votepaunchy

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by votepaunchy 4mo ago
It’s 15.3% counting both sides, and capped. And it’s the only “tax” that is paid back, at progressive rates, because it’s a retirement annuity not an income tax.
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by votepaunchy 5mo ago
Then treat college debt like any other loan instead of subsidies backstopped with government bailouts.
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by votepaunchy 5mo ago
Circular reasoning. The current war is only because Iran was building a “functional nuclear weapon”.
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by votepaunchy 6mo ago
What is the game? Who has been losing from buying broad-market index funds? Even if the market falls from recent highs all but the most recent investors will be ahead.
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by votepaunchy 6mo ago
Same experience with the recent quota change on Google AI Pro. People have asked for yearly plans but given the vague and ever shifting limits it would be crazy to commit long-term.
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by votepaunchy 6mo ago
Why wouldn’t your weekly usage “tick up”? And it’s only the additional five-hour usage that doesn’t count against the weekly quota, it’s not that off-peak usage only counts half.
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by votepaunchy 6mo ago
The MIT License exists because in the US you cannot make a work public domain. AI works being public domain is effectively equivalent.
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by votepaunchy 7mo ago
> that’s supposed to be the job of the government by creating policy, regulations and installing watchdogs to monitor things But that government cannot trust the other government on the other side of the world to implement the same restr
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by votepaunchy 7mo ago
“the freedom to consume the service I am paying for however I see fit” sure sounds like complete freedom.
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by votepaunchy 7mo ago
Gemini flash tells me to drive: “Unless you have a very long hose or you've invented a way to teleport the dirt off the chassis, you should probably drive. Taking the car ensures it actually gets cleaned, and you won't have to car
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by votepaunchy 7mo ago
If by “learned” you mean Ukraine and soon Taiwan, then yes.
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by votepaunchy 8mo ago
Or the wealthy are pulling up the average and most of the rest are not “growing the economy” with increased productivity.
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by votepaunchy 8mo ago
The iPhone 16 was released 16 months ago, not “nearly” 24 months.
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by votepaunchy 8mo ago
> My optimism is at best minimized because very few countries that were "liberated" are thriving vs most that remain in chaos or deadlocked into stagnation. Which countries that are thriving do you think were not “liberated”? T
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by votepaunchy 8mo ago
Britain distinctly claims part ownership of a foreign county, which had complicated trade with said country and its trade union.
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by votepaunchy 9mo ago
And a lot more expensive per book than buying, digitizing, and destroying the physical copy. Which was ruled legal.
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by votepaunchy 9mo ago
South Korea. And Eastern Europe in the 80s.
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by votepaunchy 9mo ago
You are asking to severely damage the economy of the country providing your defense umbrella, when your continent is mired in a 3+ year land war.
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by votepaunchy 9mo ago
You would just … leave them?
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by votepaunchy 10mo ago
The question under consideration is whether we should be compelled under threat of violence to fund this speech.
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by votepaunchy 10mo ago
> So it's just a lot of hot air, simply because it is not the government that is restricting our right to compute. But the device makers, and software developers. No, it is only the government which can restrict these rights through
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by votepaunchy 11mo ago
> They had no problem carving out an exception to the filibuster rule when pushing through district court judges and later Supreme Court justices without Democrat support Democrats removed the filibuster on district and appellate court j
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by votepaunchy 11mo ago
> embrace and profit massively off of next gen energy infrastructure Our children’s generation will never forgive us for abandoning nuclear energy abundance. Truly a crime against humanity.
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by votepaunchy 11mo ago
Your terms are acceptable.
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by votepaunchy 11mo ago
Warrant canaries depend on action, the removal or altering of the canary document. It’s too clever but no more clever than what Israel is requiring here.
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by votepaunchy 11mo ago
Isn’t the problem that Trump is now doing what he promised? He campaigned on tariffs and deportations (and a decade ago, building a White House ballroom).
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by votepaunchy 11mo ago
Note that the courts have split on the deployment of national guard troops so the issue is destined for the Supreme Court.
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by votepaunchy 11mo ago
What if the second- and third-order effects of this modern activism have resulted in the Trump presidency? Is that better or worse than what Theil has built?
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by votepaunchy 11mo ago
It’s highly unlikely there are 500,000,000 people living in America. The debt is $110,000+ per American and $327,000+ per taxpayer. https://www.usdebtclock.org/
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by votepaunchy 11mo ago
> half the price of S3 No one other than hobbyists is paying full price on AWS.

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