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We already have good alternatives to these things. My financial life runs entirely in bitcoin, except for the shrinking list of payees who are still allowed to request payment in fiat money. Of course, I had to move out, live elsewhere, and continue trading from there, to make it happen. But then again, everything is so much cheaper here ...

The presence of honey attracts bees, the presence of horse shit attracts flies, the presence of sheep attracts wolves, and the presence of manipulable people attracts manipulators.

If these people started visiting another part of the web, "Ad Tech" would immediately re-emerge there too. The tigers just follow the herds of wild buffalos.

So, yes, watch out, if you can see wild buffalos, that means indeed that the tigers cannot be far away.

The article wants to jeopardize the god-given right of some of the manipulators to manipulate the manipulable crowds.

"Ad dollars are being stolen from publishers who actually put in an effort to create original, useful content. This is very wrong."

Ha ha ha hah ha!

Apparently, there are legitimate and illegitimate manipulators. The good and the bad thieves! The good and the bad burglars!

They are in a daggers-drawn contest on who exactly has the right to rip off the idiots!

Yes, good question, who is the one who legitimately "owns" these idiots?

For a starters, in any discriminatable situation, I do not show pictures of myself.

That is indeed one reason on a long list, why I only work online. I simply do not accept job offers or service contracts in which I would have to disclose racial information.

Generally, if the counterparty decides to proceed, and then breaks our contract on impermissible grounds, they will obviously be facing a bill for the damage, as specified in the T & C of the marketplace in which we execute the trade. In those cases, we do not discuss. We repossess and confiscate only.

Fundamentally, I believe that anybody has the right to be as racist as he wants and towards any race of his own choosing. That is certainly not the problem.

I only demand that the third party who will be the judge of it, must be color blind, objective, and impartial. That is one reason on the list of so many, why I never agree to any part of any state apparatus to be the judge of such situation.

I am personally not racist. That would be utterly contrary to my fundamental beliefs. In the Farewell Sermon, delivered after the final double recitation, as narrated by Ibn Hanbal, you can find my fundamental belief about racism:

Indeed, there is no superiority of an Arab over a non-Arab, nor of a non-Arab over an Arab, nor of a white over a black, nor a black over a white, except for his greater obedience to the laws of God and his good works.

> Why do people have problems with taxes? I don't. Never have.

Fine. However, that is a personal decision of yours. Other people make other decisions.

> When taxes build schools and infrastructure and provide policing and social support it's a good thing. When taxes are misused (military industrial complex perhaps) that's an issue with the system of government, not taxes.

Why not do it with sandwiches? The government collects 500 dollars from you in taxes and gives a 5-dollar sandwich in return. From now on, taxes are necessary, because how else would we get hold of sandwiches?

> I do have an issue with the wealthiest people sheltering their money from taxation.

If it were your money, I would understand. It isn't your money. You insist that other people should make decisions as you like them to. Why? And why not the other way around?

> But you are left with A LOT MORE money after taxes. And this is the issue for me.

Again, it is not YOUR money. It is THEIRS. You cannot impose your opinion of what is right and wrong onto others. I could perfectly do the same, and insist that you must adopt MY views on right and wrong.

You could say that your view is backed by government violence, but as you know, violence is not something particularly complex to orchestrate. In fact, it is trivially easily matched. Nowadays we have got people incessantly bombing other people exactly over this kind of problems. Your desire to impose your beliefs onto others, will inevitably turn out to be very costly, because people like you are doing that in too many areas and to too many people.

Ultimately, what you believe to be right or wrong will no longer matter. Sooner or later, it will only be what you are willing to risk your life and die for that will matter.

Imagine person A invoices person B for services delivered. In such case, it is always possible to get A invoice C and then C invoice B. C would just be a middleman. There is nothing wrong with that.

Then, you could easily "chainify" the concept: A -> C1 -> C2 -> C3 -> B

Now you turn C1 into a reservoir. It does not pay out to A, because A prefers to save his revenue inside C1. Therefore, A never gets taxed on income that remains in C1.

Also, whenever reasonable, C2 and C3 pay for A's spending. That money does not hit A either, and not even C1. Therefore, A actually needs little actual money to be paid out to him. His expenses are taken care of by C2,C3, ..., while his savings are held up in the C1 reservoir.

Even though B could pay millions for A's services, in terms of taxation, A makes almost no money at all. The money remains legally stuck in the C chain. Even though A is a real person, the C chain is not. It is a chain of virtual persons: "incorporations". They used to exist only on paper. These days they only exist on a computer screen.

Moving nodes in the chain to another state or to countries, pretty much amounts to just updating a field in a database. Depending on what you fill out in that database field, you pay more or less tax. Hence, the reason why they consistently fill out the cheapest choices on the screen.

In other words, there is never a valid reason to pay income tax for a "chainified" income stream. Therefore, income tax is in reality not a tax on income but on the inability to "chainify" income.

In technology, programming work is about looking up, composing, and debugging code. I yet have to meet one person who learned it at school.

In the school environment, the emphasis is, has always been, and will always be, to repeat things from memory.

If the IT teacher were good at looking up, composing, and debugging, and given the kind of salaries you that get when you are good at that, he would not be teaching. He would seek to multiply his income often ten times by actually doing it, instead of teaching it.

In fact, you can only learn from people who are doing it themselves. Everybody else does not really know how to do it.

Therefore, the teacher is only good at what will give you beautiful credentials: repeating from memory. That is also what he will seek to perpetuate with his own students.

Formal education does not only NOT fix poverty. Formal education actively creates it. Instead of spending your formative years learning the skill that will make you gain income, you learn to repeat from memory. There is not one industry where this would be of value.

You need to be able to produce things of value, just to survive. It is exceedingly dangerous to spend all your time on things that will never produce any value at all.

I am non-American mixed-race. I personally consider racism to be -- in and of itself -- a non-issue. It does not kill you, and everything that does not kill you, ultimately makes you stronger.

I consider racism to be irrelevant because it mostly is. I can barely imagine a new situation in which someone would be able to stage a racist attack. I am probably entirely hedged against those already.

The real problem is always the abuse of government power: "I’ve been interrogated at gunpoint by police because I fit the description".

So, yes, if they choose the time and the place, they can indeed attack you, if they so desire. However, it perfectly well works the other around as well. If you chose the time and the place, it would work too. The only solution that truly works against the problem of lack of respect, is to inflict respect-instilling reprisals.

Therefore, the real problem, are your false beliefs in their fake legitimacy. Hence, in reality, state racism is a problem of religion.

Racism against Muslims pretty much fails, because they are increasingly making that very practice insanely dangerous. The police are very aware of that. They know that there will routinely be reprisals. This is the enormous attraction of Islam. It pretty much solves all the problems of abuse of power, including state racism.

Well, since software engineering is a field where the government is not able to settle the matter just by slapping the obligation to have a particular degree or certification just to be admitted to the job, employers are allowed to choose. If you have an aptitude for programming, you will be better off just programming for 4 years. Going to college and reading books about programming will turn out to be only marginally useful, and actually quite costly. Instead of learning, and making quite good money, you will be digging yourself into a debt hole, while you will still need to pick up the real skills afterwards, at the expense of an ever more skeptical employer.