infinite8s's comments

On: All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

[infinite8s]

This is like "Picture Cook: See, Make, Eat": https://www.amazon.com/Picture-Cook-Katie-Shelly/dp/16460416...

On: ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips

[infinite8s]

QRT?

On: Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

[infinite8s]

>The UK system takes the national insurance contributions of workers but doesn’t invest them in anything on behalf of the individual. So despite decades of payments you technically have nothing at the end and survive on the goodwill of the government and current taxpayers. That works right now because of the population pyramid.

That's how Social Security works in the United States as well.

[sefrost → infinite8s]

I believe it’s tied to your earnings in the US though, which it isn’t in the UK.

I also have a number of qualifying years in the UK when I didn’t work, and for decades you could buy a year contribution for about £150. The payout is £12,500 per year.

On: The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood

[infinite8s]

That's because they know their kids will be set no matter what they do in life.

On: The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?

[infinite8s]

But they might be pushing in the wrong direction.

On: US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock

[infinite8s]

The opposite - the incumbent party is destroying America.

On: Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world

[infinite8s]

Is this like some scale-independent version of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?

On: America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks

[infinite8s]

There are definite costs to this in terms of continued US taxation as an expat, especially if there isn't a tax treaty in place.

[raw_anon_1111 → infinite8s]

Costa Rica doesn’t tax foreign income. But logically it only makes sense to establish residence there if I am not working. CAJA - their healthcare system would be about the same price as my employer provided healthcare.

I already don’t pay state tax living in Florida and I would pay federal tax either way.

On: Hacking Moltbook

[infinite8s]

Who's legally responsible once someone's agent decides to SWAT someone else because they got into an argument with that person's agent?

On: Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires

[infinite8s]

Those poor people voted for something for which they were explicitly mislead. The results of Brexit have in no ways made their lives better.

[davidwritesbugs → infinite8s]

In other words "democracy" - people with an agenda tell their version of its benefits. Saying "the vote was invalid because the poor uneducated people were too stupid to realise they were being lied to"