Dave Pifke

KF3K. Commercial pilot. Rescue diver. Former skydiving instructor. Entrepreneur. I once ate four hundred and fifty eight CR2032 batteries.

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@jimbelosic Put in some slot machines and say you're building a casino.

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@zerohedge https://t.co/nodLNfXQ4H

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@RapidCityPost Where's (who's?) Rapid Cory?

Also, re: your Igloo story, it's ordnance, not ordinance.

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@octal Non-showering problem again. Some people are allergic to cats.

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@david__booth What's the plan on the waitlist? X slots per day, or some other mechanism?

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Income tax: you can cut your bill by not turning a profit (on paper, typically by using shady accounting).

Property tax: you can cut your bill by choosing short-term strategies (e.g. outsourcing) over investing in facilities or durable equipment.

Employment taxes: you can cut your bill by not hiring local workers (e.g. by offshoring).

Tariffs: you can cut your bill by choosing domestic suppliers instead of foreign ones.

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I'm pretty anti-tax (I think the right size of government is that it should be so small that elections don't matter), but I find it hilarious that the people who mistakenly think "corporations don't pay enough taxes" are anti-tariff.

Unlike income tax, which penalizes running a profitable business, at least the tariffs were penalizing something we actually want to discourage (choosing foreign suppliers over domestic).

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@antoniogm Strong agree. Same with haters: "I can't do that, so anyone who claims they can must be lying or cheating."

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Alright Raiders, let's throw out the tuna nets!

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@bfwalter @ICEgov Is it a crime to employ an illegal alien?

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@TobyForSD Employers don't have time to go through a stack of resumes to try to figure out who studied under Jason Arday and who maybe went through a legitimate program. People can claim "school X isn't like that" but employers don't care.

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There used to be a small amount of signal from the quality of school a candidate was able to get into, even if you believe "those who can't do, teach" and that most actual learning happens on the job. But DEI destroyed any remaining trust in higher education institutions, and that trust is never coming back.

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@KelseyTuoc It's fun to feed your cringy internet writings from 15 years ago to these AI detectors. That's how you know you were in the training set.

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@octal Contrary to what a lot of folks believe, it's still possible to get IPv4 space from ARIN: https://t.co/gZBn8Zt9Aw

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@octal If you own your own IPs, running your own MX is not bad at all.

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@RepMGP Public schools no longer teach kids how to read, so I guess this follows.

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OS/device lock-in is more a concern than compromise, IMO. I try to use Yubikeys for all my passkeys, and despite my best efforts, sometimes Android creates new ones on-device anyways, locking me out on other devices. Google's UI pushes you hard to make it impossible to login anywhere without them.

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@uncledoomer Started going downhill in 2016 or so.

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@uncledoomer 2008 timeline was pretty good.