This is how models were trained back in 2008 on object recognition. A big database was created of a ton of images and over time computers got better than humans and object recognition. It was used as a benchmark to test against. By saying they created a benchmark. That means you have a deterministic test. Perhaps something already known by humans but a difficult problem. Say identification of something. If over time you train against that data set you'll eventually hit near 100%. By saying they made a benchmark it's basically them saying it's a prime array for rapid improvement and historically all benchmarks like this see rapid improvement once tested is widespread.

The United States and Israel do $55 billion in trade yearly.

An aircraft carrier currently costs 3 billion annually to operate.

The money you are citing is part of the 1.3 billion we send them annually along with Egypt due to the 1979 Peace Treaty brokered by Jimmy Carter. Thought ya'll trusted his judgment?

In any case the tax revenue generated from bilateral trade pencils out quite nicely and the medical research coming out of Israel is regularly contributing to improving American healthcare to the tune of much more than single digit billions.

You mean the schools that were built by these randoms that settled near the homestead? That the homestead wasn't using and didn't want anything to do with? You mean those schools?

I don't even really consider property taxes to be constitutional in general. Frankly. When people settled the west they were homesteading. There were very few if any taxes what so ever. Then eventually municipalities tried to create townships with ever growing boundaries suddenly making people's completely free and clear owned property under the bureaucracy off some randoms that just happened to settle near you. Suddenly they want control over the wealth you have built independently of them. It's literal theft. That's why so many random small towns in California. They basically created their own municipalities in order to not get swallowed up and forced to pay higher taxes. There are very exclusive municipals near my house that are quite exclusive and are basically just 100 homes and a couple ranches. One of them is technically older than the United States and was founded when California was still Spanish. In any case I see this nonsense all the time. "We're from the government. We're here to help. -> Proceeds to tax you out of your own homestead 50 years later ->

Actually we're gonna make it so that you can't afford it first. I'd rather turn this place into Monaco. Not Russia. Buh bye.

Even if they can't do that oh look suddenly their kid is making 2 million a year as an Associate Executive or whatever bullshit title they'll come up with.

It's fucking hilarious what the chucklefucks on /. will believe. Like yea totally, totally, the software company that boasts a world wide audience somehow owes is all to one freaking state when the revenue is coming from literally the entire planet. These dumbfucks should be on their knees thanking these billionaires for locating their businesses here. Let alone declaring residency here. California at the end of the day isn't that special. I can get a Mediterranean climate in many places on the planet.

I dunno why you're arguing with this idiot. He's a /. troll with zero life experience cause all he does all day every day is waste his life in front of a computer.

Half of Google was founded by a guy who was a refugee from the USSR. He basically didn't even decide to move here. His parents did. If he had the sense of an American like Bill Gates he would have done the sensible thing and moved his entire company to Washington. I fear the signal from this nonsense will already cost this state hundreds of billions in lost revenue. Now they simply won't declare residency in California and you will get absolutely nothing. Congrats. You fucked us all. But I'm sure you'll never take responsibility because commies have no shame.

By that point everything will be readily available for even the poorest. Post scarcity will be the standard.

Economies of scale should be lowering tax expenditure over time. Not increasing it. I expect the government funded on 0.5% of revenue 500 years from now.

If you don't believe me look up how much it costs to build a road relative to the net worth of the population over time.

You just don't understand how wealth works. When you see that first billion coming it's visible to you and depends on your actions so what these people will do is simply move right before taking those actions as any sensible person would or otherwise spend the money before you get to it in a way that lets them retain the wealth without looking like they do. It will lead to California becoming a place that serious people don't do business. And frankly the jabbering of the poors is worth less than nothing here. Pretty much every California billionaire moved here from somewhere else. The next Google can be founded literally anywhere. The money always follows the path of least resistance. Call it the internet network rules of capitalism. This has actually been repeated throughout history for the past 3000 years in various ways. There's always a despot that will steal a merchant's entire business.

I'm voting against this. Because they're coming for your wealth next. You just don't know it yet. Zero new taxes. Period.

I know. That's my point. You can, in fact, make money doing this. That's the free market. Why would the government leave money on the table? That's our money. You wanna run the government like a business? Here it is. Fuck it. Buy low, sell high baby.

Bro as a true progressive I fucking despise these motherfuckers. They ruin everything they fucking touch

We had it all. We were 12% away from covering everyone. At the end of the Biden admin uninsured Americans dropped to just 12%. The lowest it has ever been in the history of the country. That 12% could be fully covered if you go in with a scalpel and do the work on only 0.5% of our tax revenue. But nooooo......

They decided to overshoot by going too far to the left with the Palestine bullshit as if it matters to the 340 million Americans' lives.

So now we get to waste 500 billion on Iran and other nonsense.