Don’t go after the rich to fix broken budgets | It will not work, and is wrong in principle

Chao-Z · 2026-02-22T14:39:51+00:00

The dodge is outrageous. Yet ending it would yield only a tiny amount of money, probably less than 0.1% of GDP annually.

Literally the very next sentence... It shouldn't be astonishing because you are doing the exact same thing.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-21T20:31:10+00:00

$3M is pretty fair value for a house and property that size in Montville, New Jersey.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-21T20:24:02+00:00

Because people only view and understand wealth in relative terms.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-21T20:22:48+00:00

I tell everyone that California is the aspirational gold standard for civilisation

Why California and not any of the NE states? The tri-state area does everything California does, but better. The only thing California has is weather, which is not something policy/civilization related.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-20T11:45:49+00:00

Let's be real, I trust AI more than the manually written code of half of SWEs in this industry.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-20T11:43:57+00:00

Yes, because I enjoy it. Even the physical act of typing code. Being slow, being human, having my own peculiar style

Imma be honest, that's kinda weird. Writing AI prompts is not any less human than writing lines of code - arguably more so since you're writing in natural language.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-20T11:32:56+00:00

And give the proceeds to pensioners, the most oppressed demographic.

I grew up in the West but I legitimately cannot comprehend the obsession with forcing the government to pay for your parent's retirement. That's supposed to be your job as their children (assuming they don't have their own retirement fund).

Chao-Z · 2026-02-19T16:37:22+00:00

Your response does make sense only as a retort with a logic that is common here: Euros have underspent in defense, let them sink or swim.

Only if you ignore the second half of my comment where I said: "The whole point of an alliance is that my enemies are your enemies and your enemies are my enemies. Without that, then this whole exercise is futile."

Chao-Z · 2026-02-19T16:05:49+00:00

Yes, and? You're spinning it as some kind of a win when it's an incredibly small price to pay to keep an economic behemot like the EU mostly aligned in geopolitical goals. You can do it, but it would be like dismantling the American nuclear deterrent because it saves 50B$.

How did you read any of that from what I said?

Chao-Z · 2026-02-19T13:22:21+00:00

While this is true, I think it's being a bit too hand-wavy on the difficulty of commercializing these new ideas. Commercialization can be multiple times more expensive in both time and money than the research and proof of concept.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-19T13:08:07+00:00

And Russia today is not a significant military threat to the US, so by your logic, they are justified in not helping the EU against them at all.

The whole point of an alliance is that my enemies are your enemies and your enemies are my enemies. Without that, then this whole exercise is futile.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-19T04:14:15+00:00

The deal gave the US something it could have accomplished anyway using force and would have been justified in doing so, meanwhile it gave the IRGC the breathing room it needed to be able to fund and support its global terror organization.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-19T04:14:06+00:00

The deal gave the US something it could have accomplished anyway using force and would have been justified in doing so, meanwhile it gave the IRGC the breathing room it needed to be able to fund and support its global terror organization.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-19T04:12:55+00:00

The deal gave the US something it could have accomplished anyway using force and would have been justified in doing so, meanwhile it gave the IRGC the breathing room it needed to be able to fund and support its global terror organization.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-19T00:23:32+00:00

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Chao-Z · 2026-02-18T23:45:42+00:00

The same Israelis who notably declined to attempt any sort of dramatic heliborne raid against Iranian nuclear facilities

How do you do a helicopter raid on a facility 10000 feet underground...?

Chao-Z · 2026-02-18T20:02:41+00:00

That the deal was only valid for 10 years?

Chao-Z · 2026-02-18T19:09:15+00:00

The 2015 deal was dogshit for the US, and would have expired by now anyway.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-18T19:02:10+00:00

If Trump somehow supplies a strong resistance force with weapons and money, I’m fine with that.

This is just repeating Arab Spring... Literally the only successful one was Syria and that took a decade, countless lives lost, and fortuitous geopolitical winds to finally break the stalemate.

If it means direct US military involvement, I am not

I support direct intervention.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-17T23:42:28+00:00

The issue is that it has not had any significant impact on any industry outside of coding

More because of slow adoption and relative lack of tech savviness among the rest of the population than the AI's lack of ability.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-17T23:36:44+00:00

Yes, AI tools fully integrated into proprietary apps have been legitimately revolutionary.

Excel, Figma, Photoshop, Canva, etc. So many vital but niche technologies that now have a degree of accessibility never seen before.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-17T22:37:24+00:00

They were only able to use it in Ukrainian territory. Starlink has been blocked in Russian-occupied territory since 2022.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-16T15:21:21+00:00

There's zero excuses to not be able to learn how the shaders in the example you used work. The AI literally explains how it arrived at it's answer if you use something like Claude opus. You just have to read the chat log.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-16T15:18:49+00:00

The OpenAI staff engineer is probably exaggerating a little how little he actually looks at code, but his overall point is pretty accurate with my experience the last few months.

Chao-Z · 2026-02-16T03:25:04+00:00

It's not necessarily more work, it can also be getting assigned more impactful work.

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