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Late but here goes. This is like when Trump said that foreign countries pay tariffs. Like Byron Donalds in the article you linked, he’s just wrong. Foreign countries don’t pay tari…

From what I'm hearing, the argument you're making is that regardless of explicit policy goals, (1) and (2) implicitly further an agenda which has a similar end result to trickle-do…

My problem is not the article saying that tax cuts for the wealthy are bad. Although this moves us into normative territory, I'd actually personally agree that tax cuts for the wea…

> You know enough about it to misidentify that obvious string replacement command as an example of it. I figured the syntax was like an either-or thing, but I wasn't sure. > Saying…

My point still stands though. Taxing income and consumption directly (hopefully the income/consumption of rich people) is preferable to indirect corporate taxes. In other conversat…

My above comment helps with the distinction. If you missed it: """ I think supply-side economics deserves more nuance than simply thinking we need to make the tax rate arbitrarily …

I agree. If my sentimental promises are not enough, I don't blame you haha. But I hope my pleading is evidence enough anyways. However much this means: I really am being sincere.

It really isn't semantics. How do you compare a criticism, with a policy? Trickle-down economics doesn't have any legislative appropriations. It's not taught in economics classes. …

Yeah I think that's also very inaccurate. Supply-side theory is not about indiscriminately taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich.

Can I extend an olive branch anyways? I really believe in good faith, civil conversation, and I'd love the opportunity to make amends here. You've said you won't respond further, b…

You are right. I should be more forthright; I was answering elsewhere. Here's another comment I made that's relevant. """ I think supply-side economics deserves more nuance than si…

Sure. I think supply-side economics deserves more nuance than simply thinking we need to make the tax rate arbitrarily low. The Laffer curve isn't the only thing you should look at…

By "not real" I mean it's not a real policy. They are different in that one is a policy and the other is not.

One is a policy. The other is not a policy. I can name you differences, but it's like comparing apples and oranges.

I don't know regex, but to be clear: trickle-down economics and supply-side economics are very different things. I don't blame you for conflating them since they are intentionally …

I don't know where you're looking, but if you go to the first result for trick-down economics, the Wikipedia page, within the first few lines it mentions how the term is used, and …

The thing I don't like about this is that it treats trickle-down economics as if it's something that needs to be debunked. Trickle-down economics has never been a real economic pol…

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passion" David Hume I like this quote because it's so blunt. Hume isn't saying we should give in to hedonistic excess, but he isn'…

Another thing to consider is that LLMs have become a premier source of reading for the public. If more of what you read is AI generated, how you write is going to be significantly …

The article had a more specific definition that more closely aligned with intuition. For what it's worth though--taste, aesthetic, intuition--they really boil down to one thing: fe…

This is so very paranoid. Consider how hurtful your accusations may be. The truth is that AI generated text is getting harder to detect, and while AI writing is still very lacking,…

Why are people in this thread being so incessantly cynical? I expect more out of HN. I get that some wish Zed had other priorities, but the features being touted sound really promi…

I'm on macOS, but the core editor is far from unusable. I think it's unfair to call it that. Zed is my daily driver and I'm pretty happy with it. I often switch over to other edito…

Because git kind of sucks, in my humble opinion. We deal with it, but even with options like jj, it always feels like you're settling. Git works, and we are familiar with it, but i…

I hear you, and that's a perfectly valid reason to leave. Even if your company left for righteousness reasons rather than reliability, supporting businesses based on your morals is…