> It turns out it was full of holes and we mostly got by on the honor system.
100%. The Constitution was designed with good faith actors in mind. It was not designed in an age of gamification, in which we find ourselves now.
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100%. The Constitution was designed with good faith actors in mind. It was not designed in an age of gamification, in which we find ourselves now.
Oh no.
What you have missed is the incredible end run around the spirit of the reconciliation process that the Republicans did this time around.
So, the did these tricks with the tax in Trump's first term, with tax breaks set to sunset in order to have a revenue-neutral effect over the required ten years.
This time around they needed to extend those breaks, right? So they must had to cut spending or raise other taxes in order to do that and have a revenue-neutral effect, right?
Ha ha, no! They convinced the CBO that the baseline for the reconciliation process this time should be whatever was in effect for the last few years. So those breaks are already baked in and don't need to be counterbalanced. It's a two-step, long-term process for making things permanent through the reconciliation process that otherwise one could not.
Let me put it another way for my foreign friends - if you are dining at a restaurant in America with table service, you need to consider (at least) a 15% tip as part of the base cost. If you can't afford that, then you can't afford to eat out, choose a different option.
extraterrestrial = not from earth
What is your evidence for it? You want to make a claim about something being infinite, it is up to you to provide evidence.
> recognizing that zero times infinity can be any number and also zero or infinity.
This statement makes no sense in formal mathematics. Multiplication is a function, which means for each set of inputs there is one output. I imagine you are trying to say something about limits here, but the language you are using is very imprecise.
E.g. when you calculate the area of a plot of land do you take into account the curvature of the Earth? You have to make a bunch of compromises in the first place to even talk about what the area of a plot land means.
Math is a bunch of useful systems that we humans have devised. We tend to gravitate towards the ones that help us describe and predict things in the real world.
But there is plenty of math which doesn't do either. It's just as real as the math that does.
Some letters always represent vowel sounds.
Some letters never represent vowel sounds.
Some letters are the letter Y
We have gone from something like 90% of people employed growing food to something in the single digits (I'm too lazy at the moment to get exact figures, but this is close enough for my point).
Did all those advances in agriculture create jobs? I would say yes and no.
For the specific industry the advances happened in? No, definitely not. There are way fewer jobs in agriculture now.
But what did happen is that people were freed up to do different things. Those jobs were indirectly created by the fact that people did not need to spend so much time growing food. That allowed people to do other things to create value and improve our lives. Without those agriculture advances, we wouldn't have AI right now.
I suspect AI will be similar. We aren't going to have more jobs in the technology section because of AI. But that guy who hears "Code Monkey" for the first time and marvels that someone wrote a song about his life? He won't be a code monkey anymore he will be doing something else. If he's lucky something more personally fulfilling.
The IRS isn't referring suspicious (whatever that means) tax returns to the authorities. What happens if you are a criminal is that the authorities have there attention on you because you are doing illegal things. One angle of attack for them is your finances. That is why money laundering exists.
Stromboli is closer to folded up pizza as it typically has mozzarella cheese.
Not sure which country this looks bad on given that
So if the process is not terminated this is an OS or kill issue because the process itself is not given a chance to catch the signal.
Actually, you can get no fees at any ATM
Would it be possible for someone who was not supporting themselves that way? I.e. for someone with a 40 hr / week job?
I don't think Al Franken would agree with this
Oh no, there are for sure more people now who think things are worse vs 5 years ago than there were 5 years ago.
In particular I remember one bug where a pointer to a local variable was returned by a function. It worked on our development environment which was apparently more forgiving than our production environment.
Why were they different? Because they were actual servers and the production one was the expensive DEC Alpha while the development server was something less expensive (my memory fails me as to the exact machine).
The architecture involved a custom Apache httpd module to handle requests. That most likely drove the decision to use C.
The system was eventually rewritten in Python, after I had moved on.
I'm not aware of any performance metrics.
In the same way that laws against pumping your own gas help other Americans find work. It makes everyone else poorer instead of naturally created jobs which provide goods and services people want.
> increasing the likelihood that foreign goods will be purchased from allied nations and not totalitarian dictatorships
Citation needed, this round of tariffs have also fallen on our allies
Once upon a time I worked on a website backed by C. Development times were not appreciably longer.
We had a in-house templating language for generating HTML (also written in C). That implementation got to the complexity point to where even the original devs did not want to touch it to add anything.
But in terms of add a new screen collecting fields x,y,z it was fine. This was a job board, allowing search, applications, saved resumes, bulk opening uploads, i.e. there was some real functionality there.
What naturally happens to such products is that the manufacturers find a way to broaden their customer base. They find ways to bring the price point down so they can sell more.
For most people this is a boon. They can afford a luxury or convenience they otherwise wouldn't be able to. Overall most people are better off when this happens.
For the first group of people however, they are worse off. They cannot get the same product as before. Such is life.