The logic of the tax is "a product consumed on a territory is subject to tax in said territory". Saying this is akin to an import tax is like saying the VAT is an import tax.

This is a gross revenue tax levied on the providers those services already collect VAT.

This isn’t in any shape or form comparable to VAT this is an import tariff.

VAT taxes the final consumer.

If TOR had fiver-level speed I'd be on all the time. The trade off is just too high.

True although it's getting better every day.

I do use it frequently and do run a few relays, and that's probably the only way to improve it.

Do you have any simpler resources on how to do it?

If it were simpler to run a relay on a provider that allows it, and it doesn’t cost much (say $10 a month) to give Tor users a little more speed, that’d be helpful. The last time I looked at the documentation, it seemed quite involved and complex (of course, I wouldn’t want the security of Tor users to be compromised due to any misconfiguration).

If there were something for Tor like Sandstorm for web apps or Algo for WireGuard, more people could run relays and help everyone.

I use ovh (although the tor network is saturated with ovh) and https://tor-relay.co ; literally takes 5 mins after vm is provisioned.

Here's a giant list of hosts you can look into - https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/g...

I spent maybe an hour researching based my in criteria. You can host just an exit (most helpful), or a couple of relays (aim for 100mbps+, and decent bandwidth). You can get a lot for $5/month for each relay.

Thanks so much for the links and information. I will take a look at it again. We do need many more people running relays around the world.

Part of the stimulus is ensuring that unemployed people will get enough cash to live by. They increased the allowance by 600USD per week.

I don’t think any states are paying that extra 600/week out yet, where I’m at they are still recoding for it and expecting several more weeks. It’ll be back dated but still, and with the numbers of claims I’m wondering how much capital they really have for it.

Questions I can’t find answers to:

How does this actually work? Do the states manage the extra 600? Will it just appear one day for people on unemployment?

What if your state has stricter unemployment rules than the stimulus bill? You’d be eligible for the 600 but not able to get it?

Maybe SF is not a tenable place to live anymore for ___%?

Maybe they will be inconvenienced by forced relocation?

Maybe no-one is entitled to continue living today the way they did yesterday?

Maybe some people can neither afford to move nor live in their apartment and will end up homeless. The people having the hardest time living in SF are the people we now call "essential workers" and "heroes" for doing the jobs we all depend on to survive. What exactly do you think happens to the city of San Francisco when all the "essential workers" are forced to move away or are homeless?

"What exactly do you think happens to the city of San Francisco when all the "essential workers" are forced to move away or are homeless?" It implodes!?

Unemployment in FL maxes out at $275/week. Digest on that for a while.

True even while gas is almost zero because not driving.

Sure, however this is the kind of cases where "the system" (democracy) would benefit from an equal treatment of all, regardless of their capacity to game gmail.

Isn't there also the mirror molecule thing they can do to imitate patented ones?

Not necessarily, see Thalidomide for example:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160208124237.h...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomer#Medicinal_chemistry

Well if he's going to use these to go on mars it's got to be functional without anything frivolous.

Vestager as EU competition, Goulard as defense, Timmermans on climate. These are the ingredients for a strong EU, and it's good news for the world.

But they are balanced out by von der Leyen who doesn't have the best record from her previous duties...

Meh, she got a pretty thankless job, at an especially thankless moment, and it's hard to judge without having a comparison.

And the decision we're applauding here was her's. So she does seem to be off to a good start.

> Meh, she got a pretty thankless job, at an especially thankless moment, and it's hard to judge without having a comparison.

Her time as minister of defense isn't everything she is being criticized for. she earned the "Zensursula" moniker as minister of family.

>And the decision we're applauding here was her's. So she does seem to be off to a good start.

Yeah, lets give her the chance to be a good surprise by keeping up stuff like this decision.