and friends less safe and less healthy and makes our communities worse off. Imagine if someone had a machine that they could press a button and it would just give them a bit of happi
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by vel0city 11mo ago
In my county, tax rates have to be renewed every year. So every year there's a chance for the rates to change. There is an automatic suggestion of a "no new revenue" option formulated by the appraisal district based on their
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by vel0city 11mo ago
> And removing a regulator is extremely difficult. This isn't based in reality in the slightest, or you just haven't been paying attention to the Trump administration. It seems like Trump has had little issue replacing a lot of
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by vel0city 11mo ago
My point is some people spend all their money on sales tax applicable things while others don't spend all their income. So those who don't spend all their money get to avoid those taxes on some percentage of their invome, potentia
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by vel0city 11mo ago
Those percentages tend to change over time though, right? What inputs do you think they have to their ideas on how to adjust it?
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by vel0city 11mo ago
> Suppose you pay a 25% income tax and then a 10% sales tax. You're paying the same amount, almost a third of your income, as you would with a 47% sales tax. No, I don't, because I don't spend 100% of my income every year
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by vel0city 11mo ago
But if we fully automate how to make and sell and deliver TVs and blenders and now I can get a 200" TV for $2 and a blender for $0.05 but now I don't have a job so I can't afford even a basic apartment what do we do with our
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by vel0city 11mo ago
What a joke. I know several people who work in residential construction. All of them bought their large trucks associated with their small businesses for the tax write-offs. None of them actually use their trucks as trucks. When they really
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by vel0city 11mo ago
And once again, it's far easier to remove a regulator acting in such a way than a judge who serves for life and determines their own ethics.
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by vel0city 11mo ago
There are 1,000V chargers all over the place in the US. All those 350kW chargers are rated for 1,000VDC output.
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by vel0city 11mo ago
If you live in an apartment, what are you regularly doing that needs a giant truck or a trailer? It's not like you're doing woodworking in your one bedroom apartment or doing lots of gardening. And if your answer is "well you
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by vel0city 11mo ago
> I'd generally rather see a crew cab pickup on the road than an oversized SUV with a single, tiny person driving solo. If it's the same person doing the same activities, why would you prefer if it's a large truck instead
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by vel0city 11mo ago
> You cannot lease a VR headset. Sure you can! You shouldn't, but you can! https://www.rentacenter.com/en-us/p/electronics/gaming/virtu...
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by vel0city 11mo ago
This varies a lot based on where you are. For the trips I usually take around in Texas where I need public chargers, I actually usually do have a choice of chargers. I understand this isn't universally true in other parts of the US t
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by vel0city 11mo ago
Right? These people are apparently taking off their seatbelts while rolling to the stop, sprinting to the bathroom, emptying their bowels in a few seconds, not thoroughly washing their hands, and sprinting back to the car as fast as they ca
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by vel0city 11mo ago
I do agree, from the perspective of the total time to get the energy into the vehicle it is significantly more time, easily a bit over 2x as long for a "quick" road trip stop. But take a look at it from another perspective. Its an
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by vel0city 11mo ago
I've timed a number of the pumps around my home filling ~20gal. None of them have come close to filling in a minute. They're often 3-4 minutes of pumping, after spending a few minutes negotiating payment. I don't think I&#x
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by vel0city 11mo ago
> I like Teslas a lot, but gave you ever been on a road trip in one? Not a Tesla but a different EV. I've taken it on about a dozen road trips over the years. It's been fine. I pull off the highway, plug in, go grab a quick sna
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by vel0city 11mo ago
These two interiors look dang near the same. One has a faux stick shifter versus a dial. Big deal. You could randomize which was the EV and which was the ICE and I'd have no clue.
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by vel0city 11mo ago
> spend an hour at a charging station This is exaggeration. A half hour for a well-loaded truck, sure, but an hour is generally exaggeration. And as for five minutes for a fill up, it's usually more than five for a regular fill-up
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by vel0city 11mo ago
Most Americans do. The vast majority of Americans live like me in terms of housing and transit. And yet pickups are still the most popular vehicles. In the parking garages of the urban apartments around me, they're filled with pickup

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