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I genuinely believe @SecRubio will go down as one of the greatest Secretary of States in US history.
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@defigosha @EiratheIntern Would likely be able to find a job paying $4/h and make $40 bucks a day instead of 0. this + eliminating state assistance means that we would allow proper price discovery for essentials, and deflation would take root. Prices would fall and state would save money.
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@defigosha @EiratheIntern Yes because we have oversubsidized essentials by providing this assistance. cut off all state assistance besides for maybe life saving medical care. currently people who can't command $16/h are making 0 and costing the state. If we said you can pay $4 an hour, those same people..
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I do legitimately think minimum wage is a human rights violation. You have a right to contract.
Cody Libolt@CodyLibolt
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@defigosha @EiratheIntern you're right we should just stick to our current system of letting them rot and not be able to provide for themselves
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I do legitimately think no minimum wage is. human rights violations. You have no right to contract on terms that violate human dignity and wellbeing.
You can’t sign a slavery contract (let’s say you need 30k$ immediately. is it okay to sign a contract to sell your labor until you die with no further compensation).
You can’t sign a contract right this, as smart people understand that this is detrimental to human wellbeing, and generally only happens when one party is at significant disadvantage.
No one says that minimum wage should be high. It is there to prevent slave like conditions.
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@DemzDeliver surely this was a tool to limit nasty carts on the street crowding sidewalks hassling pedestrians. so obviously there will now be 50 ice cream stands each block exclusively operated by people who just got off the boat from some shithole 8000 miles away
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🚨 Zohran Mamdani eliminates outdated NYC permit requirement to serve ice cream.
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@TMSTRS_ @patrickbetdavid you may believe its inconsequential, but with the way Mamdani messages and draws attention to this policy it is absolutely anything but out of mind. I assure you that there will be far more of those hit by this tax that will actively take measures to avoid it than ignore it.
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No, the point is the material difference a percentage point or two in taxes is inconsequential to people who own a 2nd $5,000,000 home in NYC.
& that that money could instead fund infrastructure, education, & parks in NYC, bettering the quality of life for all its residents.
NYC is currently experiencing the greatest summer in decades. The city is full of life & has never felt more united. You wouldn’t know because like most of Mamdanis haters, you’re not a NYer.
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Consequences of this policy:
- More money leaves your state
- More jobs leave your state
- No incentive for the wealthy to buy a property in NYC
- Property value drops
- More construction workers lose jobs
- Realtors lose income.
What’s your point with this policy?
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5M, check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs — because you've got mail. Today, we sent notification letters to property owners, letting them know that our new pied-à-terre tax is coming soon. The best city in the world deserves the best parks, libraries, and schools in the world. That's only possible when we all pay our fair share.
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@ramit @KellyWoofWoof Let's see if in 5 years this has led to a durable increase in the ability of lower class folks to afford basic necessities like insurance, or if this just facilitates capital flight and increased deficits in the city while subsidizing Miami.
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@ramit @KellyWoofWoof poor argument. No one who disagrees with you does so because they don't want better systems in place, it's that they explicitly do not believe that raising taxes on wealthy individuals correlates with increased ability to afford services.
I bet they are right.
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Excellent policy aimed at the ultra wealthy in NYC.
I also love how Mamdani is messaging this -- unapologetically, as a win, because it is
Tax the wealthy (including me) and create a stronger America for the poor and middle class. Money is political
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5M, check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs — because you've got mail. Today, we sent notification letters to property owners, letting them know that our new pied-à-terre tax is coming soon. The best city in the world deserves the best parks, libraries, and schools in the world. That's only possible when we all pay our fair share.
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@yuzu_4ever is it your assertion that the only way to "enrich a Childs life" is intrinsically to read old books? I surely feel that for someone like me, English, history, other humanities, were a drain and soul sucking, whereas I craved time spent pondering math and science.
