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by Jolter 2y ago
You write “You can give these people houses but without treatment they will still be begging on the street.” Your choice of words makes me wonder whether you would agree that an addict who sleeps in an apartment is better off than an addict
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by Jolter 2y ago
If you have ever done subcontracting work or been a supplier to a major automotive corps, you’ll know the can be extremely late to pay at times. They use their muscle to get a free line of credit from their suppliers by simply demanding to
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by Jolter 2y ago
Would hosting in Europe really help? I’m under the impression that current EU case law makes it impossible for EU-based government entities to store personal data in services owned by US entities, no matter where they are hosted. Maybe I
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by Jolter 2y ago
Pong was (originally) built using transistor-transistor logic on a circuit board. AFAIK it did not involve any software at all.
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by Jolter 2y ago
You can raise US company taxes and capital gains tax a lot before the US stops being a low-tax country. You’re not wrong, of course, about how every tax percentage point matters. But Americans arguing that their taxes are too high is never
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by Jolter 2y ago
I don’t find it negative at all. You’re referring to the top voted comment on the OP, by “rzwitserloot”? Whether it’s wrong or not, I can’t say. The comment seems open about being a bit speculative. It’s asking questions that I find interes
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by Jolter 2y ago
Luckily HN seems to me a bit exceptional in that comments generating positive reactions are surfaced over negative ones.
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by Jolter 2y ago
This would have worked fine in a Scandinavian company where managers are expected to delegate (some/most) technical responsibility. If boss was off, and couldn’t react in time, their eventual reaction would depend entirely on the outco
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by Jolter 2y ago
Look at it as VAT taxing your turnover rather than your profit and you might start to see why they are different things. A state might want to tax both of them at some level, because even unprofitable businesses should contribute. Or they m
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by Jolter 2y ago
His opinions on advertising can still be worth hearing.
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by Jolter 2y ago
Why was this flagged and removed?
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by Jolter 2y ago
They would absolutely have helped! If there were, for instance, a proper way to validate what someone looked like, for instance if the national ID database had been consulted for photos of the person when issuing a new ID, then probably the
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by Jolter 2y ago
No, it's not the USPS. I said a private business to keep it a bit anonymous but if you don't believe me, here it is: http://808alohamail.com/ There's hundreds of households on a fairly small area who are not
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by Jolter 2y ago
Well the Japanese one apparently doesn’t. But surely you see how it would be a logical fallacy to discount a type of system because of one faulty implementation?
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by Jolter 2y ago
You’re right, that’s one vulnerability in the system. I don’t know how common it is for someone to want to impersonate a homeless person, though, considering in Sweden you’d probably have to pay up that homeless person’s debt… Ok, I’m sligh
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by Jolter 2y ago
Yeah they have to pick up their mail a few miles down the road at a private business which runs their PO boxes. I don’t that’s an acceptable level of service but to each their own, I guess…
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by Jolter 2y ago
Hey, you know another system that’s broken? The US voting system. Because you can’t know for sure who is entitled to vote if you don’t know who lives in your country. You’re trying to put the cart before the horse with this argument. A vote
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by Jolter 2y ago
The logic here is pretty thin: “criminals are already able to do it, so we should make it simpler”.
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by Jolter 2y ago
I did not know these things! Thanks for that.
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by Jolter 2y ago
I appreciate that you’re defending my right to voice my opinion. That said, you’re contradicting yourself: am I saying my country’s system is impervious to abuse, or am I admitting that it is not? My point is not that a central database of
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by Jolter 2y ago
I am not describing birth certificates. I’m describing a registry of residence. That’s another thing the U.S. does wrong. If you hold a birth certificate for a child, what does that prove? It’s just an officially issued statement that a par
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by Jolter 2y ago
Yes, the government ID being easy to get is precisely the problem in this scenario.
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by Jolter 2y ago
The government's failure there is that they issued a faulty ID to the conman, of course. I think the victim should be entitled to damages from the state for that fault, and also for the false sentence he received.
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by Jolter 2y ago
Strawman. Nobody claimed it was impossible. My point is that this new item (and others) make identity theft seem so extremely easy in the U.S. You just have to be determined. Doesn't take any particular skill to forge an electricity bi
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by Jolter 2y ago
Yeah, that's how a post office has to operate under those circumstances. It seems to work decently, for the most part. In my country (Sweden), the post office is able to forward mail to your new address after you move, because they can
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by Jolter 2y ago
Sorry, what, elections are for doing what exactly? Not provide a registry of residence, surely. Your second sentence builds up two strawmen: 1. That the registry has to be "perfect", whatever that means. It doesn't, it just h
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by Jolter 2y ago
Well, it’s not mandatory to take out a passport or ID card anywhere that I’m aware. And perhaps a photo ID database would have been as far as I’d be willing to stretch when it comes to storing biometrics. But you do realize that even the go
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by Jolter 2y ago
How about the government, for failing to provide their citizens with the security of a proper government issued ID?
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by Jolter 2y ago
Hot take: Yet another case of wrongdoing that could have been prevented if the U.S. (or its states) held a canonical registry of people. If you couldn’t take out an ID card using a birth certificate and proof of residence (electricity bill
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by Jolter 2y ago
It would be a stupid impostor if there was.

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