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by wat10000 4mo ago
Except the Federal Reserve for some reason.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
This snide response would be a lot better if climate.gov had actually been taken down by those representatives you mention, rather than illegally destroyed by one man.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
At least you're consistent! But I do have to question your claim that "a large portion" of people are like this, or even that they just want to avoid SS and never mind the rest. That's an extremely niche position.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Do you take that attitude towards all other government services?
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by wat10000 4mo ago
I can understand preferring to handle your own affairs rather than pay into SS. But why would you be so opposed to it that you'd rather die than receive SS payments?
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by wat10000 4mo ago
I believe that’s how it is in some places. In others, there’s no obligation after receiving a subsidized education, and this would be a way to fix that. I doubt many people would propose or defend a system where graduates are required to wo
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by wat10000 4mo ago
The doctors would also have agreed and signed a contract. And the debt owner i.e. the state is calling it due.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Does the same reasoning apply to student loans? Is the lender engaging in slavery by claiming entitlement to a portion of the student’s future labor?
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by wat10000 4mo ago
How do you know?
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by wat10000 4mo ago
This would sort of happen naturally if they routed as if roads with no data in the past N minutes/hours were at full speed.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Angry diatribes about whether submarines swim or not.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Do people?
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by wat10000 4mo ago
The compiler doesn’t have to consider how other threads will see this. If you don’t use atomics, the compiler is free to reorder things however it wishes as long as the single threaded behavior is the same in the end.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
There are plenty of open weights models available already. If the ability to keep running the same model is important to you, then choose one of those.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
And most importantly, they still controlled vast swathes of territory and thousands were dying every day under the brutal occupation. Bringing that to an end quickly was very important.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
GPS uses its own time base that doesn't do leap seconds. For display purposes, the leap second offset to UTC is transmitted to the receivers and added to the displayed time if needed.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Because it's way cheaper. Not saying it's a good tradeoff, but that appears to be their pitch.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
You'd care if you had a human bookkeeper and you were considering replacing them with this company's AI bookkeeper.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Consider that other people have different experiences of things. The TFA link doesn't work for me (it appears to, but then it forces me to register to keep reading) and the archive link just required a standard captcha.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Vermont was also an independent country, and for longer than Texas was.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
The English didn't have the easiest time of it, despite substantially more advanced technology, much better resources backing up the whole enterprise, and a native population devastated by diseases brought earlier by the Spanish.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Sometimes I want to learn something while I walk. Sometimes I want to listen to stories. Sometimes I want to just be present. All are good. I highly recommend letting people enjoy whatever they enjoy.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
"kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed" Keeping "account X purchased game Y" forever is necessary for the
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Seems like subsidies for local steel producers would be better, then you're just paying the difference in cost for the level of capacity you want to keep local, versus distorting all steel consumption in the country.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Typical VAT rates are ~20%, so that only accounts for about half the difference.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Pretty sure that's a rise of the bar, not a fall.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Depends on where you want to draw the lines. Heating the room and emitting light could both be a second-order effect if you want to say that the first order is heating up the actual heater.
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by wat10000 4mo ago
What lets you claim actual resources is the number, plus the massive economic system that it lives within. The economic system is by far the more interesting and relevant part of that, as evidenced by the fact that most assets are not hel
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by wat10000 4mo ago
It's a way to represent that value. The number does not itself store the value, nor does changing the number transfer the value. It's true that people work hard for that representation, because we've built systems where the
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by wat10000 4mo ago
Emergency powers should only exist for things that need a very quick response. There's no reason for tariffs to be an emergency power. There's no emergency so urgent that it can't wait for Congress to convene and pass a law e

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