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> 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 purchasers could fund an independent code storage vault and pay a small premium to fund that code vault organization?

In other words, if purchasers wanted this and valued this, they would demand it in purchase contracts and fund it.

> 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 starting to feel the impacts of Putin’s price hike."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/597675-biden-bla...

Wow, I might be interested. Do you have any recommendations in USA?

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.

Local subsistence farming is better for you, so you eat from your land plot? What are you harvesting today for dinner?

> 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 sufficient, then change that insurance system.

There could be a business opportunity for supplemental market-priced contributions which pay on job loss. That wouldn't be worse than the 'legal assist' ripoff plans HR pimps at employee hiring.

> 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 speech?

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.

> 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...

"It is not mandatory for U.S. citizens to have their photo taken."

> 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 impacts. And FDIC works closely with Fed on bank bailouts like SVB.

> 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 quantitative easing. They created a new program this year to swap SVB's mispriced bond holdings at par. It's time to reel in Federal Reserve and reel in government deficit spending.

> 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 covid lockdowns by BLM. What did that accomplish?

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 government regulators for action on white collar issues.

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+.

> 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/series/fedfunds

Large corps have site licenses and support, so an additional Oracle instance has minimal cost. Corps that pay by CPU typically will consider alternatives.

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

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 divorce in a decade or so.

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/20/988865415/stuck-at-435-repres...

> 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 and wrote a book about it.

https://archive.org/details/rediscoveryofbus0000volc

Interest rates naturally vary across time, space, lenders, and borrowers. Leave rates to the free market and have government enforce anti-discrimination.

> 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?

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.

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.

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 trenches, and those putting in landfill cells rave about it because it avoids rework. The old guys don't need it, but they are aging out of the workforce.

https://www.komatsu.eu/en/Komatsu-Intelligent-Machine-Contro...

> 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 for another decade or so - until some States get fed up and divorce the USA.

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.

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 the elite use Telegram groups, Signal, and rotate SIM cards. Everybody should be doing life this way, so the telcos become dumb data pipes.

> 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.

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 enjoyed the river float circuit!

> 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 to a lake and had packed backpacks with lunches water sunscreen. It was my brain that worried, and a joy to watch the children grow and explore!

The mother next door, apprehensive about rogue police, instructed her children that if they see the police to run home and don't stop. There is no recourse when the cops crack skulls, so it's best to stay out of their grip.

Some domestic 'first class', actually business class, provides glass. It breaks when dropped.