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by weberer 3y ago
>You have to tax the income at the source, at the point of sale. It’s why most of the EU shifted to VAT’s decades ago. The USA already has sales tax at the state and local level. Corporate tax is a separate tax on profits.
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by weberer 3y ago
By printing more money, the government gains money by reducing the value of money in everyone else's accounts. Its effectively a flat tax on holding cash.
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by weberer 3y ago
>The poorest 10% of Americans pay more – 25.6%. Is that correct? I thought anyone below the poverty line paid 0% income tax, and would just have to pay sales tax. And property tax, gas tax, social security tax, and inflation, which is a
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by weberer 3y ago
Here's the list for the next 10 years. There will be a partial lunar eclipse next Saturday. https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html
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by weberer 3y ago
If you're a software engineer, your employer would provide you with a plan that covers most, or even all of the cost.
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by weberer 3y ago
>IT sector is a "free sector" and does not have a union. My wife works as a teacher and she is member of a union. It sounds exactly like America then.
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by weberer 3y ago
Ka-Block! works for me on iOS. Its an extension for mobile Safari.
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by weberer 3y ago
Its also sprayed on crops as a desiccant shortly before harvest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation#Systemic_desi...
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by weberer 3y ago
In practice it works. Sales tax averages around 5% in US states, and over 20% in Europe. When I lived in the states, everybody knew what their local sales tax rate was off the top of their head, and most knew the last time it was raised. He
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by weberer 3y ago
>I tend to think that people should be entitled to free basic banking It sounds like you want a credit union.
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by weberer 3y ago
Because right now we have to actually perform some exploit to run custom firmware most of the time. What if there were just a toggle in the settings menu for which repo to look at?
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by weberer 3y ago
It allows users to replace insecure software with secure software. And it allows updates long after the company drops official support of the device.
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by weberer 3y ago
Here's a nice list of resources: https://github.com/kitspace/awesome-electronics
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by weberer 3y ago
Where do you live? I'm paying much more in Helsinki for a 1 bedroom apartment than I ever did in Philadelphia.
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by weberer 3y ago
This is my favorite document from the CIA https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R0017002...
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by weberer 3y ago
>that usually included sick days, and with high levels of pressure NOT to take any of them These are both also untrue based on my experience.
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by weberer 3y ago
Do you have any proof? I don't trust HN comments to talk about other countries vacation days, since I see too many people here say Americans get no vacation days, yet every company I've worked at in the USA offered 15-20 days.
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by weberer 3y ago
That makes me wonder whether it would be feasible to build a bomb type reactor. Detonate a hydrogen bomb in an underground lake 10km down, then extract the steam over the next few days.
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by weberer 3y ago
I don't really understand the question. Its like saying "who can be trusted to deploy computers?". Everyone with the resources is going to do so, whether you "trust" them or not.
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by weberer 3y ago
Mumble is great for voice chat. https://www.mumble.info/
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by weberer 3y ago
It sounds right to me. What part are you having trouble with?
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by weberer 3y ago
Wouldn't hotter bulbs mean less energy wasted as infrared light?
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by weberer 3y ago
Yes, its mostly drivers. Here's a breakdown of the Linux kernel by lines of code: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Sankey_D...
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by weberer 3y ago
Garages in the Nordics are usually heated.
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by weberer 3y ago
Did you read the article? "Local" here means running on the user's computer. It is not talking about private data centers.
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by weberer 3y ago
There seems to be a trend on HN to assume every country in Europe has the same laws. Confusingly, most of these comments come from people living in European countries.
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by weberer 3y ago
>He doesn't provide an actual counterargument,he just says he doesn't like the data without explaining why. Welcome to Reddit
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by weberer 3y ago
>IME, it's many MANY miles better in user experience than ... Skype for Business It is the Skype For Business, but just rebranded. You can still see some cruft where certain dialog boxes still refer to it as Skype for Business.
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by weberer 3y ago
>Keep in mind most of the things you care about, half the country is against. That's only true for around 5-10 wedge issues. There are many things where 98+% of the country is either with you or apathetic. The problem is that the ot
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by weberer 3y ago
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." - John Philpot Curran

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