Hakeem Jeffries holds up Trump bill vote as House speech passes 3 hours
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 25254 |
Comments: 1619
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries delayed a vote on President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill by delivering a nearly 9-hour speech, the longest 'magic minute' speech on record. The bill, opposed by Democrats, includes significant tax breaks for the wealthy and cuts to Medicaid and food stamps.
Key Points:
Hakeem Jeffries delayed a vote on Trump's bill with an 8-hour, 44-minute speech, breaking a previous record.
The bill proposes $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $1.2 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and food stamps.
Democrats oppose the bill, calling it an assault on health care and living standards for vulnerable Americans.
Jeffries labeled the bill as 'one big ugly bill' and criticized its impact on children, seniors, and veterans.
""This bill represents the largest cut to health care in American history," Jeffries said. "It's an all-out assault on the health care of the American people, an assault on Medicaid, an assault on Medicare, an assault on the Children's Health Insurance Program, an assault on the Affordable Care Act, an assault on Planned Parenthood and the health care of women all across the United States of America.""
Lisa Murkowski’s megabill vote was everything people hate about politicians - What the senator claimed was a difficult decision was just a case of backroom deals and abandoned principles.
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 19750 |
Comments: 456
The article criticizes Senator Lisa Murkowski for voting in favor of a controversial 'megabill' that aligns with President Trump's priorities, despite her claims of being a moderate and pro-choice advocate. The bill includes measures harmful to abortion rights and low-income individuals, and Murkowski's decision is portrayed as a betrayal of her principles for political concessions.
Key Points:
Senator Lisa Murkowski's vote for the 'megabill' contradicts her self-proclaimed moderate and pro-choice stance.
The bill includes provisions that could severely limit abortion access and harm low-income individuals.
Murkowski justified her vote by citing benefits for Alaska, despite acknowledging the bill's broader negative impacts.
The article highlights Murkowski's history of supporting Supreme Court justices with anti-abortion views.
Her actions are criticized as emblematic of political hypocrisy and backroom deals.
"The Senate’s small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she’s supporting will harm the nation’s 339 million other residents."
AOC Slams House Republicans For Supporting Trump's 'Big, Beautiful' Bill 'In Exchange For Some Signed Merch': 'Voting To Starve Babies'. "And they have the audacity to try to brand this as Christian. What does that word even mean to them? Wearing a necklace?" AOC added
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 6688 |
Comments: 175
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) criticized House Republicans for supporting President Trump's bill, which includes cuts to SNAP benefits, accusing them of prioritizing signed merchandise over the welfare of vulnerable Americans. She also condemned Sen. Lisa Murkowski for voting in favor of the bill despite her public criticisms, highlighting the potential harm to millions of Americans.
Key Points:
AOC slammed House Republicans for supporting Trump's bill, which includes cuts to SNAP benefits, in exchange for signed merchandise.
She criticized the Republicans' branding of the bill as 'Christian,' questioning their moral stance.
AOC also called out Sen. Lisa Murkowski for voting in favor of the bill despite her reservations, emphasizing the negative impact on Americans.
The bill passed a key hurdle in the House after Republican holdouts were swayed by House Speaker Mike Johnson.
AOC framed the bill as a betrayal of working families and vulnerable populations.
""Voting to starve babies. The disabled. The poor. And they have the audacity to try to brand this as Christian. What does that word even mean to them? Wearing a necklace?""
Donald Trump's Approval Rating Plummets With Republicans
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Score: 5398 |
Comments: 445
Donald Trump's approval rating among Republicans has significantly declined, according to recent polls. The drop is attributed to his controversial airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, which have raised concerns about prolonged U.S. military involvement in the Middle East.
Key Points:
Trump's approval rating among Republicans dropped from 86% in March to 79% in June.
The decline is linked to his airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, which most Americans disapprove of.
Political commentators warn that Trump's actions contradict his 'America First' promise to avoid foreign conflicts.
The situation has heightened fears of deeper U.S. military engagement in the Middle East.
Polls show fluctuating approval ratings, indicating uncertainty among his base.
