landemva

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by landemva 3y ago
Consider explaining to my loved ones how TSA full body scans are voluntary opt-in chains. Like encryption back doors, if people having nothing to hide why not consent to voluntary full body scans? Am looking forward to your blog post!
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by landemva 3y ago
Who is "we"? Can you please show us the repo you have made to help the general public?
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by landemva 3y ago
> SSH tunnelling ... distributed file systems ... ditch proprietary OS Yes it goes into arm-waving rant well beyond benefit of encrypt/private data. SSH tunneling can wrap communication in another layer of encryption but so what. D
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by landemva 3y ago
> EPA can't sue the forest ... > Mother nature doesn't respond to court summons... Conceivably, the EPA could demand changes in forest ownership. When government owns things it does whatever. Some of the worst pollution was
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by landemva 3y ago
> If the governments of the world provided nation-based social media structures where real people, confirmed as vested citizens, go to communicate, you would see a dramatic drop in "misinformation". Is there an example where th
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by landemva 3y ago
> not like regular buildings and require more logistics for repairs but there's no way it would require 20 years. tldr; regulatory processes prevent improvements. I work in a highly regulated industry though not nuclear. There are o
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by landemva 3y ago
In USA it's about collecting rewards points and travel benefits. Airlines and hotels are addicted to the cards. https://creditcards.chase.com/travel-credit-cards The interchange fees in Europe are too low to support th
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by landemva 3y ago
It's about the bank knowing their customer and appropriate limits for the customer income. If you cycle $50k in a month on a $10k credit line, and your credit application had your income at $80k/year, the bank may look into it.
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by landemva 3y ago
Does USFR have principal risk? The price of USFR appears to fluctuate.
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by landemva 3y ago
A broader look at credit card industry, for those who can pay off monthly balance, is those people use it to get more points than they would with the debit card attached to the checking account where the funds sit for the autopay. Rewards a
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by landemva 3y ago
> you have a lot of available credit without ever using it. I find it funny that the example person with big credit lines, which are unused, should care about a slightly better credit score. The financialization of everything coaxes peop
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by landemva 3y ago
> or well-off enough to afford it What would a busy person pay to have a service that provides USPS mail address with scanning, one-time or service-specific email addresses, and phone number for SMS? That would be maybe $100/month t
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by landemva 3y ago
Capitalism brings abundant choices. Many or most people don't care enough to protect themselves by choosing differently.
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by landemva 3y ago
tldr double the critical path hardware budget. > We need to figure out how to price What is MSRP on extra set of hardware that is physically disconnected, as failback. > and actually extract the externality cost Roll it into overhead.
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by landemva 3y ago
"Beyond the direct benefits to law enforcement and other authorized users ...". They are going to squeeze us through banking, which they already have full visibility into.
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by landemva 3y ago
The climate changes. I took many vaccines and many of them are effective. My doctor signed a letter saying I had the 'rona, fully recovered, have bloodwork which shows antibodies, and those jabs are not recommended for me. I choose to
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by landemva 3y ago
My approach has been, gradually, to put everything into LLCs and trusts. Mailing address is one of the storefront vendors. Two real phone numbers and a couple VOIP numbers. I mostly use Signal for people I want to speak with. I don't y
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by landemva 3y ago
> instead of having a closed system with full recirculation of water. The water would need to be cooled before reuse, which could look like a car radiator and fan. It's about cost, and new water is likely cheaper when dumping heat f
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by landemva 3y ago
I find it interesting and amusing to walk by the imported shelf-stable food at KaDeWe. Let's me know what somebody thinks is consumed. And reading the blurb on the back of the Kriket package is hilarious!
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by landemva 3y ago
They are good at producing products that people willingly purchase and consume. It is voluntary. To contrast what voluntary can mean, children consuming unmetered fluoride doses via the water supply is not really voluntary.
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by landemva 3y ago
> Remove oil/gas imports from the national trade balance, and Portugal is suddenly a very very rich country. Is energy that much of typical person's spend? And internal creation of energy doesn't drop the cost to consumers
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by landemva 3y ago
.cz has been increasing births by tweaks to public policy/spend. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CZE/czechia/fertility-...
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by landemva 3y ago
Maybe govt owning transport infrastructure is not working or is not affordable. We grow up with what is around us, and that is what we know. The Walmart parking lot is private and not paid by my taxes. There are solutions other than govt o
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by landemva 3y ago
> disingenuous and a bad faith argument. Whoaaa assumptions! Picking the airport and downtown are the only places on government property I occasionally park, and I pay per use for those. I rarely park on small roads because I have nothin
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by landemva 3y ago
The Blomberg link you provided was a useful read because it highlights how tax thinking is partisan. For example, "You might think both would pay the same sales tax ... while the driver would pay an additional gas tax, with that money
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by landemva 3y ago
In USA at banks near me, I don't find high liquidity with decent returns. Rates on savings accounts are paltry, and CDs are only liquid if ignoring early withdraw penalties. I use bank to accept revenue and transfer it to brokerage hou
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by landemva 3y ago
> we don't expect roads to pay for themselves Taxes are included in fuel price at the pump, and some States are finally beginning to charge EV owners for road usage. States around east coast collect ~50 cents per gallon. It's w
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by landemva 3y ago
> Risks of seizure That happens with account balances in USA. Try to fight an account seizure after the fact in courts in USA, and be prepared to lose. Tangible items including metal are diversification, and bitcoin and ethereum are incr
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by landemva 3y ago
> internet and atm Power and ATMs were out for two weeks on Puerto Rico, which is basically run by the USA. Maybe keep a couple weeks of cash under the mattress. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/01/us/hurri
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by landemva 3y ago
> Gold you can't travel with (weight and loss due to theft and also probably actually illegal) Which country? Last week I travelled on planes in USA and may have carried 35 pounds of silver coin, about a pound of gold coin, and >

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