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Yeah this whole farce turned my 'trust' beacon away from keybase. I know that sounds like a strange thing to say, but I feel like trust is a compass and this mo

Yeah this whole farce turned my 'trust' beacon away from keybase. I know that sounds like a strange thing to say, but I feel like trust is a compass and this move was quite polarising. It felt like the iTunes U2 fiasco. Don't give me something, and have me live with it if I never asked for it to begin with.

kelnos 7y ago
... especially considering that there might be confusing tax consequences for people who receive these.
- hombre_fatal 7y ago
  About as confusing as receiving a cash allowance from your mom.
  - kingosticks 7y ago
    Providing you don't actually spend any of that allowance. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-you-need-to-pay-tax-when-you-sell-cryptoassets https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-you-need-to-pay-tax-whe...
  - kelnos 7y ago
    Guidance from the IRS suggests that you need to maintain cost basis information for cryptocurrency, and pay tax on any gains if/when you do something that causes it to be converted to US dollars. Hell, even with a cash allowance, if it exceeds a certain value during the year, you owe gift tax (though it's obviously difficult for the IRS to figure out about your allowance, especially if you never put it in a bank account).
eitland 7y ago
> It felt like the iTunes U2 fiasco. Looked it up now and this explains why I had a lonely U2 album in my iMusic when I finally got another Apple product after 7 years.
- skrebbel 7y ago
  You looked it up, wrote a comment about it, and still didn't explain why this was a fiasco. So I looked it up too: in 2014, U2 made a new album, "Songs of Innocence", and Apple pushed it to 500m iPhone users without asking. It was just suddenly on their phones. The twitter-o-verse got angry, because sending a tweet is easier than pressing "delete", and because the album looked badly amidst their carefully curated collection of dubstep remixes. Newspapers wrote about the angry twitter-o-verse because they hadn't gotten the memo yet that people are always angry about something on twitter and it's not news and nobody cares.
  - mey 7y ago
    Originally you couldn't delete it.
    - LMMojo 7y ago
      And if your phone storage use was near Max, your phone was now full. You couldn't delete the (partial) album, you you started trying to delete something else, and when it was noticed there was available space on your phone, more of the album was downloaded. Repeat, until full album was on your phone and now you're missing photos of your kids, apps you want to use, etc. Just so there's available space so your phone will run normal-like. But you can't take any new pictures...
      - jsjohnst 7y ago
        Not saying some didn’t experience the issue you pointed out, but to be fair, the album was under 100MB. It’s not like they forced something on you that used even 1% of the storage of the minimum storage option phone at the time. The outrage over needing multiple gigabytes of free storage for OTA updates at the time was much more warranted imho.
  - somebadguy 7y ago
    What the fuck is wrong with you. Pathetic autistic bitch

kelnos 7y ago

... especially considering that there might be confusing tax consequences for people who receive these.

hombre_fatal 7y ago
About as confusing as receiving a cash allowance from your mom.
- kingosticks 7y ago
  Providing you don't actually spend any of that allowance. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-you-need-to-pay-tax-when-you-sell-cryptoassets https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-you-need-to-pay-tax-whe...
- kelnos 7y ago
  Guidance from the IRS suggests that you need to maintain cost basis information for cryptocurrency, and pay tax on any gains if/when you do something that causes it to be converted to US dollars. Hell, even with a cash allowance, if it exceeds a certain value during the year, you owe gift tax (though it's obviously difficult for the IRS to figure out about your allowance, especially if you never put it in a bank account).

eitland 7y ago

> It felt like the iTunes U2 fiasco. Looked it up now and this explains why I had a lonely U2 album in my iMusic when I finally got another Apple product after 7 years.

skrebbel 7y ago
You looked it up, wrote a comment about it, and still didn't explain why this was a fiasco. So I looked it up too: in 2014, U2 made a new album, "Songs of Innocence", and Apple pushed it to 500m iPhone users without asking. It was just suddenly on their phones. The twitter-o-verse got angry, because sending a tweet is easier than pressing "delete", and because the album looked badly amidst their carefully curated collection of dubstep remixes. Newspapers wrote about the angry twitter-o-verse because they hadn't gotten the memo yet that people are always angry about something on twitter and it's not news and nobody cares.
- mey 7y ago
  Originally you couldn't delete it.
  - LMMojo 7y ago
    And if your phone storage use was near Max, your phone was now full. You couldn't delete the (partial) album, you you started trying to delete something else, and when it was noticed there was available space on your phone, more of the album was downloaded. Repeat, until full album was on your phone and now you're missing photos of your kids, apps you want to use, etc. Just so there's available space so your phone will run normal-like. But you can't take any new pictures...
    - jsjohnst 7y ago
      Not saying some didn’t experience the issue you pointed out, but to be fair, the album was under 100MB. It’s not like they forced something on you that used even 1% of the storage of the minimum storage option phone at the time. The outrage over needing multiple gigabytes of free storage for OTA updates at the time was much more warranted imho.
- somebadguy 7y ago
  What the fuck is wrong with you. Pathetic autistic bitch