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The “gas wars” around ETH NFTs are insane. I wanted to mint an NFT for $200. The suggested fee to conduct that transaction at that time? $36,000.

These are in the public record from the anti-trust case against Google.

> 10.4 percent said that "intrusive" scanning for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) was the main reason for not switching.

Because of the recent CSAM debacle, 10.4% choose to stick with an operating system designed specifically for data-mining every byte of your phone for targeted advertising. This does not make sense to me.

Assault for hitting a parked car? Let’s wait for the results of the investigation before we play judge, Jury, and executioner.

1.) a lot of my Uber Eats and DoorDash/GrubHub orders are via vouchers and gift cards given to me by businesses and vendors. It also has all the features to make expensing meals to a corporate account much easier. 2.) If I were a lawyer or freelancer billing at $400 or more per hour, I’d gladly pay the 50% markup to have my food personally delivered so I can keep working and making money. 3.) A 50% markup on a $12 dollar order is $6. There are many times I’d rather just spend $6 for the privilege of not interrupting whatever I’m doing — I personally value my time way higher than $6.

That is incorrect. You own the physical piece of art, not the copyright to the art. if I own an original sketch by Charles Shultz of Charlie Brown, that doesn’t give me any rights to the character of Charlie Brown. If an author gives me a handwritten, first draft manuscript of a new novel, I may be able to sell that physical manuscript but it doesn’t give me any rights to the work itself.

Just like the US Postal Service, The USDA has uniformed law enforcement and special agents who investigate crimes concerning the USDA, similarly to US Postal Inspectors who investigate mail fraud and other mail-related crimes.

Buying a physical painting doesn’t give you any licenses to the artwork itself either. Just because you buy a modern painting at auction for $30 million doesn’t give you rights to start printing T-shirts of the art.

IANAL as well, but I’m sure that is very well the case.

Edit: maybe it’s not illegal, just a bad idea:

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/llc-basics-30163.htm...

If owners don't treat the LLC as a separate business, a court might decide that the LLC doesn't really exist and find that its owners are really doing business as individuals who are personally liable for their acts.

IANAL, but yeah, I’m sure tons of people toe the line or try to use LLCs as their personal piggy bank but I imagine it can come back to bite you if you are taking business tax deductions for personal expenses. I think “influencer” Dan Bilzerian may be in hot water for this (or could be). Every major personal purchase of his is done through his company. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisroberts/2020/07/09/dan-bil... > According to the suit, the accountants flagged $843,014.06 in company expenses that appeared to be “personal in nature.” These included payments for charges racked up on one of Dan Bilzerian’s credit cards: a half-million dollar yacht rental; a six-figure, two-night trip to London; a $65,000 “Four Elements Guns & Star Wars Set”; a $50,000 bed fame, a $75,000 paint-ball field, an $88,000 vault, “to name a few.”

Maybe it’s not illegal per-se and maybe just a bad idea:

If owners don't treat the LLC as a separate business, a court might decide that the LLC doesn't really exist and find that its owners are really doing business as individuals who are personally liable for their acts.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/llc-basics-30163.htm...

That would make sense since many businesses invest in real estate and there’s a few states like Delaware that allow anonymous formation of LLCs.

Setting up an LLC to be used as your personal incognito identity is definitely illegal. LLCs are meant to be for operating a legitimate business, not a second personal identity.

Trademarks must be industry/use-specific. UPS has a trademark on their shade of brown. You can use that brown for your business, but you can’t use that colormark if you’re starting a competing logistics company. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of companies with an “X-Ray” trademark. You can use X-Ray as long as it’s not to represent your “computer software tool for use in browsing and exploring electronic publications and books.” Only Amazon has the right to name such a specific software functionality “X-Ray.”

I fail to see how that would be classified as a breach.

Have you never opened packs of baseball or Pokémon cards hoping for a specific high value card? Have you never been to an arcade with token/coin pushers? That just replacing the gambling machine’s quarters with tokens. Ticket and prize redemption games at Chuck-E-Cheese are 100% modeled after casinos.

If they kill the program, headlines will read: “Apple refuses to protect sexually abused children” or “Apple sides with protecting child pornographers.” I anecdotally see no backlash outside of HN and the tech/libertarian-focused parts of Reddit. To the casual iPhone buyer making up their billions in revenue, turning back on the program wouldn’t be good optics. Obviously my statement is purely conjecture, I’ll admit that.

Retail bots and sneaker bots. Botters buy proxy IPs in bulk. When botters buy limited edition Nikes using bots, each “task” uses a different proxy, so they can increase their chances by appearing to Nike to be different customers. 500 tasks on a single shoe with 500 proxies and virtual credit cards looks like 500 different people when it’s really just one.

There are two different kinds of proxies (basically — there are more nuances I don’t want to get into): Datacenter (DC) and Residential (Resis). DC proxy servers are blazing fast but easy for a retailer to determine the traffic is coming from a datacenter like AWS so there is a high risk of getting the IP banned. Resis are slower but they are residential IPs so slower but less likely to get banned because they look like traffic from average consumers.

If the average buyer of proxies is buying 100+ IPs per month and IPs get banned constantly, proxy providers need a massive pool of millions of IPs running on residential addresses. That’s where these “free” VPN come into play. The consumer gets no-cost VPN, but their PC becomes an exit node for these residential IP proxy providers who charge people for the proxy access. There are tons of proxy providers but I think most are just reseller accounts of a few massive firms that run the show.

I am only speaking on the topic from a purely technical perspective. I do not want to discuss or spark debate around the ethics or people’s displeasure with the existence of botting and/or scalpers — you asked for a use case, and I’m only answering the question with a multi-billion dollar use case.