They should have introduced the list with a colon, but legal writing is /intended/ to be hard to understand. It creates tons of downstream work for lawyers.

The "Plain English Movement" is an effort to stop doing the that. Here's a reasonable description:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fir.lawnet.fordham.edu%2F...

Some people say their internal "Community Guidelines" prohibit promoting other platforms and this is selectively enforced.

Regardless of the veracity of those claims it could easily be added to their ToS for "safety".

>> I purposefully avoid demonstrating any of the tools (with a suffix that rhymes with "car")

Anybody know what he's referring to? I'm ignorant of that one.

Seriously - their best stuff is in NIC's, embedded (n100 etc), wifi, chipsets, etc.

Sounds like they're gonna 86 all that.

Meanwhile Chinese foundries will be delighted with RISC-V parts at 19% gross.

Somebody told me they hired an engineer to run the place - guess not.

The point is that the tax code is contradictory so if they want to prosecute YOU they absolutely can.

It's how they got Al Capone and they've indicted Roger Ver for daring to say Bitcoin is broken by making up completely novel and new interpretations of tax code never before applied to anybody, much less a former citizen, and that's after he asked them how much he owed and paid it.

At the same time Trump is investing in BTC in his businesses and needs NGU.

Three things are inevitable: death, taxes, and corruption.

I can't think of a single other country that claims to be civilised that has a tax code so complicated you need vast amounts of software and a high-power computer just to file what is properly owed.

TLDR version: The system is engineered to be too complex for humans, which is the mark of a very very badly designed system that is suboptimal, inefficient, expensive, and useless.

Let's pretend for a moment that you've a tax system that taxes the nth dollar at the nth point along a particular curve. We can argue about which curve is approporiate some other time, my own opinion is that the more you earn, the more tax you should pay on what you earn. However, not everyone agrees with that, so let's keep it nice and generic and say that it's "some curve" (which Libertarians can define as a straight line if they absolutely want). You now don't have to adjust anything, ever. The employer notifies the IRS that $X was earned, the computer their end performs a definite integral between N (the top of the curve at the last point you paid tax) and N+X, and informs the employer that N+X is the money owed for that interval.

Nobody actually does it this way, at the moment, but that's beside the point. We need to be able to define what the minimum necessary level of complexity is before we can identify how far we are from it. The above amount has no exemptions, but honestly, trying to coerce people to spend money in particular ways isn't particuarly effective, especially if you then need a computer to work through the form because you can't understand what behaviours would actually influence the tax. If nobody (other than the very rich) have the time, energy, or motivation to find out how they're supposed to be being guided, then they're effectively unguided and you're better off with a simple system that simply taxes less in the early amounts.

This, then, is as simple as a tax system can get - one calculation per amount earned, with no forms and no tax software needed.

It does mean that, for middle-income and above, the paycheck will vary with time, but if you know how much you're going to earn in a year then you know what each paycheck will have in it. This requires a small Excel macro to calculate, not an expensive software package that mysteriously needs updating continuously, and if you're any good at money management, then it really really doesn't matter. If you aren't, then it still doesn't matter, because you'd still not cope with the existing system anyway.

In practice, it's not likely any country would actually implement a system this simple, because the rich would complain like anything and it's hard to win elections if the rich are paying your opponent and not you. But we now have a metric.

The UK system, which doesn't require the filling out of vast numbers of forms, is not quite this level of simple, but it's not horribly complicated. The difference between theoretical and actual is not great, but it's tolerable. If anyone wants to use the theoretical and derive an actual score for the UK system, they're welcome to do so. I'd be interested to see it.

The US, who left the UK for tax reasons (or was that Hotblack Desiato, I get them confused) has a much much more complex system. I'd say needlessly complicated, but it's fairly obvious it's complicated precisely to make those who are money-stressed and time-stressed pay more than they technically owe, and those who are rich and can afford accountants for other reasons pay less. Again, if anyone wants to produce a score, I'd be interested to see it.

I don't like any of these people but those who use the service have infinitely better privacy guarantees with Regeneron than Wojcicki.

FDA would clobber a drug company for selling genetic data to advertising or insurance companies.

Which may be why the Tech Bros have a pile of cash to hijack the Court process.

Don't forget about Bankruptcy - suppliers get stiffed by Courts.

If it's a start-up/salary/loss/bankruptcy scheme the payers are the suppliers of product, rent, investors, utilities, etc.

Not that I've seen any evidence of misdeeds in this case. Just be careful in assuming Bankruptcy isn't corporate welfare.

Invoicing has its conveniences but it's a tradeoff with cash-on-the-barrel certainty.

Personally I prefer cash and prepaid services. YMMV.

The issue is going to be if the malicious actor "permanently deleted" the AWS and Github accounts. Domain registration, DNS, internal checkout scripts tied to a github account, etc.

The backups, if they exist, are the easy part of this DR Scenario.

Not that anybody writes DR plans anymore or that any of the Big Tech sites support Shamir's Secret Splitting for account deletion (or offer real customer service).

This aspect of IT is the most highly neglected, aside from workers' rights and competitive pay.

Imagine all the businesses with X accounts he has to boycott.

Comcast offers gig-down for $50 with a 3-yr contract for new customers.

> By whom were the harms committed and who suffered

It's widely reported that she was besties with Ghislane Maxwell, so maybe she knows something about harms and suffering

You can find old pics of them hanging out in swimsuits with a quick search.

The show fell off a cliff with Jodie Whittaker and not at all because of her. The first three or so episodes I watched she put on a reasonably good performance. But the material they gave her to work with was just atrocious. Utter crap. Stuff they must've dug out of the very bottom of the "rejected ideas" bin.

The ensemble cast didn't work, like at all. I never cared for any of them even the tiniest bit. The Doctor, the most feared creature in the universe, a being able to rip reality apart and put it back together, someone who can start or end wars with a few words. The Doctor who literally said to the Aliens of the universe assembled above Earth as he announced he'll stand in their way and he has neither a plan nor any weapons, to "do the smart thing. Let somebody else try first." - and they all decided to fuck off instead.

So THAT Doctor suddenly became a bumbling idiot who succeeded only through luck and plot convenience.

So maybe going back to Rose is a chance of a restart. After all, she _was_ Bad Wolf. Though I fear they'll just cheap out with some "oh, I just picked a familiar face at random" bullshit.

I wish, but nah, this is pure SciFi.

Why? Because it's not all in the brain. The brain is connected to the entire nervous system. The "mind-body duality" doesn't exist. You're not a mind that has a body, you're a body that has a mind. We know that the body can survive without the mind (coma patients, some extreme cases of mental or debilitating illness, etc.) - but there isn't one case of a mind without a body.

Even if you could upload yourself to a supercomputer with the same processing power as your brain, I'm pretty sure the first dozens or hundreds of such experiments will go the SpaceX Starship way - lots of fireworks for every tiny bit of ground gained.

I personally think that we should do work on replicating less complex parts of the nervous system first. One, we'll need it if we want to do full mind digitalisation. Two, it can help people today (amputees, etc.). Three, there is already some work with great progress going on.

I double-checked and it's not April 1st.

WTF?

Capitalism is now packaging wage-slavery as a product and SELLING it to us?

I hope the AIs evolve quickly to take over. My hope for humanity is melting faster than the ice caps.

Yeah. Never, ever, do that. I've run a few online communities. Back when your own forum was still a thing and you could survive without being a group on Facebook, a subreddit or a Stackoverflow.

Your most active users aren't always your best users, and they almost always are NOT the ones you want to have as moderators.

If I could do all that again, I would give mod rights to the people who contribute just a bit, but consistently over a long time, and who read more than they write.