Viewing profile — aionaiodfgnio

Thanks, Dr. Freud. Wait, I don't believe that at all, for the following reasons: 1. The opposite hasn't been true. We have seen two dramatic tax cuts in recent history which absolu…

We know how to reduce the deficit: raise taxes on the rich. It's not rocket appliances. It's just a complete non-starter given the current GOP. The people screaming the loudest abo…

Sure. The U.S. could run a surplus like it did under Clinton. Surplus & time -> debt paid off. But the only way we know to get back to those days involves raising taxes on the rich…

The last few times this particular form of terrorism has been tried, it has achieved little. If the people threatening us had won major victories then maybe the strategy would make…

We don't need to speculate. >Ratings Downgrade: The rating downgrade of the United States reflects the expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing g…

Maybe Coinbase won't just waltz off with their depositor's money, but their business model appears to be illegal from top to bottom. The SEC alleges that basically everything they …

Sounds like you need a KVM.

In the U.S., most rights are not explicitly enumerated. People are assumed to have all conceivable rights, and the restrictions must be explicitly enumerated. There is no law again…

You are well outside mainstream economics. The existence of market failures is only disputed by a tiny minority of economists. You can disagree with the consensus of experts, of co…

In American law, the right to speak is assumed. It is the lack of a right to speech that is the exception. There are only a handful of categories of unprotected speech, which can b…

[dead]

Would you really trust a company that doesn't pay its rent to run your infrastructure?

Of course it will be centralized! There is no cryptocurrency that isn't. Cryptocurrencies can't scale without centralization, and there's no way to interface with the real world wi…

This is a grift I don't understand. Obviously there is no legitimate reason for it to exist, but what is the il legitimate reason? How do the people behind this scheme expect to be…

Prison for the board, too.

I got at least one inaccuracy in thirty seconds of play. I'm pretty sure Slashdot wasn't around in the '70s, yet the "Slashdot Effect" is claimed as a '70s neologism. https://en.wi…

By "poor", I actually meant "not stupendously wealthy". This includes the merely rich. A doctor or plumber or engineer or cashier knows how to translate their time into quality of …

Most people know exactly the value of their time and the opportunity cost is in things like food and shelter. Wealthy people don't work for a living so their time isn't obviously v…

Amazon identified that people hate paying for shipping, so they deceived their customers about the price of shipping and compelled any vendor using Amazon to double-charge for ship…