Qasaur

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by Qasaur 6y ago
The United States taxes its citizens globally regardless of residence, yes. One of the only countries in the world that does that (the other is Liberia AFAIK).
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by Qasaur 6y ago
Seems like India does this well and they are the world's largest democracy and much poorer than the average American. Poverty is not an excuse for government incompetence (or even malice). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by Qasaur 6y ago
I can see why a tiny minority of people would be disenfranchised, but unfortunately compromises have to be made to have a fair and rigorous election system. Edgecases exist where people slip through the bureaucratic cracks but those exist h
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by Qasaur 6y ago
Then perhaps the federal authorities should push for federal ID cards so people can actually identify themselves when voting. It is beyond me how the State can enforce a non-voluntary tax liability on a citizen but has no way of reliably id
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by Qasaur 6y ago
I don't understand why voter ID is such a big deal in the United States. In my country (Sweden) you cannot vote without identifying yourself with a state-issued ID card or passport, no exceptions. If you for some reason lack both you
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by Qasaur 6y ago
My father used to be a programmer back in the 1960's for the IBM 700 series mainframes, writing programmes and simulations in FORTRAN 4 (and I think some assembler, too) for our now-defunct shipbuilding industry (Sweden). The stories h
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by Qasaur 6y ago
There have absolutely been cases in history where other forms of "money" have been used, but in a long enough timescale of a civilisation, gold and silver are organically adopted as money due to their unique properties that make t
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by Qasaur 6y ago
Hyperinflation is the phenomenon when people wake up and realise that real estate and prices rising is not a function of real prices increasing but rather their money losing value. We already have extreme asset price inflation (not to menti
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by Qasaur 6y ago
They insist on enforcing inflationary monetary policy because it is thinly-veiled regulatory capture. No matter what the academics say to try and justify it (it is not justified and does not hold up to critical analysis, see the Cantillon e
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by Qasaur 6y ago
Krugman in his usual arrogance neglects to consider the price and indeed monetary history of gold. It is and always has been "real money" and most people either consciously or subconsciously trust gold more than the pieces of pape
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by Qasaur 6y ago
It's not vanity, because governments have dugged themselves into a hole where pension funds and others have invested enormous amounts of money in equities (seeing as bond returns are non-existent due to the aforementioned stimulus) as
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by Qasaur 6y ago
Urbit is a pretty good example of this.
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by Qasaur 6y ago
Wait until you hear about how we Swedes feel when we hit the 50%-55% income tax bracket (not counting payroll tax of 30%!).
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by Qasaur 6y ago
>We can choose where to draw the free speech line and still uphold the principals of a free and open society. Don't you see the irony in this statement? Everyone is free to say what they want except what you or the government deem t
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by Qasaur 6y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but why does the IEEE (a non-profit) have annoying ads on their site? I'm not using an ad-blocker and as soon as I clicked the link I was bombarded by one big half-page ad and a bunch of other ads that are irrelevan
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by Qasaur 6y ago
It's only a problem if you subscribe to (in my opinion, the flawed and incredibly destructive) modern economic theory which is largely a continuation of the Keynesianism of the mid-20th century. Ask any economist why deflation is a bad
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by Qasaur 6y ago
How do you deal with taxes in a distributed team like yours? I was looking into doing something similar to what you are doing but it seems like the complexities involved with taxation are enormous as you would need to pay corporate tax in e
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by Qasaur 6y ago
It is not impossible to build a system that can handle this on x86_64, it's more a question of software architecture rather than hardware architecture - modern computers are insanely powerful.
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by Qasaur 6y ago
I've never really understood this way of thinking. In my experience, it is trivial to maintain cross-platform applications if you encourage code-reuse in the logic layer and tailor the UI/UX experiences for the platform you are ta
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by Qasaur 6y ago
>Bitcoin lightning makes higher throughput blockchains irrelevant. Lightning is a UX disaster that is not easily solvable as the headaches are part of the protocol itself (opening/closing channels with nodes etc.). I've used so
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by Qasaur 6y ago
FOMC minutes are published, but not other meetings which are arguably more important, including the meetings of the Board. https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/boardmeetings/mee... "Effective March 15,
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by Qasaur 6y ago
>Please, this isn’t Soviet Russia, economists disagree about practically everything, so the whole argument that the profession has a serious groupthink problem is unconvincing to me. They disagree on a lot of things, that is true, but th
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by Qasaur 6y ago
"Well, unquestionably, housing prices are up quite a bit; I think it's important to note that fundamentals are also very strong. We've got a growing economy, jobs, incomes. We've got very low mortgage rates. We've g
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by Qasaur 6y ago
>Sorry, but it's at this point in the thread that I realize that talking to tech bros on hacker news about monetary policy is actually the seventh circle of hell. Glhf. Appealing to the authority of mainstream economists in a perpet
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by Qasaur 6y ago
The fact that it has been going on for decades doesn't make the point less valid. This kind of monetary intervention is compounding in nature, and it can be clearly seen as how each financial crash over the past 2-3 decades has been wo
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by Qasaur 6y ago
The harsh modern monetary reality where most Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck and have zero job security or savings is enslavement in all but linguistic accuracy. This has been going on since started inflating our money supply (since w
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by Qasaur 6y ago
>When the Fed expands their balance sheet, what they're doing is replacing private-sector assets with liquid cash. Given that the stimulus is appropriate for the economy, this is all fine. It's not anything that future generati
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by Qasaur 6y ago
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Central banking is the greatest scam in the history of mankind that cartelises the banking sector, gives them the privilege of access to the printing press, and is the root cause of the
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by Qasaur 6y ago
This may not be the most popular opinion, but Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin precisely because he wanted to separate money and state. The main purpose of crypto has always been to be hard money in the age of the internet and institutiona
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by Qasaur 6y ago
As the other comment mentioned, this is still true if you want to support legacy graphics APIs. A non-negligible amount (~20%) of Android phones cannot execute compute pipelines as they only support OpenGL ES 3.0 - compute shaders were intr

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