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> For the most part, personal income is taxed on gross and business income is taxed on net

This bothers me a lot.

So basically a wealthy billionaire can take one company that makes profits and acquire a large loss making company that he also owns and Viola suddenly the profit making company doesn't need to pay as much in taxes anymore.

Or Google takes out huge ads on its own properties but it doesn't have to pay anyone and therefore doesn't have to pay any sales tax on those ads.

It feels like we are structurally encouraging vertical integration and bigger businesses.

We need to have some kind of alternative minimum global tax for companies based on gross receipts rather than net.

> A lot of how I form my thoughts is driven by writing code, and seeing it on screen, running into its limitations.

I completely agree but my thought went to how we are supposed to estimate work just like that. Or worse, planning poker where I'm supposed to estimate work someone else does.

But none of those are usable, right? It will take decades of work at least to get a commercial grade mining operation going and even then the iron, titanium, aluminum would need to be fashioned...

Ah, I see the idea now. It is to get people to talk about robotics and how robots will be able to do all this on the moon or wherever.

Instantly pumps Tesla stock here now on earth!

Wait so moon plus sun != sun plus moon? :Thinking:

What would be the best model to try something like this on a 5800XT with 8 GB RAM?

I don't know about the Ethernet part but it bothers me that even wifi has become faster than the wired USB port on our phones.

All I want to do is copy over all the photos and videos from my phone to my computer but I have to baby sit the process and think whether I want to skip or retry a failed copy. And it is so slow. USB 2.0 slow. I guess everybody has given up on the idea of saving their photos and videos over USB?

It allowed me dingo after dog though.

No, please read the article. No one is saying carriers cant triangulate but carriers shouldn't be able to query the gps on my device and get precise GNSS data.

> Apple made a good step in iOS 26.3 to limit at least one vector of mass surveillance, enabled by having full control of the modem silicon and firmware. They must now allow users to disable GNSS location responses to mobile carriers, and notify the user when such attempts are made to their device.

Can you please allow me to disable Ctrl plus Shift plus C shortcut? I've been begging for years at this point...

Personally, I'd rather get queued up on a long wait time I mean not ridiculously long but I am ok waiting five minutes to get correct it at least more correct responses.

Sure, I'll take a cup of coffee while I wait (:

> If I subconsciously detect that you spent 12 seconds creating this, why should I invest five minutes reading it?

The problem is it isn't easy to detect it and I'm sure the people who work on generated stuff will work hard to make detection even harder.

I have difficulty detecting even fake videos. How can I possibly I detect generated text in plain text accurately? I mean I will make plenty of false positive mistakes, accusing people of using generated text when they wrote it themselves. This will cause unnecessary friction which I don't know how to prevent.

The point is everything needs work. We can't just say oh capitalism produces billionaires so billionaires must be good.

No, because the whole premise is flawed.

Not to be too glib but my mom would ask counter questions like this:

Why is it that we have to trim out nails when they grow? Why not leave it natural?

Why do we remove the weed in between the pavers in our backyard? Why not let it be natural?

The fact is the world around us needs constant work. Our capitalism is no different. It needs constant pruning or it becomes gluttonous. There was a book I think which said most people involved in illegal drug trafficking are barely getting by, most of the income is soaked up at the top. I don't remember the point the bio was trying to make but it feels like that way for any enterprise these days.

The richest people in the US have reportedly increased their net worth by over 1.5T over the course of the last year or so.

How is this sustainable?

Meh. Good riddance.

If I were a betting person, I'd bet that's the number of engineers who were previously forced to become managers in order to get a promotion.

I've flown with someone who simply said she has prescription medication with her.

I mean it was the truth. It was legitimately prescription medication. In this case. But I can imagine someone could lie.

I didn't even know that 180nm was still a thing but clearly it is because apparently the cost difference is like USD 100M for 180nm vs USD 10B or more for the latest tech?

Is it true that we will likely have these 180nm chips for things like light bulbs for the foreseeable future?

I'm still hopeful.

The next version of html should be able to do all the http verbs -- get, put, patch, post, delete online, reactively without having to use a form.

There has to be a way to figure this out, even if it requires a transition period. The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is now. These things belong in the core HTML standards, not a js library you need to include in your code.

Oh that and better controls and better defaults but I guess that is something individual web browsers can implement on their own?

Is this why the location suggestions on my posts used to be so wildly inaccurate? Because they weren't collecting precise location?

I don't think it is that easy though. If you are simply trying to pay off existing debt sure, but we constantly need new debt as well so there is a limit to how much money we can print.

Practically, my biggest concern is deliver ability

> The Zen Way: "I am <327c1b2f87c9353e01769b01090b18f2>. Wherever I am, my peers can reach me".

> When links are intermittent and latency is measured in minutes or hours, "real-time" is an illusion. Reticulum doesn't encourage Store and Forward as a mere fallback, but as a primary mode of existence. You write a message, it propagates when it can, and it arrives when it arrives.

Let's say A and B are talking.

A sends message A1.

B receives message A1.

B sends message B1.

A receives message B1.

A sends message A2.

Something happens and B doesn't receive it.

A sends A3.

B receives A3.

Later, B receives A2.

Now what does B do with this information? Does the envelope contain all the metadata about when A sent it so B client software can order the messages properly?

I think time and again, the main thing people should realize is you should never, ever raise venture capital unless you really, really have to™.

Or at least know that your interests as a founder and the interests of those who invest in your company will not always coincide. And they do this a lot more times every single day than you do.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it has some thing to do with those data centers and LLM stuff.

> These days imho it's an automatic 2.99 strikes against anyone who is still endorsing X with their continued business.

Someone mentioned recently that it sure is a little bizarre how many "check marked" accounts Microsoft has on twatter.

https://x.com/Microsoft/affiliates

It is like USD 10k a year a pop per account? You may say 200k is a rounding error for Microsoft but it sure sends a message, doesn't it?

I have never owned a truck or a new car and I might buy one if they can truly keep the slate under 20knincluding delivery and all taxes and fees.

Congratulations on launching.

Also this is probably the most comprehensive what to test notes in a test flight I've ever seen iirc

It is possible they were mistaken. The extreme voices get magnified at these things, I'd guess.

Maybe it is an attempt to slow the shift in the Overton window?

I always find it amusing when I see a toddler knows to press skip ad on YouTube.

> 1996

I'm chuckling at the idea of pirating software in 1996.

iirc even in 1999, I couldn't figure out why Windows update required me to use internet exploder. It would take forever to download updates over dialup.