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I remember being homeless and wanting to apply as a USPS mail sorter. There was a big warning on the application that inaccuracies were a felony. I don't have a great memory of all my job and life history so I decided a was better off homeless than a homeless felon. I wonder how many people that keeps away.

We can't even get photo ID required to vote for federal office, despite the law requiring it for other stuff that is a right ascribed merely to people ( guns ) unlike voting which is expressly protected for citizens ( although non-citizens could vote for local office if law allows it like in American samoa.)

Another poster mentioned after taxes vehicles cost 1.5-2x of the US cost. There'd be more money for safety if they weren't so busy taxing the everliving shit out of car buyers.

Genius. Incentivize economic production in industries where you have less comparative advantage. A common story of contribution to poverty in SA, although to be fair Uruguay is better than most others on the continent.

I would argue if the goal is justice then the fine is basically a tort on the externality imposed. At some point society imposes an injustice if the fine exceeds the externality imposed by tailgating, even if it's a pittance to the rich person.

That is, for justice rather than just retribution, I think the real nominal cost of tailgating is probably not closely linked to wealth or income of the offender

I was trapped by an armed man once when I was a kid and ever since then I have always had a backup plan to escape. Most taxi drivers are honest good people, some aren't. The only people that have jammed me up were US CBP, in my experience foreign customs knows their country is fucked and will let most non-gun metal objects slide. It's mostly nanny states that jam you up for a hammer.

The eventual outcome of such race down is the apps realize they are merely matchmakers and they charge a 100% commission, since the price quoted can only be trusted as accurate with regards to the cost of using the 'rideshare' app.

I admit my taxi experience is limited to Mexico, Paraguay, Iraq, Syria, and the Philippines. But in each one of those traffic control was so broken you couldn't have gone more than 2 blocks off course without the chaos forcing a stop or slowdown.

Always carry an object capable of smashing out a window when you ride in a 3rd world taxi

This makes no sense,why wouldn't Uber just increase rates and take a cut rather than let the drivers eat their lunch? What incentive do they have to charge less than the market will bear?

All sorts of foreigners have been extradited for supposedly violating USC despite never stepping foot in America. They could argue the node operator facilitated money laundering that touched a US bank, that they conspired with a US person, a US CSAM victims likeness went through the node, etc etc.

USC has extraterritorial power about everywhere but NK, Russia, and Iran either formally or through influence.

They can't say they're breaking the law but as long as they don't admit to wrongdoing they can accomplish the goal of picking up pretty much anyone for something..

It's best to assume the government is a hostile, rabid actor who will seize any reachable assets and your freedom at any point they wish and proceed accordingly.

Wouldn't the true exit node be the ISP as you are one clear node behind them? How many ISP execs get raided by SWAT teams?

Compelled speech. Strike it down, SCOTUS.

The missing piece may be a different mode of transport like trains. Humans adapted from creatures that lived in trees over millions of years, a computer has nothing on that evolutionary process of the bad tree jumper getting eaten or breaking a leg and dying.

Spend a few million years programming a computer to swing through trees and they'll probably get something that can drive a car.

Proposal rejected by society. You will raise the child into a productive citizen, then society will tax the shit out of them while yelling "we paid our property taxes for our shit schools, so we deserve a slice."

Then the social security cut gets distributed regardless of preference to who raised the kids who now pay the taxes.

It's a classic tragedy of the commons, offload almost all the cost on moms then socialize the taxed gains.

Those people only take dollars because every transaction has a third guy with a club demanding dollars from the other two, that makes it incredibly challenging for the currency to shift to something else.

Without the third guy standing there with a club it's not clear if or why they would demand dollars.

What would drive a currency with no demand? Money almost always ends up as a commodity itself (gold/silver/ramen packets/cigarettes), commodity backed, or as a token to prevent the state from tossing me in a tiny cage.

In most crypto, the commodity isn't very clear. I attribute it's rise largely to the tax authorities and the FATF snuffing out anonymous banking and bearer shares and most high denomination notes around that time, creating massive demand for an alternative that crypto largely fills.

I think low latency traders don't much care about the value proposition, only that they can gamble on the trades. Much like forex day traders don't give a shit about the value proposition of the dollar

Rich people use them to transfer bearer instruments of wealth across borders without having to inform the gestapo.

Inflation was crazy and collectibles looked like one of the possible exits.

For trading with lower latency / no confirm time.

Non-KYC exchanges outside the US and sharp deranged claws of the FTC and DoJ typically depend on exchange held crypto if you want near instant clearing for futures and securities trading etc.

All hours spent with kids under 5 is basically 'on'. Which would leave most mothers I've met at zero 'on hours' left for work. A reason for the 'gender pay gap'?

They ruled it was tried in the wrong jurisdiction thus basically never happened. There is likely a sealed indictment awaiting in another jurisdiction where they will try again, now knowing the trial strategy of the defense.

Weev is effectively banned from the banking system. The list of places with enough infrastructure to survive as a hacker, without foreign citizenship and in a cash/crypto economy with no extradition treaty is thin. I'm sure Transnistria might do that but apparently it wasn't worth their time to kill him. Seems better than North Korea, Iran, or the bush of Africa.

It's an excellent choice IMO from his perspective. They grant citizenship after 1 year with not a lot of questions and have a cash economy. And they don't extradite to the US.

Jury is peer, not subordinate of judge, and they should keep each other in check. Some tyrannical judges don't understand this. Sometimes the judge has to be reminded he is wrong in a way he can't prove he's been reminded, however.

In part yes but inevitably devolves into an ad hominem attack against the most high profile case of a guy who did it, who is now hiding in Ukraine on a Prednistrovian passport after having his conviction overturned (temporarily) giving him an escape window.

Both are definitely valid. I think saving face and cash grabs are the two fastest way to get in deep shit with the government.

What if they incremented a number in a url on a publicly available website?