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by _uhtu 2y ago
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by _uhtu 2y ago
This is a terrible argument. It implies the money is destroyed by taxation. In reality that money would go towards relieving the governments need to collect other tax revenues. So for example you could increase the standard deduction. Now e
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by _uhtu 2y ago
The money in this case is capital gains, which is fundamentally not "earned" income, it's income obtained by just having money.
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by _uhtu 2y ago
The Humane AI pin says hello and that the almonds in your hand have 16000 calories.
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by _uhtu 2y ago
Money market funds and short term t-bills are basically always liquid at face value, unlike longer term bonds. They fall below investment value maybe once per 50 years and that usually lasts a couple days.
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by _uhtu 2y ago
This comment is shockingly misguided. The IRS doesn't have the authority to mandate the creation of a secure national ID system and enforce it's use by the financial system. Only congress has the ability to really do that. The IRS
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by _uhtu 2y ago
One thing not mentioned in the article: People may be wondering how this book became so popular, basically it's because it became intimately tied to the MLM movement, Amway specifically but it did spread beyond that. People at the top
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by _uhtu 2y ago
There is no real prospect of a "Yellowstone event": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypn3Fe_PLts We could effectively geoengineer one by pumping things into the upper atmosphere ourselves, but there's a lot of
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by _uhtu 2y ago
This is just one of the thousands of cases of a journalists fawning over any ML/AI thing with no understanding of the garbage-in garbage-out problem, and all the other issues with ML. You are completely right, attempting to simulate an
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by _uhtu 2y ago
This. It's really weird the way we suddenly live in a world where it's the norm to take whatever a tech company says about future products at face value. This is the same world where Tesla promised "zero intervention LA to NY
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by _uhtu 2y ago
Yellowstone will not explode and end civilization (or American civilization for that matter) in many many lifetimes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypn3Fe_PLts
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by _uhtu 2y ago
Until someone spams them with garbage, or uses it to deliberately screw with certain people, and the system starts requiring more people to sift through the garbage than it needed without it.
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by _uhtu 2y ago
Except the COVID vaccines passed clinical trials with flying colors. I believe not a single person from any of the Pfizer or Moderna trials died of COVID (people with the vaccine did, later, die of COVID, but at much, much, MUCH, lower rate
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by _uhtu 2y ago
> We've realized for some time that... language model technologies going to dominate our future Citation Needed.
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by _uhtu 2y ago
I'm my experience it's the exact opposite and they lay off ICs and leave the managers largely in place, making it worse.
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by _uhtu 3y ago
Exactly this. People act like it's a "big government takeover" trying to make multi-family housing against peoples wishes. The real fact is it's the exact opposite. "Big government" policies were created forcin
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by _uhtu 3y ago
You could argue things like the Russian invasion of Ukraine was one. Pointless war that will only hurt Russia long term. Same goes for authoritarian takeovers in general which often lead to trade sanctions. It is probably the first time a c
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by _uhtu 3y ago
Because this is not an easy crime to catch or punish, these cars are so easy to steal a layman can do it in minutes without making much noise, take it to a chop shop, and be off with some money in no time. Getting better at identifying and
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by _uhtu 3y ago
Kissinger's death was where I really started detaching myself from news media entirely. It was extremely hard to find an article or video that didn't say the exact same thing in almost identical wording: "was kissinger a war
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by _uhtu 3y ago
> Could it be that it’s not about productivity or even “culture”, but actually all about control and/or trying to justify the org’s office space costs? It's 100% about this. I know several people who were forced back to work af
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by _uhtu 3y ago
There are a lot of hackernewsers frothing at the mouth for layoffs, so excited that all the engineers they don't think are good are gonna get laid off. This right here is the thing they don't understand: companies are typically in
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by _uhtu 3y ago
Most of those are consequences of it being illegal. Similar to how legalizing marijuana has drastically cut down on the illegal trade for it in the states where it's legal, you've actually just made a great argument for legalizing
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by _uhtu 3y ago
What externalities does conesual sex involve? Are these couples spewing CO2?
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by _uhtu 3y ago
This is a very bad take in multiple ways. Firstly, problems in the professional workplace need to be discussed too. And that's not just for the benefit of the "professional class" if these people work more efficiently at home
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by _uhtu 3y ago
I'd be willing to say this is causation. Wikipedia is one of the few places on the Internet where there isn't an a absolutely desperate end goal to keep people staring at it all day and all night to make 0.006 cents on ad revenue.
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by _uhtu 3y ago
The book that much of this is based on, On The Clock, is very good and I'd recommend it.
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by _uhtu 3y ago
No one wants to ride the bus because the entire public transport budget is slashed to go to more roads, bigger roads, all of which is doing nothing to help traffic and making climate change worse?
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by _uhtu 3y ago
I mean it sounds like you're agreeing with me in a complicated way, the trust fund is still money owed to the public so it should be counted when we talk about the debt. Yes?
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by _uhtu 3y ago
If that's the case, then that's my point made exactly, it's public debt as much as any other.
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by _uhtu 3y ago
I don't like just treating trust fund debt as if it doesn't exist. It's not so much that the government owes itself that money, it owes the American people that money via Social Security. So it's as much a public debt as

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