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Are you kidding? The “sales tax loophole” just supports my point, if it was just smaller businesses they would’ve gone on forever.

Nothing in my comment has anything to do with “cyber threat intelligence”. Did you reply to the wrong comment?

>There are easier ways to admit you’re wrong than ad hominems. Cheers

You’re just demonstrating that you don’t even know what ad hominem means.

“edgyquant is an idiot; therefore he is wrong” is an example of an ad hominem.

“edgyquant is an idiot” is merely a statement of fact

How does it feel being so pathetic that you have to substitute “insult” with “ad hominem” in a desperate attempt to seem smart?

The world will be a better place once you’re diagnosed with a terminal illness, hopefully that day arrives soon.

Without mens rea this is not a crime in (almost?) any jurisdiction, doesn’t matter if you’re Amazon.

No matter what kind of weird games you choose to play, there’s no way amazon has a guilty mind here.

How? Should we ban Amazon and Ebay?

>If you ran a store that repeatedly sold stolen goods do you think local police and prosecutors would ignore you?

Yes, if you operated your business in a way similar to Amazon the cops and prosecutors would in fact almost certainly ignore you.

Why willful negligence?

>Knowing your suppliers and that their goods are legitimate is a pretty basic function of a business

No it isn’t. That’s a pretty basic part of living in a country with rule of law.

>calling people progressive to enforce that is a bit strange

Indeed, it’s strictly regressive.

Selling goods is a legitimate business activity.

OTOH my friend has spent the past 5 or so years earning high six figures hunting good deals from big retailers and reselling on Amazon.

I’m sure he’s only one of many. There’s nothing Amazon can do without banning such sellers.

Amazon should not try to do anything about this, because there is nothing Amazon can do about this.

Amazon should not be required to do anything about this, that’s why we pay cops.

> It also doesn’t scale well for the size of modern web communities.

What do you mean? Old forum codebases can generally easily support tens of millions of users, what “community” is bigger?

This has been the case for years already, nothing has happened.

VPNs will never be a popular issue like porn is.

Why? CC processors are not in cahoots with the cops.

Ah, you’re right. My mistake was thinking that the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland was selected locally in NI, but he is in fact a crown minister in Westminster.

> A lot of "off the shelf" infra that we can use today just did not exist in 2012

Do you happen to have some examples? Very curious to hear about this.

No, I did not accuse anyone of any fallacy.

You should learn to read and understand English before making yourself look like a complete idiot by autistically screeching about fallacies.

I’ll hold your hand: Not all slippery slopes are fallacious, I never suggested that the one presented earlier was. I suggested that without supporting evidence it’s a weak argument, that’s strictly different than calling it an outright fallacy.

Somehow I don’t recall using the word “fallacy” at all.

That’s been common for like… the past 50 years?

This is complete nonsense. In the past it was normal to have that extra weight in your car and no seat heater button because you didn’t pay for it.

Turning up MAX_TORQUE_ALLOWED will almost always increase failure rates.

Selling a warrantied MAX_TORQUE_ALLOWED increase makes perfect sense.

Of course, it’s tough for us to know without getting someone to leak internal numbers.

“Slippery slope” is generally a poor argument, especially without strong evidence regarding it’s existence.

If they fuck this up and piss off their customers, that’ll just mean that BMW or VAG will take the sales instead.

I own a bunch of AMGs and this seems fairly reasonable to me.

It’s always trivial to squeeze more power out of these cars with software modifications. The cars do not come out of the factory like that because of reliability concerns.

To me this just reads like manufacturer-warrantied chiptuning. The interesting question will be whether or not this can actually compare with external chiptuners when it comes to performance.

HN doesn’t like subscriptions, but 1.2k/yr for a warrantied high quality tune from the manufacturer would be a great deal compared to what is available right now.

Yeah, the point isn’t that they must have referendums every 7 years. It’s just that they can, provided they feel like it.

I doubt there’d be too many people in Westminster willing to repeat the Troubles with a similar level of entusiasm.

I’m on my phone and can’t dig through the laws properly, but here’s an citizens advice site confirming the same https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/government_in_ireland/...

And here again https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/irish-r...

These are just the first hits from google, but the 7-year minimum is definitely a thing.

They have it because IRA was willing to kill a lot of people to get it.

This is a part of the so-called Good Friday Agreement which was signed in 1998 after Northern Irish nationalists fought a 30 year war against the British state with an ultimate goal of becoming a part of Ireland instead.

Northern Ireland Act 1998

They had one 8 years ago and the situation changed drastically since then.

Northern Ireland for example gets to hold independence referendums every 7 years, so there hardly exists any real argument against holding another one…

Besides the fact that Westminster would likely lose, of course.