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tertius
5y ago
How so?
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tertius
5y ago
Another one, not quite 51% this time.
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tertius
5y ago
My exact setup. Using Gaia for maps.
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tertius
5y ago
Hence the need for reform.
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tertius
5y ago
Probably better to try and reform the law instead of suggest children break the law and ruin their lives.
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tertius
5y ago
> In a healthy economy the profits of corporations are spent on more facilities, more suppliers, more employees, who all in turn spend their profits on the same. Only if those investments will create more profit. If capital cannot be all
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tertius
5y ago
Profits, if not able to be reallocated for more profit should be return to shareholders. Taxes should be taken into account in calculating where the best ROI would be here. Obviously it changes when you would return profit to shareholders.
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tertius
5y ago
On #2: Buying back shares does not create individual income. It only creates temporary unrealized gains. Only if those individual shareholders sell, do they realize the gains and, in some cases, will they be taxed on it at income tax rates.
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tertius
5y ago
Yes, but increased profits (by running profitably) also increases returns for the shareholders... A good thing.
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tertius
5y ago
Nope, the tax is paid on the profit (i.e. post consumer).
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tertius
5y ago
Expound on how you may take advantage of it.
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tertius
5y ago
Libertarianism thrives here and in most successful Silicon Valley.
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tertius
5y ago
Yes, but not for reason of age alone. Creditworthiness is judged based on history, not on age or race etc. I.e. egalitarianism. If your history is bad, lower limit etc.
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tertius
5y ago
"Now go and sin no more."
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tertius
5y ago
Trolling isn't helpful to discussion about this topic.
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tertius
5y ago
Yes. There are many successful arrests of people who would face the death penalty if convicted without them being killed. The number of police killings are a very small number. This is blatantly obvious to anyone who cares about the truth.
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tertius
5y ago
> Yet it's simply too dangerous for any society to have the death penalty, even for these heinous crimes. Why? Tyranny? (As per the rest of your note).
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tertius
5y ago
Hyperbole won't solve the issue you see.
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tertius
5y ago
Live in prison and living with knowing that society seems you a deviant vs death. We shouldn't tolerate either if innocent.
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tertius
5y ago
Or generate new keys and then you're golden.
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tertius
5y ago
Ubiquiti.
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tertius
5y ago
Instead of looking at tax rates, look at how much the government actually collected as a % of GDP. It's fairly flat.
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tertius
5y ago
> Why not? Because money is finite? Not every research grant gets funded. So let's start with the most promising ones? Funding vaccines that are not meeting standards should be dropped so that standards can be met. These companies d
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tertius
5y ago
Source?
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tertius
5y ago
Ending a contract would encourage them to do more R&D for more future contracts. Don't subsidize drugs/vaccines that don't work. There are 100+ vaccines being worked on. We're fine.
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tertius
5y ago
Who controls the machines? Those people are a-holes too.
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tertius
6y ago
The courts can discover intent. It cannot determine it independently.
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tertius
6y ago
Because corporation didn't deliver on promises. Trust was broken and their attempts at fixing said trust is meaningless given what they've already done to break said trust.
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tertius
6y ago
Ah yes, it was so much better before...
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6y ago
Tesla is not a payment processor. Nor is it in the business of profiting off of crypto as a fundamental change in it's business model. I'm replying to a comment saying they should use their cash reserve to buy bitcoin instead of d
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