jcadam

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by jcadam 5y ago
Very nice. Someone needs to do Windows 3.1 :)
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by jcadam 5y ago
Also hearing about shortages (and huge price increases) in fertilizer.
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by jcadam 5y ago
I'm more concerned about Ukraine's wheat exports, personally. Likely to become a critical issue much more quickly than neon gas.
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by jcadam 5y ago
Used to get sleep paralysis a lot as a kid/teenager. Definitely not fun. I haven't had an episode in a long time, fortunately.
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by jcadam 5y ago
Everytime you buy a gun, a background check is run (via NICS). Records of said checks are supposed to be destroyed.... are they really?
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by jcadam 5y ago
One of the big issues with instituting an income tax is it changed the relationship of every citizen with the government. Other than the postal service, the average citizen almost never dealt with the federal government directly. Now, eve
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by jcadam 5y ago
Get a job that requires you to get a federal Common Access Card, and you'll get fingerprinted. DNA is collected on all military members. Ostensibly, they tell you it's to identify your remains if necessary. I'm sure it&#x27
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by jcadam 5y ago
There are ways to solve that problem whilst still protecting privacy, but there's no benefit in that for the ruling class. Once the infrastructure is in place, we all know governments would eventually use it to track all sorts of addi
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by jcadam 5y ago
The byzantine rules exist to create deductions and loopholes for different interest groups. Raising the standard deduction was actually a good move, as it simplified my tax filing for sure (I don't bother to itemize now) -- but I imag
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by jcadam 5y ago
The main issue is if it's required. Not so worried about myself - I'm a veteran which means my fingerprints and DNA are already on file with the feds somewhere :), but US Citizens with no particular connection to the federal go
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by jcadam 5y ago
The VA still uses ID.me - so most veterans have an account anyway (I needed one to get a certificate of eligibility for a VA home loan). I had to add an authorization for the IRS on my ID.me to stop the child credit advance checks from com
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by jcadam 5y ago
I'm actually working in a Clojure job at the moment, but they're definitely hard to find. Scala is far more common.
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by jcadam 5y ago
I've found Kotlin to be a fantastic Java substitute. Fully compatible with Spring and seamless interop with Java. Though I prefer Clojure where that's possible.
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by jcadam 5y ago
Notice our current president, or really any other major western leader, isn't condemning what Trudeau is doing.
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by jcadam 5y ago
Private equity firms are involved in the space, mostly to profit from the acquisition of smaller (but still somewhat established) defense firms by larger ones :/ In any case, I recently left the defense industry after a 20-year career
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by jcadam 5y ago
Banks can freeze accounts based on suspicion alone with no recourse? That’s how you start a bank run…
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by jcadam 5y ago
Stores would start running out of product in days/weeks. Replacing a significant portion of the fleet with autonomous trucks will take far longer.
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by jcadam 5y ago
An obvious response to this, that doesn't involve blocking any roads, is for truckers to simply go on strike. Imagine if even a quarter of Canadian truckers just decided to sit at home and not move anything.
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by jcadam 5y ago
I don't think they were afraid. I think they were under orders not to interfere with the rioters.
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by jcadam 5y ago
That is the entire point. International travel is not for the plebs.
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by jcadam 5y ago
Next time this happens, public health agencies will be dealing with large swaths of their populations who have zero (actually, negative) trust in them and refuse to comply with any and all measures from day one.
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by jcadam 5y ago
Everyone knows protests are only legitimate if they have significant corporate sponsorship and the full-throated support of prominent politicians and celebrities in the entertainment industry.
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by jcadam 5y ago
Whether or not anyone is prosecuted over this hack (and doxxing) will be telling.
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by jcadam 5y ago
They did not hold the house very long :)
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by jcadam 5y ago
Given the current debt, the Fed simply can't raise rates to the degree Paul Volcker did the last time we had inflation like this. So they're going to play around with rates in the low single digits and then go back to zero when t
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by jcadam 5y ago
I've taken the amount of cash held in my savings account down to very little and am pushing my usual savings budget into stocks, silver, and crypto. Holding USD seems.... ill-advised.
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by jcadam 5y ago
I got 2.75 on mine, which is ridiculously low. My parents paid something like 11-12% on their first house.
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by jcadam 5y ago
But you win half your games.
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by jcadam 5y ago
Too bad. The Wii U is my all time favorite console.
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by jcadam 5y ago
LOL, no. Apparently they didn’t feel that CHAZ in Seattle was an illegal occupation either.

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