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landemva
4y ago
I agree that BLM missed their chance to agitate about government immunity. It could have been about controlling the police and government paper-jockeys. It turned into defund the police which immediately repulsed about 1/2 the voters.
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landemva
4y ago
Hawaii, near southern point, has a road with one side abandoned windmills. At least mines in USA have a reclamation plan and bond to pay for it. https://advertiser-tribune.com/news/191061/trip-to-hawaii-re...
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landemva
4y ago
> the first thing that comes to mind when you think “Coca Cola.” High fructose corn syrup. I believe I am a better person since removing the TV a couple decades ago. I do not miss the advertising nor news-washing.
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landemva
4y ago
I don't think solar cell recycling is mandatory, at least west of Mississippi. Going to need a reclamation fee added on to purchase price to get these disposed of in a different manner than the old tire dumps.
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landemva
4y ago
> Add "None of the above" to every race. You already have that by turning in the ballot without marking that race.
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landemva
4y ago
Lately I have voted the local issues and leave everything else blank. Locally I care what they do and can actually talk to city council.
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landemva
4y ago
> the electorial system that leads to two parties with each close to 50%. In the State elections law I have read, this is set up to happen like this. For example, Illinois election law specifically mentions Ds and Rs. Election law in oth
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landemva
4y ago
> Zimbabwean ... banknotes and this was one my my best investments ever Great example of scarcity and price rising via collector demand. They are not making any more of those notes, and collectors are interested similar to collecting sca
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landemva
4y ago
In USA, Treasury issues currency and coin. Private organization named Federal Reserve has special privilege to manipulate interest rates through various means.
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landemva
4y ago
> You want to own a house? The government mandates that you acquire and give them a certain amount of US dollars. I have gone through many county clerk & recorder documents. I regularly see 6 and 7 figure houses change hands via reco
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landemva
4y ago
In USA Clinton's attempted Clipper Chip failed, and PGP was found to be speech. How can USA ban speech and math? https://archive.epic.org/crypto/clipper
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landemva
4y ago
> Most people think it is as easy as ordering a hardware wallet ... I also don't understand why some folks are so attracted to a custom hardware device. It's straight-forward to grab Bitcoin software from Github, put it on an a
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landemva
4y ago
> downside is fairly limited. Since it's not going to $1.95 per Tether, the downside is just the cost of time. The poster can short it and blog about their journey while providing their pubkey to prove it.
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landemva
4y ago
> How? A simple first move would be to repeal the 1929 law that capped growth of House of Representatives. Let it grow according to census, as was wrote in Constitution. This would make each Rep less influential and more of them would be
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landemva
4y ago
I pointed out that Vyper is an alternative to Solidity which already is available, and that any language can be created to run in the EVM. I would even like to see a subset of COBOL ported to the EVM with an eye toward simple security const
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landemva
4y ago
One important feature for me is that nobody can take my coins from my wallet. Putting coins into an exchange or JPMorgan is not what I mean.
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landemva
4y ago
You can build whatever language features you want, though it still should deploy into the EVM. Vyper is an existing alternative to Solidity. I would like to see more alternatives, so stop ranting and start building. https://www.q
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landemva
4y ago
Not sure what you mean. After what was done to Libya after they gave up nukes, North Korea learned it can't disarm without subsequently being invaded and destroyed.
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landemva
4y ago
Vail Resorts uses this model of ski lifts on (generally) leased national forest land to drive the money making base area timeshare real estate development.
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landemva
4y ago
It appears TX explicitly exempts from license selling of coins or bars. https://occc.texas.gov/industry/cpmd "crafted precious metal dealer". And that sounds like a professional license, not a requirement to
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landemva
4y ago
> if you run a business with the intent of making a profit by buying and selling gold to other individuals, that's illegal to do without a licensed corporation. Do you have a USA reference for this belief? From my experience and kno
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landemva
4y ago
This is less about innovation and more about near-coercion to take the treatment. The price doesn't matter if people are not required/compelled to purchase it. When people are forced to take it to work or travel, then price matter
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landemva
4y ago
Thus many EU countries reduced the maximum note value, reduced allowable amount for buying things in cash, and .se has mostly eliminated cash with everyone using cards.
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landemva
4y ago
Gold hedges government.
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landemva
4y ago
> People around the World were literally risking their lives and their loved ones for a little physical connection. Other people kept working their blue collar jobs at mines and oil pads as if nothing had happened. Once I was on the mine
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landemva
4y ago
For comparison, what is the credit card fee?
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landemva
4y ago
Evil was German Nazis. And the Ukraine Nazis which the USA did not pursue after WW2. NATO pushing closer to Russia the past 30 years didn't protect anything except the paychecks of the war makers.
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landemva
4y ago
Giving my tax dollars to Ukraine without forcing Ukraine to negotiate an end to it is not "doing better".
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landemva
4y ago
It depends on the government. "Crypto Currency Now Accepted For All State Tax Payments" https://tax.colorado.gov/cryptocurrency
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landemva
4y ago
King dollar has been disagreeing with you.
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