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knox_harrington posted:Fortunately they didn't get used anywhere near me but Apaches can use rockets that contain a load of tungsten flechettes, which can be pretty awful. kind of reminds me a while back, someone posted that when the machines rise up, they'll eventually learn that to destroy humanity they don't need explosives or bullets or anything complicated for the most part. just sharp metal objects.
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never understood why skynet didn't just engineer and release a deadly virus. requires next to no effort from the machines and covid has taught us that at least 45% of the population would be actively trying to catch it
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twist ending to the next terminator film should be the terminator moving skynet off the military computers and on to some random datacenter so instead of launching nukes it just chills out on the net chatting and playing mario kart or whatever with unsuspecting humans
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in Sea of Rust the machines just dump mercury into every water source they can find
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i'm pretty sure we do that ourselves already, also  any aluminum machines, i guess
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huh i would like to know more about novels in which the humble computer protagonists finally conquer humans
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psiox posted:huh i would like to know more about novels in which the humble computer protagonists finally conquer humans C Robert Cargill's Sea of Rust main character's a robbit ofc
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MomJeans420 posted:There are no bodies in those posts, mostly just mangled cars, but yeah there may be some blood if you zoom in so I spoilered it no bodies anymore. shitload of gibs though
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Sep 17, 2020 02:49
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LOL at the car accelerating away from the cops. Limit on that highway is generally 80km/h... https://twitter.com/cspotweet/status/1306598673342554114
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Sep 17, 2020 16:38
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god somebody cancel this guy already
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Sep 17, 2020 16:55
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:god somebody cancel this guy already The thing is that this isn't even theoretically true: Like, that "government waste" is someone else's paycheck (a clerk, a tax collector, a pencil alignment inspector, whatever) and if that person's marginal propensity to consume (how likely they are to spend an extra dollar vs. saving it) is higher than Musk's (and rich people's marginal propensity to consume is empirically really really low because they're rich as gently caress meaning their actual needs are already met so they have increasingly harder times coming up with poo poo to buy) then the multiplier effect (how much economic activity a dollar produces) will increase meaning more GDP is created? It's vacuously true that there exists a marginal tax rate above which economic activity decreases but it's only been demonstrated at Scandinavian levels which are so far beyond anything that's even arguably possible in an American context that this is all extremely academic? 
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Schadenboner posted:The thing is that this isn't even theoretically true: Like, that "government waste" is someone else's paycheck (a clerk, a tax collector, a pencil alignment inspector, whatever) and if that person's marginal propensity to consume (how likely they are to spend an extra dollar vs. saving it) is higher than Musk's (and rich people's marginal propensity to consume is empirically really really low because they're rich as gently caress meaning their actual needs are already met so they have increasingly harder times coming up with poo poo to buy) then the multiplier effect (how much economic activity a dollar produces) will increase meaning more GDP is created? It's vacuously true that there exists a marginal tax rate above which economic activity decreases but it's only been demonstrated at Scandinavian levels which are so far beyond anything that's even arguably possible in an American context that this is all extremely academic? bazingas are dumber than dogshit, hth op
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Sep 17, 2020 17:58
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it also assumes elon will "save humanity" which he is demonstrably not trying to do at all
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greg the peanut posted:LOL at the car accelerating away from the cops. Limit on that highway is generally 80km/h... That's the first useful feature I've seen in a Tesla, automatically run from the cops when the driver is sleeping Roosevelt posted:bazingas are dumber than dogshit, hth op
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Endless Mike posted:it also assumes elon will "save humanity" which he is demonstrably not trying to do at all So long as you don't define the poors as part of humanity...
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Endless Mike posted:it also assumes elon will "save humanity" which he is demonstrably not trying to do at all I mean, religious belief (as opposed to the effects of those beliefs) are difficult things to apply the analytical tools of social science to?
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:god somebody cancel this guy already In awe of the fuckin ego
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yeah i mean the fact that his "worth" (lol) is ~100 billion demonstrably means he will not use $10 billion to save humanity. he's failed to do anything productive with his current big number so he's not going to, like, solve global warming or send people to mars with anything extra he gets from bonuses or compensation.
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Schadenboner posted:The thing is that this isn't even theoretically true: Like, that "government waste" is someone else's paycheck (a clerk, a tax collector, a pencil alignment inspector, whatever) and if that person's marginal propensity to consume (how likely they are to spend an extra dollar vs. saving it) is higher than Musk's (and rich people's marginal propensity to consume is empirically really really low because they're rich as gently caress meaning their actual needs are already met so they have increasingly harder times coming up with poo poo to buy) then the multiplier effect (how much economic activity a dollar produces) will increase meaning more GDP is created? It's vacuously true that there exists a marginal tax rate above which economic activity decreases but it's only been demonstrated at Scandinavian levels which are so far beyond anything that's even arguably possible in an American context that this is all extremely academic? 
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do the emirates just not do taxes? or do they make so much goddamn money that it barely shows as a percentage
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this is by the 2005 dow 36000 guy who now works for the white house and released a similar polynomial fit for coronavirus deaths in may that had deaths going to zero by mid may that drove white house policy
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Roosevelt posted:do the emirates just not do taxes? or do they make so much goddamn money that it barely shows as a percentage state owned oil revenue is not a corporate tax, duh also hilariously punitive import tariffs unless you use the right relative of the specific emirate
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Sep 18, 2020 03:32
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as a rule, i assume anyone posting something referencing the laffo curve is doing so as a joke
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Sep 18, 2020 03:35
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presidential medal of freedom recipient arthur laffer
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Sep 18, 2020 03:38
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Well yeah the effective corporate tax rate in the US is 35%. That's definitely true and not total bullshit
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Sep 18, 2020 03:43
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Lmao economics is the biggest fuckin grift ever run, our country is controlled by innumerate ghouls
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love that fit to those data points, it’s an excellent curve
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Sep 18, 2020 03:58
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fart simpson posted:love that fit to those data points, it’s an excellent curve  as you can see, our model predicts steady continuous growth year-on-year
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well im convinced. where do i send the money
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Sep 18, 2020 04:26
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u've just got to buy some municipal bonds from Las Vegas
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Not a Children posted:Lmao economics is the biggest fuckin grift ever run, our country is controlled by innumerate ghouls as an economist i will have you know that economics is just as rigorous a science as anything in STEM. Furthermore, if we assume a risk-free that is always positive and rational individuals, one can always infer that higher tax rates will lead to highly-taxed individuals moving to *faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart* *dies from making GBS threads his own rear end out*
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PCjr sidecar posted:this is by the 2005 dow 36000 guy
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in awe of this graph
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BBJoey posted:in awe of this graph that graph has been shaping us fiscal policy for most of your life.
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Mr. Nice! posted:that graph has been shaping us fiscal policy for most of your life. 
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mystes posted:Jesus christ it's literally the same person? yes its a real economist power move to level up from indirect deaths to direct deaths
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Once you make it into the Republican intelligencia you can only fail upward. They have an entire donor wing dedicated to backstopping their craven policies with nonsense economic models
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economics is the science of telling wealthy people what they want to hear
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lol. martin tripp, the guy who got swatted for exposing tesla's re-use of damaged battery packs is evidently not a whistle-blower
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