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satronauton The Big Escape: How the Ultra-Wealthy Avoid Paying Taxes and How to Fix It [pdf]

maybe, but can you say the same on blogging or online e-commerce. Or if somebody supplements their income doing uber/lyft or doordash/instacart?

satronauton Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem

Only .4% of bitcoin transactions are used for illegal activities.

It'd be hard because you'd have to find every single node and disconnect it from the internet, and something like 90% of Bitcoin nodes run over TOR

satronauton Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem

lol, try and ban bitcoin

satronauton Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem

you either get it or you don't. I don't have time to convince you why it's good.

satronauton The Big Escape: How the Ultra-Wealthy Avoid Paying Taxes and How to Fix It [pdf]

you can make money if you do your research. You won't make millions over night, but you have to start somewhere. Really though, if people learned how to properly budget their time and money, change their habits, and disassociate from groups that bring them down, they'll have positive changes in their life.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink though.

satronauton The Big Escape: How the Ultra-Wealthy Avoid Paying Taxes and How to Fix It [pdf]

but the investments generate tax's. If I invest 1 million dollars to hire 10 people at 100,000 $ each, they all pay income tax's. That income tax wouldn't be collected if it weren't for the investment.

* round nubmers ** you'd pay 150,000 usd on a 1 million dollar investment cashout

federal income tax on a salary of 100,000 USD times 10 is 151,040

So the government still gets their tax's (and more if you countother ancillary tax's) AND 10 people have a job

satronauton The Big Escape: How the Ultra-Wealthy Avoid Paying Taxes and How to Fix It [pdf]

Everyone gets a free education for 12 years, and access to infinite knowledge (library with books and internet). Qualifying families also have access to dirt cheap internet (at&t offers internet for 10$ a month if you're poor).

Most anybody has the means to research how to set up an amazon store, a blog, or a youtube channel and start making business income. But instead of spending their time learning how to better their life, they waste it on social media, watching tv, etc.

satronauton Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater

burn!

satronauton What happened to the Bitcoin paper? [pdf]

are you in the UK? Craig Wright falsy claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, and sued the owner/maintainer of bitcoin.org to remove the white paper, since Craig (faketoshi) said he had a copyright on it. Faketoshi is an awful person and is suing bitcoin devs left and right, so Cobra, the psudoanonymous entity who controls bitcoin.org decided not to defend themselves in court so their identity wouldn't be revealed opening themselves to further lawsuits from faketoshi. The result is faketoshi automatically won in court and bitcoin.org can't display the white paper in the UK

satronauton Fortran Web Framework

it's good to know that it did; i switched over to general software engineering a few years ago (worked in aerospace before). My college taught matlab as a class, and required you to buy the student version.

satronauton Fortran Web Framework

i love how fortran and matlab are in their own industrial bubbles

satronauton Panama unveils bill to make Bitcoin legal tender

Can you define proof of waste? I haven't heard of that protocol?

satronauton Electrifying New York: An Electric Vehicle Vision Plan for New York City [pdf]

I'm all for moving over to electric vehicles; they're cheaper to maintain and electricity CAN (but not always is) be cleaner than gasoline powered vehicles.

One thing I didn't see addressed is where the additional electric power for charging vehicles will be coming from. Doesn't NYC have trouble running AC in the peak of summer? I'd be curious to see if additional generation sources would need to be build out, or if the distribution network will also need to be vastly updated.

