Given that tax was invented to transfer wealth from the poor to the rich, I don't think it is surprising that taxation is ineffective at transferring wealth from the rich to the poor.
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I think this is the contract: https://etherchain.org/account/0x470fb19D08c3d2eB8923A31d140...
If you look at a transaction hash that transferred nozero ETH to the account, you can see the ASCII encoded post.
Are you aware of any tokens that don't rely on some kind of managing external organization's voluntary continued support? Or at least anything run like an ETF, where someone can deliver a basket of assets and get them tokenized? Or the inverse?
But when I search Filecoin's website for "revenue" and "profit", I only see references to the participants in the system, and not the token holders.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=site%3Afilecoin.io+revenue
https://www.google.ca/search?q=site%3Afilecoin.io+profit
I did a quick search of the top 5 tokens on https://coinmarketcap.com/tokens/ and I'm not immediately finding any clear statements on how profit is made and distributed.
A question for people who are better informed, is there any kind of list or tracking on tokens payouts? Something like this (https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03779# ), but for non-ponzis?
If you're trying to figure out the truth in a fluid and confusing environment, then it doesn't work well because it motivates the victim to do whatever they can do to end the conversation as quickly as possible.
Shortly before the first field test (you realize that no small scale experiment can be done—either you have a critical mass or you do not), a man asked me to check some arithmetic he had done, and I agreed, thinking to fob it off on some subordinate. When I asked what it was, he said, "It is the probability that the test bomb will ignite the whole atmosphere." I decided I would check it myself! The next day when he came for the answers I remarked to him, "The arithmetic was apparently correct but I do not know about the formulas for the capture cross sections for oxygen and nitrogen—after all, there could be no experiments at the needed energy levels." He replied, like a physicist talking to a mathematician, that he wanted me to check the arithmetic not the physics, and left. I said to myself, "What have you done, Hamming, you are involved in risking all of life that is known in the Universe, and you do not know much of an essential part?" I was pacing up and down the corridor when a friend asked me what was bothering me. I told him. His reply was, "Never mind, Hamming, no one will ever blame you.
Although I guess it would make more sense to be looking at a chart of 2nd offences.
I think a key factor has to be whether Trump will survive through 2020. If Trump is weak in 2020 that is the best time to run, because if a Democrat beats Trump is 2020 and it isn't Mark, he'd have to wait until 2028, and he'd be running for re-election after 8 years of a Dem executive. It will partly depend on the who is the challenger in 2020 was well. I wonder if there is a chance Hillary takes another shot?
( here is the 2016 report: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/deade5b7-5b10-4b25... , found here: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/disen... )
down-with-fascists-and-that-sort-of-thing .com
ban-all-fascists-from-rhode-island .com
fascists-deserved-to-be-punched .com
lets-attack-all-fascists-in-rhode-island .com
list-of-rhode-island-fascists-to-attack-tonight .com
As it escalates in intent of violence and specificity, it becomes more of an issue for any service provider. And you can imagine imagine replacing "fascists" with different groups might get a stronger response earlier, i.e. "animal hurting medical researchers", "illegal aliens", "zionists", "catholics", and so on. But by the time you get to advocating specific illegal actions against specific people, I think you're pretty certain to get cut off.
I don't know if this is true for the daily stormer, but I think generally troll-right groups are going to keep getting cut off because they are doing targeted online harassment. When there are specific victims and things are clearly being coordinated on a certain site that gives service providers a strong motive to cut them off. Versus if someone is publishing some kind of racist newsletter that is only being seen by other racists no one is really going to know enough about that has a motive to cut them off.
Lets say China creates a partition in the bitcoin network between inside China and outside China. My understanding is that when they remove the partition, the longest blockchain "wins". If there is more mining power inside China than outside, that gives them the power to deny everyone outside China the ability to do transactions for the duration of the partition.
The network could be divided other ways, but I believe China is the only one who has the ability and incentive to do it. Although maybe you're right that the miners are connected enough to prevent it (I'm sure it would create chaos that would hurt them in the end). Although I don't know if the firewall is administered at the provincial level or the national level? I think it is much less likely for them to have national level connections since I believe the Chinese political system is controlled by ~100 people.
Is there more mining capacity inside China than outside China?
If so, and the Chinese government used their well-known firewall against Bitcoin for a matter of days to weeks, would Chinese miners have the longer chain? And thus the chain?
I guess what I'm wondering is if the government of China has the ability to DOS Bitcoin as a payment system outside China at will.
Also, I'm part of a country that has one of the highest standards of living in human history which was built on immense toil over thousands of years by my ancestors and millions of others, which only continues to exist based on mutual support between myself and many others.
I may question the value of what I'm working on at the moment, but I don't question the value of knowledge, technology, and the society that allows me to pursue it.
I don't have any objection to Bill and Warren choosing strenuously avoid giving their money to the government, and I don't object to what they are doing.
What I really object to is Warren advocating for other people's money to pay these taxes and presenting it as if it will affect him but he is such a great guy that he is all for it anyway. To me, he is the kid that is about to get in trouble and is frantically pointing at the other kid and mouthing he did it.
Buffett's plan calls for a lot of other wealthy people to be taxed, but I don't see him doing a taxable transaction on his main holdings, I believe the effect on himself would be minuscule.
Once it is competitive they will subsidize it (via. redistribution from financial repression of lower & middle class individuals to below market financing of businesses, and compliant regulation i.e. no unions, lax pollution) to give it an advantage to gain market share globally.
Regarding immigration, they already have a huge labor supply and if they need more I think they will prefer to do it by exporting their political and managerial apparatus, rather than importing bodies. For example their investments in Africa, and Australia: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/world/australia/china-pol... .
The income quintile boundaries are set nationally, but the movements are divided locally, there is no such requirement for balancing in a single area. In theory, a single location could have 100% of people moving into the national top quintile.
edit: I'm referring to the chart called Rags-to-riches income mobility
1st party: you, create the data
2nd party: Google, stores the data
3rd party: none.