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That's really more of a "Want to pay more than your fair share of taxes? Help them commit tax fraud".

Cutting Google out of the mix can be seen as a net positive for the community. The same can't really be said for taxes that go to your local services.


> That's really more of a "Want to pay more than your fair share of taxes? Help them commit tax fraud".

This seems like a trope put forth by the middle men other than the government who want to keep getting their cut of every transaction in the world. "Don't cut out Visa and PayPal, that's practically stealing from your neighbor!"

You can obviously accept payment in cash and report it as taxable income, and not doing this is a good way to get caught, because if you're spending thousands of dollars a year more than you're declaring in income and the government asks you where it came from, you're going to have a bad time.

Meanwhile people who want to risk going to jail can do it just as well by deducting personal expenses as business expenses, or just making up business expenses and hoping nobody comes to check. All while letting payment processors siphon off something like 5% of your gross revenue, which for these kinds of things is often in excess of half your net income because your net margins were less than 10% to begin with.


Paying in cash in no way helps anyone commit tax fraud.

It is very plainly morally and ethically unambiguous to pay in cash.


Paying in cash absolutely helps commit tax fraud. It doesn't mean your contractor will commit fraud, but if they wanted to, it's a lot easier if you pay with cash compare to check or credit card.

That's 100% on them. I'm under no obligation to give some credit card company my personal information just so more fingers are in the pie when accusing the contractor of fraud.

Cash is good and I accept 0% of the blame of what other people do in response to me paying them with cash instead of something else.


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> very plainly morally and ethically unambiguous

unambiguous[ly] _what_? Bad? Good?


It's your moral duty to avoid paying tax, if you're an American.

Given that America is a democracy, it would appear that a majority of Americans do not share your morals, so on the contrary it is your moral duty to pay your taxes.

Fun fact: precisely nobody who voted to elect the congresspeople who voted for the income tax amendment are alive today.

It’s a big stretch to assume that the current tax regime is related in any way to the will of the group of people who are currently subjected to it.


It's debatable that we're a democracy.

I would bet that in aggregate, more than half the taxes you pay go to your state, or some local polity smaller than state. Local political entities (county, city, town) are absolutely democracies and also have the maximum amount of actual impact on your life. The federal government is mostly irrelevant.

By avoiding paying taxes, you first and foremost damage the community you live in.


I don't know if I would agree with that take taken by itself without qualifiers. "if you're American" is doing some lifting but could mean anything. But otherwise I kind of agree, the average American is getting fleeced while the ultra wealthy are avoiding massive tax costs while benefiting the most from state infrastructure and economic policy.

No taxation without representation, so if your Congresscritter declares they don't represent you (because you identify as the opposite party and therefore are the enemy) then you have no responsibility to pay tax, a uniquely American sensibility

Of course the legal and ethical way to perform a tax protest is to simply have so little income that you don't owe them a thing


Uh? What? Care to explain?

I know it's considered a sport but a moral duty?


Bulk of income taxes go to the feds. Plumber will still pay plenty of sales tax. I'd say the value of having a plumber that likes you outweighs what benefits one receives from government programs, making it rational to stiff the man.

+11 and +4 seem check-digit-y

From the limited dataset it looks the last digit comes from:

last digit = (<sum of previous the digits> + 2) mod 7


It is a check digit, but it's just: n % 7.

So ticket 98494660 has citation #984,946,605

Ticket 98494661 will have citation #984,946,616

(The example of the pattern mistakenly starts with an citation number #984,946,606 which they said does not exist, rather than #984,946,605 which is the one shown in the image)


If you can spare a USB port you can use one of their Nano keys that just stays plugged in.

Even if someone/malware was to steal my yubikey pin they'd still need to convince me to tap the thing over 1,000 times to steal all my passwords.


Seems a little sparse on details. If the radios are actually cellular it seems it would be trivial for an entity like the US government to at least determine what SIM (and even data) any of these modules was sending.

Rather than anything malicious I'm thinking it's probably just a common module made for signs that can be updated over-the-air, and that feature just isn't enabled in the US signs.


My suggestion: asking for sacrifices for non-commercial users is the wrong approach. You want users to ask their employers to get licenses and adding a bunch of limitations will just make them more likely to use/learn something else.


Amazing feedback. I'm absolutely listening to this. I've been honestly feeling a similar way myself. Also thank you for giving your thoughts.


I use identities for this:

https://migadu.com/guides/identities/

I can send as the address, and emails arrive in my normal mailbox. I also use them for giving self-hosted services their own address/password to email me.


How's migadu's email ip reputation? Also do you have to create these identities in that admin panel to use or you can use it on the go like duck.com or Apple's hide my email?


Not sure on the reputation, but I personally haven't had any issues emailing people using gmail or microsoft. They have a good DNS Diagnostics page that checks all your domains DKIM/SPF/DMARC settings.

I've been using identities created in the admin panel, but they do have subdomain addresses where everything to *@user.domain goes to user@domain, and you can configure a 'Catchall' address (and of course 'plus addresses'). I haven't used either though.


And unfortunately no more half price 8-hours a day either :(


I dunno. If just your employers site is down then you'll be expected to fix it, whereas if everyone is down there's less pressure.


Nobody who talks to actual stakeholders can use this as a defence.

B2B customers don’t care if the other sites are also down, your SLA is affected with them, and they will want compensation.


You need to phrase it as Internet Weather.


It was an act of Google^H^H^H^Hd.


yup. I figure I'm basically a free-rider (except I am paying a relatively small amount.)


<cough> SponsorBlock (https://sponsor.ajay.app/) <cough>

It works amazingly well provided a video's been out for at least a half hour or so. It also has the option to skip the "like and subscribe" parts too.

I also tried the https://dearrow.ajay.app/ extension to replace clickbait titles, but decided I'd rather know when a channel/video is too clickbait-y so I can block/unsubscribe.


I wish many of these suggestion worked for casting.

Browser extensions don't fix a chromecast skipping ads, for example. It'd have to be written into the casting client, I'd presume.


Yeah, this can be a consideration, and also a non-issue with Youtube Premium


I've done everything using old Particle Xenon boards (nrf52840 microcontroller) and didn't encounter anything 'user hostile'. Originally I had all the 'hub' stuff on one of the boards too, but the newer recommended way is to have the board be the 'radio' and to use a normal computer for the routing.

The matter network is just an IPv6 network, so I run coap server on my matter devices and then control them with command like 'coap-client -m post coap://[<ipv6 addr>]/open_button'.


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