NormenNomen

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by NormenNomen 6y ago
US constituent states cannot print money. This only makes sense at the federal level.
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by NormenNomen 6y ago
Yes, that's exactly the idea. This is called "mutual aid".
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by NormenNomen 6y ago
Or just set up 2fa and give the second factor to a third party whom the state has difficulty compelling. Granted this does require unconditional trust.
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by NormenNomen 6y ago
More directly, this is the number of electors in the electoral college.
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by NormenNomen 6y ago
I mean, yes? What's your point? Vancouver, WA is a nice town, too.
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by NormenNomen 6y ago
Isn't this forum all about markets? I'm sure you can put where I'm going with this together. Anyway it's beyond rich describing half these companies as "profitable" in the first place. They're burning the
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by NormenNomen 6y ago
I'm gonna need a big fat "citation needed" on the idea that this isn't a job to people. It doesn't square with, again, the drivers actually in my life. It sounds exactly like uncritically re-spewing the bullshit of
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by NormenNomen 6y ago
This could have been titled, "when operating systems (or computers) were different from each other". Now it's just a cpu, peripherals, a flavor of Unix, some mild window management customization, and one of two browsers. Even
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by NormenNomen 6y ago
Err, is the "casual use of the gig economy" good? These are jobs, not hobbies, and people need to eat. This certainly isn't going to make getting bread on the table any easier except in the extremely short term—and that'
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by NormenNomen 6y ago
Given the legality of unionizing, I certainly don't see wages going up in the near future. It sounds like a lot of these employees weren't educated about their (lack of) rights.
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by NormenNomen 6y ago
You know I've lived in a place with 0% income taxes and the people it attracts are wholly worth paying to move away from.