Algurnon

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   by Algurnon 3y ago

   Aliexpress is not a cali company importing... Its a small foreign merchant in an opaque country exporting into Calif. All Calif sees is a parcel delivered. I don't see how Calif has any jurisdictional powers to assert audits on a small
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   by Algurnon 3y ago

   AliExpress collects the 10% calif local and state sales on my international order. What are the odds that extra 10% gets forwarded to Sacramento?
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   by Algurnon 3y ago

   In a world drowning in self-interested promotional 'puffing," calling this cynicism is in itself cynical. I prefer to see what your referring to as HN's community hype-filter.
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   by Algurnon 8y ago

   In post-ww2 Germany, they essentially adopted the policy of suppressing Nazi ideology and it was regarded as a good thing, thought every German except post-war Nazi holdouts. They came to find out its not all that much dif't in fx than
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   by Algurnon 9y ago

   Self driving cars will obsolete road rage just as machines can better administer lucre than avaricious humans. c.f. any or all of recorded history. Democracy is a very analog 18th century mechanism for collective resource allocation. Design