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I wonder if this only considers the OS that a server was shipped with? Which is typically nuked as soon as the customer receives it.

This is why things like the NY Stock Transaction Tax rebate should be repealed and expanded. And why we need property taxes to apply to these financial holdings. There is currently too much untaxable property that will never be cycled through the economy in a way that allows them to be properly taxed. Propublica's framing is still wrong.

I'm outraged! I'll never use Replit again! (this is the first time I've heard of replit.... I've never needed, never will...)

Legalize and let people grow their own without requiring a license.

For an alternative take on the doc: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=whb4unrhy44&t=189s

The primary goal is to not contract covid-19.

That is great. But still, vaccinated people shouldn't be told that they cannot get infected. There is this weird misconception floating around that just because we get vaccinated we are somehow immune to covid-19. That is a dangerous and misguided belief.

Vaccines still aren't 100%. This is bad advice from the CDC. It will only lead to anti-masker/vaxxers using this as an excuse for not wearing a mask. Even the fully vaccinated should be wearing a mask around other people. 94%/97% is not 100%.

edit: Japan is a good example for how masks have drastically reduced the number of infected due to mask culture. Japan has half the US population and still isn't vaccinating the general public. Even the spikes in Japan are tiny compared to the US due to mask usage. Japan is mostly open, trains are still packed, shops are still filled with people. Masks work and should still be worn once vaccinated.

edit 2: good luck.

I am in favor of more laziness. Spend 20% of time automating 80% of the work. Spend more time with your loved ones, pets, take longer walks.

I'm not up to date on current industrial-scale solar cell manufacturing processes, but doesn't the manufacturing proccess still require massive amounts of coal? And what is the lifespan of the cells before they have to be replaced with new cells that also require coal to be produced?

On the battery side, I'm pretty sure that industrial-scale production still requires mining and mountain top removal. And what are wind turbines made out of? Where are we getting those resources from?

Like I said, I'm not up to date on the state-of-the-art industrial manufacturing processes required to make solar cells / turbines. But I'm pretty sure it will still require massive habitat destruction and the release of unimaginable amounts of greenhouse gasses to get us where we need to be.

I can't help but wonder, "what's the point?", if this is all going to result in the destruction of our natural habitats in the end anyway.

I'm not very optimistic that we have enough time, nor individuals have enough financial resources, for the market to realize how cheap / efficient these technologies are. We really need this progress implemented as part of large scale systemic programs. The market is simply too slow.

Serious question. How do we make enough solar panels and wind turbines that will be capable of producing all of this energy without destroying all of our natural resources/habitats?

Also, no ads on YT, or just about any other site, in FF with the uBlock origin plugin.

also, just to add. The Stock Transfer Tax started in 1909. They were paying until the 80s when the state started rebating it at 100%. Its is a 0.5% sales tax on the value of stock trades, 0.1% on debt and 0.005% on derivatives. The NYSE was doing fine when everyone was paying it.

thanks.

No worries.

The STT was first imposed in 1909. They started rebating it at 100% in the 80s. They didn't have the political power to outright abolish it. What should happen now is that rebate should be removed.

The STT is a 0.5% sales tax on the value of stock trades, 0.1% on debt and 0.005% on derivatives.

Good riddance. We shouldn't base our society on how good we are at begging rich people to chip in a bit.

Obama squashed it.

But that is the crux of the issue. Wealth is political power. The only way to mitigate wealth's influence on political institutions requires drastic, systemic changes. The wealthy can be as well meaning as they want, but no individual should control that many resources in a democratic society.

NY should rescind the Stock Transfer tax rebates. They are losing out on ~$16 billion in tax revenue annually.

NY should rescind the Stock Transfer tax rebates. They are losing out on ~$16 billion in tax revenue annually.

One general flaw with any of these historical graphs concerning poverty, standard of living, etc. is that we don't have good data for most countries going back that far. The graphs are making some big assumptions for the older, spotty data.

> Real data on poverty has only been collected since 1981, by the World Bank. It is widely accepted among those who research global poverty that any data prior to 1981 is simply too sketchy to be useful, and going back to as early as 1820 is more or less meaningless.

> The data for 1820–1970 comes from a source (Bourguignon and Morrisson 2002) that draws on the Maddison database on world GDP. That data was never intended to assess poverty, but rather the distribution of GDP — and that for only a limited range of countries. Data for the Global South is particularly thin, and there is very little that exists for prior to 1900. The data is not robust enough to draw meaningful conclusions about what was happening to people’s livelihoods during the colonial period.

I think its important that we make space for people who get angry, too. We need diversity.

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