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I hope everyone that reads this can understand why it's a ridiculous argument.

Are you:

A) a troll

B) truly unable to tell the difference

"You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial," Trump said, referring to Khashoggi. "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen, but he knew nothing about it. And would you leave it at that? You don't have to embarrass our guest by asking a question."

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-5612504/trump-saudi-ara...

That's a lot of word soup with no connective tissue or logical throughline.

Prop 13 is one of the worst pieces of legislation ever passed. Want to prevent the elderly from being forced to sell their homes over increasing property tax burdens? How about... don't kick them out of their homes because of unpaid property taxes.

Just keep the tally, and then when the house changes hands, mandate that the back taxes get paid out of the sale.

Yeah man totally with you. We should outlaw gay marriage too. It's only been around for like 15 years.

Their HN account is even newer

Your plan is to vote third party but it has zero to say about First-Past-the-Post voting, and so it is obviously completely useless and naive.

> They knew that if they didn't play ball Trump would use government power against them.

And that friends, is capital-F Fascism.

> What part of "lowercase p" was unclear?

The whole thing. I spend way too much time in the politics/political-philosophy rabbit hole, and it still whooshed right by me. I bet you got like a 2% hit rate on people understanding what you meant.

What on earth are you talking about? Trump invaded multiple American cities. He created an $85 billion federal goon force. He's kidnapped or killed TWO DIFFERENT heads of state. He's destroyed our trade relationships. He's taken inflation from frustrating to existential. He's bulldozing national parks. He's started a brand spanking new forever war. He's utterly corrupted the Supreme Court. He's multiplied the national deficit and debt. He's cut taxes for only the richest. He let Elon tear our institutions to shreds, costing infinitely more money than he "saved" in the process. Our entire federal science and research apparatus is gone. Effing measles is back and killing people. Screw worm is back. Air traffic is falling apart. Trump and his family have made tens of billions.

It is going to take literal decades, if it is even possible at all, to repair the damage Trump has done in 18 months.

> So he will anoint a weakling and the base will fracture.

Prediction: he will never anoint anyone. He is pathologically incapable of stepping aside, sharing, or caring one iota of what happens to anyone after he dies. He may not even be capable of conceptualizing his own mortality.

I fucking hate living in interesting times.

They also didn't say whether or not they like electric lightbulbs. Or hot showers. Or clothes. Or the wheel.

Your simplification itself is compressing away the meaningful point, and then you're confused about your own over-simplification.

Stripe is not a "credit card processor", and that's not the point of OP's comment. The point is that being the intermediary between merchants and processors is the valuable expertise in terms of an OpenRouter acquisition.

It's been a few years, but I used to work on almost exactly this (not at Stripe, but we processed hundreds of billions annually). If you're a big enough merchant (or Stripe itself), you can choose to send a credit card transaction to any one of potentially many processors, each of which have their own performance characteristics (one may approve at a higher rate, the other may charge better fees, etc). All of this subject to attributes of the transaction itself (ticket size, geography, card type, many others). You know quite a bit about the transaction itself before you send it out, so you can build up routing knowledge to optimize for whatever thing you care about (usually transaction success rates or fees).

See how this starts to look a lot like OpenRouter with money instead of tokens? I'm not sure I 100% believe that's how it'll shake out, but there is a transferable skillset.

You're missing the trees for the forest. The Industrial Revolution was terrible for the people who were working during it. Their jobs got eliminated and they only sorta sometimes were able to retrain for the new jobs, and the working conditions in those new jobs were atrocious, exactly because they were new enough that we didn't yet have safety regulations for them.

It was only their children who eventually saw any improvement in working/living conditions, and it was only because of all the absolutely awful things that happened to their parents. Safety regulations are written in blood. It only looks like consistent improvement if you zoom out to a level that obscures intra-generation experiences. At the level of the actual human beings subjected to the turbulence, it was awful.

> Mickey Mouse is not handing you over a legal agreement with guarantees on the ingredients of the candy

yes he absolutely is. that's literally the law.

