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I don't mind paying for a service, but with a URL that includes the word "free" I was surprised to see at the top of the page "State Returns $14.99 $12.95 — 12 more days to save on state filing"

that is true tautologically. If it is right wing it is fake news and if it is left wing it is simply news. /s

if you're uncomfortable with that wait until you hear that a US citizen born in a foreign country, citizen of a foreign country, living in a foreign country, working in a foreign country for a foreign company, still has to file US taxes and in many cases even has to pay US taxes.

Hey, nice to meet you. I believe there are crimes where a death penalty is warranted, but only humanely. AMA?

to clarify for all who only read the headline

"Going forward, the government has clarified [Facebook] will retain the ability to decide if news appears on Facebook so that [Facebook] won't automatically be subject to forced negotiation,"

so it looks like Facebook won in the game of chicken between them and the Australian government.

I'll have confidence in the vaccine once governments start saying that vaccinated people can walk around without masks and travel without being quarantined. Until then, I'll wait to see if there are any surprise side effects that we are yet to discover.

times like this I imagine a cancellation service. Imagine paying $X to some Indian company that calls them and whenever they offer alternatives they just respond that they are not authorized to do that. Bonus if they have a think Indian accent that makes it somewhat hard to understand.

The only disadvantage is that you would probably have to give that company your billing information for that to work.

I'm sorry if my comment sounded very harsh to you. On the "bright" side, if my country ever gets destroyed, I have an insurance citizenship that "only" costs a few hundred dollars per year (and the nearly impossible restrictions when doing "weird" things like becoming a private contractor)

Thanks for the second link. I remember hearing rumors about how the Trump administration would finally remove worldwide taxation. I guess the result was the end (or ease) of worldwide taxation for corporations only.

I don't live in America, and haven't lived there for nearly my entire life. But my parents are citizens, and they graciously gave me US citizenship. Now, while I earn money abroad, live abroad, receive support from my government abroad, I still have to file taxes in the US. For the most part I don't have to pay, but I end up paying a couple hundred dollars for someone to file my taxes. Most of the online tools don't know what to do about people not living in the US. Also, as a fortunate Hi-Tech worker, I will soon earn enough money that I will have to pay the US government taxes for money that I earned abroad.

I've looked into renouncing my US citizenship, but that costs a few thousand dollars. And, the US can reject it for several reasons, one of which is tax avoidance. Also, as per the rumors, it is nearly impossible to get a US Visa after that (and I still have American relatives who I would like to see). Seeing as us expats don't have a senator or congressman, we don't really have someone to fight for us. At least I am still allowed to vote. Before every election that I am eligible to vote in, I email the candidates and ask them what their stance is on taxing foreigners (and don't get me started on the fbar). Based on their response I vote.

While this is bad news, I hope something like this can make knowing someone's SSN not such a security risk. It blows my mind that in America if someone knows your SSN they could defraud your bank, and the bank can then blame you and make your life hard. If the bank decides to offer a loan or a CC to someone whose only identification is your SSN then it should be fully on the bank to recoup its losses.

I'm not sure how it works but xmpp with the conversations client has that feature. After sending a message you can edit it to anything or nothing. I don't know of other clients that support that, and obviously someone could have a client that doesn't support it and then they will still see your message. But I think that is the closest you'll get.

Does this article have anything new to say? It is basically rewriting the main article and laughing about how dumb he is. I was hoping they would actually address his points. I've never lived in Austin or SV so I have nothing to go by but what the original article wrote.

So, does Austin have an issue of lack of public parks? Do roofs have to get replaced frequently due to hail?

I fear that that will be "Californiaed" like with the prop 65 label. The intention was to inform the consumer if a product was dangerous, but due to California being California, that label is on basically every product and that label has now lost its meaning.

I don't understand the article, but why is this a leak? Shouldn't it be public knowledge how effective a vaccine is expected to be?

> So even though these workers are more tightly supervised and managed than any regular employee, they have no rights.

