Tygerty

Long-time Quilibrium geek and miner. Coder. Aspiring Cryptographer.

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@liberscravola Better than nothing, however, doesn't quite deal with front-loading: hire and then fire. A 10-year ban would limit this, however we'd also need to make sure this includes hiring through 3rd-parties or offshoring as well, i.e. you can't employ/contract H1-Bs through agencies.

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It would depend on what the terrain is like and where it is. You buy 20 acres of raw land in the PNW or AK and you may need a helicopter to fly out there. Or you need to demolish half a mountian to make a flat enough space to build anything. And some of the foliage in the summer gets so thick and rugged with bogs, trees, etc. that driving in is almost impossible unless you're a glutten for punishment.

In Texas it may be so remote you spend 6 hours on an ATV through desert to get to it.

Sure you may get water but utilities may be batteries with solar, but building anything other than a cave or setting up a tent could be a challenge.

20 acres for that price in a remote area basically means nobody wanting to live a normal life would live there and getting there is going to be a challenge and half.

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Yeah, it's frustrating, particularly after travelling all day (or for a few days). There's not a lot of recourse.

The point of border crossing is the point for controlling what comes in to the country. Anybody wanting to hide something illegal will try to hide it in "special" packages. And that's why nothing is too special to search. If you can just hide stuff in grandma's antique handbag that's been in the family for generations, then everybody with illegal stuff would have a grandma's antique handbag.

The same rules as in country do not apply at the borders. A lot of people think that at the border they have some expectations of privacy, but courts have generally ruled that rights are acceptably curtailed in favor of national security during border crossings.

One of the better strategies for people who must bring their electronics through that would rather them not seeing all your personal photos, documents, etc. is to know that this can happen and to remove them or use a temp. device when doing border crossings. Michael Bazzell talks about this in his privacy book.

And this applies not only to the US, but pretty much when travelling to any country.

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This is actually normal for helicopter footage.

They're using a telephoto lense (far range) and stabilization to keep the subject(s) in frame. The combo makes the subject in the frame(s) appear to be static while the background rotates more rapidly, making the background appear to "spin".

There's a lot of documentation about this type of camera work.

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@BamaSaltyMarine It's a poor mans tax. 😉

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This is the classic price anchoring dilemma, or rather "opening Pandora's pricing box".

Now that the are cheaper option has been revealed (albeit with tradeoffs and moral issues) a person now has it stuck in their head, "I could save money here if only..."

Where before the higher price would have been the price norm and they'd just have had to budget around it or do it themselves.

It's the same thing with all the Chinese products on the market, as well.

We, as a society have been trained to accept subpar products for cheaper pricing and now when we look at the price for the domestic rates for quality, we balk because we know the cheaper rate.

And agree, without the large sums of money flowing to foreigners who send the money back home the money would stay in the local (or national) economies and there'd be more money to pay local workers and companies.

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And until they've been burned a few times by the shiny "cheap" price tag more than one business owner have struggled to understand why they wouldn't just hire a foreigner for a fifth the wage.

I suspect they may think that this is just a classic sales tactic rather than going rate and also have no way to judge why a rate that is 2-3x is actually not a bad deal for what they're getting.

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@ShaneFrakes It's okay, but it starts to get a little repetitive and annoying later on in the series. Quite funny in the beginning, redundant and expected in the later books. I never finished the series.

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A few things:
1. any good racket will fight to keep going-- particularly if we're talking about the kind of tech that revolutionizes how the cost of, well, pretty much everything.
2. When a group of people have developed a superior-than-you mind-set, they are thinking of everyone else as "not-worthy". The king wouldn't just let the peasants have the keys to the kingdom... they might hurt themselves or do bad things!
3. If public has this tech, or knows it exists with certainty, we would no longer have to nor will want to keep playing in the scarcity paradigm that requires us to be mind- and labor-slaves.

Not only does the fraud/theft racket go away, but the very wall/moat the overlords built up around themselves would disappear; they'd no longer be special and no longer protected by their tech superiority.

Also, there's then more competition for the business model, less money coming in... and like Ashton said, a ton of lawsuits from people/taxpayers who were defrauded and from inventors and families of late-inventors who were shut-up and stifled.

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@AshtonForbes If we get real disclosure, will any "amnesty" plans be worth the weight of the paper they're signed on?

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@MMBeckerman @HowThingsWork_ I was gonna mention the capability of reading the manufacturing details on the back of it, but yeah, this, too.

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@KILLTOPARTY The girl obviously didn't read Harry Potter that well, because a real letter would have come by owl.

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@EndH1BNow_ @USEEOC This is similar to a software job listing I saw recently: "We are assembling a remote team that will work around Mumbai time."

Yes, an American can apply... but will they?

Basically adds a requirement that filters out pretty much every American.

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@AshtonForbes sir, you're wrong on the numbers, it's only 95%.

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Particularly in the modern day-- where a simple transaction decline is a digital signal that could be returned from the bank and no money moved. It's not like you're passing a check in 1950.

Even having the option to decline rather than use overdraft protection-- but if you decline overdraft protection the fine print says they will still ding you for insufficient funds, but the transaction won't be paid-- which means they'll try again, and so you'll be getting multiple attempts to collect a payment each with a $30 fee per attempt.

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@YourAnonNews Overdraft/insufficient funds fees are also a poor tax.

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"I was smart enough to click the button to buy a future, but not smart enough to read that I need to pick these up from Kansas. So now I'm freaking out... cuz where are 60 cows gonna fit in my apartment in San Fran*?"

*completely misses out that a lot could happen between Kansas and San Francisco.

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@AshtonForbes Didn't want to scratch the van. Instead, got a nice big love tap. 🥲

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My theory is that before it was the norm to have 24 hour, and that's just what was expected. Then when COVID came and changed how they operated a bunch of businesses found that they really liked the new practices and kept them.

One of the things I noticed was you used to be able to put large pets in the air-conditioned cargo holds on pretty much every major airline in the US and COVID changed that policy. Now pretty much nobody does (found Alaska Airlines still? does). It's how many years later and they've decided to keep the policy but drop the "because of COVID" disclaimer.

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@omgsidewalks I noticed this as well, working on somebody else's computer (I normally use Linux). Last time I used Windows, if you wanted to open an app: Windows key + app name, now, I'm just better off looking for it in the start menu. Web search, ads, etc. Like for real?