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"Yes, it's primarily a novelty/art thing."

If you're going to do this with your life you have to believe that you're necessary - and you are - everyone wants to drive their fancy cars and their big fucking houses they can't afford they need you - you're necessary.

The only reason any of this works is (you) have (your) hand on the scale in their favor. (You) take it away, everything gets really fucking fair, really fucking fast - and don't no one want that.

They want all of the things (you) have to give them and .... then they want to pretend they don't know where it came from.


Are you aware of sqlite3-rsync ?

It is a tool that was created by the author of sqlite. It does just what you would expected to do.



Wow, I had no idea. This is probably going to do the trick nicely. I really appreciate the suggestion and link!

I have one of these that I purchased ~16 years ago:

https://github.com/Retrotink/PockeTerm-II

Very simple serial -> VGA device. Unfortunately no longer in production but the github project contains everything one would need ...


"Short everything this guy has ever touched ..."

“… There is no way of contacting anyone at Google about it …”

Of course there is: you pay your lawyer to send correspondence by registered mail.

Then you have them send followup correspondence a week or so later.

You will absolutely get a response.


Everyone everywhere has the money and time to keep a lawyer on retainer. This is super equitable and a reasonable way to run society


Everyone Google cares about, anyway.


Nah, we all pay for a lawyer with our taxes: the attorney general.

What you do is send Google your own correspondence, certified mail, giving them a heads up that you've contacted the attorney general. That usually gets an even quicker response than from a personal lawyer :)

It also gives the attorney general office a heads up if they need to be scrutinizing a company like Google more carefully if they're getting a lot of complaints.

Situations like this are exactly what they're here for.

https://www.naag.org/find-my-ag/


people "have" lawyers? how much would this cost on a yearly basis?


“… These are later accounted for when you sell. Though AFAIK if you sell at a loss you can't get the Vorabpauschale back directly, but it would increase the losses you can potentially apply …”

That sounds simple and elegant.


So many of these M5Stack products are not actually stackable and have no physical relation to their "stack" system.


Ya, I noticed that with the CoreS3-SE being incompatible with the "Extension Port Module for Core2" (M123). I don't see a version compatible with the CoreS3.


No, this is because they want to IPO soon.

If the chips weren't this compelling they would have something different to announce.

These are paperclip maximizers who just happen to wear human skin - there is no underlying premise nor ideological goal.


A reminder:

Neither visa nor MasterCard networks have the ability to verify cardholder name.

Everyone behaves as if they do, but your name cannot be verified.

Which is to say, all of these cards have name anonymization, not just robinhood.


yeah I found it out a while back and since then I've been using randomly generated names during checkout every time - no issues ever


I was unaware of that, is address also unverifiable?


Yes, address is verifiable.


According to wikipedia, AVS only verifies the numeric portion of an address.

But I haven't tried this, so ymmv.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_verification_service#:...

Vendors like Stripe may do more than Visa/MC though.


No, your parent is correct.

In addition to the pragmatic point about how nobody actually paid those rates, there is an ideological mismatch as well:

Those very high marginal tax rates were not enacted to address inequality or any of the typical social goals that we think of when we advocate for higher marginal tax rates. Rather, they were imposed to combat war profiteering during the WW2 period:

"The crisis of World War II led Congress to pass four excess profits statutes between 1940 and 1943. The 1940 rates ranged from 25 to 50 percent and the 1941 ones from 35 to 60 percent. In 1942, a flat rate of 90 percent was adopted, with a postwar refund of 10 percent; in 1943 the rate was increased to 95 percent, with a 10 percent refund."[1]

Can you argue for a very high marginal tax rate as a means of wealth distribution and furthering progressive policy ? Yes, of course you can.

Have we ever had one ? Not really.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_profits_tax#United_Stat...


Just because people didn’t pay the top rate doesn’t mean they didn’t pay substantially higher percentages than today.


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