Most people out there are filing 1040EZ anyway. The solution to this problem is pretty simple: The IRS calculates your taxes and sends you a bill then says, "This is what we think you owe. If your numbers are different then file a form 1040."

Seems like the same thing Visa and Mastercard do now. And don't that they aren't reporting everything even a little shady to the government. At least with a government entity we get some constitutional protection and don't need to pay a 4% fee on every transaction.

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Wouldn't it make more sense to use some kind of energy that's less common in the universe if you're looking for intelligent alien civilizations?

In the current system most purchases are going through Visa or Mastercard who track everything and sell your data to whomever is paying. Oh, and if you are doing anything suspicious they will definitely let the government know about it. If you are in a business they don't like such as cannabis sales or porn they may cut you off as well.

With the Fed doing it directly at least it's not being sold to third parties and people trying to quit smoking aren't getting cigarette coupons in the mail.

The Fed at least in theory is separated from political influence. Is it true in practice? Not entirely sure but I trust them more than I trust the corporations currently running the payment systems.

It's more like if someone built an identical bank near your bank. Maybe the teller in there is asking for your account information "for research", or maybe they're trying to steal your money. You don't even know what happens to the information that they collected. In any case I think your bank has an interest in shutting it down.

He could come out tomorrow and say,
"QAnon is a hoax, I made the whole thing up. Thanks for the money, suckers!"
and those followers would think it was some kind of coverup to keep them from the truth.

This is how it's going to be interpreted by the people who get these messages anyway. It will reinforce the idea that there's a global cartel of 5G, floridating, round-earth, mercury-based corona vaccine pushers targeting THEM so that people won't hear the REAL truth.

You have two isolated systems. The first one verifies that your identity, that you are eligible to vote in the election, and that you have not already voted. It gives you a token and redirects you to the voting system where you fill out and submit your ballot. After you complete your voting, the voting system tells the authentication system that the holder of that token has finished voting and discards the token. The authentication system associates the token back to your identity and marks you as having voted.

In the end they know that you voted, but cannot associate your choices to your identity.

Now that Biden has been elected president, what are they even going to talk about? Their viewers are going to drop off into a bottomless pit once the political drama is over. If they are lucky Trump will run again and get elected in 2024, then they might have viewers again.

It should drop significantly in places with a lot of software developers. The value of living close to work went down quite a bit after we discovered we can be just as productive on the couch in our underwear somewhere in the burbs.

This sounds like a good way to incentivize businesses to not report Ransomware attacks at all.

I learned on my own before the Internet was a household thing and I wish I'd had a CS 101 course like I took in college.

Many of my programs were one huge main() with little thought to organization, functions, global variables, or any of the real basics in general. Just those fundamental building blocks would have helped significantly as a basis for learning other things on my own.

The problem with Defender is that it is on everything. If I were to design a piece of malware, I would specifically design to undetectable by Defender. If I could make it undetectable by other engines that's great, but this is the engine I would target.

Yes, masks have no proven effect but for some reason there was a "critical shortage" for healthcare workers. If they aren't effective, then why would this shortage be critical and "the thought of them not having masks is horrific" to quote Mike Ryan?
The simple answer is they knew masks were effective, but they didn't want a panic of people buying up all of the remaining inventory.