someguydave

Raising taxes is really not part of the solution because increasing tax rate rates will likely not yield more tax collection. The real problem is immense spending on seniors to live a free life

But also the taxpayers and dollar holders have a right to ask for good management of their taxes and savings

yep. Just like it only takes a few prolific spammers to ruin email, it only takes a few antisocial con men to make "talking to strangers" seem like an imposition.

Debunked https://open.substack.com/pub/andymasley/p/contra-benn-jorda...

This is why democracy ultimately becomes corrupt. The voters are not willing to vote for things that might cause them short term suffering yet are good in the long term.

You mean criminals?

People who want to do nothing and have others pay for their existence are generally evil

You are acting as an evil king, deciding for yourself who is moral and immoral on the basis of vibes

No, I mean that the argument that someone is evil because of a number in their bank account is dumb, and a more likely explanation is simple envy

this post drips with envy

The real problem is that engineering is fundamentally a management position - you are making decisions that affect the bottom line. Few executives are willing to share power with engineers and so you get this toxic cycle.

Nevertheless many details can be wrought poorly!

Yep i bet they don’t want to allow these policies because of screwed up and dysfunctional “families” they would suddenly be on the hook to support

The delay is a taking

TSMC needs to get that phoenix fab churning out M5 cores pronto

dirtbag egalitarianism wins again

Orange man bad, republicans bad. Thanks for the info

I got about 7 tokens/sec generation on an M2 max macbook running 8-bit quant on an MLX version.

it goes to everyone (in varying amounts) who paid payroll tax when they turn 65. They get free health insurance too (Medicare).

poor people getting Medicaid are like 20% of the population of most states.

essentially we are promising everyone who turns 65 to get ~$800k in benefits, and this is simply not affordable.

None of that justifies the level of government checks they receive

It’s a bit crazy that the elderly are blocking data center buildouts while they also expect to collect a big chunk of everyone’s payroll. Pick your lane.

The federal government has become a machine to transfer the income of working people to boomers

Uhh dentists doctors and EEs are low effort jobs?

Yeah but the upside is that the elderly got to keep most of the federal tax revenue

HN has become much dumber as X became less censured.

Fine you can make do in the Congo with everyone else who disrespects borders

DOS still works

nope, I learned how to compute on the DOS command line

"But like people who are good with computers, the models want a terminal, not some candy ass iPad UI."

Giving functionally illiterate people computers with GUIs should be regarded as a mistake.

It’s not wild. Anyone with brains would think it is irresponsible to keep your secret token for publishing public release binaries accessible in your automation.