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vtashkovon Things USAID has funded [video]

hahahaha Deutsche Welle credible source????? hahahahhaha

vtashkovon Dear Mr. Vice President, Please Take Off Your Apple Watch

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-watches-of-president-b...

"Now we're talking ubiquity. When President Biden isn't wearing one of his many steel (or two-tone) sport watches, you'll likely find him with an Apple Watch. It's unclear why, or for which occasions he chooses the smartwatch out of his watch box, but he's worn it in the Oval, and at the Resolute, just as he has with any of his other watches. "

So when Biden wears it, it's OK. No 'former CIA' writes any open letters, no HN Commies "following orders". When the Vice-President wears it - they are stupid and they are threatening national security.

What a hypocrisy is the whole democratic party. Disgusting propaganda methods akin to Soviets.

vtashkovon Things USAID has funded [video]

How is that not totalitarian propaganda? What is the difference between USSR official propaganda and Democrat "aid for other countries"? I am interested in HN Leftist crowd opinion. Or maybe they will downvote this to oblivion, because it's easier. But easier doesn't mean 'right'.

vtashkovon Safest Country in the Western Hemisphere

That is from 2019!

vtashkovon Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3B in Income

Or I am from the EU and I don't see many of you coming here to live your nice life with big taxes, 2 months queues for doctor appointment, 3 bedroom appartments in the ballpark of 1 million dollars AT LEAST, while net salary around $5k per month.

vtashkovon Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s

Last week it was still the job of the previous administration to publish it and it was the last administration which created the problem in the first place. Ideological purification was also what the previous administration has done quite a lot by hiring people based on their sexual preference, skin colour, gender and other irrelevant to the job characteristics.

vtashkovon It's not a crime if we do it with an app

No, the argument I an countering is that since oligopoly is bad, government control would fix it. It has NEVER fixed it. Only more free market could.

vtashkovon It's not a crime if we do it with an app

If the government owns all it is FAR worse. Intel used to be a monopoly in practice. Now it’s not. The manufacturer of CPUs in USSR though never ceased to be the one and only. Is it dumbed enough for you to understand?

vtashkovon It's not a crime if we do it with an app

Funny, whenever any leftists stay in power for a while we see such kind of situation, but somehow it only gets noticed AFTER they are no longer in power.

vtashkovon Amazon removed statements advocating for LGBTQ rights and racial equity

But its usage to “enlighten the masses” - does not.

vtashkovon Amazon removed statements advocating for LGBTQ rights and racial equity

Sure, the same way printing press, electrification, education and what not did.

vtashkovon Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

I am actually European :)

vtashkovon Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

1) wealth is not increased by tax break, only current income is increased

2) if government gives everyone tax break but not me, it means only that the government taxes only me

3) if everyone has 50% more money, there is very high probability that my business will go up A LOT

Seriously, dude, it’s not worthy anymore to try and explain to you very basic stuff. Inflation is not a balance between taxation and spending. All Middle Eastern countries are having huge spending and almost zero taxes. I asked you very simple question and you couldn’t answer.

What bothers me most is why people write about things they have no clue about and clearly haven’t even put a decent thought into it.

Basically what you believe in is that the thieves are controlling the inflation because they get some of the citizens wealth.

vtashkovon Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

So, in this desert there would be no inflation or deflation, you say. Let’s say we use gold coins there. Wouldn’t we have an inflation if we find a gold mine there and everybody start digging up gold? You are missing the fact that the money printing is not driven only by government spending. It is driven primarily by the monetary policy (in the hands of the FED) and to some extent by the government debt. You have knowledge gaps on a very basic level. The idea that taxation stops inflation is absolutely ridiculous. It would mean that countries with low taxes have very high inflation and this is not the case. It would also means that the inflation should be constant and in struct correlation with the taxes. Both statements are completely false and very easily provable by quick fact check. The only things taxes do are: misplacing capital and stopping economic growth, which may be the same thing arguably

vtashkovon Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

Yeah, historically low crime because a lot of the crime is not considered crime anymore. Why thousands of stores are closing in California?

vtashkovon Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

That is a big assumption. Tax money need not be a constant. But for the sake of following the same logic: if companies pay bigger taxes, they also have to make up the shortfall. Actually, this last one is much more accurate statement. Companies do not pay taxes, PEOPLE pay taxes. So taxes are paid either by the employees, the clients or by the owners (which in case of the big tech are generally common people). With high taxation you are hurting: the customers, the workers and the middle class saving for their retirement. Who is winning the tax money: state bureaucracy, corrupt politicians and the business around them, people who live like parasites (or rather are forced to live like that, because they are electoral power).

vtashkovon Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

This is utter nonsense. If 1000 people go to a deserted island with no government and taxation would that mean the inflation will be plus infinity or at least very high??? Inflation is monetary phenomenon, it happens when money is being printed.

vtashkovon Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

Tax breaks, i.e. my money not being in your pocket means that they are stolen?

vtashkovon The Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu results after thirty years (2006) [pdf]

For even longer time we have a REAL proof (not mathematical wordplay) that whenever, without exception, someone takes a swing at free markets it leads to people dying. IT has always been a disaster and people always have been exiting those societies where that happens towards more free societies. You yourself have plenty of options to go somewhere with less free market - Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Russia, even China. Have YOU emigrated to such a country?

vtashkovon I Decided Against Using Google Ads for My Startup

Don’t you need a phone number?

vtashkovon I want to work for you for free

dm me

vtashkovon I Decided Against Using Google Ads for My Startup

I agree 100% with you and that's partially the reason I posted here. It is not only a rant, but also a genuine question what people think about Google Ads in the end of 2024. In other words: it is an attempt to validate (or reject) my gut reaction through externalizing the question.

vtashkovon Show HN: How to pass your digital assets when you become inactive/dead?

Interestingly, I have just announced the same idea:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42399469

Compare it