"Short everything this guy has ever touched ..."

“… There is no way of contacting anyone at Google about it …”

Of course there is: you pay your lawyer to send correspondence by registered mail.

Then you have them send followup correspondence a week or so later.

You will absolutely get a response.

Everyone everywhere has the money and time to keep a lawyer on retainer. This is super equitable and a reasonable way to run society

Everyone Google cares about, anyway.

Nah, we all pay for a lawyer with our taxes: the attorney general.

What you do is send Google your own correspondence, certified mail, giving them a heads up that you've contacted the attorney general. That usually gets an even quicker response than from a personal lawyer :)

It also gives the attorney general office a heads up if they need to be scrutinizing a company like Google more carefully if they're getting a lot of complaints.

Situations like this are exactly what they're here for.

https://www.naag.org/find-my-ag/

people "have" lawyers? how much would this cost on a yearly basis?

“… These are later accounted for when you sell. Though AFAIK if you sell at a loss you can't get the Vorabpauschale back directly, but it would increase the losses you can potentially apply …”

That sounds simple and elegant.

So many of these M5Stack products are not actually stackable and have no physical relation to their "stack" system.

Ya, I noticed that with the CoreS3-SE being incompatible with the "Extension Port Module for Core2" (M123). I don't see a version compatible with the CoreS3.

No, this is because they want to IPO soon.

If the chips weren't this compelling they would have something different to announce.

These are paperclip maximizers who just happen to wear human skin - there is no underlying premise nor ideological goal.

A reminder:

Neither visa nor MasterCard networks have the ability to verify cardholder name.

Everyone behaves as if they do, but your name cannot be verified.

Which is to say, all of these cards have name anonymization, not just robinhood.

yeah I found it out a while back and since then I've been using randomly generated names during checkout every time - no issues ever

I was unaware of that, is address also unverifiable?

Yes, address is verifiable.

According to wikipedia, AVS only verifies the numeric portion of an address.

But I haven't tried this, so ymmv.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_verification_service#:...

Vendors like Stripe may do more than Visa/MC though.

No, your parent is correct.

In addition to the pragmatic point about how nobody actually paid those rates, there is an ideological mismatch as well:

Those very high marginal tax rates were not enacted to address inequality or any of the typical social goals that we think of when we advocate for higher marginal tax rates. Rather, they were imposed to combat war profiteering during the WW2 period:

"The crisis of World War II led Congress to pass four excess profits statutes between 1940 and 1943. The 1940 rates ranged from 25 to 50 percent and the 1941 ones from 35 to 60 percent. In 1942, a flat rate of 90 percent was adopted, with a postwar refund of 10 percent; in 1943 the rate was increased to 95 percent, with a 10 percent refund."[1]

Can you argue for a very high marginal tax rate as a means of wealth distribution and furthering progressive policy ? Yes, of course you can.

Have we ever had one ? Not really.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_profits_tax#United_Stat...

Just because people didn’t pay the top rate doesn’t mean they didn’t pay substantially higher percentages than today.

No, the highest priority is Sonos.

Presumably the difficulty level is low and the community/societal justice extremely high.

I highly recommend the “collected interviews” of Ballard that was released some years ago … very interesting exchanges and some almost shockingly present judgments about the future… Especially the future of media in the YouTube age.

Then I would read Empire of the Sun.

"... as I was incredibly surprised to learn of nuclear energy existing in the Caribbean ..."

You may also find it interesting that South Africa had nuclear weapons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_ma...

I knew about it, but your post is the first I've heard that SA no longer had those (I only clicked the link because you used the past tense!). I actually thought that no country had ever withdrawn their nuclear program.

This might be the most amazing and hope-inspiring I've read online this week, so I'm grateful for you sharing that link!

Ukraine also gave up its nuclear weapons, as it regained autonomy with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

My understanding is that they gave up the USSR's weapons (and handed them to Russia), rather than them having built, owned and dismantled the weapons outright through their own nuclear program.

They could have spent substantial effort to make those weapons "theirs" (I've heard people simplify this as "they didn't have the codes but could figure them out") but it would have cost them dearly in international sanctions, versus the assurances and aid they could negotiate by relinquishing them.

That’s true. But Ukraine wasn’t just babysitting weapons made totally elsewhere, either. There was substantial expertise, research and manufacturing built up in Ukraine during the Soviet era.

I think it’s true enough to say they gave up nuclear weapons, even if they didn’t wholly own the nuclear weapons.