Indeed. Lending without expecting any repayment would not be lending. It would be giving. This could be interpreted as a call to generosity. Plain reading seems to rule out interest though. (The more nuanced reading…
Two of these snarky, hand-wavey responses in a row is sufficient to establish that you have nothing valuable to add here. Take care
> In principle I could replace a large language model with a map from all possible input strings to output token or output token distribution without any weights. What is an output token distribution except a set of…
I don’t know what this means. You’re hand waving “based on consumption”. There is no magic deduction that turns an income tax into a consumption tax. Also you seem to have reversed your stance and are basing deductions…
> Not really especially for W2 employees as they have very few deductions Right. Individuals are taxed on income and not consumption. Taxes don’t go down if they save instead of spend (in fact they go up as they are…
And what about this? Luke 6:34–35 - And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to…
You’ve gotta squint each hard to call an income tax with deductions a consumption tax. That’s what we have in the US right now.
That article spends most of its time explaining why a progressive consumption tax is obviously the right choice, then basically decries liberals as too dumb to understand it and conservatives as too evil to want it, but…
This is not an expert consensus. It’s one random npr story. Switching entirely to consumption tax is a billionaires dream. Dropping corporate income tax is a CFO’s dream. (Whoever wrote the line about how reinvested…
I’m curious what you mean by this. Leviticus is specifically included in the Christian Bible.
> Except it's just an excuse to make everyone surrender their phone numbers “Why do you need this account you’ve abandoned for a year” is a different question than “why does Google need your phone number”. I have no…
> If you read… Nah. I will decline to (re)read several hundred pages to try to find the answer you cannot provide. You didn’t even answer my straightforward question about what you meant with your seeming…
My point here is that all Christians are “cafeteria Christians”. They all pick and choose the pieces they agree with and want to follow. They discard the inconvenient stuff as no longer relevant and claim the things…
> Given the widespread practice of man-boy … I have an incredibly hard time believing this piece of scripture is at all misinterpreted. I’m struggling with this statement. Are you saying that Leviticus is actually only…
This claim hinges on the idea that homosexuality is a thing you do and not a part of who you are. You can love someone while hating a thing they do. You cannot love someone while hating who they are. The conservative…
> Even those you are bigoted towards I agree this is a better reading. Of course this makes it even more apt guidance for the Southern Baptists who preach bigotry.
You missed the point. > If you haven't used your $whatever in a year, why do you want to use it now? Replace $whatever with whatever you want and you'll see how absurd this question is. This is a silly statement…
I would personally not want my account recovery tied to an account I rarely use. That seems full of unnecessary risk. What if you forget that Gmail password? What if it’s compromised and you don’t even notice for almost…
That’s a very narrow reading. The parable was in response to the question “who’s my neighbor” in the “love thy neighbor” statement and Jesus basically said “even those you hate”(i.e. the Samaritans).
> I’ve never heard of any such group in my entire independent Southern Baptist life. I grew up in the South and distinctly remember the Southern Baptist preachings against interracial marriage based on selective…
If you leave your ham sandwich in the office fridge for a single week, anyone is justified in throwing it away. The trouble is you think that you are in possession of a ham sandwich that Google is taking away when in…
He’s not a hacker in the sense used by people here. He’s a glorified script kiddie. His group couldn’t even deploy ransomware even with two admin accounts. They aren’t competent.
“If you haven't used your dirty tissue in a year, why do you want to use it now?” “If you haven't used your ham sandwich in a year, why do you want to use it now?” “If you haven't used your receipt in a year, why do you…
This seems like you just have get retort in your pocket waiting to use it because it didn’t seem relevant here. What does this even mean? Why have the junior engineer is they aren’t irrationally invested in the code the…
Probably something about the personal time and effort invested in a thing. I would feel much less personally invested if, for example, I created an outline of a story and then paid a ghostwriter to fill it in.
Indeed. Lending without expecting any repayment would not be lending. It would be giving. This could be interpreted as a call to generosity. Plain reading seems to rule out interest though. (The more nuanced reading…
Two of these snarky, hand-wavey responses in a row is sufficient to establish that you have nothing valuable to add here. Take care
> In principle I could replace a large language model with a map from all possible input strings to output token or output token distribution without any weights. What is an output token distribution except a set of…
I don’t know what this means. You’re hand waving “based on consumption”. There is no magic deduction that turns an income tax into a consumption tax. Also you seem to have reversed your stance and are basing deductions…
> Not really especially for W2 employees as they have very few deductions Right. Individuals are taxed on income and not consumption. Taxes don’t go down if they save instead of spend (in fact they go up as they are…
And what about this? Luke 6:34–35 - And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to…
You’ve gotta squint each hard to call an income tax with deductions a consumption tax. That’s what we have in the US right now.
That article spends most of its time explaining why a progressive consumption tax is obviously the right choice, then basically decries liberals as too dumb to understand it and conservatives as too evil to want it, but…
This is not an expert consensus. It’s one random npr story. Switching entirely to consumption tax is a billionaires dream. Dropping corporate income tax is a CFO’s dream. (Whoever wrote the line about how reinvested…
I’m curious what you mean by this. Leviticus is specifically included in the Christian Bible.
> Except it's just an excuse to make everyone surrender their phone numbers “Why do you need this account you’ve abandoned for a year” is a different question than “why does Google need your phone number”. I have no…
> If you read… Nah. I will decline to (re)read several hundred pages to try to find the answer you cannot provide. You didn’t even answer my straightforward question about what you meant with your seeming…
My point here is that all Christians are “cafeteria Christians”. They all pick and choose the pieces they agree with and want to follow. They discard the inconvenient stuff as no longer relevant and claim the things…
> Given the widespread practice of man-boy … I have an incredibly hard time believing this piece of scripture is at all misinterpreted. I’m struggling with this statement. Are you saying that Leviticus is actually only…
This claim hinges on the idea that homosexuality is a thing you do and not a part of who you are. You can love someone while hating a thing they do. You cannot love someone while hating who they are. The conservative…
> Even those you are bigoted towards I agree this is a better reading. Of course this makes it even more apt guidance for the Southern Baptists who preach bigotry.
You missed the point. > If you haven't used your $whatever in a year, why do you want to use it now? Replace $whatever with whatever you want and you'll see how absurd this question is. This is a silly statement…
I would personally not want my account recovery tied to an account I rarely use. That seems full of unnecessary risk. What if you forget that Gmail password? What if it’s compromised and you don’t even notice for almost…
That’s a very narrow reading. The parable was in response to the question “who’s my neighbor” in the “love thy neighbor” statement and Jesus basically said “even those you hate”(i.e. the Samaritans).
> I’ve never heard of any such group in my entire independent Southern Baptist life. I grew up in the South and distinctly remember the Southern Baptist preachings against interracial marriage based on selective…
If you leave your ham sandwich in the office fridge for a single week, anyone is justified in throwing it away. The trouble is you think that you are in possession of a ham sandwich that Google is taking away when in…
He’s not a hacker in the sense used by people here. He’s a glorified script kiddie. His group couldn’t even deploy ransomware even with two admin accounts. They aren’t competent.
“If you haven't used your dirty tissue in a year, why do you want to use it now?” “If you haven't used your ham sandwich in a year, why do you want to use it now?” “If you haven't used your receipt in a year, why do you…
This seems like you just have get retort in your pocket waiting to use it because it didn’t seem relevant here. What does this even mean? Why have the junior engineer is they aren’t irrationally invested in the code the…
Probably something about the personal time and effort invested in a thing. I would feel much less personally invested if, for example, I created an outline of a story and then paid a ghostwriter to fill it in.