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by qqqwerty 1y ago
Trump is being pulled in too many different directions to the point where nothing coherent is going to emerge from his strategies (or lack of). You can't promise Wall Street/Corporate America the moon and keep the economy running
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by qqqwerty 1y ago
Because how could the Democrats be certain that the Republicans wouldn't just use the same accounting trick again the next time that they wanted to pass tax cuts via reconciliation (which would effectively let them double count the &qu
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by qqqwerty 1y ago
Perhaps OP can clarify, because I too read that as a snarky dig. Perhaps that wasn't their intention, but it felt off. The only place I saw a "subtle suggestion" for a donation was by clicking the "Support" link all
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
We are at the tail end of a 50 year bull run powered by declining interest rates. Maybe ZIRP is the new normal and private industry R&D investment stays high, but I don't think we should gamble our status as an economic, scientific
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
> Is that not what we have already. Do you really think your vote matters? At least in the current setup, they are required to maintain and fund a vast propaganda apparatus, lobbying efforts, and political organizations in order to secur
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
> I’m all for fairness. For example I think we should weight votes, where everyone gets one vote for each dollar of taxes they pay. You are joking right? Honest, question, what life experiences have you had that make you think that this
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
These organizations consist of political appointees and civil servants. It is customary to replace all of the political appointees. Civil servants however have a lot of job protections and can only be fired for a limited set of reasons. Typ
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
That is not what they did: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/ Passing laws to make it harder to vote, and easier to challenge a persons voter registration and ballot, and then running an operat
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
This is a link I stumbled on earlier today: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
And a similar rule that at least one person will defend Russia, regardless of how truthful the accusations are. And in this particular case, NK troops fighting in a land war in Europe at Russia's side is a major geopolitical shift, whe
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
Have you tried making a "todo SPA" of your own with the help of these AI tools? I think it is useful for folks to take a step back and try working on something simpler/easier as an intro to these AI tools. And then ramp up th
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
> Yes, sure, but this applies to UBI as well. It does not. THE primary difference between UBI and unemployment is that UBI does not disappear once you are unemployed. So in my hypothetical scenario above, the person would be making Y+X.
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
If UBI is revenue neutral, whether by increasing taxes or cutting other programs or some combination of both, then it would not increase inflation. You should brush up on your macroeconomics.
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
Look up welfare trap. Many benefit programs are implemented such that they go away the second you start working. This means if I am getting $X per week in welfare but I get an employment offer of $Y per week where Y<X, then I am incentiv
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
Maybe just hire a data engineer or two to start. They could potentially deal with the pain points and make life easier for your team. A lot of data engineering these days involves glueing various services together and managing the data flow
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
> but i know nothing of electrical engineering or robotics. A few words of advice from someone who has been dabbling for a decade or so, but never really managed more than some half baked prototypes and a few kit builds. You need to cons
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
I think a major feature of a UBI/NIT would be to make it entirely location independent. There are tons of areas in our country that are economically depressed, largely due to a lack of jobs. These areas typically have low cost of livin
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
I think anyone who has thought deeply about the topic recognizes that NIT is probably the only practical implementation (if you search this thread it gets mentioned a lot). There are the MMT folks that think you could finance UBI with defic
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
But in practice, the funds are going to have to come from somewhere. Most likely from taxes. So assuming it comes from income taxes, and assuming those income taxes are progressive, at some point along the income scale your UBI is cancelled
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
Negative income tax (NIT) solves this. At this point, when anyone says UBI, I just substitute NIT in my head. It is really the only practical implementation of a UBI scheme. Further, if a UBI-like program is funded with new taxes (or cuts t
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
Do we really need academic studies on this topic? When Republicans cut taxes on the rich, it is not like they are making sure they have academic consensus on their side. We know welfare works. It is pretty simple. People need to eat, they n
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
- At a macro level, if a program is "paid for" i.e. revenue neutral, it does not result in inflation (at least in aggregate). - UBI/Negative Income Tax (NIT) is not a handout to literally everyone, only the unemployed and low
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by qqqwerty 2y ago
There are plenty of good answers here. There just really isn't anything out there that is remotely close to SWE in terms of comfort, pay, and accessibility. For the last decade or so, SWE has been one of the most accessible and lucrati
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
The capitalist system keeps you poor by design. And you feed the system by purchasing the mass produced garbage. Sure, it is nice to afford stuff when poor, but we don't need to live in a society where being poor is common, or where ma
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
Bitcoin isn't replacing any of them, so it's a moot point. If someone wants to buy real estate using bitcoin they are still probably going to use a realtor (or at the very least a lawyer) and they still probably need a mortgage, t
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
A digital currency using ~844 kWh per transaction is absolutely bonkers. This is irrespective of any fees, taxes, or commissions associated with the transaction. If I buy real estate with bitcoin, all of those would still apply, but my choi
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
The PG&E rate increases have a lot more to do with wildfires than it does with supply and demand. Look at SMUD rates, super affordable. I will agree though that it has been super frustrating for these rate increases to be hitting right
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
That is bonkers if true. To put some context around that, our EV can drive around 4000 miles on that amount of energy. Meanwhile, I am not sure you could even unlock the car on 1.7Wh.
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
FWIW, severance is usually a lump sum, so it absolutely benefits the employees to wait until the new year because the severance will likely get taxed at a lower tax bracket.
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
Interesting. I am surprised this doesn't seem to be more widely known. We have an ancient gas wall heater in our living room and due to a cat with CKD, we need to keep the bedroom doors closed. We have some small electric heaters, but

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