""Trump's recent actions in Iran have done little to reassure the MAGA base that he'll steer clear of another endless war in the Middle East," Thomas Gift, founding director of the University College London Centre on U.S. Politics, told Newsweek, warning that "a core pillar of Trump's 2024 appeal was the idea that 'America First' meant staying out of foreign conflicts," but now "that promise is starting to ring hollow.""
The article criticizes users who boast about excessive AI usage on leaderboards, calling it wasteful and abusive. It argues that such behavior leads to stricter usage caps and negatively impacts other users.
Key Points:
Criticism of users bragging about high AI usage on leaderboards
Labeling such behavior as wasteful and abusive
Impact on other users due to throttling or lockouts
Advocacy for stricter usage caps
Assertion that excessive users deserve harsh limits
"Bragging about burning thousands of dollars a month just to flex on a leaderboard is peak delusion. It's not impressive. It's abuse."
The Claude Code Divide: Those Who Know vs Those Who Don’t
Posted on r/ClaudeAI |
Score: 134 |
Comments: 65
The article discusses a growing divide among developers using Claude Code, where those with access to advanced instruction libraries and workflows achieve significantly higher productivity than those relying on basic prompts. It highlights how power users leverage custom commands and templates to automate tasks and solve complex problems efficiently, creating a compounding advantage. The author questions whether this marks the emergence of a new class of developers who excel at orchestrating AI rather than just prompting it.
Key Points:
Developers using advanced instruction libraries with Claude Code ship features much faster than those using basic prompts.
Power users share secret workflows, templates, and commands that turn Claude into domain experts or automate complex tasks.
The productivity gap between developers with and without these resources is widening over time.
Traditional programming skills are being commoditized, while skills in designing AI workflows and distributed systems become more valuable.
The article raises philosophical questions about the future of developer roles in an AI-driven workflow environment.
"“90% of traditional programming skills are becoming commoditized while the remaining 10% becomes worth 1000x more.” That 10% isn’t coding, it’s knowing how to design distributed system, how to architect AI workflows."
anyone else in the mindset of "it's Opus or nothing" for 90% of their work?
Posted on r/ClaudeAI |
Score: 80 |
Comments: 94
The article discusses the author's preference for using Opus over Sonnet, despite Sonnet being capable, due to a perceived need to always use the best model available. The author feels that using Sonnet would mean missing out on something better, even though it is not a bad option.
Key Points:
Author prefers Opus over Sonnet for most tasks.
Feels using Sonnet is a waste of subscription despite its capability.
Willing to wait for Opus limits to reset rather than switch to Sonnet.
Internal struggle with always wanting the best model.
Questions if others share this mindset or if it's unique to them.
"Opus IS better, but sonnet is not bad by any means..I have this internal problem of wanting the best, and if I write something with Sonnet im going to be missing out in some way."
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 61 |
Comments: 18
The article recounts the author's experience solving a mysterious bug in a medical e-referrals application in Australia. The bug involved an illegal character error during XML conversion, which occurred intermittently and required manual intervention.
Key Points:
The author worked on a team developing medical software for e-referrals, automating the process of sending patient referrals digitally.
Their role involved maintenance, support, and investigating bugs, often requiring manual tasks and log analysis.
A recurring bug caused referrals to fail during XML conversion due to an illegal character error, which was mysterious and required manual fixes.
The author highlights the challenges of automating tasks in a corporate environment compared to personal servers.
The article emphasizes the importance of intuition and detailed investigation in solving complex software issues.
"Illegal Character entity: expansion character (code 0x2) not a valid XML character"
Routing just netflix through something like tailscale
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 40 |
Comments: 16
The article discusses a user's idea to bypass Netflix's IP blocking by setting up a Tailscale tunnel between multiple houses to route Netflix traffic through a single IP, while keeping normal traffic unaffected. The user considers using a Pi-hole with local DNS settings to facilitate this routing.
Key Points:
User wants to bypass Netflix's IP blocking by using a Tailscale tunnel.
Proposes routing only Netflix traffic through the tunnel to avoid affecting normal traffic.
Suggests using a Pi-hole with local DNS settings to manage the routing.
Seeks advice or experiences from others who might have tried similar setups.
