landemva

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by landemva 3y ago
> can still require the manufacturers to privately submit to the government all code I wonder if companies purchasing trains could put code disclosure in the purchase contract? I wonder if, in aggregate, train purchasers or car purchaser
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by landemva 3y ago
> Trump also slashed corporate taxes and taxes for the ultra-wealth Congress writes the bills that set tax rates. Congress also writes the spending bills. I thought Biden told us to blame US price increases on Putin. "families are s
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by landemva 3y ago
Wow, I might be interested. Do you have any recommendations in USA?
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by landemva 3y ago
Forced unemployment insurance is a supposed safety net, so should be open to discussion as part of solution. Let me opt out, or take premiums to a non-State provider.
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by landemva 3y ago
Local subsistence farming is better for you, so you eat from your land plot? What are you harvesting today for dinner?
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by landemva 3y ago
> when a company lays people off, the town, state, and federal government are the ones who have to end up picking up the downstream effects If the existing unemployment _insurance_ (forced payroll contributions to each State) are not suf
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by landemva 3y ago
> he is unable to hold participants hostage I observed Twitter/X was recently loosening previous owner's restrictions and censorship. I'm apparently misinformed, so how is enabling previously banned accounts hurting free s
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by landemva 3y ago
In a democracy we would have a chance to vote on individual issues such as data privacy, or war against whomever. USA is a federal republic.
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by landemva 3y ago
> still allowed to do so. They are allowed if you voluntarily consent. When did border and immigration photo opt-out change for Americans? https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cbp-introdu... "I
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by landemva 3y ago
> reverse repo rate Thanks for the reminder! I recall Fed was involved with something in reverse repo 6 months before virus blew up. Federal Reserve has so many levers it becomes questionable that anyone understands medium to long term i
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by landemva 3y ago
> in possession of a mystical lever, a single number that they can change to steer the behavior Federal Reserve has more than one lever. They set bank reserve ratios. They engage in outright buying of underwater (mispriced) paper through
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by landemva 3y ago
> Look at how clinate protesters are treated. How does that relate to capital and jobs? Unlike physical mining and physical manufacturing, capital is not a gating feature of bits and bytes tech startups. We saw violent destruction during
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by landemva 3y ago
There was serious labor abuse in past years, and capital doesn't have as much power in the new info-WFH-open source economy. Mineral rights and office space and expensive yearly software support contracts are gone. Stop waiting on gove
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by landemva 3y ago
Flat? Not in the USA where I lived. A gallon of gas was 0.99 in 1999, and also 0.99 for a brief time in 2020. It is now $3+.
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by landemva 3y ago
> Fed's stunt with 2-3% interest rates in 2020-2022 Really? Fed funds rate was about 2.5% in 2019, because Fed raised rates when Trump took office. Fed funds rate scraped zero in 2020 and 2021. https://fred.stlouisfed.org
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by landemva 3y ago
Large corps have site licenses and support, so an additional Oracle instance has minimal cost. Corps that pay by CPU typically will consider alternatives.
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by landemva 3y ago
Intereating, maybe you can summarize your findings and put links on a blog somewhere? Thirty-thousand.org also has information about allowing the House to expand. https://thirty-thousand.org
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by landemva 3y ago
Legislators who respect the rights of their constituents would vote 'present' and then go fishing. Since the House membership was capped in 1929, I suppose this only gets fixed through a general strike of the people, or a crack-up
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by landemva 3y ago
> The boom bust cycle is made worse by government policies Government meddling does make it worse. Governments fighting the business cycle is perverted and should not be the task of government. Paul Volker rediscovered the business cycle
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by landemva 3y ago
> interest is what causes ups and downs in economies. That is an extraordinary claim. If government set or controlled allowable interest rate or set it to zero there would be no business cycle? The downturn in 2020 was caused by interest
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by landemva 3y ago
In US, rear underrun has been required for longer than I knew about these things. Considering miles travelled and risk and limited funds, side underrun funds are better spent on other safety items.
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by landemva 3y ago
The shotcrete I have been around was sprayed onto hogwire (already on the rock) and then bolted. It was not just coated onto existing rock as if it was a cake icing.
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by landemva 3y ago
Often a lever, or joystick motion, per function. And site plans can be input to bulldozers and excavators, and with precision sensing they do cool things like preventing operator from digging below grade. Those 'sticking pipe' in
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by landemva 3y ago
> Pro tip: Don't let a populist gain control over your central bank. USA was founded without a central bank and is on it's third central bank. The banksters learned a lot over the years, so this private central bank may hold on
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by landemva 3y ago
Feds would typically pay yearly through classified budget to have this access. They simply procure it like everything else, then hide it in reams of black budget.
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by landemva 3y ago
I worked for telcos, and the rich & famous & royalty typically had their accounts restricted from access by regular CSRs. I know there were restrictions built into the internal systems, though it didn't apply to my role. Now th
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by landemva 3y ago
> What would you do instead of SSN? We could easily avoid this mess of PII honeypots by repealing the federal income tax. The country was not founded with a claim on your labor.
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by landemva 3y ago
Same for Munich. Englisch Garden hosts packs of children in the park during summer, including joyous play on the circuit of floating the river and taking the tram back to the start while dripping wet. I'm no longer a child, though I en
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by landemva 3y ago
> No pre-set plan, no parental supervision Yes, and recently in USA. A handful of times I had a tinge of worry when they were gone much of the day, and they returned better than I could have planned it. One occasion I recall they hiked t
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by landemva 3y ago
Some domestic 'first class', actually business class, provides glass. It breaks when dropped.

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