Rivalarrival

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

The shares aren't being taxed. The ultra-wealthy individual is being taxed on their "excess" wealth, which is held in the form of these shares.

Personally, I wouldn't tax "all" wealth. It does us no economic harm for them to own a billion dollar mansion or yacht or other tangible asset.

I would only tax registered securities: the vehicles by which these individuals gain wealth. Every year they are worth more than 99.5% of the population, I would transfer a small percentage of their wealth-generating assets out of their hands, to be resold at government auction.

The net effect of this will be that the 99.5% of us will come to own a greater percentage of these wealth-generating assets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

If the shares can be owned by you, they can be owned by someone who is not you. You don't have to worry about liquidating them. We'll go ahead and do that for you.

If your "private" company wants to stay "private", they won't secure funding from the ultra wealthy, or they will be ready to buy back your tax-shares at auction.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Traffic ticket, hearing, then insult the judge until contempt of court.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

I feel like high charisma makes this disguise less convincing: "Why would someone like this be doing a job like that?"

Confidence + social ineptitude completes this disguise.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Wow.

That's... Awesome.

Edit: That has pretty much every major feature I've been looking for.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Long shot, but does anyone know of any mapping app where you can easily project a bearing/azimuth line, or a point a given bearing and distance from another point?

The only app I've found so far that can come close to what I need is Backcountry Navigator, which has a terrible UI. Everything else seems to be focused entirely on GPS navigation from where you are now to a known destination; I have yet to find one that allows even basic triangulation, to be able to identify the location of an observed object.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago

Yeah. Ok. Fuckity bye.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

He needs a better doctor.

One who knows that an "anti aging vaccine" doesn't go through the earlobe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Might not even have underground sewage. This might be an "up flush" system, with a tank hidden under the stairs that pumps upwards into a sewer line.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

If you're interested in prehistory, listen to this for a couple minutes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The watches/clocks they are talking about listened to WWV, a set of radio stations transmitting from Fort Collins, Colorado. The system long predates the Network Time Protocol you're referring to. Radio controlled clocks/watches had no means for accounting for latency.

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