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this framing is so gross and is basically treating kids as a thing to be optimized. education's core purpose is to enrich a child's life! you can't "tack on" an enriched inner life later
Nekt0@Nekt_0
Andrej Karpathy just said your kids should ignore most of school. "80% of education should be math, physics, CS." Not because it's useful - because it carves grooves in the brain. Grooves that get harder to carve the older you get. In a pre-AGI world: it gets you a job. In a post-AGI world: it makes you a functioning, empowered human. Everything else? Tack it on later. The cognitive foundation is the only foundation that survives the transition.
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@memecrashes "They're calling it the most humiliating and pathetic post in the history of math!"
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I am so tired of seeing these posts.
I am so tired of seeing my beloved field of study be the testing lab for a technology that is disrupting everyday life at such a high pace.
Mathematics were always about the beauty of seeing the ideas of a person unfolded in an extremely precise language so we can all look into a mathematician's mind and see their purest form of ideas, their understanding of a problem, their style, their way of communicating to other fellow researchers through mathematical results... this often transcends the common language humans use to communicate with each other and it is incredibly exciting to bump into shared ideas another person had thousands of kilometers away several years ago without even knowing them.
I am extremely unexcited about AI-breakthroughs in Mathematics in the same way I am extremely unexcited about a picture created by AI or an AI-generated video, not to speak about AI-generated text. Mathematics requires soul and intention. Mathematics need not be useful by definition, Mathematics are pure art that need hard work and effort to understand. The high you get when a year of work gets condensed in a one-page result is incomparable to anything else and, certainly, a machine is not apt to relate to humans in such a humane way.
I am not interested in the truth of the results. I am interested in how was the mind behind a result able to connect those dots. I am interested in the diversity human thoughts bring to Mathematics. I am not interested in a bunch of servers running probabilities to return a Theorem, even if true: that lacks the objective of Mathematics as I see them.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: GPT-5.6 Pro disproves the 30 y/o Dinitz–Garg–Goemans conjecture, a long-standing problem in mathematics — after being prompted to "do a breakthrough."
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13,000 people own second homes in NYC valued over $5 million.
Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax will seize $500 million a year from them.
That cash gets handed straight to illegal aliens and able-bodied freeloaders who refuse to work.
This is communism in action: loot the productive, reward the useless, and call it justice.
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NEW - Only 6% of people in the UK would volunteer to fight for the country in the face of an "imminent" invasion, according to polling from yougov — Sky
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@WarMonitor3 its fucking bizarre @POTUS allows @VP to humiliate him and make him look like such a weak pathetic bitch it makes no fucking sense
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The thing is it worked he did in fact end up standing for the anthem
Breaking911@Breaking911
WATCH: A man was struck in the back of the head by another fan after refusing to stand for the national anthem at a Chicago Cubs game.
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Almost like you only get the most out of AI when you know what you’re doing lmao
Deva Hazarika@devahaz
Just learned Jacobian conjecture guy is a mathematician with a PhD in math from Princeton who works at Anthropic. I thought it was just some poster who asked Fable about it!
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@tak3sh8 lots of mathematicians == liberal elitist stuff so people enjoy watching them lose
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I've also noticed this "hey mathematicians! take that losers" mentality and I'm not really sure where this hostility is coming from!
Surely people are not really angry at nerds proving theorem on modest salaries and minding their own business. So where is it really coming from?
Almost Sure@Almost_Sure
If a human solved RH: wow! Amazing stuff. How does this apply to all the related stuff? What does it tell us about number fields? About other L-functions? Must spend time studying it, could open up new fields of maths! If an AI solved RH: hey mathematicians! take that losers!
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@Rogue0114 @flowersslop you're not a schizo who values performative bullshit over actual productivity.
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@flowersslop Lmao. Mine is totally different. It said "Conclusion: The mathematical claim in the post is correct." And then just proceeded to explain why it was right. Like it was just teaching me. I'm afraid i killed its personality long ago.
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@SensibleRapist god damn I would be fucking humiliated to be this fucking pathetic publicly and then get seen by 2 million people
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"Yeah look at my yummy ass dinner that my wonderful wife made me! Look everyone!" Fuck you.
Ken Martini@whatkenatetoday
So the wife made these crazy mashed potato crispy fry things. Then garlic butter and roasted garlic aioli. Wild.
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@TimJayas how do you plan to make millions of dollars in open source?
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