bdangubic

take a peek at re-drawn maps and picture will become crystal-clear (see texas and virginia to understand “both sides” so-to-speak).

the whole point of gerrymandering is for politicians to pick their voters vs. voters picking their politicians and if you are able to pick your voters you can easily guess how that will work out for you…

> Your reasoning makes me sad as instead of questioning what constitutes true wealth, it seems you are guided by an exclusively materialistic view of it and join the destructive behaviour you see around you out of fear of not having enough.

unfortunately that is the state of our society right now and it is hard to see this changing.

that defense did not work at nuremberg trial

you actually do, as counter-intuitive as that seems. co-authored implies (and gives you room to argue) that you were involved in the process. hiding the fact that you did if proven otherwise (not that hard to prove in many cases if it comes to that) won’t be looking good. at my work, we are mandated to include AI attribution and I would say every well-run company should have same mandate

they won’t. china is so far ahead with (won’t get it why and now)… they are making their way though into Cali ( https://nypost.com/2026/04/29/us-news/high-tech-chinese-cars... ) but I suspect the Gov will intervene sooner rather than later

In my experience tickets are always cheaper on the VPN, Bulgaria, The Balkans… I just bought airline tickets that were much cheaper and I also do other bookings this way as well, I got a hotel in Philly a month ago 18% cheaper. it is not bullet-proof thing and I am not traveling all the time but I don’t recall a time I did not find at least a little bit better deal

it is not even a fun toy because fun toys are fun for kids and no sane person would use FSD wirh a kid in a car

use a VPN, like Bulgaria is usually good. everything is on sale if you are Bulgarian (most of the time).

you may have to text back Yes your credit card company when you get a fraud alert text - that’s about the only inconvenience. just bought US-EU return ticket for June - 22% lower than lowest price I’ve seen “from US” in the last month

If Chinese EVs were available for sale in the US every single US car company would close down (even after government bailouts) within 2 years

12 minutes but I drive 35 minutes via more scenic route unless I am in a hurry (rare)

Not that simple… this is great read: https://legallayer.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-claude-code-w...

> Maybe a few people lose a few percent of their net worth.

the entire US economy rides on this now so it’ll be more than few people and a lot more than few percent.

mind-boggling people are trying to hide this, tells you all you need to know about our “profession.” presence of that hook or the like in a place of business should be fireable offense

> The CEO gets charged with manslaughter? I work in healthtech and the responsible individual is certainly personally liable for any harm that results from reckless behavior, it should be the same here.

This is in like China, yes? Certainly not in the US of A, hence Luigi and all that…

not just a lot of it, most of it

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michael&sons

quite amazing… you start with

> …there's never any data to back it up…

then amazingly conclude with:

> … but the mass majority are not that

without any data! bravo mate, bravo!!!

> some of the existing investors aren’t going to be happy with that option.

they will be happier than having no customers cause everyone is out of a job

this is where true mastery is, the best DevOps guy I ever worked with told me something that stuck with me forever, “if I do my job right, I should no longer be needed on this project.” time will tell is LLMs will allow SWEs to say the same thing…

You are looking at this from the wrong angle. We get taxed a lot (not if you are ultrawealthy but still…). so government is taking shitton of money in exchange for…? well in the USA it is in exchange for paying down debt and department of “defense” so that we can bomb the shit out of everyone we want whenever we want. we also spend shitton of money on healthcare already but this money is going you know where, middlemen and racking in profits and doing a whole lot of other things except providing care. so the question is - where would you rather your tax dollars be spent? and also another question which is why are Americans the only citizens of any developed nation where providing care is “impossible”?

what’s the margin you reckon on that $160/hr your car mechanic is charging you? human labor is not that expensive, the margins of business employing human labor are. I recently needed a plumber, called up a company, plumber showed up, etc. got an estimate from the company which was outrageous. I was expecting this so I got plumber’s number. called him and asked him if he’d do the job for 1/2 the price - win-win.

> For the last many years it was net profit to take loans, spend and pay them back later because inflation meant you got more goods/services that way.

this would he true if the wages kept up with inflation and of course that as we know well has not even remotely been the case

> What we wouldn't be able to do is commit to protecting Europe or backstopping global capitalism.

We voted "America First" just recently. The 10% of the current budget should be enough to protect us against Canada and Mexico... except of course that budget is not for defense...

there are boards… endless boards… ranking by token usage :)

you should look this up, the percentage of support is closer to 100% than 50% (84-90%) - about as great of a support as it is humanly possible and yet………

> that is all but guaranteed to earn more than that?

say SP500 nominal avg is around 10% - no brainer, yes? but that is an avg of many 30-year windows. some 30-year windows might not be that kind to you. market crash in say first 5-6 years will hurt you a lot

so there is just no certainty here except we think (just like we expect appreciation on the house) we’ll end up on the “right” side of this.

and of course not to mention the most obvious, roughly 99.56% of people will not be investing this money to get more than 4%…

this again assumes a lot… it assumes that you can make up the money you are donating to lenders with some ficticious higher yield investments. I’d ballpark less that 5% of people would make out on the positive side of this.

I agree but the combination giving power without doing anything to detect and prevent abuse in my opinion is worse than not giving power at all, in 100% of the situations - no exceptions. if 14 detected incidents here end up with 14 convictions and enough time in prison to deter anyone else from doing this ever again (5-10 years, per incident minimum), cool with me. it is no different than any other "law breaking" - people will people and law should be there to protect the citizens. but in our society it is obvious we cannot give power to people of authority cause whenever they abuse that power - there is either no law to charge them against or even if there is one they'd be immune to it