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New comment by AdrianB1 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

AdrianB1 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:16:55 +0000

That is the point: as a citizen in a city, you are part of that city and any contract the city is part of. Otherwise, what/who is a city?

New comment by AdrianB1 in "We Need VAT and UBI"

AdrianB1 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:28:51 +0000

That is just a bad deflection, not an answer to the point.

New comment by AdrianB1 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

AdrianB1 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:27:50 +0000

> just being a resident of a city doesn’t give you standing to sue over any decision that has a tenuous adverse effect on you

Why not? If you are impacted, why not? When do you have a standing then?

Visitors out of town have less standing than the people paying taxes to the town, that is fair, but the city IS the people, each and every person, not an abstract third party that herds them like cattle.

New comment by AdrianB1 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

AdrianB1 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:32:08 +0000

If it is a park, does it mean anyone living in the city has standing because their entire city lost the park?

New comment by AdrianB1 in "We Need VAT and UBI"

AdrianB1 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:51:54 +0000

How about we make taxation as a fix amount per citizen and then nobody needs to declare their income OR land? And it is equal and fair, as in "pay your fair share", and that's it: you are a citizen, then you pay $X as your contribution like everyone else. Problem solved.

New comment by AdrianB1 in "Cannibalism"

AdrianB1 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:37:59 +0000

Yes. Most of the people I see are on the extremes of either hating LLMs or fanatically loving it, but I am somewhere in the middle ground, I think, where I see it as a tool that sometimes helps to some extent. I don't depend on it, it almost never gives me new ideas or ways to do things, but for trivial tasks it helps me relax supervising it - usually writing the first draft for documentation or suggesting initial updates, even filling in some semi-repetitive code patterns in web apps ("create empty functions and link the buttons to it"). It is just a tool, not too bad to ignore, not too good to get more productivity, sometimes useful. Using it is like using an IDE 30 years ago or Intellisense 15-20 years ago.

LE. I see current versions of LLM like an intern that helps me doing work. We work together, I give directions and supervision and I am responsible for the results. I cannot give complex tasks and I cannot skip checking everything, but it usually helps.

New comment by AdrianB1 in "We Need VAT and UBI"

AdrianB1 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:37:28 +0000

What does the percentage has to do with anything? Do they have more percentage in voting? Or in the spending of the money they pay as taxes?

I don't know how people have the guts to pretend equality, but not in taxation. One human, one vote, one dollar.

New comment by AdrianB1 in "Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack"

AdrianB1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:10:24 +0000

At least in the newest headset Sennheiser announced user replaceable battery, without announcing the price or if it is a standard format that you can buy everywhere or a very pricey gold-pressed latinum custom audiophile one.

New comment by AdrianB1 in "We Need VAT and UBI"

AdrianB1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:12:46 +0000

First you are deflecting and going in discussions about points that were never made, then you keep preaching a system where you don't have property rights under the nice "think of the children" pretext that it is a "pro-development". Basic communist argument of the greater good against the individual.

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AdrianB1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:40:57 +0000

You bought the land, so it is yours, right?

Yes, I am fine with taxes, but not with any type of tax, not property taxes (it is bought with money already taxed) and not with taxes as punishment or taxes as political games. I am opposed to taxes as a purpose, I am for taxes as a means to pay for some universal services that you cannot pay by consumption.

New comment by AdrianB1 in "We Need VAT and UBI"

AdrianB1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:14:23 +0000

That is basically removing property rights, when the land is not yours but you just rent it ... you will own nothing and be happy.

New comment by AdrianB1 in "We Need VAT and UBI"

AdrianB1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:16:51 +0000

I also think UBI is necessary, but I don't have a political agenda on how to force people funding it. Maybe it's me growing in a communist country and hating it to death (communism, socialism and all the variants that treat people like cattle "for the greater good").

New comment by AdrianB1 in "We Need VAT and UBI"

AdrianB1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:06:22 +0000

I see the point, but I don't see what is wrong with that, and I am relatively poor person. I see calls for equality all over the place, but nobody wants to be equal, especially not in taxation - a fix amount (not percent of something) sum per citizen is equal and nobody wants it. Equal rights, equal taxes, equal obligations, no exceptions - be it financial, demographic, military, etc.

New comment by AdrianB1 in "I analysed 20 years of my chats"

AdrianB1 — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:48:52 +0000

I don't understand how some people write hundreds of text/chat messages per day. I am communicating by talking to people almost 100% of non-work, most of the discussions are face to face, I write or receive a handful of texts or chats per week, maybe a dozen per month.

I find text messages impersonal and it also takes longer to communicate clearly what we need. There is so much lost. Even chats and emails for work are at risk of creating misunderstanding, especially because English is not the native language of most of my coworkers, all these adds to result in pretty low quality communication.

New comment by AdrianB1 in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

AdrianB1 — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:39:02 +0000

I heard that lie about "sensible restrictions" so many times, now I am waiting for "sensible violence", "sensible beating to death" and so on. It is a false argument that "there will be restrictions so all I can do is suggest more sensible restrictions", what you can do is recognize that "no restrictions is an option".

It is like negotiating with a terrorist that wants to kill you and this is his starting position and then he wants to agree on some compromise, like seriously beating you. There is no negotiation.

New comment by AdrianB1 in "I manage teams without a single call"

AdrianB1 — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:16:42 +0000

Yes. Not often, but yes, it happens: when I am working on something where it takes me a few hours of deep focus to complete and I get interrupted, it can derail me for days. What disappears most of the time is engagement, I tend to postpone that work for next day or more.

New comment by AdrianB1 in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

AdrianB1 — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:23:21 +0000

Lacking not just courage, but also character. Wasting company money on buzzwords and dubious outcomes is lack of character.

New comment by AdrianB1 in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

AdrianB1 — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:09:11 +0000

I am paying taxes in US for over 20 years, don't hold a green card, not interested in ever getting one and not complaining that I don't have the right to vote. How are these things related?

New comment by AdrianB1 in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

AdrianB1 — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:49:14 +0000

What I did not see in the article or comments is the fact that people dictate how things evolve. People vote with their wallets (or via local councils) in ways that directly or indirectly influence the outcome. The title can also be, and still correct, "We killed the brick and mortar toy store". This makes people think more than "it's raining", which is impersonal and somewhat inactionable.

New comment by AdrianB1 in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

AdrianB1 — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:24:29 +0000

A false flag to fight for. A wrong purpose in life.