cherrycherry98

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by cherrycherry98 2mo ago
Not sure why the snarky response, obviously most people have very little direct influence over these things. So you oppose green tax policy on the grounds that it isn't punitive enough against rich people? A rich person living a miserl
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by cherrycherry98 2mo ago
If you want less of something, tax it. Support consumption based taxes like the FairTax in the US which would tax new goods at a high rate while used goods would be tax free. This encourages keeping items for longer, repairing rather than r
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by cherrycherry98 5mo ago
Western European nations have gotten a pass in recent history because they've been deferential to the US, are liberal democracies (ideologically aligned), and are not especially rich in strategic assets like oil. The same could be sai
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by cherrycherry98 6mo ago
Anecdotally, the person on my team who is producing the most output and the highest quality happens to explicitly shun LLMs and is also relatively young. Other team members embracing AI spend their day being misled by chat bots, trying to
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by cherrycherry98 7mo ago
Libertarian principles encourage relationships built on mutual consenting parties rather than coercion. This implies that both parties have the freedom to choose. Imagine being stuck with a small dating pool of undesirable partners, the cho
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by cherrycherry98 7mo ago
The shortcut is fine if it's a bog standard canonical arrangement of the piece. If it's a custom jazz rendition you composed with an odd key changes and and shifting time signatures, taking that shortcut is not going to yield the
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by cherrycherry98 8mo ago
I also like the idea of sales taxes over income and especially wealth taxes for a number of reasons. 1. It limits the opportunities for the government to use force on the general population. Today, if you do not file your annual taxes, men
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by cherrycherry98 9mo ago
They brought it back this year as Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+. Same vibe, the animation is more polished but still simplistic.
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by cherrycherry98 9mo ago
If you care about minimizing child mortality, increasing literacy, pulling people up out of poverty, you should be a capitalist, as it's empirically the best way to meet those goals. This seems to be a hard thing for many to understand
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by cherrycherry98 10mo ago
Nothing the government provides is free. It's paid for with taxes that are forcefully collected and would have been spent or invested privately otherwise. I'm not someone who's against taxes but it's a myth and propagan
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by cherrycherry98 10mo ago
Netscape 6, which was released in 2000 and based on the Mozilla Suite (now SeaMonkey) recommended 64MB of RAM. The Mozilla Suite was the basis of the Phoenix project (later renamed to Firefox) and they shared the same technological underpin
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by cherrycherry98 10mo ago
How I yearn for when their marketing had everyday people touting how "Windows 7 was my idea!" Every Windows release since then has felt like they are hostile to user input.
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by cherrycherry98 11mo ago
Thank you for that. I agree, the data does indeed show that Republicans have more voting power per capita, as they have advantages in the bottom 3 quintiles. However, I don't think the correlation of population to party (at the state l
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by cherrycherry98 11mo ago
Counting the two Independents as Democrats, who they caucus with: Top 25 states: 2 Democrats - 52% 2 Republicans - 40% Split - 8% Bottom 25 states: 2 Democrats - 36% 2 Republicans - 60% Split - 4% Top quintile: 2 Democrats - 50% 2 Republic
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by cherrycherry98 11mo ago
It's privately funded so it doesn't fit under "waste, fraud, and abuse" in the same vein as things that use taxpayer money. Conflict of interest by attempting to curry favor for his vanity project by making donations? Th
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by cherrycherry98 1y ago
I've seen it where a project needs to get done but the company can't hire anyone for it due to firm wide hiring freezes. So in come the consultants to bang out a sloppy version 1. In the meantime you wait it out until you can hire
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by cherrycherry98 1y ago
Morgan Stanley was a heavy user of AFS for deploying software and might still be for all I know. "Most Production Applications run from AFS" "Most UNIX hosts are dataless AFS clients" https://web.archive.org&#
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by cherrycherry98 1y ago
I know some large financial institutions that still use it. They were building big systems using the stuff in the 90s and early 00s. It still works and nobody has the appetite to rewrite it as it's a massive undertaking that would be v
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by cherrycherry98 1y ago
Nice case! I actually do the same thing, PC lives on the floor next to my desk. I definitely rejected cases that had didn't have the buttons and front I/O on top for that reason.
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by cherrycherry98 1y ago
Most people probably never upgrade their machines at all. In my case I used the same PC from 2009 until about a month ago. Over its 16 year lifespan it saw 3 GPUs, the memory was doubled from 6GB to 12GB, a Wifi card was added (and then got
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by cherrycherry98 1y ago
> He pays less next year because Oracle stock is worth less. Just like property taxes on people's houses. Does he get a refund if he loses money or is it just tax if you win, tax if you lose, tax if it doesn't move? I'll g
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by cherrycherry98 1y ago
Yeah it functions like a wealth tax, but the claim was that it was a capital gains tax, which it isn't.
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by cherrycherry98 1y ago
Capital gains receive favorable treatment under US tax code but are also a realized gain by definition. That is you actually have to sell the asset and are taxed based on any profit earned. An increase in the estimates value of your real es
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by cherrycherry98 1y ago
His net worth increased due to asset appreciation. Nobody physically transferred him any money and it can fall back down tomorrow. Should he get a refund if Oracle stock tanks?
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by cherrycherry98 1y ago
Proto2 let you do this and the "required" keyword was removed because of the problems it introduces when evolving the schema in a system with many users that you don't necessarily control. Let's say you want to add a new
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by cherrycherry98 1y ago
Tim Sweeney of Epic is up there for me too.
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by cherrycherry98 1y ago
Agreed, as an OO scripting language it's lovely, especially compared to Perl where the OO features never meshed quite right. Going back 10 years ago it had a number of things that were novel compared to other languages: literals for co
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by cherrycherry98 1y ago
See the 2024+ Dodge Charger Daytona.
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by cherrycherry98 1y ago
I recently built a new PC and faced the dilemma of paying Microsoft for their experience or rolling the dice with Linux (nothing to lose). I've been running Kubuntu and while not perfect it certainly works well enough. The sad part is
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by cherrycherry98 1y ago
Unless you're a big city you probably only have one library. At least by me municipalities have occasionally built new, bigger libraries and/or put additions onto existing ones in the last 30 years. The number of libraries would r

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