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  • Where Tim Walz Stands on the Issues

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  • I'm not saying you cannot have both. I'm saying that US and Nordic countries are like on opposing poles of economical systems spectrum. And in my opinion the better options are somewhere in the middle.

    Yeah, CEO salaries are often outrageous. Wealth taxes should be implemented to curb that, and not just high bracket income taxes.

  • Where Tim Walz Stands on the Issues

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  • I stand corrected on this one.

  • Where Tim Walz Stands on the Issues

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  • Nah, Nordic model is not a good choice. It's all fine to drill some oil, collect a lot of taxes and give that money away to people as welfare, while enjoying innovations produced by evil liberal capitalists.

    I can't think of anything advanced after Nokia that is built in Scandinavian countries. No cars (Saab is dead, Volvo is sold to Chinese), no microelectronics, no innovative drugs. To be fair, they have IKEA and LEGO, but this is not what makes humanity progress.

    I feel there is a lot of options on the left spectrum that is less radical but still beneficial for broad population. Think France or Germany as an example.

  • 'Easy to Pay for Something That Costs Less': New Study Shows Medicare for All Would Save US $5.1 Trillion Over Ten Years

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  • The header is misleading. Read the article and the details of that research. To make it work they propose to add 3.75% sales tax on everything except necessities, wealth tax for >$1mil net worth, tax capital gains as ordinary income, and keep existing Medicare paycheck tax same and employers contributions but slightly smaller.

    It might be fairer system, and it will be more humane system for lower middle income folks who cannot afford health insurance and don't qualify for Medicaid.

    But it's a lot of new taxes. They say that for top 20% earners the net healthcare cost will be higher. And all the lobbying from insurance business... i just don't see this could pass.

  • 'Easy to Pay for Something That Costs Less': New Study Shows Medicare for All Would Save US $5.1 Trillion Over Ten Years

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  • Why don't you read the article? The proposed system still has employer payments, but promises reduction of these payments which should give a good boost for businesses.

  • FTC Issues Orders to Eight Companies Seeking Information on Surveillance Pricing

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  • Oh, sorry, I've assumed that you are in US since you posted an article about FTC.

    I don't know if there is a similar service in Europe. I think you could get a virtual card linked to a crypto wallet, but this obviously comes with downsides

  • FTC Issues Orders to Eight Companies Seeking Information on Surveillance Pricing

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  • There is Privacy.com that gives you virtual cards to use for purchases. Money go from your bank account to them. Destination is visible on payment description still, but it may fool bank's algorithm. Or you can get paid plan from Privacy.com and mask destination completely.

  • Why fed ship do not have dedicate landing team, but send bridge crew on dangerous mission ?

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  • Because we all know that a sergeant and soldiers can't even hit a starship from 10 meters. Yes, Stormtroopers, I'm talking about you. What, this is what community again?

  • Denmark to charge farmers €100 a cow in first carbon tax on agriculture | Coalition government agrees annual levy on emissions from livestock after months of fraught negotiations

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  • Raising the cost will reduce demand, and prompt producers to either reduce supply to avoid overproduction or find a way to keep costs down.

    In first case, there will be less cow farts, and less meat and milk on the tables of poor people. There will be public health consequences, but emissions will be reduced.

    In the second case, the government will get more taxes, emissions will be the same, and there will be possible public health issues due to lower meat/milk quality resulted from cost cuts.

    In both cases, big manufacturers will likely keep their profits, small farmers will be impacted more and may go out of business, and public health will be at risk.

    Where am I wrong? I have no economic expertise and no data, and the government should have both, at least in theory.

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    A cool guide of ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer

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  • It's an ad for a sex toys store with zero evidence

  • Do you think people would be okay with 'Recall' if Apple did it?

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  • I guess there is a chance to see some of code, but I doubt about it being properly open sourced.

    While we’re publishing the binary images of every production PCC build, to further aid research we will periodically also publish a subset of the security-critical PCC source code.

    Source: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

  • New Hampshire Republicans Try to Require Proof of Citizenship to Register to Vote

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  • Yeah, doesn't seem that the proposed bill offers meaningful improvements. The article says

    Under current New Hampshire law, voters are asked to provide proof of identity and age (usually a driver’s license), proof that they live where they want to vote, and proof of citizenship (either a birth certificate or a passport) in order to be able to register and vote.

    It's only if a person doesn't have a proof of citizenship, they can sign a sworn affidavit to register or vote, which will be checked by attorney general office after elections.

    This looks to me as a solid system already. One cannot vote by impersonating someone else, one cannot vote if you are not living in the district, one can only lie about citizenship with a significant risk of that lie to be exposed after elections with all legal consequences.

    Unless you belive that damn liberals moving buses of illegals with forged IDs to steal the elections, there is nothing much to be worried about.

  • Do you think people would be okay with 'Recall' if Apple did it?

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  • Apple's PR is better. With Microsoft all news titles were like "OMG Windows will take screenshots of all you do and send it to AI", and with Apple it's more like "Apple is carefully adding AI to their products, respecting user privacy as they always have been".

    Of course, when one looks into technical details they would find that MS Recall is strictly local and runs only on special hardware that people don't even have yet.

    Apple Intelligence does send your data to cloud and scans everything you have in Apple ecosystem, not just screenshots. Of course they say it's done in very privacy respecting ways, and provide a lot of technical information to back this claim. But at the end it's closed source and is subject to change at any time.

    Having said that, Apple users are used to and value that Apple magically takes care of everything, so they are happy to pay premium for Apple's products whatever the company does.

  • World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in September

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  • Natural teeth roots promote bone regeneration around them, while implants don't. Therefore bone loss with age is worse around implants

  • Privacy services and non privacy payments options

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  • No, I didn't say that. It depends on your risk model. If you are an average Joe don't worry that services are charging your credit card. If you are hiding from government then better use less online services, and if you must then find ones that accept crypto

  • Privacy services and non privacy payments options

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  • TLDR: "privacy" services can't be bothered and you shouldn't too if you are not doing illegal stuff.

    These "privacy-oriented" services are businesses that need to earn money, not scare away potential clients and avoid legal issues. Accepting cash or crypto is a risk for legal and accounting reasons. They just don't think it's worth it.

    Now, to link a particular activity on a particular service with you via your payment is not a trivial task. Government can do it, but it really matters if you think you are or will be targeted by it. Data miners can correlate bank payment with an account at a service provider only if both bank and service provider sell or leak data, which is less likely if you are using a privacy a oriented service.

  • Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

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  • The article says they replaced them with remote workers in India, I'm assuming with even lower wages

  • My RuneScape inspired indie fitness MMORPG WalkScape is looking for more beta testers

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  • Will be there a way to purchase or subscribe outside of Google Play? Or even use the game without google services?

  • What is a discreet way of waking myself?

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  • Try gentle, natural sounds in your alarm. Bird songs, sound if rain, etc. Many alarm apps have an option to start very quiet and increase volume gradually, that may help