> Once, the one time 5% is spent the state will have to figure out how to do the one time 5% more than once to keep feeding the spending machine.

The money to be raised is already budgeted as a separate fund for a specific purpose. It is not intended to be general funds nor is it intended to be ongoing funding.

Think of as a bond. When the government wants to raise money for a project or investment in the future, they will often issue and sell bonds to raise that money. Bonds mature and pay back with some interest, and are not recurring or factored into the normal budgeting.

This is functionally the same thing, except instead of borrowing via bonds and paying back with interest, it's just a straight up tax on billionaires.

=Smidge=

Feature request:

Implement more engaging side quests after the main goal of winning capitalism has been completed.

In my neck of the woods, idiot human drivers regularly still somehow manage to get hit by our commuter train. That's astoundingly easy to avoid - just don't stop on the train tracks. The bar for autonomous driving being better than humans is very, very low.

Tesla's FSD actually seems kind of decent from the videos I've seen people post. It's definitely no worse than how humans drive on I-4 in Orlando. What I mostly take issue with is that Tesla promised this feature to people who bought cars with hardware that would never be capable of running the current generation of FSD software.

I recall this one episode where the boys are tasked with doing a chocolate bar fundraiser for their school. IIRC, they manage to sell a single candy bar and then "loan" the dollar between each other repeatedly until they've purchased (and eaten) all the chocolate for themselves. What an absolutely perfect unintentional metaphor for the tech bro industry.

Considering that Siri is dumb as a box of rocks, I can't help but imagine that the only trade secrets stolen from Apple were what not to do.

Boosters are risking their freedom and even their lives. If it was easier for them to find work then they'd do legitimate work instead of boosting. Selling at flea markets is a job itself, so they're clearly willing to work.

Because the website helpfully provides structured data with tags which make it clear what it is, it's very easy to just use old fashioned and cheap filters to exclude content like that from the training set without losing anything else.

Protesting something that doesn't happen is better PR for you than protesting something that does...

Beyond LEO requires more fuel and a bigger rocket to launch, meaning more cost. It creates greater latency due to the greater distance. Also, they want these satellites to have a 5 year lifespan because terrestrial ISPs and cellular providers and datacentre operators are continually upgrading their hardware. So they will probably want to de-orbit and replace them anyway, because moving them to a graveyard orbit will result in the graveyard getting very full very quickly.

It also causes issues when satellites malfunction, because they won't naturally de-orbit in a practical amount of time. Failure to reach the intended orbit, resulting in an uncontrollable satellite, is one of the most common modes.

My browser shreds cookies as soon as I leave a site in most cases, as well as all other site date. These days the tracking works based on multiple signals, so even if you delete the cookies, if the IP address and browser signals like user agent and screen resolution match, they will re-associate that identity with you. You need to screw with a lot of metrics to throw them off.

In my country a spam lawsuit against 50 people where only one of them is possibly "guilty" of a civil offence with a relatively small financial loss isn't going to fly. They have largely given up suing people here because such speculative invoicing scams tend not to stand up to judicial scrutiny. At best an IP address identifies a subscriber, who may not be the person who downloaded the file, and who isn't under any legal obligation to help determine who it was, and who can't be held liable as there are no reasonable means for them to prevent such "abuse".

I didn't say no rocket launches. We just need to evaluate the impact, and take steps to prevent damage. We need to know what is in the satellites and what the effect of them burning up is.

I wouldn't say they are doing it wrong, I'd say that there is a fundamental conflict between privacy and anti-bot measures.

For privacy reasons I don't want a unique IP address. I want a shared one, and if it's IPv6 I want it to rotate frequently. That's one of the reasons why I use a VPN. ISPs probably also like it because it means that without extensive logging, for which there is no business justification, they can't identify who downloaded some movie that the MAFIAA et. al. want to sue over.

But of course the anti-bot features would love everyone to have a fixed IP address assigned to their person. Failing that, they seem to prefer to just mass block shared IP addresses and force you to log in.

Stuff burning up does not disappear. It becomes part of the upper atmosphere. Before there were so few things burning up that nobody really bothered considering it, but now we are going to be having tens of thousands of satellites re-entering every year, it needs to be looked into.

If you've got 1 bad cop, and 9 "good" cops who are covering for him, what you've actually got there is 10 bad cops.