"route all the netflix related trafic through that tunnel so netflix thinks it is all the same ip, without touching the 'normal' traffic"
The article describes a rare and elusive bug, termed a 'higgs-bugson,' in the Linux kernel that caused sporadic permission denials during large file copies in a system called Gord. The author details the debugging process, focusing on the interaction between NFS, Kerberos, and the rpc_gssd daemon, and attempts to reproduce the issue.
Key Points:
The bug manifested as rare -EACCES errors during large file copies in the Gord system, with no obvious pattern.
Kerberos was suspected as the issue since disabling it in the dev environment prevented the errors.
The kernel retrieves Kerberos credentials via the rpc_gssd daemon, which communicates through a special filesystem called rpc_pipefs.
Initial attempts to reproduce the bug were unsuccessful, leading the author to scale up testing.
The bug's elusiveness and the complexity of the systems involved made it challenging to diagnose.
"A higgs-bugson is a bug that is reported in practice but difficult to reproduce, named for the Higgs boson, a particle which was theorized in the 1960s but only found in 2013."
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 28 |
Comments: 30
The article introduces tmux-rs, a Rust port of the tmux terminal multiplexer, detailing the author's journey from using C2Rust for initial transpilation to manually rewriting the codebase. The author shares insights into the challenges faced, including unmaintainable generated code and build process complexities, ultimately achieving a fully Rust codebase.
Key Points:
The project started as a hobby to port tmux from C to Rust using C2Rust, but the generated code was unmaintainable.
The author manually rewrote the codebase, emphasizing the importance of understanding the original C code and build process.
The build process involved integrating Rust with autotools and modifying Makefiles to link a static Rust library.
The final codebase is 100% Rust, though it required significant manual effort and refactoring.
The author highlights the value of C2Rust for initial feasibility but opted for manual translation for maintainability.
Weird idea for valuing land: Train station economics
Posted on r/georgism |
Score: 15 |
Comments: 10
The article discusses how land values increase near train stations, with the effect being more pronounced near larger stations like St Pancras, encouraging higher-density housing and affordability. Smaller stations, like Cottingham, also see this effect but to a lesser degree, still promoting better land use. The author suggests taxing a percentage of this increased land value.
Key Points:
Land values rise in proximity to train stations, with larger stations having a greater impact.
This effect encourages higher-density housing development, improving affordability.
Even small stations, like Cottingham, benefit from this phenomenon, though less dramatically.
The author proposes taxing a percentage of the increased land value generated by proximity to stations.
"For example, the land approaching St Pacreas would be very expensive, encouraging development of more and larger housing to generate more income and increase affordability."
The article argues that Georgism, often presented as a mere tax policy, should instead be framed as a radical vision of collective ownership and democratic governance of land and resources. It emphasizes that only through clear, collective stewardship and institutional rules can society prevent rent-seeking and decay.
Key Points:
Georgism should be sold as a vision of collective ownership, not just a tax tool.
Democratic governance and transparent rules are essential to prevent rent-seeking.
Elinor Ostrom's principles of polycentric governance are key to sustaining shared resources.
Without collective title and clear stewardship rules, all regimes degrade.
Georgism must be articulated boldly to move beyond policy footnotes.
"People rally behind the vision that every fucking inch of nature, all the *riches* they bear, belongs to *us*, and therefore must be held in full, *collective* title, stewarded by a *democratic* state."
"We need an abundant commons so establish property owners can not monopolize employment." A twenty first century reframing of Georgist and Liberal thought.
Posted on r/georgism |
Score: 11 |
Comments: 3
The article argues that the monopolization of common resources by property owners restricts employment opportunities and economic mobility, drawing on Georgist and Liberal principles. It highlights historical examples where abundant commons fueled prosperity and suggests taxing economic rents to fund universal basic services and a citizens dividend as a solution.
Key Points:
Historical abundance of commons (e.g., furs, timber, homesteading) enabled economic mobility and entrepreneurship in the US.
Modern housing and employment crises stem from the monopolization of resources, forcing people into high-cost urban areas.
The solution involves taxing economic rents (land, IP, etc.) to fund universal basic services and a citizens dividend.
The article reframes the loss of commons as a monopoly on employment, linking historical principles to modern economic struggles.
"The diagnosis is clear. The problem is not a lack of land, resources, or human ingenuity, but a system that allows the private monopolization of our common inheritance, and with it our employment opportunities."