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lol burnnnn

Nobody is suggesting that Facebook magically tricked people into voting against their will.

Other Internet providers at least have true boards of directors, shareholders with decision power, etc. One person doesn’t have the power to snap their fingers and make decisions based on how much ketamine they’re on at the time.

Absolutely. One note though - it wasn’t just the raised tax, it was that he very explicitly promised to not raise taxes. Maybe doesn’t get elected without that promise but I really don’t know enough about politics before Clinton/Newt Gingrich.

This ignores history. We did raise taxes in the 90s and were paying off our debt. Bush senior made the big boy decision and it left us in amazing shape. Clinton handed over a government to W that was paying off debts and had surplus from 1998-2001.

Providing instruction and context doesn’t seem like a “workaround”.

That's a convenient wave of the hand, isn't it? "Oh it will eventually break" is just entropy, and can be applied to anything.

My feed is no longer related to my interests and I don’t know how to get it back on track. That and losing the confidence that the blue check posting is actually someone relevant. Really kills the enjoyment for me.

Yes! Can you make a plug-in that reads articles and replaces headlines with the story lead (aka what the headline would have been 30 years ago)?

“ without the limitations of…bias”

Human writers also have a hard time recognizing and acknowledging their own bias, so I guess this is pretty spot on.

I’ll give that a shot; - AI learns what’s on the site - Visitors stop coming to the site, because the information is now freely available in parsed/summarized form from the AI - Blogger stops posting because there are no visitors - AI stops learning because there is no new content

It’s newsworthy! The current story being told in tech is that we can lay off significant parts of the workforce with no impact. Following this, the resulting failures are generally hidden or otherwise non-obvious.

Re: bestbuy “showrooming” issues, I think they actually figured out how to make it a value driver for them, whereas it killed others. It’s a great place to look at products, and they price match so you can walk out the door with the product instead of waiting.

If sometime in your thread identifies the typo/minor issue and you edit, then it is common courtesy to call out the edit.

Just want to call out - Pre-Colombian North America had a population around 60 million.

It functions like income when they treat it like an average person treats their income. Spending on their home, their car, travel, etc. They’re using the loan to avoid taking income or realizing gains.

But yeah, I would be down for a more sensible sales tax situation. I’m sure there are a hundred ways to skin this cat.

Edit: ways

A mortgage is not a personal loan.

It certainly seems to have elicited emotions from some readers.

One solution- if someone is taking out personal loans that function like income, let’s tax it like income. If someone really wants to live on 80k a year, that’s fine. But if they’re reporting 80k income but spending 10M, maybe they should be paying their fair share on that.

Edit- this has the benefit of completely avoiding the issue of unrealized gains and sticks to the issue of income...

I am confused. They were clearly discussing unrealized gains as wealth throughout the article. What am I missing here?

> If you go out to the middle of nowhere, you can get huge, and amazing, homes for less that $100k (because no one wants to live there).

Median home prices in flyover country start at $100K (West Virginia) and max out around $300K (Colorado, Nevada, etc.). "Huge and amazing" is probably 3x that.

> Acid rain was mitigated via extensive, global efforts to regulate the pollution emissions that caused it.

Excellent point. Big problems are solvable with the right level of effort.

The publication of this article seems to suggest that legitimate criticism and questions are in fact quite welcome.