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True, I think the HN moderators have an anti-crypto mandate.

Which is odd considering Coinbase was a YC unicorn. Besides AirBNB how many unicorns did YC finance throughout the years?

What you wrote is an invention. Code is law came from, let's say, "techno utopians" that really believed you can programatically organize this way. See the concept of DAO for example.

So, code is law came from programmers that thought code is law. It's not a misunderstanding.

The ETH fork was caused about the difference wrt code is law.

Same question to you: is there a written order from the President saying this? Is it public somewhere? If not, it's just PR.

Is there a written order from the President saying this. Is it public somewhere? If not, it's just PR.

No he did not. He gave a "direction". Which, legally, means almost nothing.

> “Going forward, consistent with the President’s direction, this Department of Justice – in a change to its longstanding practice – will not seek compulsory legal process in leak investigations to obtain source information from members of the news media doing their jobs,” Anthony Coley, Justice Department spokesman, said in a statement.

They are changing a "practice".

One uses laws to prevent practices one does not like, not "directions".

Oh, he is. But it's good PR to make positive statements while doing whatever you want.

Go away troll.

You are downvoted but I can confirm the only time I was almost assaulted as a tourist was in the Paris metro. Then I came outside and it looked like a Mad Max scenario with somebody casually selling corn baked in a barrel fire.

The US can tax US corporations anyway it sees fit.

What do other countries have to do with it?

Read the subtitle:

>The Biden administration wants other countries to back a minimum tax as part of its plan to raise the U.S. corporate tax rate to 28 percent from 21 percent.

This makes no sense. Is the IRS a global institution now?

Precisely. But instead of solving this problem inside US they want to re-engineer the whole globe.

Most countries are mad about multinationals, most of them rich US multinationals. If the US would do a proper job of taxing their own corporations none of this would be necessary.

Interesting how this is just in time for the Dutch sandwich scheme to expire. Clearly something else was missing!

Last I checked the US tax code does this already. If the US tax rate is higher you pay the difference!

Thank God the US is taking charge of the GLOBAL finances. What could go wrong!?

This is ladder pulling. Who needs smaller countries competing on fiscal rates when all tech should be registered in Dellaware?

Note how it's a small 15% to start with. If this goes through and all the treaties are in place moving it to 25% should be much easier.

Maybe the US should investigate all the creative ways US corporations pay so little tax anywhere. It's a problem caused by US and US corporation and now they come to provide a solution.

Meh, aren't cross-Atlantic flights potentially re-routed through US soil?

Isn't it common that flights to Canada need to make an emergency landing which conveniently allows US customs to filter passengers?

Diverting planes seems something that states just do.

This time it's a smaller state that uses big boy tools.

It's not paranoia if you are right.

Not sure how this is a problem since I assumed most cloud providers severely control and throttle IO.

BitCoin mining is also a lottery. I could stumble on a good hash using my own CPU. But the odds are in favour of the farms with ASICs.

What I've read is that one has to distribute the portfolio across a risk spectrum. A big % to very low risk / low yield instruments (say, bonds), a medium % to blue chip stocks, a smaller % to more risky stocks, etc.

So, following that logic with cypto or lottery tickets, a very small % could be put in anything that has a high risk high reward.

When you say bother you mean effort but in theory you could outsource your potfolio so there's not more work by following one strategy or another.

Thus... are lottery tickets a good thing to have in the portfolio?

I'm quite curious if there is an answer to this from a statistics or investing point of view.

You know... what I am curious, does this logic make sense?

Why wouldn't a given % be allocated to lotto tickets?!

Quite curious from a risk/reward portfolio formula.

Even assuming more Kotlin devs are coding gods (BIG if), the sheer number difference means you have where to pick good Java devs from.

Plus... if Kotlin really is the new hotness and companies want it then mediocre devs can also learn it.

So any "genius early adopter" advantage that Kotlin might have is short lived.

Ooh, so it's not only about killing but overall suffering. Because they do kill the bugs but animals don't generally eat the whole plant, only part of it. The plant still survives.

But plants also suffer, right?

Also, if individual numbers count we might as well raise buffalo.

It's Chinese space junk so clearly very terrible. Unlike Western space junk which would "most likely" fall in the ocean.

Well, considering there's tens of millions of space junk already I wonder which countries/institutions are currently not doing a good job at that?! NASA and US would be top of the list.

Cheap international wires are $25.

Breathable micro-plastics doesn't sound nice.

> Right to repair is not about being cheap, is about not caving in to the needs of an industry that doesn't know how to be profitable in a world without consumerism.

Beautiful.

Note that the industry does know how: it's called planned obsolescence. But the replacement rate is not good enough if people get to also repair their stuff.

Notarization is nothing except Apple making sure they have visibility into the tail end of their ecosystem.

Remember the days of Windows 95 when you could make an application, sell it to a person in your own town and nobody in the world knew?! Not anymore!

Now Apple has to know that you made an app and get an exact copy of it, just for safe-keeping.

Dunno why, but IPFS seems such a kludge. Just share your static files in the distributed hash table and access those resources via their hash ID. Like... it's not much.

This news is interesting as I wonder what happens if .crypto does become a TLD?

It's not that complicated but if you are too small you don't worry about it.

If you are big (like this site here) you have lawyers so you also don't worry about it.

Apparently they aren't doing human experiments, it's only processes and such. So they can easily emulate the processes in-house too!