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US constituent states cannot print money. This only makes sense at the federal level.

Yes, that's exactly the idea. This is called "mutual aid".

Or just set up 2fa and give the second factor to a third party whom the state has difficulty compelling. Granted this does require unconditional trust.

More directly, this is the number of electors in the electoral college.

Half the point of explicit licensing is to provide the software "as is".

Do you have a link of what you're referring to? I know some of the supervisors personally and that strikes me as an extremely distant view of them. I think it's a lot more likely t…

The amount of rent-free space Musk is awarded is absolutely staggering. Tesla isn't even his company.

Uber does exist as a second job. The people deserve protections just as much as with their first job. It ain't a fuckin hobby like you're implying or you wouldn't get paid at all. …

> This boils up to github, as can be seen by teams who do not understand the very basic about git commits, and enable "squash commits by default" on their repos. If I ever work on …

> GitHub hasn't been hacked. Interesting way to position a potential source code leak.... one would think this would improve the security of the code.

I mean, yes? What's your point? Vancouver, WA is a nice town, too.

Isn't this forum all about markets? I'm sure you can put where I'm going with this together. Anyway it's beyond rich describing half these companies as "profitable" in the first pl…

I'm gonna need a big fat "citation needed" on the idea that this isn't a job to people. It doesn't square with, again, the drivers actually in my life. It sounds exactly like uncri…

This could have been titled, "when operating systems (or computers) were different from each other". Now it's just a cpu, peripherals, a flavor of Unix, some mild window management…

Err, is the "casual use of the gig economy" good? These are jobs, not hobbies, and people need to eat. This certainly isn't going to make getting bread on the table any easier exce…

Given the legality of unionizing, I certainly don't see wages going up in the near future. It sounds like a lot of these employees weren't educated about their (lack of) rights.

You know I've lived in a place with 0% income taxes and the people it attracts are wholly worth paying to move away from.