The billboard says many women are raped by the ppl guiding the illegal border crossings.

As of March 2024, El Salvador’s bitcoin gambit stood at a 50% profit, with bitcoin having recorded a new all-time high of over $69,000. --the article

If you believe the virus came from the Wuhan center and that was covered up, how could you trust a scientist from there to truthfully make this report? They could have just omitted a match to SARS-CoV2 if they found one.

Probably this needed to be published but it seems like a lose-lose proposition for the researchers and I doubt it will give conspiracy theorists a pause.

Yeah and the senators who ratified women’s right to vote were all elected by men but they still did the ethical thing.

At least Sanders seems to want to reduce billionaires’ disproportionate influence on politics.

Maybe you’re ok if Elon Musk’s opinion on how much you should get taxed counts a billion times more than yours, but you really shouldn’t be.

Upvoted for the honesty

Probably he’s on a diet and his wife won’t let him eat more than 1 order of meatballs.

This article claims they pay a higher effective tax rate, not more in taxes. A citizen working the same position would pay even more in taxes since they would also have to pay income tax.

Maybe the headline should be that sales + other flat taxes are becoming an increasing burden for low income workers. This is the problem for the illegal immigrants in the study, and even more of a problem for citizens who earn the same amount.

*You can only teleport out to where you teleported in from.

Does this mean you get dropped into outer space if you stay inside for more than checks notes ~4 minutes?

Is it feasible? Sure. The limit on this kind of calculation is basically how much detail do we need to add to the environment (i.e., can we make the model) and how high resolution does the sound wave need to be (can we calculate it given finite compute resources).

To get something that roughly sounds like a rock? Not difficult to model or calculate, if we make some reasonable assumptions.

The sound of a wet towel thrown in the water during a hailstorm? Uhhh that’s a tough one.

Simulating sound uses classical mechanics governed by the wave equation, which is well-understood. In terms of CPU power, the calculation to propagate a simple sound wave (wavelet) could probably have been done on a TI-89 calculator from high school.

The idea is checking out with more than a basket of goods is really inconvenient. And I agree, it’s much slower and there’s no space for it.

If you’re not afraid of the legal system why not slap a Disney logo on there too?

Why do you think the organic label for food means nothing?

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/03/22/organic-101-what-usda-organic-label-means

I think law enforcement can break into your home if they have a court warrant, right? So why not allow the same thing with electronic communications?

For me, the reason to disallow it is the potential for abuse. There were 864 search warrant applications across all federal agencies in 2022. In 2020, the FBI, specifically, issued 11504 warrants to Google, specifically, for geofencing data, specifically. Across all agencies there are probably millions of such “warrants” for data.

It’s far easier to access your data than your house, so comparing physical and cybersecurity doesn’t really make sense.

In general, criminals can easily just move to an uncompromised platform to do illegal stuff. But giving the govt easy access to messaging data allows for all kinds of dystopic suppression for regular people.