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by niij 7y ago
You have to pay taxes on houses and/or vehicles forever (depending on the state).
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_raid
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> this doesn't exactly sound like 1984 You don't see the parallels between a Minister of Truth dictating what is true versus the plot line of 1984?
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A credit card number/CVV/Expiration Date allows you to make transactions, but doesn't give you transaction _history_. Online banking username/password do give you full transaction history. My point was that giving away u
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They can pull all go your transactions in that time, changing your password after is still too late.
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It reduced supply, not increase demand.
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> common sense regulation on ownership and ad funding The word common sense here is trying to normalize restricting free speech by employees and companies. That may be "common sense" in more repressive countries, but hopefully
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> We are working in bits, use bits instead, that will avoid theses kinds of mistakes. K.
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You're right, I was using 0-9A-Z, when it should have been 0-9A-F. I still need some coffee :) So for 6,984 URLs per 32-bit hash, wouldn't that be evenly distributed since it's the result of a hashing function? Therefore we&#
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by niij 7y ago
Nearly 100% probability. Someone else[0] already did the ballpark math and came up with ~10,000 unique URLs per 32-bit hash prefix if you use the number of pages indexed by Google. My math has it coming out to be ~10 billion per 32-bit hash
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By using the prefix of the hash, it adds some uncertainty about which URL you're requesting
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Your solution to government overreach of UBI is.. government mandated price controls? Fixing one problem with a bigger one. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that's never worked anywhere.
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The oil dividend has pays out ~$2,000 or less per year in one of the more expensive states to live (food, energy, etc). That's hardly worth calling UBI. > Alaska's poverty rate is [...] 11.1%. In comparison, right before their
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by niij 7y ago
See: "TK Park" Bangkok for a great example of a private library.
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Why should taxpayer funds pay for _anyones_ phone bill regardless if they're using it or not? How is that a program?
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IDs are not mandatory at either the State or Federal level in the USA. The most common type of identification is a State driver's license, but there are also alternative non-driver license ID cards available. None of these IDs are mand
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> Other countries were able to figure it out, so can we I mean the solution to #1 is obvious: forced registration. I think you'll have a hard time getting people on board with passing a law for that. It just seems like an hour at th
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by niij 7y ago
Sounds like a good idea to me, for those without driver's license it'd provide a way to vote without the hassle of getting a non-drivers ID card. Only issues I could think of are: 1. No central registry of addresses, so how would
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> hassle-free state IDs What hassle? Nearly everyone has them already for driving and they're valid for 6+ years. Might take an hour or two of your time every 6 or so years.
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by niij 7y ago
A fellow Missourian! Have you had one of these tiny houses built by the Amish? Feel free to email me if you want, email in profile.
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trashbat
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What are your thoughts on the North Korean TLD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kp ?
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T-bonds are a maximum of 30 years, so no. There could be a few months left where they could potentially be holding from 1989, but not a major component.
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I honestly hadn't but just went back and watched it not. Interesting explanation there, thanks for sharing. So the point is, like you pointed out, money is just government debt. Let's say I pay for my education in cash directly to
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> we look down upon trades in the UK a little sometimes. Being a tradesman is a completely valid choice that I believe is equal with a more academic route. Same here in the US, but you're right, it's an honorable job and nothin
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> Why should I subsidize someone else's electric car? You shouldn't have to, that's absurd! They can buy their own car :) > Why should I pay for firefighters even though my house has a very low risk of burning down? To
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Are you arguing that I should be forced to spend my money in a certain way else the government should take it away? Why is what I do with my own money any of your or the government's business? > money IS debt. The money in your savi
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by niij 7y ago
I see what you mean by trying to improve your own country. But consider this: college education is not for everyone. If someone doesn't decide to go to college and still makes a good living as a tradesman or even unskilled worker, why
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> Compared to trillions of dollars of unnecessary war spending we've already borrowed for and spent? There can be multiple bad ideas at one time. Wasting money is wasting money.
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Because people with personal responsibility paid for themselves AND are now expected to pay for others through their taxes. Why should I be expected to pay for your poor financial decisions?

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