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Not_mikey

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  • The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

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  • It's not that borrowing money is free, zero interest rates means the government pays zero interest for its loans, not companies. It does put downward pressure on interest rates companies pay but they're still going to have to pay a couple percent apy.

    The reason zero interest rates are good for tech is because it forces capital to seek more long-term and risky investments. If I have a lot of money and can get 6% apy from loaning it to the US government, the safest bet on the market, why would I invest in something else? If i can't get any money from loaning to the government (zero interest rates), and i cant get much from loaning it to other institutions because of that downward pressure, then maybe I'll buy some more risky tech stocks because it's possible for that company to grow more then the 1-2% id get from just lending my money. Most of techs financing is done through selling stock, not loans.

  • Trump's tariffs would cut US deficits by $2.8T over 10 years and shrink the economy, CBO says

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  • i guess every deficit reduction implicitly comes out of taxpayers wallets

    Yeah, but it doesn't have to be yours and my wallet, ideally it would come out of the wallets of all these billionaires but instead we give them tax cuts in the big beautiful bill.

    That's the problem with tarriffs and sales taxes in general, there regressive. They hit people who spend a majority of there income buying stuff instead of those putting it in a bank and making more money that isn't taxed as much as money earned working.

  • TIL about Marco Siffredi who died trying to snowboard down Everest

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  • That's the whitest thing I've heard of in a while.

  • Tough call

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  • The only one I'd give you shit for is andre 3000 on the right since he's been around forever and the outfit matches him perfectly.

    The rest are unknowns to anyone not deep into the met galaxy and pop culture

  • North Korea Stole Your Job

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  • another of these clearly illegal things

    They seem to be actually doing work. Yeah it's illegal to work without authorization but by the same logic an undocumented migrant working is illegal. Sure but I wouldn't argue it's immoral or would make them a rogue state.

    There's plenty of other horrible shit that north Korea is doing, but I wouldn't put this in that bucket, this is probably the most honest work they can do considering they're sanctioned by nearly every country.

  • why is it that the USA holds such power over the world now and not the UK who histrionically dominated most of it?

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  • Yeah, the u.s. ended up with ~70% of the world's gold reserves by 1947. In a global economy still mostly using "hard" gold/silver backed currency this was a massive advantage.

  • Seize the Means of Production

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  • An example of this was the communist were heavily involved in organizing share croppers in the Jim crow south. This caused a lot of red baiting during the civil rights movement, with MLK often being labeled a communist ( he was definitely more left then he is often portrayed, radical by today's standards, but not a commie).

  • Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis

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  • Robots don't get drunk, or distracted, or text, or speed...

    Anecdotally, I think the Waymos are more courteous than human drivers. Though waymo seems to be the best ones out so far, idk about the other services.

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  • The u.s. has a huge presence in South Korea and has repeatedly threatened north Korea, remember trumps "fire and fury" comment.

    Gonna need a source on that tunnels claim, I can see them sending experts to help them build them for a fee, because they have no money, but I don't think they're going to finance anything, because again they have no money.

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  • many of israels neighbors would "drive the jews into the sea" if they ever got the chance

    Maybe in the 60s and 70s but every one of israels neighbors, except Saudi Arabia, have normalized relations. Saudi Arabia has no intention of attacking Israel and risking there relationship with the west, nukes or no nukes. Syria just got invaded by them and all there new islamist government has given was a light denouncement. If this were the hay day of Israel hate they wouldve called for a jihad to clear out the jews, times change.

    The largest actor on their borders seeking their destruction is hezbollah, and they've proven they can't even defend south Lebanon, much less march on tel Aviv.

    Also Israel has shown repeatedly that it can defend itself fine against its neighbors without nukes, even if all there neighbors team up to attack them.

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  • And north koreas nuke program deters it's hostile neighbor from trying to roll through it.

    A lot of countries face threats, that doesnt mean we should give them nukes.

  • Trump threatens to send American citizens to El Salvador prison

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  • He already ignored a court order when he "deported" some Venezuelans to this gulag mega-prison. Whose to say he won't do the same next time around?

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  • I guess that's one advantage of stack overflow, sometimes you need a guy to tell you the entire basis of your question is dumb and wrong.

  • Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End

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  • The actual survey result:

    Asked whether "scaling up" current AI approaches could lead to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), or a general purpose AI that matches or surpasses human cognition, an overwhelming 76 percent of respondents said it was "unlikely" or "very unlikely" to succeed. 

    So they're not saying the entire industry is a dead end, or even that the newest phase is. They're just saying they don't think this current technology will make AGI when scaled. I think most people agree, including the investors pouring billions into this. They arent betting this will turn to agi, they're betting that they have some application for the current ai. Are some of those applications dead ends, most definitely, are some of them revolutionary, maybe

    Thus would be like asking a researcher in the 90s that if they scaled up the bandwidth and computing power of the average internet user would we see a vastly connected media sharing network, they'd probably say no. It took more than a decade of software, cultural and societal development to discover the applications for the internet.

  • Surprise, All Ends Of Political Spectrum Disgusted By Gavin Newsom Sucking Up To Steve Bannon And Charlie Kirk

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  • He's term limited, so he can't run in the 2026 gubernatorial election. I guess he thinks the next step is the presidency so he's taking the buddy up to the conservatives strategy that worked so well for Harris...

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  • it will be relatively easy to strip off

    How so? If it's anything like llm text based "water marks" the watermark is an integral part of the output. For an llm it's about downrating certain words in the output, I'm guessing for photos you could do the same with certain colors, so if this variation of teal shows up more than this variation then it's made by ai.

    I guess the difference with images is that since you're not doing the "guess the next word" aspect and feeding the output from the previous step into the next one, you can't generate the red green list from the previous output.

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  • Republicans were at -3 pre 2016 and they've ratcheting up to -10 pretty quickly. If you have a good charismatic leader that the base falls for you can drag the rest of the party along to the edges of the Overton window pretty quickly.

  • The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces

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  • It looks like a lot of these are people mostly on YouTube so they will be passively listening to whatever auto-play picks for them next.

    The main audience for these isn't the boomer conservative listening to talk radio on his way home from work. These are younger men listening to it in the background while they play video games. Hell they have asmongold on here and from what I can remember he was just a WoW streamer a couple years ago.

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  • There's a study showing about 1 in 6 people have it to some degree, so relatively common. It's just that the images that trigger it are specific and rare, for me the clustering and the type of holes have to be just right, but if it is, ick

    The way I learned about it was someone posted a picture specifically meant to trigger it on 4chan to troll people, and it haunted me enough to look into it.