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Why does this matter? The government spends X dollars each fiscal year, divided by the number (N) of people. Most people aren't paying X/N. The government would not be able to fund every social program or services if it weren&#x27
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If you are a citizen child and your parents are arrested and subsequently incarcerated for breaking the law, you will be placed in foster care absent a suitable alternative guardian. In this case, the children are being kept with their fa
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They are a useful tool if you need to keep your civilization preoccupied and blissfully unaware of their current circumstances. Existential crises are expensive. "Keep working! The next life - that's when it gets good!"
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(Assuming this were actually RF) This is easily-prosecutable willful interference or possibly aircraft sabotage: ADS-B operates in licensed bands and uses an already highly-contended modulation scheme and transmission protocol.
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Grade school math. Look at income tax receipts: the top 5% pay >61% of all income taxes. You can try and split hairs with "sales taxes" and "payroll taxes" and try to shimmy things into some anti-capitalist stance (&q
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> lots of other countries have similar policies in place "Lots" of countries that nobody is clamoring to obtain citizenship in. Exactly one of them has a higher HDI score than the US, all of the rest are 20+ positions lower. Ho
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> What moral reasons do you give to not give citizenship to those born here? Why should someone on vacation be able to automatically tap into already-limited social safety nets for their children? They have contributed next to nothing.
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> And yes, lots of other countries have similar policies in place. Which developed countries? Canada? Any other examples?
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> They’ll just incentivize their local companies to compete They already do.
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The vast majority of adults and their children will never pay their tax burden proportionately.
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How many other developed countries in the world allow tourists to unconditionally birth citizens?
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Nobody said he was? Are you in the right thread?
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> As a European I'm also somewhat confused. I always thought that the reason the second amendment was made into such a big deal was because Americans felt they needed to be able to protect themselves in case the government ran amok.
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Invariably someone will shoot back with "citizen children of illegal immigrants."
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> Apple refused to use its own private key to sign a tool that would have unlocked any iPhone. This is a misrepresentation of what actually happened: the FBI even argued that they would accept a tool locked to the specific device in ques
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The ideal is that they have no ability to comply or not comply: they shouldn't have the keys to begin with.
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What should Namecheap do when a court in Iran wants content blocked?
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> I presume they themselves do have access to its development. Bad presumption. Just develop a new board with your own bespoke design and firmware, possibly inspired by theirs. If you can't do this, you shouldn't be in this bus
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Meanwhile privateers sunk or captured 2200+ British ships during the Revolution - I'm sure this was all "organized" militia and every one of those cannons had a permit and taxes paid. Who are you trying to fool?
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> though I don't think they expected the same quantity at that quality Privateers sunk or captured literally thousands of ships during the Revolution, and were documented to be far more effective than the Continental Navy. The Found
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> Tanks for all! "Tanks" as a vehicle aren't regulated whatsoever - their main cannon is a destructive device which carries its own set of regulations, but you can absolutely own a tank (sans main gun) with zero paperwork.
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The Constitution explicitly states the government may grant "Letters of Marque and Reprisal" to private citizens. What are those private citizens attacking enemy ships with exactly - strong words?
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People who think "it's open source bro! Boo ARM!" without understanding how peripheral IP works.
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> UPS bought the planes from Boeing No, UPS bought the plane from Thai Airways International. > Boeing built them No, McDonnell Douglas built the plane in question; Boeing hadn't merged with MD at the time this aircraft was manuf
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And how much do you think the Humanscale mount costs that you would otherwise use? The Pro Display XDR is too heavy for a $30 Amazon Basics mounting arm or anything similarly cheap.
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> You so much as walk around with your gun in the streets of Seoul, and you will very quickly find out that the government can, in fact, do something about it, it will do something about it, the general public will side with the governme
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I can mill a perfectly working firearm in any highly-restricted legal jurisdiction anywhere in the world and the "government can do nothing about it." These devices are over a century old: the cat's out of the bag, manufactur
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girardoni_air_rifle
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Let's move 33% of the US population into an area the size of Montana and we can have the exact same thing!
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> not misgender or deadname them In other words: be an active, enthusiastic participant in someone's beliefs regardless of your own. > How is this relevant to a programming language community? Easy example: "I feel unsafe be

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