"It seems more likely..." "It might not happen that way..." "someone does need to check..." "seems entirely possible..." "I'd want more like 5 years to be confident..."

Lot of different ways to say you don't know anything at all. This isn't a new market. This isn't the first time laws have changed in this way. This isn't the first time they've had this effect. We already know all of this. You're just waffling and enjoying the sound of your own voice.

Small governments don't deploy thousands of military troops into their own cities.

> Whether or not the SovCit practitioners understand that's what's happening is anyone's guess.

Probably more of them don't understand. I am very unfortunate to have one in my extended family, and they have fully lost their grip on reality and basic cause-and-effect. They skate by most of the time, which reinforces their beliefs, and then once the pile gets large enough, the whole thing collapses on them, and then cycle starts over.

You tax the everloving hell out of the rich, so they can't just buy whatever policy or judiciary outcome they want or build mega "just in case, i promise uwu" bunkers.

Now you compare the all-in cost of living across salary, taxes, housing, healthcare, and everything else.

The intuition is that they are not truly independent statistical events. Each trial reveals more information about the underlying "quality" of the resume (for passing this trial, not necessarily real world "quality" of the candidate). We are not rolling dice where each toss is fundamentally unrelated to prior tosses.

> But I doubt the impacts of rent control would appear in the market this quickly, it'd take years for the market signals to be measurable.

Hard disagree. Rational investors have no problem whatsoever projecting the impact to future cash flows and adjusting the amount they're willing to pay now. That's like saying the stock market wouldn't respond quickly to changes in next year's tax law.

Yet another moment where Strangers in Their Own Land[0] is prescient.

From an interview[1] given by the author: "I think the next most important reason they distrusted the federal government is their experience with protective agencies in the state of Louisiana, and they thought, “Gosh, these are a lot of people we pay taxes to but they don't really protect us.” And they’re right, because Louisiana is an oil state - that was a big discovery for me - and it outsources, in a way, the moral dirty work to the state. So, the state actually pretends to protect the citizenry from hazardous waste and pollution of air and water and ground, but it doesn't actually protect it very much. It gives out permits, as one Tea Party person said "like candy." And so, they felt the federal government is just a bigger, badder version of a state government which isn't protecting us. So, they'd had bad experience. They’d been burned, and I think that's the second kind of source of resistance to the government. But the third is that they saw the government as an instrument of what I'll call “the line cutters.”"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangers_in_Their_Own_Land [1] https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=18-P13-000...

This has been the historical cycle for as long as we have records of human history. Power begets power and greed. Eventually either everyone else reaches a breaking point and "eat the rich", or an external group takes advantage and eats everyone. Then we try again.

This is the laziest, most egregious "WeLl AkShUaLlY!!!" comment I've seen in a little while. Like, really embarrassing.

> According to the regulator for Ontario doctors, Jamal initially tried to place all the blame on her innocent research associate, almost ruining her career. She then tried to discredit her colleagues, claiming they had ulterior motives for questioning her results.

> When that didn’t work, they found Jamal tried to cover up her fraud: She illegally accessed patient records to destroy and change files, disposed of an old computer so investigators couldn’t examine it and even went into the Canadian Blood Services facility and changed freezer temperatures to damage blood and urine samples to mask her deception.

> And in March 2018, after admitting her misconduct before a disciplinary committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Jamal was stripped of her medical license.

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mandel-despite-commit...

Periscope was in closed beta when Meerkat launched. Neither was a clone of the other. Just two teams with the same idea at the same time.

This is exactly the main lesson of Finite and Infinite Games. There are finite games, in which the goal is to win, and there are infinite games, in which the goal is to continue playing the game. Using this framing, one can account for quite a large amount of long-term, large-scale problems as breakdowns wherein some participants choose to play formerly infinite games as finite ones, thus crushing their competition but destroying the game itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_and_Infinite_Games

A picture is worth a thousand words.