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> it's hard to know what to spend it on.

Probably not Haskell developers, but then again, I don't have enough money for my opinions to be worth anything.

> One I'm glad I don't have.

you should probably put less thought into it if you want to be happy & not grapple with such difficult thoughts.

> At what point do you draw the line and begin to help others altruistically?

At the point you have money, IMO. Otherwise what is the point of having money?

I thought that electron == chrome

Maybe you should stop lying to your grandparents!

But seriously, nobody was promised anything not dictated by statute. Who gives a shit about what you, specifically understood the statute to mean? By any reasonable understanding of the law it's not even possible for SSI to go without funding, assuming the government is still operational.

What's more real and relevant is that the government only cares about your insofar as you contribute to the private economy. Like what can we do to make those fucks actually pay out and take care of us?

> Creating a debt obligation with yourself isn't typically the definition of zero risk. ;)

Is there any other way to run a currency? Serious question.

Just posting this to see if people will also flag this random ish

Again, social security is not a mortgage and is not even remotely comparable to one.

> From a philosophic point of view I would say the fact that about half of the electorate do not want higher taxes while the other half wants more government services

Are these not the same people? One half can convince themselves they don't get any payoff from their taxes; the other sees the payoff. Ultimately both expect services from their government they aren't getting, and are upset with services the government does render that seem inherently injust.

The difference is that those who most adamantly state they contribute the most while getting the least actually contribute the least while getting the most.

There is still no solid way to persist RSS feeds (...especially the content they actually refer to) to private storage. Any serious archiving service today will need to undertake snapshotting a website as it stands without relying on such sickly, secondary signals.

...but where RSS is reliable, yes, it's amazing.

Yea, but that matters less than you think in this context as what I want (a bookmark service for bookmarks) matters a lot less than how the service is marketed and funded.

For those not in the know: [Readability](https://github.com/mozilla/readability)

...is there a better reason to like webkit? Chromium certainly doesn't make effort to seem appealing to developers outside of its association with WebKit.

Ok, but you could say the same thing about people being paranoid about social security bankrupting "us", if "us" indeed has any meaning without a welfare state. Ignorance plagues all quarters of society.

Sure, but fewer (sic) features is mostly a better state of affairs, and apple devices are mostly what matter if you're catering to rich westerners (as most products on this forum try to do).

To me, chromium only matters so much as I am forced to care by being employed. It offers very little to me outside of being necessary to enable the "blur" background on my video chats and offers a very shitty corporate UX.

> A product that's designed to strip ads from content for readability doesn't align with their new direction.

Interesting. I saw it as a glorified bookmarking service and saw the readability concerns as what raised red flags for me: mozilla just inherently isn't interested in competing on value rather than on marketing.

The surplus won't be solvent; the program itself is fine by definition. The entire concept of "social security solvency" is fear-mongering by people who want you to think of the entire country like a sack of gold rather than a proper economy.

> This is a gross oversimplification. If you think just one side is the issue you're not going to be able to fix the problem.

And what is the other side, pray tell?

Don't worry, I gave up on this country's ability to fix any problem a long time ago.

Well, perhaps you're right. I am not a finance guy and it seems to me you can probably pull debt out of any kind of relationship if you squint right. But it certainly is not to blame for our inability to balance the budget, which seems easiest to explain with nearly sixty straight years of cutting marginal tax rates while claiming to be fiscally conservative.

Maybe you're right. But then I'll be telling anyone who will listen that they're being sold up the river to finance the military and the wealthy against all reason.

Social security isn't analogous to a mortgage. It's a rolling payout to the current population.

Paying out 77% of benefits is not the same as running out of funds. You are still guaranteed payments while anyone in this country is making income.

Social security is funded with a social security tax. 6% of your paycheck is paid by you, 6% by your employer. (Or 12% by you if you are self-employed.)That by law can only go to fund social security and nothing else. Similarly, the fund is by statute guaranteed to only fund social security payments. It is completely separate from the rest of the federal budget.

No, the SURPLUS will run out. The fund will not.

How does that contradict anything I said?

If you have issues with what it is, that's fine. But it still doesn't impact our deficit or ability to pay off debt.

Sure, practically I can also rob people at gunpoint.

Social security is self-funded. It has literally no impact on the deficit or our ability to pay off debt. By statute.

Edit: i am flabbergasted at how low literacy is about how our government works.

Not all processes are the same, though. I strongly suspect any efficiency improvements will come in processes that didn't require much "thinking" to begin with. I use it daily, but mostly as a way to essentially type faster—I can read much faster than I can type, so I mostly validate and correct the autocomplete. All of my efforts to get it to produce trustworthy output beyond this seem to trail behind the efficiency of just searching the internet.

Granted, I'm blessed to not have much busywork; if I need to produce corporate docs or listicles AI would be a massive boon. But I also suspect AI will be used to digest these things back into small bullet points.