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The United Nations Is About to Tax You

wsj.com
5 points·by janwl·9 miesięcy temu·5 comments

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janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
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janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Games of chance are absolutely moral and completely fine when played by adults who are not mentally incapacitated.
janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
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janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Why exactly? Why are these games of chance moral only if the government gets a cut?
janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
>The "I'm okay being miserable as long as you're more miserable" crowd has always had a strong showing in this country.

If the choices are "I am miserable whilst my enemies are happy" and "I am miserable whilst my enemies are even more miserable", I know what I would choose.
janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Kernel-level anti cheats are not perfect, but they decrease the amount of cheaters to the point where they stop being “common” and become “extremely rare”. An imperfect solution is much better than no solution.
janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
What are the chances phones in 10 years won’t be able to connect to the cars with CarPlay or Android auto from today.
janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
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janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Nowhere in my comment do I say that.
janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Consider you may be spending too much time reading West-aligned news sources.
janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Piracy is a service problem. Maybe if this is happening at such a scale, cigarettes are too highly taxed.
janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
People throw “Anti-regulation” around in HN as if it were a slur.
janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
That doesn’t seem to give me much freedom about my data - in fact it seems like it took freedom away from me.
janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
I thought people here hated it when LLMs made http requests?
janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Linux is a kernel. We don’t have a usable operating system to go with it besides Android.
janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
This law was supposed to give me control of my data. If I have control of my data, why can't I use it to pay the owner of the website?
janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
I mean, it's entertainment content. It's like saying a movie is fake, they are actors playing roles. Of course. Who cares?
janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
> I guess it depends on what you mean by "materials". It's quite common in US elections for politicians to make claims that are completely contrary to their actual actions. Even for objective facts, like I voted for X bill when they didn't.

So like everywhere else?
janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Because the product is X Chat. The author made a typo in the headline.

Or maybe it was on purpose - the only reason I clicked is that I thought this was about irc.
janwl
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Mirrors my experience with AirDrop.