Its amazing to me how many people find the thought of societal collapse more palatable than raising taxes on corporations and capital gains.
Because your proposal leads to layoffs and sell-offs, accelerating decline.
Readit NewsCome to Europe. Salaries are (much) lower, but we can use good devs and you'll have vacation days and health care.
Taking a 75% pay cut for free Healthcare that costs 1k a month anyway doesn't math. Not to mention the higher taxes for this privilege. European senior developers routinely get paid less than US junior developers.
0xy commented on FUTO: Keyboards Shouldn't Connect to the Internet keyboard.futo.org/... · Posted by u/ForHackernews
Reminder that FUTO is a dishonest, fascist-linked organization: https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-...
Aside from the numerous unsourced claims and hand wringing over people with garden variety center-right takes, this blog post also falsely claims Curtis Yarvin has himself claimed to be a fascist, which appears to be an outright fabrication.
0xy commented on Green card interviews end in handcuffs for spouses of U.S. citizens nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us... · Posted by u/nxobject
Truly brave feat of public service getting those criminals off the street.
Enter on visa that requires marriage within 3 months, don't do it despite promising the government you would, then cry victim when you're deported for overstaying an entire year?
Why can't they just do what their visa REQUIRES by law?
0xy commented on Green card interviews end in handcuffs for spouses of U.S. citizens nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us... · Posted by u/nxobject
A note that it's easy to "overstay" a visa when waiting for a green card interview - the wait times are often in the 6-16 month range, and if you leave the country you'll be considered to have abandoned your "petition to adjust status". It's a catch-22, and it looks like the only recourse is for an immigration lawyer to file a habeas corpus petition in federal court.
This is a misrepresentation. Some of these people entered on the K1 which REQUIRES marriage within 3 months. They get married 18 months later and wonder why they're getting deported for a giant visa overstay. It's fraudulent, you enter on a visa, explicitly promise to marry quickly, do not do so and expect no repercussions.
0xy commented on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting kevinboone.me/fingerprint... · Posted by u/ingve
>The only efficient protection against fingerprinting is what Orion is doing — preventing any fingerprinter from running in the first place. Orion is the only browser on the market that comes with full first-party and third-party ad and tracking script blocking, built-in by default, making sure invasive fingerprinters never run on the page.
sounds like they block "known" fingerprinting scripts and call it a day.
This makes you inherently trackable, ironically. No trace is a massive trackable attribute, since almost nobody is untraceable.
0xy commented on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting kevinboone.me/fingerprint... · Posted by u/ingve
Firefox w/ the Arkenfox user.js is probably as good as it gets in terms of privacy. By default, this config burns cookies on exit, standardizes the time zone to UTC, spoofs the canvas fingerprint, and does other helpful things. Basically, it makes Firefox expose the same information as the Tor browser.
In addition, I block most known advertizing/tracking domains at the DNS level (I run my own server, and use Hagezi's blacklists).
Finally, another suggestion would be to block all third party content by default using uBlock Origin and/or uMatrix. This will break a lot of websites, but automatically rules out most forms of tracking through things such as fonts hosted by Google, Adobe and others. I manually whitelist required third party domains (CDNs) for websites I frequently visit.
As someone who utilizes these tools for anti-fraud purposes, Firefox is just as trackable if not more trackable than Chrome (especially because you stand out by using a niche browser in the first place).
Firefox exposes a massive amount of identifiable information via canvas, audio device and feature detection methods. There's also active methods to detect private windows, use of the developer console and more.
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0xy commented on Is Health Insurance Even Worth It Anymore? church.substack.com/p/is-... · Posted by u/brandonb
I just looked at the local marketplace plans. The absolute dirt-cheapest I could do for my family is ~$1,225/month premium with a deductible of $13,400 and out-of-pocket max of $21,200. Most of the structure is some form of "zero help until the deductible, then I pay 20%-40% of everything up until the OOP max".
In other words, I'm being asked to buy a product, and the cheapest form of it is to basically pay almost $15k in a year to hedge against someone getting cancer or whatever, and actively incentivizes me to not use it[0].
There is no meaningful shopping around, there is no incentive for me to do anything other than continue not smoking, there's no accounting for where I live or my health.
I dunno what the solution is. I'm just glad that the ACA included health sharing co-ops as an exception. Been doing that for awhile now and have saved a lot of money. (And they'll give me a discount if I get my weight down a little more!)
[0]: Because even if you get a free wellness visit or whatever, it's really easy for them to drop in some random test that ends up getting billed. Had this happen with my kids a few times if memory serves.
It was never sustainable. Because the model relied on healthy people subsidizing the people who make extremely poor choices (obesity, smoking, drugs or a combination of that). Obamacare's modeling predicted that significantly more healthy people would sign up, driving costs down. It didn't happen.
Now it is a system that ONLY the unhealthy benefit from. Everyone else pays for extremely bad choices.
The US became less attractive for becoming an authoritarian state that is a threat to its own people because of people like RFK Jr. or ICE raids based on racial profiles.
The notion that this is new, or that it is a single side, is of course an attempt to paper over historical data which is readily accessible.
Authoritarian regimes tend to have no checks and balances, whereas the other two branches of government have both repeatedly restrained the executive this year, through both law and judicial rulings. They also tend to clamp down on free speech, which isn't happening (but is in Europe), or disarm the population (try owning a firearm in China or North Korea).