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This is a terrible argument. It implies the money is destroyed by taxation. In reality that money would go towards relieving the governments need to collect other tax revenues. So …

The money in this case is capital gains, which is fundamentally not "earned" income, it's income obtained by just having money.

The Humane AI pin says hello and that the almonds in your hand have 16000 calories.

Money market funds and short term t-bills are basically always liquid at face value, unlike longer term bonds. They fall below investment value maybe once per 50 years and that usu…

This comment is shockingly misguided. The IRS doesn't have the authority to mandate the creation of a secure national ID system and enforce it's use by the financial system. Only c…

One thing not mentioned in the article: People may be wondering how this book became so popular, basically it's because it became intimately tied to the MLM movement, Amway specifi…

There is no real prospect of a "Yellowstone event": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypn3Fe_PLts We could effectively geoengineer one by pumping things into the upper atmosphere our…

This is just one of the thousands of cases of a journalists fawning over any ML/AI thing with no understanding of the garbage-in garbage-out problem, and all the other issues with …

This. It's really weird the way we suddenly live in a world where it's the norm to take whatever a tech company says about future products at face value. This is the same world whe…

Yellowstone will not explode and end civilization (or American civilization for that matter) in many many lifetimes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypn3Fe_PLts

Until someone spams them with garbage, or uses it to deliberately screw with certain people, and the system starts requiring more people to sift through the garbage than it needed …

Except the COVID vaccines passed clinical trials with flying colors. I believe not a single person from any of the Pfizer or Moderna trials died of COVID (people with the vaccine d…

> We've realized for some time that... language model technologies going to dominate our future Citation Needed.

I'm my experience it's the exact opposite and they lay off ICs and leave the managers largely in place, making it worse.

Exactly this. People act like it's a "big government takeover" trying to make multi-family housing against peoples wishes. The real fact is it's the exact opposite. "Big government…

You could argue things like the Russian invasion of Ukraine was one. Pointless war that will only hurt Russia long term. Same goes for authoritarian takeovers in general which ofte…

Because this is not an easy crime to catch or punish, these cars are so easy to steal a layman can do it in minutes without making much noise, take it to a chop shop, and be off wi…

Kissinger's death was where I really started detaching myself from news media entirely. It was extremely hard to find an article or video that didn't say the exact same thing in al…

> Could it be that it’s not about productivity or even “culture”, but actually all about control and/or trying to justify the org’s office space costs? It's 100% about this. I know…

There are a lot of hackernewsers frothing at the mouth for layoffs, so excited that all the engineers they don't think are good are gonna get laid off. This right here is the thing…

Most of those are consequences of it being illegal. Similar to how legalizing marijuana has drastically cut down on the illegal trade for it in the states where it's legal, you've …

What externalities does conesual sex involve? Are these couples spewing CO2?

This is a very bad take in multiple ways. Firstly, problems in the professional workplace need to be discussed too. And that's not just for the benefit of the "professional class" …