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Of course which is why I said average. And farmers (and everyone else) would not be paying taxes on income, payroll taxes for field hands, gas taxes, import/export taxes, and so on so for many this could be a significant tax cut or a wash with what they already pay.

And inefficient land uses would be taxed out and others who would more productively use the land could take over.

But this is a pure fantasy scenario to start with because of the millions of people in the suburbs who already hate the concept of property taxes and whose land use directly would be impacted by such a tax.

If I could wave a magic wand and get the policies I want, I would abolish essentially all taxes except a Land Value Tax. At an average of $10,000 per acre and a roughly 1.4 Billion acres of private property that we could “reasonably” collect on, that is $14 Trillion in Revenue per year. Split between the Federal, State, and Local governments proportionally, leaving around ~$8 trillion for the Feds. If we could keep the Federal budget under $7 trillion, then $1 trillion per year could service the debt.

It would take nearly 40 years to pay it off at that rate. But if we save for 49, a Jubilee of Jubilee years, we could essentially wipe out all debt in this country.

Real pie in the sky fantasy stuff to think people could follow an “eat your vegetables” tax and budget plan for 40+ years and also accept what is ostensibly a massive property tax hike, the least popular tax ever.

The classic.

ELIZA could pass the Turing Test and is over 50 years older than GPT2. You are claiming we have had AGI available since before the first version of Unix came out?

.zip was especially egregious. No one should have allowed that to happen.

Wow I thought the line numbers were the number. That makes way more sense. Clearly need to slow down when I am reading.

The example output is not correct at all. I am not familiar with Smalltalk’s syntax to say the code is wrong but it looks like Fizzbuzz so why is the output wrong? Skimming back over the post I don’t see them acknowledging this either.

How in the world is that output that wrong based on the code?

I also only learned about Zero-Knowledge Proofs from links to articles, blogs, and discussions here so someone has to bring it up.

I live in rural Ohio and there is like 6? Colo places within an hour’s drive.

When I lived outside of Orlando there was like a dozen in Orlando alone.

If you look up Colo options in your area, what is lacking? These new datacenters are high density AI hypercalers. They are not traditional Colo DC’s. It’s more like a whole new AWS AZ is getting slapped down. More of the same cloud computing you’re complaining about.

I remember having to spend 3 days to get games to work on Linux and then something like sound or a texture would be completely broken still. In many cases performance would be worse. But these days?

For me at least, Elden Ring on launch day worked flawlessly, anti-cheat and all, on Linux without having to do anything other than adjust settings in the game (which I needed to do on Windows too) and it ran better to boot!

I think the major argument against MMT is that no one has the stomach to actually implement the level of taxation necessary to counteract inflation when it starts to rise too quickly. Or at least no major political party in the United States.

Everything can be sound on paper about MMT but if no one is going to practice it properly then the theory isn’t really going to work out.

As much as “eating your vegetables” in terms of government budget policy makes sense, if making people do that in practice gets you immediately voted out of office (or not even elected in the first place), then we won’t be eating our vegetables.

I feel like this fails to address my point.

In 2008 there was a subprime mortgage crisis that caused the housing market to crash. Nearly all banks who participated in this survived. There was and still is significant demand for houses, financed through mortgages.

The bubble can burst, most if not all the big players still survive 20 years later and yet significant value and capital can still be destroyed in the process.

Same for the dot com. There was demand for the internet, it couldn’t meet the expectations of the day, and yet here we are with like 100x more internet services than before all these years later. Saying the AI bubble will pop is not a prediction that all AI companies will cease to exist immediately. Amazon lost 80% of their stock price in 2000. Is Amazon bigger or smaller than they were in 2000 today?

Is the internet bigger or smaller than it was in 1998 compared to today?

Demand for internet and web services is significantly higher today than in 2000 but a bubble still popped. Heck a regular old recession or depression, completely unrelated to AI could happen next year and could collapse the industry. I mean housing is more expensive than ever nearly 20 years after collapsing in the Great Recession.

This is the sk-ed25519 kind of keys correct?

These work flawlessly with the KeepassXC ssh-agent integration. My private keys are password protected, saved securely inside my password vault, and with my ssh config setup, I just type in the hostname and tap my Yubikey.

Does the person prompting the AI work for free?

I thought there was a Mac Performa or Quadra (like 2 or 3 very specific models only) that supported both Apple DOS and ][e cards.

And I get that the Apple DOS and Apple U/X performance on this machine might not be very good. Early 90’s computers and needing to be wrangled to even support normal, supported operations and configurations wasn’t uncommon.

