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I hope everyone that reads this can understand why it's a ridiculous argument.

Are you:

A) a troll

B) truly unable to tell the difference

That's a lot of word soup with no connective tissue or logical throughline.

Prop 13 is one of the worst pieces of legislation ever passed. Want to prevent the elderly from being forced to sell their homes over increasing property tax burdens? How about... don't kick them out of their homes because of unpaid property taxes.

Just keep the tally, and then when the house changes hands, mandate that the back taxes get paid out of the sale.

Yeah man totally with you. We should outlaw gay marriage too. It's only been around for like 15 years.

Their HN account is even newer

Your plan is to vote third party but it has zero to say about First-Past-the-Post voting, and so it is obviously completely useless and naive.

> They knew that if they didn't play ball Trump would use government power against them.

And that friends, is capital-F Fascism.

> What part of "lowercase p" was unclear?

The whole thing. I spend way too much time in the politics/political-philosophy rabbit hole, and it still whooshed right by me. I bet you got like a 2% hit rate on people understanding what you meant.

What on earth are you talking about? Trump invaded multiple American cities. He created an $85 billion federal goon force. He's kidnapped or killed TWO DIFFERENT heads of state. He's destroyed our trade relationships. He's taken inflation from frustrating to existential. He's bulldozing national parks. He's started a brand spanking new forever war. He's utterly corrupted the Supreme Court. He's multiplied the national deficit and debt. He's cut taxes for only the richest. He let Elon tear our institutions to shreds, costing infinitely more money than he "saved" in the process. Our entire federal science and research apparatus is gone. Effing measles is back and killing people. Screw worm is back. Air traffic is falling apart. Trump and his family have made tens of billions.

It is going to take literal decades, if it is even possible at all, to repair the damage Trump has done in 18 months.

> So he will anoint a weakling and the base will fracture.

Prediction: he will never anoint anyone. He is pathologically incapable of stepping aside, sharing, or caring one iota of what happens to anyone after he dies. He may not even be capable of conceptualizing his own mortality.

I fucking hate living in interesting times.

They also didn't say whether or not they like electric lightbulbs. Or hot showers. Or clothes. Or the wheel.

Your simplification itself is compressing away the meaningful point, and then you're confused about your own over-simplification.

Stripe is not a "credit card processor", and that's not the point of OP's comment. The point is that being the intermediary between merchants and processors is the valuable expertise in terms of an OpenRouter acquisition.

It's been a few years, but I used to work on almost exactly this (not at Stripe, but we processed hundreds of billions annually). If you're a big enough merchant (or Stripe itself), you can choose to send a credit card transaction to any one of potentially many processors, each of which have their own performance characteristics (one may approve at a higher rate, the other may charge better fees, etc). All of this subject to attributes of the transaction itself (ticket size, geography, card type, many others). You know quite a bit about the transaction itself before you send it out, so you can build up routing knowledge to optimize for whatever thing you care about (usually transaction success rates or fees).

See how this starts to look a lot like OpenRouter with money instead of tokens? I'm not sure I 100% believe that's how it'll shake out, but there is a transferable skillset.

You're missing the trees for the forest. The Industrial Revolution was terrible for the people who were working during it. Their jobs got eliminated and they only sorta sometimes were able to retrain for the new jobs, and the working conditions in those new jobs were atrocious, exactly because they were new enough that we didn't yet have safety regulations for them.

It was only their children who eventually saw any improvement in working/living conditions, and it was only because of all the absolutely awful things that happened to their parents. Safety regulations are written in blood. It only looks like consistent improvement if you zoom out to a level that obscures intra-generation experiences. At the level of the actual human beings subjected to the turbulence, it was awful.