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Unbelievable, but I guess this is the USA....


Alibre has a free option, which does not include sheetmetal bending but otherwise solid software


Alibre does not have a free option. They have a 30 day free trial and the low cost Atom3d package. I bought Atom3d and never use it because it's too painful. If I'm going to endure that much pain I might as well use FreeCAD which at least runs on Linux.


Thereis a huge difference between going to war somewhere and defending when being invaded


Monopoly is a free market game and thete is only one winner. Free markets as such is an utopia dream.


Except it isn't at all. The properties to buy all have a fixed price, costs of houses/hotels are fixed, rents are fixed and can't be adjusted, and most importantly, a) you can only buy a property if you randomly happen to land on it and b) people have no choice of what property to stay at (again, chosen by random dice)


The British banks and their tax heavens still very much control the world of money. The commonwealth barely hangs together outside of the world of cricket.....


I don't think I have read anything so wrong about tariffs in quite a while. Tariffs either protect local manufacturing and/or slows consumption of said import. In both cases, it is inflationary.


If you employ people on straight salaries, you are stuck. Not everyone is on share gravy train


A lot of corporate US does not declare their earnings in the US, but in tax heavens, thus further skewing the figures.


To go fast, you must first be able to go slow......


Are there any reasons we can't have both KYC and privacy/security ?


Is this a real question?


I could see some sort of certificate driven approach.

Customers and merchants generate a keypair and CSR. The CSR by design contains no personal information. You submit the public key/CSR and seperate identifying information to a KYC authority.

The government generates a signed certificate the bank can use to open an account, and the customer or merchant signs their transaction requests using their private key to associate them with the account.

The bank has a paper trail showing KYC was performed, but does not have any personal information about the participants, almost akin to the old "numbered Swiss account" cliche.

Ideally, the KYC authority deletes the personal data after issuing certificates, but I'd expect it would be more "information can be released under court order" or "revocation policy blah blah blah".

That's the level of tradeoff I'd expect is politically viable. Bank of America doesn't know you're buying hentai, but if it turns out the 1000-year-old character is actually 12, a court can lift the veil.


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