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The book is called Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43805741-daylight-robber...

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Taxes Rule Everything Around Me

Schools are the place most people experience physical violence in their entire lives.

Most hardware shops don't understand that the software is also the product.

Any links to good third-party apps?

Are there any projects working on open protocols for digital audio distribution? Any chance manufacturers opt into open protocols?

The conflict is so intense because the stakes are so low.

This is the correct interpretation.

Only a true Texan can tell you the difference between "y'all" and "all y'all".

The quiet part is that you will not be able to spend on those necessities when your politics no longer align with the regime. Total control over money is a guaranteed path to total…

Who is "you"?

Protocols > platforms. Nostr will win long-term because it is a protocol.

The best solution to a societal gambling problem is genuine economic growth. Debt fueled "stimulus" mostly finds its way into the hands of the well-connected. Inflation hurts the p…

The LLM never goes on strike.

Blame inflation. If money maintained stable value over the long term, companies could honestly make promises about "lifetime" pricing. These promises were probably made during the …

Marketplaces need a vendor rating and product ratings. When leaving a review, the form could have sections on shipping separate from the product.

Ah, the days when the Internet was fun.

No matter the situation, in America the lawyers always win.

Standard Oil had already lost a huge portion of its market share when the forced breakup finally happened.

Neural networks often have trigonometric functions internally, so it would be massively more computation than necessary. If you have a few spare CPU cycles, a hybrid approximation …

Now we're all part of the discovery :tada:

Have you checked out the L402[0] protocol? It's basically using the HTTP 402: Payment Required status code and serving up a Lightning Network payment invoice. Edit to add: it basic…

Rest in peace to one of the true greats. My favorite line from Downtown Abby: "What's a week end?"

Open source is a purely voluntary system. So it's not socialist, which requires state coercion to force people to "share."