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by heartbeats 4y ago
No, in this system, they would be "residents", they would just be residents that haven't gone through the sort of procedures that California would like for them to, and so they get absurd property taxes or whatnot. e.g. if yo
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Certainly you couldn't do it like a straight-up visa policy, but you could probably achieve something very similar by giving them strongly unfavorable property taxes and so on.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
The prices of the passports would go up, yes, but the prices of property would go down.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Why don't they just get rid of the process? Hold a referendum to elect the constitution. Assuming it passes, you select a commission of people in charge of it. They get absolute power over anything relating to property - eminent domain
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by heartbeats 4y ago
So why not impose an internal visa system? Instead of having people buy up the property and jack the prices to shit, just have some notion of "Californian citizenship". * If you were born there, you're grandfathered in by bir
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Probably it's superfluous; you can still be sentenced as long as you're alive. What I meant was just something to the effect off, if the plaintiff dies, financial damages can be recovered from their inheritances on a pro-rata basi
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Ah, thanks for the explanation. But isn't this more or less what I describe still, other than people leaving on their own rather than being forced out? Like, without going into too tricky political discussions, it seems like being ph
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by heartbeats 4y ago
What they really need is a system that puts the fear of God into them. Simply prohibiting chemicals after we've found them to be dangerous is unhelpful, and regulating them before we've found them dangerous is impossible. Why
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Competitive ... dating ... market? Have you considered hanging out with more, uh, human people? I'm not exactly a playboy, but I've really never had this problem at all in my life. For what it's worth, approximately half of t
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Monero has the largest anonymity set of any cryptocurrency, so the statement is true.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Couldn't you give them short-lasting keys, that they can use to sign session keys? e.g. 1. Connect to Mullvad over Tor, authenticate with real-world user ID 2. Use this to sign a blinded token 3. Use this to connect to Mullvad anonymou
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Plurality means the largest but non-majority group.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
> if the Israeli state didn't exist, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Jewish people in the region would likely be murdered by people from neighboring countries. This isn't because Arabs are "innately" warlik
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by heartbeats 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/873/
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by heartbeats 4y ago
This is only really a problem in the US, and for people who aren't using a VPN.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
People will use a technology for what it's best at. It's no different from how people use(d) Bitcoin mainly to buy drugs. BitTorrent is maybe slightly superior for legal file-sharing, but strongly superior for illegal one, and so
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Here's your list - you have to use double newlines: - torrents work if they are shared more than they are leeched, so it's just easier to have it run in the background. There's very little reason to not use the existing clien
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by heartbeats 4y ago
This is a correct description, though. From the quote in the article (emphasis added): > [A large liquidation] could cause chaos, putting a strain on the Solana network. Liquidators would be especially active and spamming the liquidate f
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by heartbeats 4y ago
> Speaking of gambling, you also left out theft and loss. Correct. Theft is included in GDP, as is spoilage. As I said, it doesn't matter how 'good' people's consumption is, only that they consume. This being said,
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by heartbeats 4y ago
If people produce less, the tax intake will be lower, which makes the country less competitive internationally. In particular, the smaller the GDP, the less military spending the country can support. If the country can not support a suffici
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by heartbeats 4y ago
> "Scar consumption" as a phrase assumes that consumption in the American style is a healthy activity to begin with, and this outcome is damaging or ugly. Well, not really. The basic problem is that production has to equal cons
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Disagree. Email is Gmail. If other email providers do not comply to the de-facto GMail standard, that is an implementation error on their part. It is not possible for Google to make a mistake, only to accidentally invent a new specificati
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by heartbeats 4y ago
He only has to make the lower receiver, which is a totally inert block of metal (or even plastic). This can even be 3D printed. The lowers are the only regulated part in the USA.
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by heartbeats 5y ago
Should probably be population, population density, and GDP/capita. Nobody knows the GDP of Mexico, but they might know it's about the same as Serbia per capita.
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by heartbeats 5y ago
If you do, please add a "infinite play" mode!
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by heartbeats 5y ago
Can't you embed off-site images?
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by heartbeats 5y ago
"13 GW of solar" is going to have a way lower capacity factor, as well as a shorter life-span. At the very least, you should compare life-cycle $/MWh, not $/GW.
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by heartbeats 5y ago
Why can't I just disable RTL on my system? I do not speak a word of Arabic. There is no circumstance in which my life will be materially improved by correct RTL text rendering. I might want proper display of individual characters so I
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by heartbeats 5y ago
As opposed to white people, which have no billionaires?
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by heartbeats 5y ago
It's a Red Queen's race, though. Because the housing costs go up, the standard of living remains the same. The end result is a less moral society, because people have to change to stranger and stranger business just to keep their

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