Except that they have the right to quit. Any article that calls workers with the right to quit is hyperbolic and already made me doubt other "facts" that are written.

> The DoL was a known problem in 2010. > One of Trump's last-minute regulations was a rollback that protected workers from being misclassified as contractors. The Biden admin could reverse that regulation.

Well that wouldn't fix the exact issue being described as happening in 2010.

This article (if true) has a lot of powerful things to right. Such as the cost for training and quiting or how businesses can decline to pay fees. As an article talking about misclassifying workers it does an awful job of misclassifying slavery.

> sign a federal mask mandate (done) > President Biden signs an executive order implementing a national mask mandate on federal property.

I wouldn't consider that done. Maybe I don't understand the dog whistle property, but I always assumed that a federal mask mandate was like a normal federal law that was legally binding on all US land not just the capital, white House, and such.

If you are worried about deplatforming, why move to an app with the same issue? They should move to xmpp and then Trump (or whoever the thought leaders are) could pay for their own server.

Although I do wonder how that would look after the issue with Hillary's private server ;)

I'm not sure I understand the story. A guy flew from US to US (but is he a US citizen?). When it came time to leave the airport he showed a stollen ID. The airport staff didn't let him leave (but didn't arrest him?). He was then given the option to return (?) but refused since his place of origin has more Covid than the US (is there such a country?). Then people kind of let him be and he was able to eat simply base on the kindness of the few people using the airport for the passed 3 months.

I feel like I am missing a lot

Well when when people like Cuomo make it a crime punishable by loosing your medical license to give (soon to be garbage) vaccines to anyone but the highest priority [0], this was expected. In Israel you have clinics that after 10 pm advertise that they are now vaccinating people 50+ (and then 40+) until they use up all of the thawed vaccines.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/04/covid-vaccine-ny-gov-cuomo-t...

> In January 2020, I got an email from an alleged Harvard Human Resources person from what appeared to be an official Harvard email ID,

it would have been interesting if she would have shared exactly what that email address was. Was it hr@harvard.com or maybe hr@harverd.com? I doubt that it was hr@<something>.edu since it is hard to register .edu domains. But if someone did, that would be news to me.

Mix that doctor's report with this [0] study saying that smoking lowers the risk of catching covid, makes me think that they should encourage people to start smoking until they get vaccinated.

[0] https://www.qeios.com/read/WPP19W.3

> If Zig code doesn’t look like it’s jumping away to call a function, then it isn’t.

I'll admit, I don't know zig. But how would it implement 1.0*2.0 for an architecture that doesn't support float multiplication? I assume that it would do something like compiler-rt and replace that operation with a function call. See https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/compiler-rt/l... for examples of "code that doesn't look like a function call" that actually is.

I recall that the ACLU supported the right for the KKK to hold rallies since freedom of speech (both in the legal sense and the moral sense) require supporting those that you disagree with.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-em-defends-kkks-rig...

so they are called hackers when they are attacking something "good" and internet warriors when they are attacking something "bad"?

I wonder if rhetoric from people like Cuomo saying that they won't trust an fda approved vaccine without their additional review contributes to that.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/09/24/cuomo-vaccine-covid/

No, if a group of Republicans decided to go on a lynch (maybe while dressed in white cloths) I would consider them a terrorist organization, even if they only targeted the race of people who attacked their race

Intuitively I always assumed that deplatforming works (and similarly that the Streisand effect doesn't actually work, it's just survivor bias). My issue is that I don't trust Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and other SV CEOs to decide what should be deplatformed. We see a lot of media around why white people are racist, bad and immoral people. Why don't we see that much media around how the wealthy class are greedy, bad and immoral? My guess is because while BLM, antifa and the like are promoted by most of the major media channels, groups like occupy wall street are being quieted.

If Republicans start firing rockets directed at Mexican(?) civilians, then I guess that we can start claiming that they are terrorists

Maybe the NBA should require a racial affirmative action as well. After all, 81% of NBA players are black, and only 13% of the US population is black. Whites are underrepresented in the NBA.