wustangdan

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by wustangdan 2y ago
Just FYI based on your comment you might not be aware but just on ads D's outspent the R's 4.5 billion to 3.5 billion ( https://www.axios.com/2024/10/31/democrats-republicans-ad-sp... ). In general D&
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by wustangdan 2y ago
Is a place really beautiful if no one ever gets to see it?
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by wustangdan 2y ago
You are saying he "clearly had nothing to do with" a company he founded, funded, and has been CEO, CTO, and chief engineer. What do you think the word "nothing" means?
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by wustangdan 2y ago
Okay read Walter Isaacson and Vances biography and get back to me. There is hundreds of examples in each. Or read this thread that has a few snippets from the book. https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments&#x
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by wustangdan 2y ago
Just to be clear, you're saying that Shotwell has contributed more to SpaceX than Elon? What about, without Elon they'd have reusable rockets but without Shotwell they wouldn't? Do you believe this? I get you hate Elon but at
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by wustangdan 2y ago
A senior editor just admitted they are biased. You can try and guess my politics (you'd be wrong), but I can guess that you don't think journalists who agree with your politics can be biased. I can agree with NPR's politics a
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by wustangdan 2y ago
> I have sympathy for the journalists actually doing journalism You know that with Substack all these actual journalists are having no issue getting paid very well. I'm not sure why we'd want to expand NPR or make more NPR&#x2
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by wustangdan 3y ago
I'd buy that.
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by wustangdan 3y ago
I see it less as an alliance and more like a shift. Being pro freedom of speech and the freedom of computing you are pushed out of the left. You can say they aren't the actual left, but the fact is their anti-free speech ideas are poll
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by wustangdan 3y ago
Don't you think if we turned USPS into this it would be a another billions of dollars a year waste for taxpayers? Do we really need to be subsidizing drop shippers? > Amazon is not marshalling new capital to innovate or improve its
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by wustangdan 3y ago
Yah. If students loans are so evil that they must all be forgiven, shouldn't we stop the creation of new student loans first? Plus its not like admission prices will just stay in place with such a massive demand shock.
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by wustangdan 3y ago
Good dialogue so far but you've lost me with this. When I buy a big vault, extra door locks, a pitbull, and a gun to protect the gold I store at home to go full gold buggery, am I paying for the investigation, enforcement, and regulati
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by wustangdan 3y ago
Gold and crypto are already taxed the same and on the same level (capital gains). Go ahead and regulate fraud how is crypto packets flowing preventing you? The blockchain is more open and transparent than the banking system. Don't you
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by wustangdan 3y ago
Well sorry but you confused me as my main issue was with USD and I believed you thought that USD had "not all that much of consequence" happening to its value. But it seems we are mostly in agreement. I'm happy you have a hom
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by wustangdan 3y ago
Well I mean the recent bank failures showed the issue with treasuries, but sure it seems we agree more than disagree. You agree that holding USD is failure for long term value or even short term (3 year) value transport. My argument is that
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by wustangdan 3y ago
https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm From Jan 2019 to now we've had 17.4% inflation. Your purchasing power of the money in your bank account has been reduced. How have other assets faired in that time
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by wustangdan 3y ago
IMO you just found another area where Sturgeon's Law applies ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law ).
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by wustangdan 3y ago
Yes exactly, on gold standard they would default, now they inflate. The US can issue debt in USD and even print 1 trillion USD coins. But what happens to the value of the currency when they repeatedly do that? Crypto (and other assets obvio
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by wustangdan 3y ago
No legal use case? Really? Honest question are you legitimately excited for FedNow? What problem will it solve? What does FedNow have to do with cryptos downfall? Does FedNow fix our 120% debt to gdp ratio? Estimates of inflation required t
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by wustangdan 4y ago
I'm not following you. Are you saying we implement this alternative by removing income tax and replacing it with consumption tax, that corporations will run everything and only share holders get a say? I'm not sure what this tax i
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by wustangdan 4y ago
I have a hard time combining this sentiment with my lived experience in California.
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by wustangdan 4y ago
The national consumption tax. It says in the first sentence...
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by wustangdan 4y ago
I'm sorry I'm not following you. Are you saying that what the US has now is well-functioning social institutions with mutual accountability? Since they oppose this by trying to pull funding from them.
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by wustangdan 4y ago
The reason is because your government is reasonably well behaved. You can think of crypto as a hedge against bad government behavior. So in your case, you aren't a target customer. Try thinking about people in Turkey or Venezuala, wher
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by wustangdan 4y ago
I want a co-op RTS and FPS/TP game. Imagine one player is playing a game like Total War Three Kingdoms, and on the same team your friends are playing something like Dynasty Warriors. So you are doing all the high level RTS control whil
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by wustangdan 9y ago
Not sure if this is allowed but I created a Udemy course on PID control where I go through the theory and then in the assignments you write Python code to create a PID controller for an elevator (with the goal of moving the elevator to the