count_dongulus

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[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Maybe. But the biggest employers are national if not international. They're gonna withhold federal tax.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

No, businesses directly pay the federal government. More insidiously, it's impossible to opt out if you're employed full time; you have to be self employed to get to decide when/if/how much tax you send the federal government.

Apparently before 1943, people paid taxes individually once a year. Then a law was passed requiring their employers to do it regularly instead without their consent.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is it gonna "solve" a problem that hasn't already been solved two more days from now?

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The idea is to have water or molten salt cool the walls of the torus from outside, and those drive ordinary turbines like any other generator. The main issue is that particles fly out of the confined plasma donut and degrade the walls, whose dust flys into the plasma and reduces the fusion efficiency. They're focusing on the hard part - dealing with the health of plasma sustainment and the durability of the confinement walls over time. Hot thing that stays hot can boil water or salt to drive regular turbines, that's not the main engineering challenge. I get your frustration where it feels from news coverage that they're not focusing on the right stuff, but what you'll likely eventually see is that the time between "we figured out how to durably confine a healthy plasma" will quickly turn into "we have a huge energy output" much like inventors puttered around with flight for hundreds of years until a sustained powered flight design, however crappy, finally worked. From that point, it was only 15 years until the first transatlantic flight.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 103 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (44 children)

Epic kinda tried that by giving away tons of free games in the Epic Games Store. It didn't work.

If I want Steam games cheaper, I go buy a Steam key for that game from a separate retailer and activate it on Steam. Save like 50-70% irrespective of Steam sales. It's remarkable that Steam allows us to even do that in the first place.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Never knew that, wow.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (17 children)

To be more accurate, smallpox killed somewhere between like 65-95% of the native american population after contact with Europeans. And, of course, many of their remaining descendants ended up concentrated into reservations.

So, I imagine if you were going to find native american cuisine restaurants, they'd be rare but typically in and around reservations.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

Uhh...its not peace talks if one of the warring sides is not present. It's just the US talking to Russia about some deal to stop supporting Ukraine.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

In this case, it is. The Republican candidate actually won the overall popular vote. Was this because of voter apathy? Probably. But we're talking about "what the people who cared enough to vote" wanted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Technically speaking, you're looking at what most voters thought they wanted. Seems like the people with the most means and influence are in favor of what's happening too.

Are most voters easily conned? Sure. The NSDAP won its early seats freely until the other parties were outlawed.

You can at least take solace in that with the deconstruction of federal institutions, your state government and state institutions wield comparatively more power. Don't live in a poor and/or conservative state I guess?

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So you want to tax all companies a percent of their stock ownership every year? Good luck with that.

You're falling intro a trollhill. The point is the ultra-wealthy pay very smart people to work out loopholes. If some internet retard can run around your ideas and keep you busy, a team of full time financial experts will have a field day. This is not an easy problem to solve. Pretending like it is leads to support for crappy subpar legislation that doesn't work.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lol have you not used o1/o3? They show the inner monologue too. Fun little pretend detail to keep you entertained while the model takes 30 seconds to respond.

 

Playing complex strategy games for many years, one of the things that irks me the most is that hard AI levels often just give the dumb AI cheats to simulate it being smarter. To me, it's not very satisfying to go against cheating AI. Are any games today leveraging neural networks to supplant or augment hand-written decision tree based AI? Are any under development? I know AI can be resource intensive, but it seems that at least turn based games could employ it.

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