satronauton Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

People have been getting sick literally since the dawn of man. I knew many co-workers who'd come in with a cold or a fever and get the rest of the office sick. Now, there's a virus that's so dangerous you need a test to know if you're even sick with it but people are demanding everyone stays home so nobody catches it. If you don't want to catch it, stay home, but don't ask myself or others to change their behavior

satronauton Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

a blackout law keeps an enemy bomber from dropping a bomb on my house. IMO, if you say to a rational person "keep your blinds down or else the nazi's will drop a bomb on your house" they'll say "gee that sounds like a good idea." While in modern times, if you say "shut down the economy, increase alcoholism, suicides, mental health issues, homelessness, poverty, and inflation to defeat a virus with over a 99% recovery rate that really only effects old and unhealthy people" a rational person would raise their eye brow and say "that sounds suspicious and a great way to cover the fact that the last 12 years of money printing is about to implode"

satronauton Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

you forgot number 4, be treated like an adult and just stay home for 2 weeks and not have the government check to see if you're at home like you're on house arrest while not having committed a crime

satronauton Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

what prohibits them from quarantining at home in the first place? Is there a difference between not leaving my room for 2 weeks (except to use the bathroom) and staying in a hotel for 2 weeks?

satronauton The Australian federal government is planning to de-anonymize the internet

what's nah? did the democrats vote yes for different reasons than the republicans? What were their reasons then? Otherwise, why the nah?

satronauton The Australian federal government is planning to de-anonymize the internet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

I can't find hard numbers on how many republicans/dems votes yes or no on it, but it passed 98-1 in the senate, and only 66 no votes in the house. Yes a lot of republicans in congress (probably all of them at the time) voted yes on it, but most democrats voted yes on it too.

satronauton Gab.com’s Response to Congress

yeah, it's scary how all of the internet is basically being hosted on amazon and logged on to using google or facebook

satronauton 65k fake students applied for financial aid in wide community college scam

get a part time job? take out student loans? study something (stem or law) that will actually enable them to get out of student debt?

satronauton Gab.com’s Response to Congress

we need that web 3.0 now more than ever

satronauton “I'm Not Supposed to Show You This ” – Edward Snowden (2021)

Whenever somebody says "I don't care because I have nothing to hide", I ask how they'd feel if I secretly filmed them while they brushed their teeth in the morning. I usually get a long pause after saying that.

Snowden is a hero. It's terrifying how we all just shrugged our shoulders and demanded 0 accountability from the government. That was back in (2013?) and I'm sure that the survelance tools are leagues beyond what they had back then, and google/facebook/twitter are even more complicit than before.

Hell, people are begging for vaccine passports now, which would exclude people by default from society.

satronauton The First Step Toward Protecting Everyone Else from Teslas

but they're the first to have autopilot at what it is now. I drive one, it's freaking amazing and does a way better job at driving than a person ever could

satronauton The First Step Toward Protecting Everyone Else from Teslas

Isn't the goal rite now to have fsd work on any road that's in the tesla gps system (probably based off of whatever google maps gets its info from?)

why wouldn't they compare themselves against all vehicles on the street? they contribute to the miles driven by people statistic

are you against implementing autopilot/fsd/driver assist?

I think it's great, removing the need for people to have to react to split second events when a computer can make a much quicker and calculated decision

satronauton The First Step Toward Protecting Everyone Else from Teslas

woah, downvotes for providing statistics ...

satronauton The First Step Toward Protecting Everyone Else from Teslas

and tesla's on autopilot are ~9x safer than human drivers (humans get into a car crash every 500,000 miles, teslas on autopilot every 4,500,500 miles) source https://cleantechnica.com/2020/08/01/tesla-autopilot-acciden...

satronauton Ohio Resident Pleads Guilty to Laundering Over $300M Through Bitcoin 'Mixer'

can't reply to the latest message. Rite now it's theft. Tax's aren't used for american society. They're used to steal money from the poorest of our country to give to the richest of others (all the "foreign aid" is stolen through the inefficiency of bureaucracy). I'd be happy to pay taxes for services that I actually use, like roads and a police force and a fire station. But it doesn't make any sense to throw money into subsidizing somebody else's company or some other countries problems

satronauton Ohio Resident Pleads Guilty to Laundering Over $300M Through Bitcoin 'Mixer'

have a flat income tax where everybody pays like 5% or something non-intrusive into their life. Or go back to excise taxes. Why do we need a government of our current size anyways?