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> can still require the manufacturers to privately submit to the government all code I wonder if companies purchasing trains could put code disclosure in the purchase contract? I w…

> Trump also slashed corporate taxes and taxes for the ultra-wealth Congress writes the bills that set tax rates. Congress also writes the spending bills. I thought Biden told us t…

Wow, I might be interested. Do you have any recommendations in USA?

Forced unemployment insurance is a supposed safety net, so should be open to discussion as part of solution. Let me opt out, or take premiums to a non-State provider.

Local subsistence farming is better for you, so you eat from your land plot? What are you harvesting today for dinner?

> when a company lays people off, the town, state, and federal government are the ones who have to end up picking up the downstream effects If the existing unemployment _insurance_…

> he is unable to hold participants hostage I observed Twitter/X was recently loosening previous owner's restrictions and censorship. I'm apparently misinformed, so how is enabling…

In a democracy we would have a chance to vote on individual issues such as data privacy, or war against whomever. USA is a federal republic.

> still allowed to do so. They are allowed if you voluntarily consent. When did border and immigration photo opt-out change for Americans? https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-…

> reverse repo rate Thanks for the reminder! I recall Fed was involved with something in reverse repo 6 months before virus blew up. Federal Reserve has so many levers it becomes q…

> in possession of a mystical lever, a single number that they can change to steer the behavior Federal Reserve has more than one lever. They set bank reserve ratios. They engage i…

> Look at how clinate protesters are treated. How does that relate to capital and jobs? Unlike physical mining and physical manufacturing, capital is not a gating feature of bits a…

There was serious labor abuse in past years, and capital doesn't have as much power in the new info-WFH-open source economy. Mineral rights and office space and expensive yearly so…

Flat? Not in the USA where I lived. A gallon of gas was 0.99 in 1999, and also 0.99 for a brief time in 2020. It is now $3+.

> Fed's stunt with 2-3% interest rates in 2020-2022 Really? Fed funds rate was about 2.5% in 2019, because Fed raised rates when Trump took office. Fed funds rate scraped zero in 2…

Large corps have site licenses and support, so an additional Oracle instance has minimal cost. Corps that pay by CPU typically will consider alternatives.

Intereating, maybe you can summarize your findings and put links on a blog somewhere? Thirty-thousand.org also has information about allowing the House to expand. https://thirty-th…

Legislators who respect the rights of their constituents would vote 'present' and then go fishing. Since the House membership was capped in 1929, I suppose this only gets fixed thr…

> The boom bust cycle is made worse by government policies Government meddling does make it worse. Governments fighting the business cycle is perverted and should not be the task o…

> interest is what causes ups and downs in economies. That is an extraordinary claim. If government set or controlled allowable interest rate or set it to zero there would be no bu…

In US, rear underrun has been required for longer than I knew about these things. Considering miles travelled and risk and limited funds, side underrun funds are better spent on ot…

The shotcrete I have been around was sprayed onto hogwire (already on the rock) and then bolted. It was not just coated onto existing rock as if it was a cake icing.

Often a lever, or joystick motion, per function. And site plans can be input to bulldozers and excavators, and with precision sensing they do cool things like preventing operator f…