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noxer commented on The F-35 is losing the trade war jalopnik.com/1945910/f-35... · Posted by u/rntn

noxer · 4 months ago

The article seems deliberately misleading for example the "F-5s, which the U.S. Air Force retired out of service in 1990" is of course still in use in the Navy and Marine as well as in China, South Korea, Iran, Brazil and probably other countries.

Also the F-35 is an always was highly controversial in Switzerland from the very first day it was publicly considered that was around 2017. In 2020 the people voted in favor of the F-35 with 50.1% support. So the reality is that any and all reasons to stop or delay the purchase of these jets will be uses by the parties that opposed the purchase, it has little to nothing to do with the so called "trade war".

noxer commented on Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300k deaths – most of them children thetimes.com/us/american-... · Posted by u/mnewme

hoseyor · 7 months ago

Not only that, but the whole system was such that the very type and nature of the support led to ever more dependency and creation of yet more need that the system could then further argue needed more support, i.e., a self-licking ice cream cone.

Worse yet, at the cost and expense of people who are damaged by being forced to support this system against their will.

I propose that everyone that supports things like USAID be able to willingly and freely sign up to have their taxes increased by whatever proportional amount is necessary to fund it every year. We need to move to a voluntarist system for anything but the tightest core functions of government.

It is a win-win, USAID continues and people get to feel good about themselves, while others are not damaged by being forced to support it against their will.

noxer · 7 months ago

This assumes that people involuntarily paid for the last 60 years or so but they didn't. USAID was paid for by money printing and more debt making not by taxes. If you want volunteer to chip in they would first need to pay of the debt causes by USAID over the last 60+ years.

Also lets be real here, no one in their right mind would donate to USAID. There are near unlimited way to donate money for good causes and very specific ones, where you can see results. If your goal is to have your money be efficiently used to help people you would never give it to the government. Any other organization that isn't straight up a scam, will be more efficient than the gov.

noxer commented on Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300k deaths – most of them children thetimes.com/us/american-... · Posted by u/mnewme

stenl · 7 months ago

The average federal tax rate is 14%, and the USAID budget was about 0.8% of the federal budget, so you’ve been paying about a 0.1% tax to fund USAID.

noxer · 7 months ago

This is pointless math instead of bad math. 0.1% isn't the issue, the issue is that it isn't actually paid by taxes, it is instead paid by money printing. It's not 0.1% of peoples taxable income going to USAID, it's billions in additional debt that is "funding" USAID.

The actual true cost to the people for the additional debt is hard to measure and likely hits a different generation that the people who created most of USAID. Instead of saying people payed 0.1% to fund USAID you should say they made at least that much additional debt every year. You could not spend 0.1% more than you earn over the course of like 60 years but USAID did that for everyone.

noxer commented on More people are getting tattoos removed gq.com/story/why-is-every... · Posted by u/speckx

RandallBrown · 8 months ago

I kind of want a tattoo because I'd like to know what it feels like to get one. I don't think I'll ever get one though. I have a hard enough time deciding what kind of art to hang on my walls.

noxer · 8 months ago

You can get one that's only visible under UV light, but given the topic here it might be relevant to know that these are much harder to remove and also if they age they may become visible under normal light and/or stop fluoresced under UV light.

noxer commented on Verus: Verified Rust for low-level systems code github.com/secure-foundat... · Posted by u/mmcloughlin

GolDDranks · 8 months ago

I think that for a guarantee as central as non-panicking, there ought to be eventually some kind of support in the core language.

(Just throwing ideas here, but there could be `#[never_panic]` for simple cases where the compiler can clearly see that panic is not possible, or error otherwise, and `#[unsafe(never_panic)]` for more involved cases, that could be proven with 3rd party tools or by reasoning by the developer like normal unsafe blocks.)

For more complicated guarantees, it's harder to see if there's enough common ground for these tools to have some kind of common ground.

noxer · 8 months ago

Normal rust can already do this. For example #[no_panic] attribute is implemented in https://github.com/dtolnay/no-panic crate.

noxer commented on Regex Isn't Hard (2023) timkellogg.me/blog/2023/0... · Posted by u/asicsp

noxer · 8 months ago

> Instead, use a range negation, like [^%] if you know the % character won’t show up. It doesn’t hurt to be a little more explicit.

This is absolutely horrible, pattern are fairly readable if they follow the syntax logic. Matching "everything but that random character that will not appear" is absurd. Also the idea that a . (dot) behaves arbitrary in different languages shows a sever lack up understanding about regex syntax. Ofc you can't write a proper pattern if you don't know which syntax is used. If anything you would force override the behavior of the . (dot) with the appropriate flag to ensure it works the same with different compatible regex engines.

noxer commented on Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google mozillapetition.com/... · Posted by u/notpushkin

Sayrus · 9 months ago

Then taxes could be used to pay government employees whose job is to contribute on a specific project. That could apply to Linux, a browser, maybe AOSP. Sure it'd require funding, but spent on employees within said countries you get it back and it does give Europe as a whole the ability to contribute its vision, both positive and negative.

noxer · 9 months ago

Whether the people are employed by the government directly or a different entity isn't relevant at all, the relevant part is taxes being used for something that has an undefined benefit for the people who are forced to pay for it. (And in case of "no string attacked" even has an undefined goal.)

>give Europe as a whole the ability to contribute its vision

Who's vision? The peoples vision? Or the vision of bureaucrats, politicians, lobbyists etc.

noxer commented on Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google mozillapetition.com/... · Posted by u/notpushkin

notpushkin · 9 months ago

If they can invest some money with no strings attached – hey, why not.

noxer · 9 months ago

Have you asked the people who pay in the end (the taxpayer) if they want that? The very last thing I want my taxes to go to is anything that has "no strings attached". Its by definition a gift and gifting taxes should be a crime.

noxer commented on Ocean Carbon Removal: Captura's marine carbon capture explained spectrum.ieee.org/ocean-c... · Posted by u/geox

olddustytrail · a year ago

> The goal should be to keep the change fairly slow because most living things have trouble with fast changes.

That's what is meant by "stable". It doesn't mean static.

noxer · a year ago

But no one knows what "fairly slow" is. Also the climate collapse theories predict that once a certain tipping point is reached, its game over. If that is true then slow and stable increase still gets us to that point just a bit later.

In other words to make climate change stable do we need to reduce CO2 emissions, completely stop CO2 emission or remove CO2 and reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere?

We don't even know which of these 3 options would lead to the "fairly slow/stable" we want. It seems like we just do all 3 with no evidence of any real world effect whatsoever.