Whatever model Classic Mac that supported the Apple ][e expansion card, Apple DOS expansion card, and Apple Unix install (getting you System 7? 8?, DOS, original Apple, and a commercial Unix) has got to be up there at least for the novelty for me.

The FCC seems to count some level of assembly and packaging as qualifying as “Made in the US” so as long as it’s not a complete sham it should count.

Of course, getting a router SOC with firmware from the factory , soldering on the Ethernet ports and adding RAM and storage, installing an OS, throwing it in a case with a power supply into a box isn’t solving the problem of insecure foreign firmware but is meeting the “Made in US” demand.

So what counts and who gets exemptions will be telling.

Does anyone even have a list of US produced routers? Like does installing OpenWRT or OPNSense or VyOS matter?

I can’t think of a complete start to finish, OS to mosfets, computer that is 100% manufactured in the United States.

Is it possible to calculate how much free at time of use roads are? How much of the tax bill goes towards that?

If we are going to talk about how much the cost of public transportation such as trains or buses are covered by taxes it would only be fair to look at roads and personal vehicles too.

A quick search shows that it’s more like 50 tons of meteorites entering the atmosphere per day. Or over 18,000 tons per year.

If Starlink’s are about 2 tons each (the v3’s are going to be much larger) and they each have a roughly 5 year life span and the 10,000 currently are equally spread over that lifespan (so around 2,000 a year need to be replaced) that’s equivalent to around 10 tons per day of Starlink material breaking up in the atmosphere.

With the 1 million SpaceX datacenters Musk talks about and an original projected satellite Starlink swarm size of 40,000, that number balloons to something like 500 tons per day.

So while today it is only a fraction of the total amount of material breaking up in the atmosphere, the idea that multiple companies could have Starlink size satellite swarms with lifespans measured in a few years we start to easily dwarf what meteorites do.

I have over a dozen ssh keys (one for each service and duplicates for each yubikey) and other than the 1 time I setup .ssh/config it just works.

I have the setting to only send that specific host’s identity configured or else I DoS myself with this many keys trying to sign into a computer sitting next to me on my desk through ssh.

Like I can’t imagine complaining about adding 5 lines to a config file whenever you set up a new service to ssh onto. And you can effectively copy and paste 90% of those 5 short lines, just needing to edit the hostname and key file locations.

Billions. Facebook has spent billions and billions over the past decade in VR. Starting with the Oculus merger and then in 2021 with the rebrand.

10 billion a year supposedly for the past 5 years now.

I used Twitter for over a decade without an account and now you essentially are unable to do so without jumping through significant hoops.

That is how he made the website unusable. Like a billion people have Facebook/Instagram accounts but Facebook is equally unusable without an account.

No wonder RMMs don’t use Task Scheduler. Easier to just run scripts on a timer you control.

Is complaining about an unnecessary conflict that is disrupting the global economy really insufferable? I mean my coworkers constantly bitched and moaned about things Biden was doing that just seems quaint comparatively. Namely about the cost of living, gas prices, and instability in the Middle East. All things Trump has definitely made significantly worst in comparison to just doing nothing.

I am confused on the SOC2 compliance part you keep mentioning. How is it SOC2 compliant? You have completed an audit? Is that report or at least an executive summary available? Or it’s all locally hosted and shouldn’t impact my controls?

And the second part about models, if model choice doesn’t matter, what do they do? If LogClaw injests my logs, applies your custom algorithm to automatically create intelligent alerts without me having to configure anything, what does the LLM do?

If the LLMs are necessary for this, then mode choice should matter no? Some 2 year old version of Mistral or OLLAMA or NanoGPT isn’t going to perform as well as OpenAI or Claude no?

I guess if you don’t want to have to pay for Rapid7 or are too lazy to configure the Teams/Slack integration for your EDR?

But I mean you still have to pay for a Claude API with Moltclaw or whatever no?

I have lived in multiple States and the only time I did not have to show an ID to vote was in Florida in 2020.

The Apportionment Act of 1929 fixing the size of the House and by extension the Electoral College, has had massive distortionary effects on politics in this country.

The 1 seat per 50,000 from the article is a little obscene. I think switching to cube root apportionment and single at-large approval vote would be my preferred choice.

With cube root 1 billion citizens would result in a Congress with 1,000 members. A single national at-large district with party list approval voting would entirely eliminate the possibility of gerrymandering. But even multi-member State-wide districts with approval or ranked choice would still go a long way.

Of course that still leaves the Senate but at least for the House these reforms would be massive. I would eliminate the Presidency too but that’s whole other story.