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811.
by wang_li 7y ago
Can a country be called democratic if me and six friends are not allowed to draw a random border around a house and then vote to murder the residents with only our votes counting because only those inside the arbitrary border we drew are al
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by wang_li 7y ago
16 trillion small, unsteerable, solar sails all sitting at the boundary between the Sun and Earth's gravitational influence. As light pressure pushes these things out of the L1 point they will all make their way to the Earth where they
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by wang_li 7y ago
>All electronic voting machines should output a paper human readable 'scantron' type ballot that is safely stored for verifying the internal digital tally. We should just have paper scantron style ballots that people fill out.
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by wang_li 7y ago
That doesn't seem to be the case. A relatively fast machine can't gzip anywhere near 120 MB/s unless the data ultra compressible. Zstd is multithreaded, but single threaded it's speed isn't that fast either. $
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by wang_li 7y ago
My understanding my be wildly incorrect, but I have the impression that the GDPR is something that applies to EU citizens regardless of where they are. A German tourist who visits Tennessee who uses his cellphone, with a local sim card, to
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by wang_li 7y ago
Unless you can compress at a higher throughout than your network speed, don’t do this. I’m not familiar with too many machines that can gzip at greater than 120 Mbytes/sec, which is the network bandwidth of a switched gigabit network.
817.
by wang_li 7y ago
That’s not the case. After a certain number of messages in a chat, old ones disappear.
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by wang_li 7y ago
According to google te median 2019 household income is $63k. And according to the CBO the median income of the middle quintile of households filing tax returns was $72k. That seems to disagree with your wsj link.
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by wang_li 7y ago
They use the highest 35 years of earnings. So I would assume that you'd need to be over the inflation adjusted annual cap to max out the benefit.
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by wang_li 7y ago
It's a surprise to plenty of people who think that their $70,000/yr income makes them a net tax payer when it actually doesn't. And it's relevant because people will reduce their marginal income, or relocate to more favo
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by wang_li 7y ago
I was responding to a commenter who enumerated their list of perceived fiscal failings of the government, from Bush to Obama to Trump.
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by wang_li 7y ago
>I don't know anybody getting $6.6k/mo from Social Security... Of course you don't. The maximum benefit in 2019 is $3,770/mo for people who retire at 70. If you retire at 66, then the max is $2,861/mo. And these
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by wang_li 7y ago
You left out the fact that nearly 2/3 of Americans are net tax recipients. Everything that the government does at all levels is paid for by either debt or the highest 40% of earners.
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by wang_li 7y ago
Do you know that the reason California was able to set their own standards is because Congress passed a law and part of that law enabled the executive branch to grant waivers? This 100% is following the law as written by Congress. That bein
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by wang_li 7y ago
The actual cost to ship a package isn’t changing. Just who pays. Previously it’s all users of the US postal service, whether they are involved in shipments from China or not. It makes enormous sense to charge the person who is actually bene
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by wang_li 7y ago
Lots and lots of stuff. Presidents walk away with their "papers" and put them in their libraries post presidency. Obama, for one, isn't even planning on making his papers physically available. Also tons of White House records
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by wang_li 7y ago
> completely unplanned and inefficient use of resources from perspective of resource use. People need to get over the idea of efficiency and centrally planned. These are not necessary qualities in order for humans to prosper.
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by wang_li 7y ago
There’s something completely whackadoo about charging an iPad and then discharging the iPad in order to charge the pencil.
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by wang_li 7y ago
I'll be happy to continue when you acknowledge that there are more than the choices of universal health care and paying for everything out of pocket. It's very strange how insurance works for homes, for cars, for libel, and many o
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by wang_li 7y ago
>Do you want to live in a country where parents have to simply accept the death of their child because they can't afford a treatment? I want to live in a country where people are responsible. The argument presented basically holds c
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by wang_li 7y ago
We could solve it overnight simply by acknowledging that people are free to live their lives as they choose. If we allow people to snow ski, to sky dive, to ride motor cycles without helmets, then we should allow them to eat nothing but tab
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by wang_li 7y ago
You're allowed to format shift and time shift content that you otherwise legally have access to.[1] Audible on the other hand is not allowed to sell you a text version of an audio book that they licensed even if they are using a clever
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by wang_li 7y ago
Paragraph 8 from your link: > The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) placed him in detention and commenced exclusion proceedings. Yes, people can apply for asylum after entering the country unlawfully. No, that doesn't mea
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by wang_li 7y ago
Not sure precisely what point you're making, but it's possible that you're saying that the intention to apply for asylum provides you with legal rights to enter the US. That's not what the law says. If you're not sa
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by wang_li 7y ago
It's not a false dichotomy to compare the two things that were explicitly compared. My initial response was to someone who said that Trump got elected and ICE started with child separation, concentration camps, and racism. The objectiv
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by wang_li 7y ago
We're talking about the detention facilities, not whether there should be a physical barrier on the border.
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by wang_li 7y ago
Would you say that someone having to own a car and buy gas so they can drive to the polling location is a poll tax?
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by wang_li 7y ago
A photo ID is not a poll tax though. Just like requiring people to go to a polling place is not a poll tax. Just like people having to take time off of work is not a poll tax.
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by wang_li 7y ago
>it costs money and time to obtain a passport. As long as the process and cost is not punitive and targeted it's fine if something costs time and money. We have multiple constitutional rights that are burdened in that fashion. The r
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by wang_li 7y ago
>The opposing party (in the US) will make the offices where identification is offered difficult to get to. Times when the DMV or RMV is open will shrink, some states will require an extreme amount of paperwork in order to get identificat

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