Proziam

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by Proziam 5y ago
I did this. Shifted the whole family to Telegram, and am hoping Signal catches up so we can switch to that. I do have a few members of the family on Signal already though. They're just the ones that don't mind giving up stickers a
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by Proziam 5y ago
> Not even the most die-hard freedom fighters will side with the dishonest and violent. Cryptocurrency will be the worst thing that ever happened to them. The history of many nations has proven this to be untrue.
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by Proziam 5y ago
I understand where you're coming from but I hold the extreme opposite view. I believe it should be illegal for a company to intentionally allow children into a system where their psychology is manipulated. Instagram has huge negative p
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by Proziam 5y ago
So it's not based on race, it's based on something that is nearly a 1:1 approximation for race in many instances?
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by Proziam 6y ago
It seems most of the video was taken down like this one - https://www.facebook.com/163203180698293/posts/1165808300437... Some things are still available though - https://www.bitchute.com/video&#x2
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by Proziam 6y ago
All the live footage I've seen from people who have actually gone suggests that it was as bad as people suggest. Things I've seen video of includes guys handing out guns to (what appear to be) minors, fights breaking out, and peop
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by Proziam 6y ago
This is one of the primary reasons I promote using the simplest possible tax and incentive structures. The simpler it is, the easier it is to avoid creating loopholes. Besides, paying tax should be a much easier process for the small fish.
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by Proziam 6y ago
I never experienced this in the US. I did experience this in Germany, Sweden, and the UK.
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by Proziam 6y ago
> With that said, my next phone will be an iPhone . I am trying to de-china whenever I can when it comes to buying stuff. I have bad news for you, friend.
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by Proziam 6y ago
> Is this a term for something real It's real. The most privileged people I know (and later cut out of my life entirely) are the first to play the victim card. We're talking the type of people who would choose to show up to wor
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by Proziam 6y ago
Going one further, you can circumvent this ban too :)
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by Proziam 6y ago
> how to really solve problems with code. For me, it took me a long time to really understand where to begin. It wasn't that I couldn't solve a specific problem, like on leetcode. I didn't know how to go from scratch to bu
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by Proziam 6y ago
It's possible that his technical abilities are now sufficient to do the work but he hasn't yet learned the language commonly used for describing the technology. This is a pretty common thing amongst self-taught people.
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by Proziam 6y ago
People don't live in uniform distribution across the country, and different regions have different economic and social climates. The percentage of people born in Scranton, PA that grow up to become software engineers is going to be dif
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by Proziam 6y ago
> Where would you find sufficient investable assets? The land itself, all of the resources in and on it, the industries that operate within the borders, etc. We don't necessarily need to set aside 200k per capita, but it would be wi
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by Proziam 6y ago
> May I suggest: their own salaries or perhaps military spending? Personal opinion: I want to pay every politician even more than they get now - for life. In exchange, they are never allowed to work or own equity in a corporation . Shut
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by Proziam 6y ago
I just commented a moment ago mentioning Norway. I believe such a fund is a promising idea so long as it is managed in such a way that no politician or political organization could raid it. If the US had a wealth fund instead of a national
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by Proziam 6y ago
> Although I can think of some states with balanced budget constitutions that act only nominally to constrain spending, as they are based on abusable projections, so the impediment is not firm. Most of the sources of misery in the US are
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by Proziam 6y ago
I have written about this before, but I believe this perspective is worth repeating. UBI is a fantastic idea in theory. It is more efficient in terms of capital and human resources than the current system, probably by an order of magnitude
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by Proziam 6y ago
That probably depends on how this nonpartisan reviewer was selected. Are they paid? By whom? By what standard are they considered authoritative?
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by Proziam 6y ago
> Why are you worried about disclosing how much milk and eggs you buy? They can see sexual activity, if you're a parent/expecting, a ton of health information, if you're a smoker, your physical location, and more. This isn
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by Proziam 6y ago
Actually, he just described people. Communist regimes have the exact same issues with corruption and greed. Capitalism vs Communism is a useless debate if the will isn't there to hold the corrupt accountable and ensure that the average
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by Proziam 6y ago
I wonder how much time and effort went in from the side of government to arrive at a point where they can manipulate the free market to help them kill people. Other users have rightly pointed that getting this support from outside sources e
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by Proziam 6y ago
I take a more extreme view. My confidence that it is absolutely intentional and that significant planning went in to arrive at this point is in the region of 99%.
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by Proziam 6y ago
> If the law doesn't take effect for 3 years then all equipment will have been replaced by the normal cycle. I have personally seen such equipment remain in use for 15-20 years. When I was young the lawnmower we used was a monstrous
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by Proziam 6y ago
> It likely means selling some of their amortized equipment to buy different equipment. Many run their business with the tools they can afford. Upon inspection, you would find that many such businesses have little to no resale value to l
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by Proziam 6y ago
> You've changed your argument. Now you're saying "forget half of what I said" My only point is that the way you implement change matters and that this implementation will adversely affect the worst-off population. &g
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by Proziam 6y ago
> If you read up on this issue, the effect in the real world is that businesses buy electric blowers. I wonder, between the two of us, who has spent more time actually making money by doing landscaping. A large portion of these 'bus
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by Proziam 6y ago
Is the threat of overnight destruction for many small businesses a reasonable way to approach this problem? I can easily imagine that not a single person passing this change ever thought about that. Whether it is virtue points or an importa
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by Proziam 6y ago
I think the point the commenter above was making was this: "If women cannot work while simultaneously having/raising children there will always be at least a slight difference in the amount of men vs women in the workforce."

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