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I don't get all the hate here either. Some of these are very pretty.

What about non-NN generative art?

The whole world watches Friends, but Seinfeld not so much.

Did anyone else not ever like Cheers?

Read PiHKAL and TiHKAL.

These two books on phenylethylamines and tryptamines have a unique mixture of personal insight into the recreational use of psychedelics along with technical instructions from a chemist to recreate hundreds of these drugs.

Including this one then? I assume you've combed through all of github to verify this?

> I was 4 years old when the Iraq war began.

It doesn't fully excuse your ignorance but at least you have time to gain some perspective. As it is now what you're saying here is embarrassing to me as a fellow American.

I was only trying to illustrate that a VAT isn't inherently regressive, that example wasn't meant to be taken that seriously.

Ok, fortunately Yang also wants to increase capital gains taxes to the same rate as income taxes.

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/capital-gain-carried-inter...

> If you're using a regressive VAT tax to pay for UBI you are not redistributing wealth, you are disproportionately taxing the poor to distribute to themselves (https://www.quora.com/Why-is-value-added-tax-regressive) much of which will be lost as the prices of goods increases to match equilibrium. Amazon won't "pay the tax" it will pass the tax along in the form of higher consumer prices.

A flat value added tax is regressive, but a VAT itself is not inherently regressive. Imagine if we have a VAT on yachts and nothing else, does that disproportionately affect the rich or the poor?

That's why Yang is proposing to exempt basic goods and raise the rate on some luxury items.

Even under a flat 10% VAT paired with the UBI, you would only be worse off if you spend $120,000 yearly on items with a 100% pass through (the IMF's estimates on the average pass through under a VAT are much lower than this).

> If the primary concern is tax evasion, there are many ways to improve this while still maintaining progressive taxation.

You are going to need to specify a better alternative then. Again, a VAT has inherent properties that make it highly auditable and therefore easier to administer. A wealth tax, in comparison, is much more subject to misreporting because it relies on asset valuation.

> And I'm sorry, but even if this would work, I'm still not going to be sold on the idea that the world should be lorded over by a few trillionaires from California.

Do you want wealth redistribution or not?

Yang wants to give individuals legal ownership of their own data and control over how it is used, so I'm not so sure that most of those California billionaires are all that fond of him anyway.

> The problem with having a handful of people be billionaires and trillionaires is that money is power, and with that amount of money you have nearly unlimited power and influence over everyone and everything.

Sure, and that's why we need a mechanism to redistribute that wealth... like a UBI.

> a highly regressive VAT tax that none of these ultra wealthy people will ever pay.

Yang proposes to exempt basic goods from the VAT, but more importantly, the central appeal of a VAT is that tax evasion is made more difficult!

A VAT naturally creates an audit trail of both parties in every transaction where value is added. If one party is incentivized to report, for example via a tax credit for the end consumer, then everyone else in the chain of crediting is incentivized to do so also.

Yang wants to give everyone legal ownership of their own data. That is going to be more disruptive to the tech industry than antitrust rulings against a few companies.

I can't understand what you are trying to say. I think you're confused about what these terms mean.

Why is that making sex workers lives harder?

That's interesting to hear your experiences with Yang.

I certainly have my own critiques of his campaign team's strategy. Unfortunately I think Yang has failed to establish legitimacy with some of the left, due mostly to flaws in his narrative and framing of certain issues.

Beyond being entitled, it's possibly the most heinously dumb opinion that I have ever come across.

How can someone just not care about the sheer amount of scientific understanding and discovery that would vanish if all insects died?

Doesn't Yang support this?

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/carbon-fee-dividend/

I think Yang is a pretty strong environmental candidate considering he also supports removing subsidies on fossil fuels and meat, nuclear energy, funding renewables, electric vehicles, reforestation, etc.

> I don't understand why so many people are, at the same time, so enthused by the idea of starving government (Because they think most of its services are a waste of money), while at the same time, insisting on spending more on the military than the rest of the world combined.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Because the US government does repulsive things and many of you are enabling them.

Essential goods are excluded from Yang's VAT though.

100 mcg is to me a standard dose, and having done 1000+ mcg a couple times myself I can say that's a lot! I also had HPPD after a year or so of heavy psychedelic use.

I have two HP laptops running Linux -- my work laptop is running Manjaro with i3, and the other is Linux Mint with MATE. I absolutely love these two machines, neither have any compatibility problems with Linux.

No experience with Fedora, but of the other distributions that I have tried (Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, CentOS...), Mint is my suggestion for beginners. Now though I like Manjaro for its rolling releases of the newest software.

Isn't this article presenting a false dichotomy? How is divesting from fossil fuels mutually exclusive to putting your money behind "tech that helps cut emissions instead"? In the short term at least, you'll have more money to do exactly that after divesting.

The only rationale I can see for having this mindset is that 1) it is imperative to make money in order to reinvest in better causes, and 2) investing in fossils fuels is the best way to maximize profit.

Why are you so sure that only one of these things is a problem?

I play it via WINE on Linux, works well.

It was discussed recently in the podman Github issues that this functionality will be covered by the separately maintained podman-compose, which was recently transferred here:

https://github.com/containers/podman-compose

There is some cross tolerance between all tryptamines and phenethylamines, but I have still managed to take them near daily for months on end without having to increase the dose by an absurd amount.

Numbers that represent things, things which have important implications for human health.

This relates to nutrition, chemistry, industrial processing and more, so I'm not surprised to see it here. I found this article independently many times before today because these topics are interesting to me, and I always enjoy obscure and data-oriented Wikipedia articles.

No, you clearly are not aware of what a typical piece of children's content on Youtube is like. I also have a low opinion of the average cable TV kids show, but the two are not even comparable in quality.

The real problem is much worse than just data collection. The children's content on Youtube is the most vacuous garbage in existence and young children have wasted billions of hours watching it on autoplay.

Not really defense experts either though, eh? Maybe "morons" is more fitting.