the_ancient

lol, So as long as I post Pro-Goverment, Pro-Socialism message/comments that is "on topic" for hacker news

Is this the offical position now of Hacker News? Libertarian Topics are not allowed? As I do not see you "detaching" any of the Pro-Government Comments

I was not aware making true statements were now "Flameware-style"

I guess Orwell was right In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

I image you do not speak to many libertarians then, because it is talked about alot, with a wide range of solutions.

It is ironic you feel government is the only solution to the problem, when many people both in and out of the US die waiting on government care.

While I am sure the load is high, everytime you look up a .com you are not connecting to Verisign Server.

DNS does not work that way, Major DNS companies like RackSpace and AWS's Route 53 I suspect have higher load DNS than the Root Registries, and they offer the service for free...

Some people own domains/websites for reasons other than Money....

and I see taxation as Violence.

I believe we can Accomplish a lot with out Taxation.

I think we can even have a Universal Basic Income with out taxation. Geo-Libertarians have long proposed such a plan creating Universal Basic Income Derived from Commons Rent

I do not believe to have a civilization you must hold a gun to someones head and take a part of their labor or insert yourself in every financial transaction unethically taking a cut of that transaction like the mafia's protection racket...

>>as long as it can be fairly collected

I am sure your definition of "fair" is vastly different than mine, but I do wonder how you define "fair"

So you believe in order for there to be "civilization" there has to be massive institutional wide scale theft under constant threat of violence?

You do not think very much of humanity do you?

On the Sales tax issue, the business does not have advertise the price including the tax because the business is not being charged the tax which if my understanding it correct differs from how the EU operate. The individual buying the coffee is being charged the tax by the government, the Business is acting as a pseudo government collection agent, forced to do so by law. In most states te business is infact paid a nominal fee to collect this tax on behalf of the government in most location it is very very minor but it is there

As to the not including Tip in the price, well that is because you the consumer set how much you tip, there is not possible way to include it. Outside of "large parties" I will not partake in business that charge a mandatory tip. I am likely one of the few people that actually tip based on the service I get, and I have walked away with out leaving a tip.

>There is no way that $195k ($180k + $15k) is the top 1bps of wage earners at 26. That's pretty comparable to, if not less than, what you could expect in tech at that age.

First you can not say a person works "in tech" any more like you can with Legal. The Information Technology industry has sooo many different Job Classification today that you can not longer loop everyone that "works in tech" together. Not even all programmers or administrators can be looped together anymore IMO. However there is 3 Basic area's of information technology that you might be able to Group together. Support, Administration, Development...

That said like the legal Field, Technology has also be decimated, H1B, "The Cloud", the rise of MSP model @ the expense of Internal IT and other issues are massively lowering the wages

So while a person @26 working for a Top Silicon Valley Company (apple, Amazon, Google, etc) as a High level Programmer, might get 195K, I do not believe you can say a person at 26 should "expect" to get 195K far far far far far from it.

If they are in Operations/Administration, you are looking at 40-70K nation wide, if you are in programming a little more, if you are In Repair or "HelpDesk" a little to much less..

Specialty Area's like DBA or Senior Linux Admin can command those high pay levels in select regions as well.

Yes but Cuba, Iran, Iraq, and Russia are not willing to supply US Companies with near indentured servants to make our stuff,then use the worthless paper they get for the stuff, to buy a different type of worthless paper that allows the US Government to build more war machines, and other things.

Yes but it is not written in nodejs/rust/<insert lang of the moment> so clearly it is crap /s