merth

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by merth 9mo ago
Not necessarily. Basic food is zero-rated for VAT, and if you qualify you can get council tax reduction. For example, I get a 25% council tax discount. If you're unemployed with no income, you may genuinely pay very little direct tax,
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by merth 10mo ago
article says broke for temporary, these people poor 10-20 years. that doesnt sounds like temporary. they get government or familiy support, and rarely work short term here and there.
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by merth 10mo ago
> You need to cross a threshold of (income/purchasing power) to be able to start building things that matter. It's extremely difficult these days because the denominator there is almost zero. I agree, but you should do both I t
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by merth 10mo ago
I have poor friends, they spend more on Netflix, Gym, Starbucks, IPhones, steam games etc then me, and they are poor for atleast last 10-20 years. I almost never have any of these and I have given them that classic suggestions like the canc
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by merth 11mo ago
put some prerendered videos, few of the good ones.
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by merth 11mo ago
We invent machines to free ourselves from labour, yet we’ve built an economy where freedom from labour means losing your livelihood.
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by merth 1y ago
Because of these "digital footprint checks" now nobody can truly say what they want online. Either you have to put on a fake persona or just go completely silent. It’s self-censorship in disguise. Dead Internet Theory confirmed.
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by merth 1y ago
I didnt read the article but how you do is, you should create new column without deleting the old one, and your code should be updated to use the new column, once you phase out the old version of the code, you backfill data from old column
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by merth 1y ago
i'm not the person you replied but if wages lag furhter, how rents going up? it should go down since there is noone to be able to pay higher rents. they have no choice but either convince homeowner or downgrade. and Group A(rich + uppe
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by merth 1y ago
> net benefit for humanity Some people might argue that wealth concentrated in the top 1% is a net benefit if you look at it as one big pool of resources. But will the remaining 99% actually see any of that benefit? Or will the 1% simply
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by merth 1y ago
They do not need to service debt using taxable income, they can roll it over indefinitely or until death, at which point the tax obligation disappears due to the stepped-up basis (capital gains reset on death)
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by merth 1y ago
I think because they don't get any dividend to trigger income tax, instead they get a loan against their shares and spend that and roll over the debt to infinity.
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by merth 1y ago
Investors pouring money, its probably impossible to go out of business, at least for the big ones, until investors realise this is wrong hill to die on.
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by merth 3y ago
there are AI summary plugins that summarize youtube videos for you. instead of watching 1 hour video, you can get the summary in 15 seconds. this one I use but there are plenty of others as well https://chromewebstore.google.com&
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by merth 3y ago
air conditioned trains are an achivement in 2023?
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by merth 3y ago
RIP birds, otherwise enemy will just lunch bird-like drones
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by merth 3y ago
obviously It wont help from that moment you evicted but if you dont have emergency funds to cover your next 12 months, I would downsize on life style, even go vanlife to save up to secure short term feature atleast.
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by merth 3y ago
install "ublock origin" and enable "annoyances" from settings.
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by merth 3y ago
will lower taxes and interest rates. Right? (MEME)
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by merth 3y ago
what if a user copied a line from AP on a reddit comment and some LLM trained on it.
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by merth 3y ago
probably nobody felt Salomon Brothers impacted their life but he changed your life more than Michael Jordan, the iPod and YouTube put together. -Big Short
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by merth 3y ago
I believe romans solved that problem a while back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_roads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Streets_of_Pompeii_(1...
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by merth 3y ago
anybody could be part of the system knowingly or unknowingly. so the best is to always stay anon and trust nobody. all of the system should be designed bullet proof anonymity just like apple does, even if apple wants to can't read mess
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by merth 3y ago
or they don't trust the system and want to stay anon to exercise their free speach
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by merth 3y ago
emotional brainwashing(entertaintment, fear etc) people to buy stuff that they don't need. taking advantage of people's weakness. it's not like "this is our product, this is what it does, and this is the price of it&quot
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by merth 3y ago
jumpy?
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by merth 3y ago
why I feel like this would put pressure on one side of cylinder block due to non-linear force against bottom wave-plate and cause wear and tear?
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by merth 3y ago
well, alternative they will just create non-existing actors with generative AI. my guess in 50 years, almost everything will be extremely cheap including human labour. except land maybe?
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by merth 3y ago
how is that information is useful even if it's true. it's not like you can walk away.
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by merth 3y ago
wouldn't you recover the energy back while landing in same sense with car breaks that recharges the battery

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