I don’t think it’s really a big deal ?
We’re all playing around with things in the same domain. Does it really matter if someone is paid and someone else isn’t?
I don’t necessarily agree that a paid / qualified person will necessarily be operating at a higher level just generally than a hobbyist. Professionals tend to know lots about very specific things, hobbyists tend to invest a lot more time and effort into building elegant solutions.
Yes some answers from IT professionals may be unhelpful for hobbyists but that’s just part of interacting with other people.
It’s subjective… what does “gambling” mean?
Any thing you do has an element of risk, so you could say it’s a gamble.
"Gambling " is so meaningless in this context.
I gamble with my life when I drive to the shops.
When you put your money in the bank, theres’ a chance you’ll make some interest, there’s a chance you’ll make a little more interest. Does that make it gambling?
Isn’t it 48 tons of meteorites per day vs 14 tones of satellites per year?
I don’t really understand your point.
What about the other n million Americans who pay income tax? They might find it appealing too.
The 10 million living outside the US would pay less american income tax than residents.
Obvious corruption.
These are rad. Weird they’re not more popular internationally.
Exactly. “Voting for Biden just to stop trump” is a pretty meaningless statement.
What the fuck is wrong with people.
It’s much less engaging this way.
I don’t do this and my rotors are fine.
This fills me with anxiety and dread.
It was some kind of non-profit previously right? What happens with the money paid for the shares they floated?
Obviously you’re much better informed about this than me, who has never even been to Europe.
I can’t help but wonder why only Finnish morons would avoid voting, and not morons from elsewhere.
As in… why does this dynamic only apply to Finnland?
Mind if I ask what you are basing this on?
The overton window.
If the political opinions are reduced to a spectum running from left to right, then in a two party system the major parties will sit immediately to either side of the mid-way point, because they want to seduce as many swing voters as possible from the other side.
As in, the conservative party may have conservative dreams but their policies need to be far enough to the left to actually win an election, so they will push up against the progressive party.
If suddenly more voters vote progressive (the conservative party loses badly), the conservative party needs to adjust their policy settings further to the left.
As the conservative party’s policies move to the left, the progressive party will start losing voters to them unless they also move further to the left.
Wow ok so you were right but I was also partly right.
God I’m sick of explaining this.
If everyone voted for the left-most party, and the right had no votes, the right would move towards the left, pushing the dems along with them.
Not surprisingly, when the country votes left your politics moves left.
Comments like this are the reason why the dems are not the bastion of leftism you so desire.
Wait tears? I thought it was frankincense and murrh and hair or something?
Another really good point.
… a different way of looking at it is that it’s just way more practical to put solar panels in other places, like on the rooves of buildings.
Additionally, there seems to be an assumption amongst middle class suburbanites that everyone should just have roof top solar. Of course, the vast majority of humans to not have any roof space, because they live in an apartment.
I would also point out that my spell checker seems to think that the plural of roof is spelt “roofs” but I’m sure it ought to be “rooves” in the same way the plural of hoof as in part of a horse is hooves.
I’m not in the US. This wouldn’t be taxable income where I am.