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The top 1% of people make 20.7% of the country's income. Given progressive tax rates, they should be paying a lot more than 40% of Federal income tax revenue, but rates don't scale…

It wouldn't be doing this: https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2024/Anthropic-a... It wouldn't specifically brag about doing it, while leaving out that they were specifical…

Complaints =/= Crime The subway has millions of riders in a day. One hundred and fifty complaints per precinct (which is a generous estimation) is nothing, and the NYPD is a failur…

Luckily, similar to how they made a choice for these constraints, you also chose yours. Both are artificial constraints; nobody is forced to solve problems in an esolang, and very …

It was proposed by Thom Tillis, a Republican who has previously defended Donald Trump: https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2023/3/tillis-statement-on-the...

It was proposed by a North Carolina Republican: Thom Tillis.

Lots of things are wasteful. Punishing a bad actor who is actively infringing upon your legally-enshrined rights is better than buying a sportscar with that money.

As it says in that link, the author of said link applied for a software patent after the initial GPL violations (that even in your article, he doesn't apologize for; he simply poin…

Police are gangs, though, definitionally.

Have you ever been pulled over by a cop and given a warning? Many people have. As long as there's any amount of leeway in enforcement of the law, things like courtesy cards will ex…

There's nothing sexualised about it. The person is of an ambiguous build and facing away from the camera. The article does more sexualising than the photo itself does, in the typic…

It obviously can. My first sentence was "uBO already runs on iOS." You asked if Orion was compatible with "normal desktop Firefox and Chrome extensions." There's no distinction bet…

Chrome on Android doesn't support browser extensions. Google is an advertising company. They are not incentivized to allow extensions. Extensions block their ads, and are a risk ve…

uBO already runs on iOS. Orion is compatible with Firefox and Chrome extensions. The lack of extensions in mobile browsers is a sign of Mozilla's decay, not a sign of Apple being u…

This is also something (anecdotally) common with Gen X parents. That being said, deadbeats have been a relatively common trope since the Silents or before. Is it really that surpri…

Pretty well, actually; Quest has outpaced this generation's Xbox.

Meta obviously has the money; $135B revenue, $88B in expenses, $18B in debt. Even assuming the current push toward general AI is a bubble, which is not unreasonable, the company ca…

There are other countries, ones where it's legal to do medical experimentation upon any consenting party. Unsurprisingly, they don't create significant amounts of novel drugs. Why?…

It is more than a petabit, though. A petabit is a hundred and twenty five terabytes.

> Sure. But I draw the line when people try to force their anti-American agenda on people. This doesn't happen, though; there are a lot of universities that love pro-American senti…

On the other hand, if being anti-indoctrination is the goal, it might be a good idea to turn the same lens toward universities that see an oversized volume of alumni participating …

It's not Google (Google isn't Google anymore), but if you search around for the winners of the intern competitions they hold every year, you'll find a surprising amount of intensel…

We constantly tell children Santa is real. I fear for your parents.

Much of what you actually see in Empire is written by entirely different people. > George Lucas initially hired Leigh Brackett, the sci-fi novelist who also wrote screenplays for H…