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by samolang 13y ago
My definition of rich is being able to afford more than is needed. Poor people pay no tax, rich people pay some.
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by samolang 13y ago
If poor people are paying no sales tax and rich people are paying some sales tax, then the tax can be classified as regressive. The more money you make, the more you spend on non-necessities, the higher your tax rate will be.
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by samolang 13y ago
Read my post again. I expect perpetual deflation with bitcoin. That's why I say that it will appreciate at 2% a year.
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by samolang 13y ago
A consumption tax doesn't need to be regressive. There are already exemptions in state sales taxes for some "necessities" (i.e. food, internet, electricity). If the basket of exemptions is large enough, then the poor would pa
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by samolang 13y ago
It's not an addition. Capital gains taxes already exist. But the more complicated calculating your taxes gets, the more incentive there is for tax reform.
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by samolang 13y ago
Yes, but most people only do so for purchases where the website forces you to at the time of purchase (i.e. the company operates in your state).
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by samolang 13y ago
The difference is that USD is inflationary while bitcoin is deflationary. If you have $10k in spending money sitting around would you rather it be appreciating by 2% every year or depreciating by 2% every year? Right now bitcoin is too vol
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by samolang 13y ago
Hopefully bitcoin is another straw on the camel's back moving the US towards consumption based taxation.
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by samolang 13y ago
Do you pay sales tax on all of your internet purchases?
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by samolang 13y ago
You could do something like keep the frequency offset between keys constant for all keyboards, but add some way of shifting the frequency of all of the keys by the same amount. It seems feasible to me, but I have no expertise in the area. T
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by samolang 13y ago
Are there limitations on the number of possible sounds? If not, each keyboard could use a unique set of sounds.
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by samolang 13y ago
When I said microwave I meant specifically the microwave technology utilized by HFT (I've always heard it referred to as simply 'microwave'). I guess I was mistaken because I read that the microwave used by HFT beats out fibe
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by samolang 13y ago
Microwave requires line of sight. That's where its advantage arises. You can't assume line of sight with a WiFi router.
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by samolang 13y ago
HFT use microwave, not WiFi.
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DOGECOIN: How A Thing That Started As A Joke Became The Hottest Digital Currency(businessinsider.com)
5 points by samolang 13y ago|3 comments
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by samolang 13y ago
It would be nice if there was a physical switch to disable the webcam and microphone.
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by samolang 13y ago
At least it's labeled that the BTC-USD price is the daily average for the month.
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by samolang 13y ago
From wikipedia: "The law states that paying a worker an "immoral wage" is illegal. There is no general consensus what constitutes 'immoral' payment. One judge at a court in Krefeld, Germany, ruled that a cashier at
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by samolang 13y ago
In countries that have already fought the hard fight for worker rights there are laws in place to ensure workers' rights don't regress. Amazon isn't breaking any laws. The working conditions are safe, the employees are paid a
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by samolang 13y ago
Choosing Costco over Amazon seems like a rather pointless moral stand to make. What about the people who work in the logging, fishing, and mining industries? You probably use their products every day and they risk life and limb for similar
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by samolang 13y ago
Do you also boycott wood and paper products? Jobs in the logging industry have comparable pay to amazon warehouse jobs, but are far more dangerous.
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by samolang 13y ago
> So some sort of central fund for cancer research, where bureaucrats distribute funding to constituent organizations... Hmm where have I heard that before? ;) That's like comparing social security to a personal retirement account.
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by samolang 13y ago
> So you're saying that you yourself contribute regularly to heart, lung, skin, eye, and bone marrow cancers? One, you don't necessarily need to donate to different charities for every possible disease. You could donate to a ch
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by samolang 13y ago
> Corporations like artificial scarcity, so stuff can be owned, capitalized and exploited for profit. That may be true of some corporations (most notably in companies that have already achieved success and thus have an incentive to maint
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by samolang 13y ago
Property rights are for protecting scarce resources. Intellectual property is not a scarce resource.
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by samolang 13y ago
And zipcar.
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by samolang 13y ago
There are laws against outright discrimination. The economic benefits will cause the market to sort it out eventually.
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by samolang 13y ago
I would assume that Google is aiming to increase the quality of robots, not just the quantity.
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by samolang 13y ago
Yes. But the millions of people who don't listen to those two artists are also paying them $0.00007. If you assume everyone listens to the same amount of music, then the two system are equivalent. If you listen to more music than the a
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by samolang 13y ago
I think there are a bunch. Here is another one that I was looking at earlier today: https://btc-e.com/exchange/btc_usd

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