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It also benefits the upper middle class. And middle class in HCOL areas.

It should be adjusted based on cost of living.

Making $150k in NYC is like making $50k in middle america.

Except that it’s half a percent. It’s another half a penny on every dollar.

It’s not huge by any stretch.

You’re quite right, I’m a dummy.

3/522, no reason to multiply by 100. Not sure why you are.

You’re right my bad.

I don’t know what in that sentence gives you the confidence to call me a warmonger.

And also, no, it wont really. Unless you redefine “huge difference”. We spend $522B on social/economic assistance programs at the federal level. So a 0.005% 0.5% increase? Hardly a huge difference.

It’s been a closer to 3B for a while. Against a budget of $1.7T. It’s not even a rounding error.

Of course not. But none of that changes the fact that your taxes, in part, pay for what the government spends money on.

For state taxes, where the states don’t control monetary policy, it’s even less true. But it’s not really true for the federal government either.

Everyone who is paid in USD or pays in USD, in addition to people who pay taxes, pay for whatever we spend money on in one way or another.

It’s not a gotcha. Nothing was got. It’s just an absurd thing on the face of it. That while technically correct (in the sense that dollars are fungible) your dollars given in taxes will make up a percentage of total dollars spent this year by the federal government, and thus, you are paying for whatever they are doing. Along with other people.

I mean this is a cute clever thing that sounds smart that isn’t.

The government pays for things. The government funds that through monetary policy that includes printing money, as well as raising money via taxes. Whether the government deletes a dollar you give them and prints another dollar vs transferring the dollar you gave them into their spending budget is super irrelevant.

It’s functionally the same and either way, your tax dollar, whether “deleted” and replaced or transferred is still your proportional allocation of funding.

This is real “I am very smart” vibes.

He mostly made rich people a lot of money. They are probably up overall on FTX.

I would bet most of the employees they want aren’t the ones they let go, but probably a lot more who went somewhere else of their own volition.

Lots of good employees leave because even with a great boss, if your boss isn’t getting promoted, you might not have a path for promotion without lateraling into something you don’t like, with new people and new relationships who might be worse.

If you’re going to do all that, you might just do it in a new company.

It’s always easier for companies to richly reward new hires vs existing employees.

Enterprise NVMe drives can do sustained writes of 7GB/s no problem. That’s 58Gbps plus overhead.

That’s to a single drive.

If you are a film crew connecting and ingesting multiple raw 8k 120hz video to be edited, this is very useful

As to whether they use USB4 v2 or thunderbolt, I’m not sure it matters. They look pretty similar, but with thunderbolt it’s very easy to know what the interface is capable of. Good luck when something says “USB 4”.

USB-C is just a connector - thunderbolt uses the exact same connector.

Storage and creative use cases, 100%. If you have several TBs coming off each camera per day, you will 100% feel the pain.

Just driving two 4K monitors at 40Gbps is pretty much all of the bandwidth of TB3, assuming you’re doing 10b 120hz.

A modern NVMe can easily do 50-60Gbps per drive.

You still need copper unless you don’t want to transmit power too.

Interestingly, fiber technically has more latency than copper - light moves slower through fiber than electrons through copper.

First off, as the other poster replied, that isn’t true about modern heat pumps. They continue to work below freezing, and many support an “eheat” resistive heating mode, obviously only good if you still have electricity, but that’s true of all heat pumps. Generators or solar+batteries become much more important.

But the beauty of heat pumps is that you don’t need to install ductwork. Look at mini splits. You can do zoned or single room installs. No ductwork required. One of the huge upsides of mini splits are you do get “instant” zoning. You can stop heating and cooling unused rooms to a human comfortable temperature.

You can also get systems that retrofit into existing forced air ductwork.

I wouldn’t be surprised if someone made or will make a heat pump water heater for hydronic radiators.

You can also run the element that is typically outdoors inside if you have enough space in a basement, for example, which stay a pretty consistent temperature all year long.

Most of the time they don’t own the actual gas stations, they’d need to get their franchisees to do it and invest in it.

This is awesome, very fun and creative.

I’m actually on the TestFlight for Memmy and it’s getting much better very quickly.

But I was an Apollo addict and that is a very high bar.

Wefwef reversing the colors on upvotes and downvotes triggers me, and at least on iOS it has a pretty annoying WebKit related bug where it stops scrolling until you tap something.

Memmy is quite good though, the functionality is there and the polish will come!

It really really hope Lemmy takes off. For me, there’s enough here that I’m set. I look forward to the apps getting better and the platform getting more stable.

That looks higher quality than your username would imply. Congrats!

No question, I’m a plane nerd.

While I agree with all of that, if you’re local, you can get dropped off basically at your gate.

This was modeled after the Airport of Tomorrow in Kansas City, which was heavily influenced by TWA who demanded “drive to your gate”, which was in itself heavily influenced by what TWA did at JFK with Eero Saarinen.

That was basically doomed from the start as planes got bigger. And the nail in the coffin was security added later on and basically trapping you in a tiny, crummy gate area at MCI (can you imagine no security at all??) and finally destroyed by the post 2001 security enhancements that made it even worse.

They’ve recently opened a new MCI terminal that replaces the airport of tomorrow and looks like an airport of today.