EvilEndures

> Not collecting taxes on something that might otherwise be taxed is not the same as someone taking your money via taxes and using it to pay for something. What does it cost you if the government doesn't tax your local church?

Debt increases -> interest payments increase -> interest is paid at public expense from the general pool of taxpayers.

I know this sort of causal relationship isn't immediately obvious but it is there as it squeezes services for everyone else if you don't raise taxes to cover the difference.

If you are in a sensitive environment, you put your electronics in a faraday bag and leave it outside the room.

I cover the camera to avoid accidentally turning the camera on for meetings on my laptop, not for security, to be honest.

If you aren't bringing this stuff into the bedroom with you, I'm not sure why people are as concerned as they are. We have to move on from judging people based on how exposed people get by hacking attempts. Well all do stupid shit we regret and if it isn't criminal, no one should be judged.

Do you happen to make music that would fall under the Electornica umbrella?

Mainly just curious because I'm looking for new, free music in that genre. ;)

> 1) let you out (drop charges) and expose the public purse to wrongful imprisonment damages,

This isn't quite correct. They have the ability to hold you for 24 hours without formally arresting/imprisoning you.

The prosecutor would have a 5th option (drop charges and release the person within the first 24 hours). That is more likely than #1 and #2.

> Again, I'm not saying reform is impossible, just playing devil's advocate on this particular proposal.

Understood but a 24 hour hold wouldn't be affected by this proposal as far as I'm aware.

> They're both bad, but they're bad for different reasons: accepting that taxation is a necessary evil (I'm not sure I do, but set that aside), welfare involves paying out of tax revenues into individuals pockets. Tariffs are exactly the opposite - tariffs involve increasing tax revenue by collecting taxes on imports, and then using that tax revenue for whatever you use all the other tax revenue for.

If Mr. Widget isn't competitive at $100 vs. imports sold at $90, and you add a tariff of $10 so its "competitive", suddenly Mr. Widget's sales will increase. The other country, knowing their widgets aren't competitive (except $$ wise) then tariffs something like solar panels to protect a nascent solar panels industry.

Tariffs are a form of welfare for domestic corporations. Creating a new Mr. Widget on the assumption that tariffs will remain the same is an expensive gamble you take only if you are sure your widgets are better than Mr. Widget's widgets.

Subsidized loans (i.e. "The Bank of Boeing") are another example of welfare for domestic corporations.

Prosecutors already only take cases they think they can win via plea bargain. Part of why convinction rates are so high is Prosecutors ignore any case they might lose or the defendant can afford a quality lawyer who might cast reasonable doubt on the verdict.

I doubt repayment for wrongful imprisonment would make that worse.

> I couldn't agree more. Pi-Hole is essentially useless for real world scenarios.

As a user of pi-hole, I have no issues with small scale implementations (i.e. less than 20 users) but security is more important than access to random sites for personal use in the environments I work in.

It is just is for security-prioritized environments.

The only way to do it is to have admin/root on all the devices so you can install your own SSL root certs and "steal" google's domain internally with suitable certs.

It can be done but not in a BYOD situation.

Probably that and "quick start" powerplants already serving this function in the UK.

https://www.ft.com/content/ba6bd46a-1d75-11e8-956a-43db76e69...

> The episode showed how small, flexible power plants are now bridging the supply gaps, especially at a local level, between intermittent renewables and Britain’s fleet of large, but slow-to-fire-up, gas and coal plants.