Redoubts

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by Redoubts 2mo ago
> the merge of the government and corporations This is not plutarchy, the direction of control is going the other way.
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by Redoubts 2mo ago
This would be pointless to do for one person, and it would be very curious to see a government reject a massive funding stream from a swath of people like this.
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What are you getting paid in? (2024)(approachwithalacrity.com)
3 points by Redoubts 2mo ago|2 comments
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by Redoubts 2mo ago
Dude what?
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by Redoubts 2mo ago
Zhang, Yitang’s life at Purdue (Jan 1985-1991) T.T.Moh - https://www.math.purdue.edu/~ttm/ZhangYt.pdf kind of a wild document to exist...
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Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful(vorpus.org)
9 points by Redoubts 2mo ago|2 comments
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by Redoubts 3mo ago
Ok sure. The Home Secretary just banned new asylum seeker housing near schools and nurseries, fyi.
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by Redoubts 3mo ago
> No one said anything about "relative to his wealth bracket". Original post was "modest for a guy like that"
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by Redoubts 3mo ago
Arguably vacancy taxes are just Georgism with extra steps
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Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn(omny.fm)
4 points by Redoubts 3mo ago|0 comments
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The Rape Gang Inquiry Report [pdf](static1.squarespace.com)
11 points by Redoubts 3mo ago|3 comments
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Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)(freerange.city)
172 points by Redoubts 3mo ago|248 comments
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by Redoubts 4mo ago
> Just a reminder "gay panic defense." is still used in court today in the USA Can you cite a case in the last 5 years? Can you cite a case in the last 20 years where the jury didn’t roll their eyes?
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by Redoubts 4mo ago
referral bonuses from a few people via who's hiring
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by Redoubts 4mo ago
I mean the salary difference is a few hundred k, so this all just reads like cope.
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by Redoubts 4mo ago
Couldn't think of a more incorrect diagnosis if I tried. State government budgets have been ballooning for the last decade; but political leaders don't give a shit about tracking outcomes, only celebrating starting things and how
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by Redoubts 5mo ago
Ok, but me and my buddies think you use tenuous judgement to characterize words as violence, and enable people to use physical violence in “retaliation”. That’s a bright line violence against innocents, so we’re closing all your checking ac
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by Redoubts 5mo ago
> In short, despite the article's somewhat negative tone overall, I don't think anything described is actually a negative thing I think the main thing to criticize, is that 1. Banks are deputized as ersatz law enforcement, and
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by Redoubts 5mo ago
I guess this case is especially interesting and novel because of how the government has deputized banks as ersatz law enforcement, and banks have delegated decision making to SPLC as ersatz compliance officers. I’m not sure what the law cou
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About St Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean(sainthelenaisland.info)
3 points by Redoubts 5mo ago|0 comments
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by Redoubts 5mo ago
there were talks for the US government to take a large equity stake as part of a bailout, but those fell through
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by Redoubts 5mo ago
I’m really surprised I didn’t get auto-duped. Usually submission of the same url gets forwarded to the old post if it’s recent enough…
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Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud(bitsaboutmoney.com)
53 points by Redoubts 5mo ago|29 comments
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Bank Python(calpaterson.com)
3 points by Redoubts 5mo ago|0 comments
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by Redoubts 5mo ago
is it? it's insanely ugly and interactions seem bizarre
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by Redoubts 5mo ago
In a way it's really sad how many swings and misses Canonical has taken in its history.
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by Redoubts 5mo ago
Yeah, probably? The french revolution sucked ass for everyone involved.
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by Redoubts 5mo ago
We have rights and representative republics to restrain the will of the people for a reason.
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by Redoubts 5mo ago
There was a recent leadership change at the EFF
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by Redoubts 5mo ago
They're still on youtube with low hundreds of views. Surely video content requires more effort to boot.

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