danny_codes

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by danny_codes 3d ago
OFC, YC is in the business of making money and simply doesn’t care or consider ethics whatsoever. They just don’t care. But this is pretty standard for this class of people. To get super rich you have to fuck people over, there’s simply no
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by danny_codes 3d ago
Isn’t that exactly the problem pointed out on the article? In an attempt to make driving more affordable, the state causes the victims of drivers to pay for their own victimization. Par the course for a CA law but still. As a side n ote,cur
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by danny_codes 7d ago
I disagree, it’s about computers. The risk is that we lose control. This has been a staple of SciFi since forever. This guy has apparently seen enough that he thinks that’s a viable threat
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by danny_codes 12d ago
Rich people have more capacity to do harm. For example that dude Luigi killed was a mass murderer, he killed 1000s, maybe 10,000s of people. So it’s hard for a poor criminal to compete
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by danny_codes 14d ago
Why don’t your customers find you? Assuming you have what they want. I suppose depends how broadly “ad” is taken to be. Is a webpage an ad? Presumably no if it’s your landing page. OP is presumably talking about invasive ads that try to tak
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by danny_codes 24d ago
> Risking burning your bridges with YC Why would violating TOS for a single company matter to YC? That kind if initiative is highly valued at YC. The more rules you break the better!
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by danny_codes 26d ago
Piketty's proposal is a wealth tax. That's the subject of my previous post. I agree income taxes are progressive. Tt's just that very wealthy people don't pay them by virtue of not having any taxable income (they of cour
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by danny_codes 26d ago
Regulatory capture is always an option, true. Certainly seems to be the favored direction of the current administration.
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by danny_codes 26d ago
And who is lobbying the government to keep it that way? Probably Amazon let's be real here
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by danny_codes 27d ago
We let the university model degrade, and now this author is pontificating about how the university model isn't working. Yes. Because we let it degrade.
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by danny_codes 1mo ago
Does collusion require privacy? You can collude in public if you want.
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by danny_codes 1mo ago
I mean I'm talking about a specific policy proposal, for which people have done the analysis. Piketty has several books on the subject you can read. The tax structure is simply designed to make taxes progressive for all income groups,
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by danny_codes 1mo ago
Or reform your legal system? I mean it's clearly not working very well, time for a change.
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by danny_codes 1mo ago
Bro is delusional. The only reason there aren't 45 LLM competitors is compute costs. Once costs fall the tech will commoditize. It is interesting that a role like "Head of Strategic Futures" both exists and attracts insane pe
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by danny_codes 1mo ago
Or rather, unsurprising response. Obviously everyone is going to cheer when what's his face gets killed. I mean how many 100,000s of people can your company murder before you get off'd by one of the survivors.
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by danny_codes 1mo ago
> In most rich countries, the % of income people pay already goes up with income. Right. But rich people don't have income, so they don't pay any taxes. Our tax code is not progressive at the top. It is progressive for income
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by danny_codes 1mo ago
Piketty's tax goes into effect only for wealth greater than a certain amount. The goal is to target people who are paying insufficient income tax, because they are so wealthy they can avoid having taxable income. So we'd start the
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by danny_codes 1mo ago
I mean that's the entire point of structuring your taxes so they are unavoidable. Piketty's proposal of a 2% wealth tax floor on wealth over $100M is a great way to solve that problem. I'm not sure why thousands of middle cla
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by danny_codes 1mo ago
Nobody knows what the Laffer curve is. Maybe we should be raising taxes. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make
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by danny_codes 1mo ago
I don't know if you remember, but Elon recently spent over $200M getting his chosen guy elected. He then went on to waste over $100B tax dollars trying to "cut fraud", retiring in disgrace after achieving nothign. The impact
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by danny_codes 1mo ago
Regulatory capture by business interests seems like something you'd solve via government, ironically.
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by danny_codes 1mo ago
Nobody is suggesting that raising the effective tax rate for the richest people will magically fix all our problems. However, we are saying that making the tax code progressive is better than what we're doing now. I think we can all ag
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by danny_codes 1mo ago
Piketty's 2% tax floor on wealth (for those with over $10M/$100M in wealth) is an excellent way to fix this. Basically the idea is to just accept the fact that the super wealthy will find the loopholes, so instead remove the looph
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by danny_codes 1mo ago
Just look at growth rates before Reagan/Thatcher in the US/UK and after. If you take the 30 years before and the 30 years after, you'll see growth actually decreased. Obviously this is correlation, but it's somewhat damn
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by danny_codes 1mo ago
I'm reading Piketty's book now and it's not isolated to the US. Once you hit a certain wealth in most OECD countries, you just stop paying taxes. All that is required is to not take any income, which is easily done. So the to
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by danny_codes 1mo ago
Well if we did that we'd only save 40,000 lives and ~$1T in transit costs a year. Such savings and improvements in quality of life are unthinkable in the US! \s
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by danny_codes 2mo ago
Are you including corporate spending and government spending, or just private spending? Because private spending for the 1% is largely irrelevant in this context.
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by danny_codes 2mo ago
It seems unlikely there will be a billion Americans. Population growth is 0.3% and will likely decline further as native FTR declines.
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by danny_codes 2mo ago
Who cares? Distillation is in the same class of theft as Anthropic stealing their data in the first place. By all means, Anthropic can try to prevent distillation. It'll be like holding back a storm surge with a single bag of sand. At
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by danny_codes 2mo ago
I suspect FOSS will converge/create a best-in-class harness within the next 6 months or so. As will most (all?) software, the FOSS stuff somehow always ends up being way better than the closed source stuff.

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