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by FDSGSG 7y ago
>So now CDNs and Cloud providers are operating politically, determing who can and cannot use their services depending on their beliefs; whats next, the ISPs? Yeah, this has always been the case. There's literally nothing new here. F
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
This is a standard practice by police forces everywhere. I'd be surprised if there was a single police force in the world with strong audit controls on the usage of their DBs.
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
GA is very safe too, there are just lots of very unsafe GA pilots.
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
You can still access 8chan directly at 206.223.147.222 and 206.223.147.215. curl 206.223.147.222/index.html -H 'Host: 8ch.net' This is their backend hosted at https://digitalrealty.com/data-centers&#x2F
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
> Because this is what the courts did. They said that blizzard was guilty That is not what the courts said.
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
Yes I do! After I got sick and tired of the nonsense games my local tax authority was playing, I moved out of the country and took all of my assets with me. I did not mind paying the taxes, I did however mind the authorities trying to defra
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
>how ironic I don't think that word means what you think it means. >You're not at all addressing what the article mentions Weird, I think I've addressed pretty much everything your comment brings up. However, I'd l
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
So uh, why is everyone focusing on cloudflare? If you really want to take down 8chan, why not reach out to their colo provider? https://www.digitalrealty.com/data-centers/san-francisco/200...
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
> calculating all those MD5 collisions What now? What do MD5 collisions have to do with passwords?
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
> Worst case, you'd have to let it run overnight. AFAIK the best current preimage attack against MD5 gives you a complexity of 2^123.4. Even if you had every computer in the world working on this you'd never succeed. >One of
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
Why would Facebook sue over this?
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
That's fair, but the amount taxes Activision Blizzard are paying is non-zero. Are they doing wrong? If yes, how much should the pay?
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
Thank you so much, I can't believe I got that wrong. I've been mistaken on this for far too long.
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
> which anyway, let's be serious can't afford any fancy tax shenanigans Dunno, I feel that as a small business it is much easier for us to minimize our tax burden than it would be for a larger business. Much easier for 4 friend
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
Could you share with us the correct amount of taxes Activision Blizzard should pay? As long as this remains an impossible question to answer then they should probably pay the least amount possible. I'm all for improving current tax reg
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
> I can't admit I understand exactly what's going on in this case That's exactly the problem! These are extremely complex situations where there usually doesn't exist any clear answer. If there did, large corporations
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
Nothing exciting, the government felt that imaginary internet money should not be treated like other similar assets. Luckily the courts disagreed in the end. With tax laws being so complicated these disputes are everyday stuff for anyone en
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
Not really, it's simply indicative of a disagreement. wrong tends to suggest tax fraud.
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
I operate a small business with 3 employees, I'm certainly incentivised to fend for us. jnwatson worded my actual arguments better than I would.
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
Not really. We're discussing extremely complicated multi-jurisdiction legislation here. A criminal conviction for tax fraud could in fact be "significant evidence", a mere disagreement by itself is not.
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
You're right. I'm sure there are many such companies, I just seriously doubt Activision Blizzard in particular is one of them. E: I edited my prior comment.
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
Not really, taxation at this level is extremely complex. $345 million could just be because of unclear phrasing.
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
Dunno, in my case the court agreed that my actions were "perfectly legal".
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
That's fair. Do you know what a moral amount would be? I don't know, but I also doubt that anyone else really knows.
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
Hard to say before the courts decide. I've personally been through such disputes with tax authorities and prevailed.
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
This is about money that was already outside the US. I'm not convinced that shuffling euro money around hurt the shareholders.
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
I'm absolutely sure Activision Blizzard (a relatively small company) had no significant impact on how these laws were written.
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
I did, and until there's significant evidence to the contrary I will assume that what they're doing is legal. I've been audited too, and not because I did anything wrong. > Also, there is nothing wrong with pointing out wh
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
Excess taxes, i.e. taxes not required by the law.
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by FDSGSG 7y ago
Oh, absolutely. But then the headline would be "$country missed out on $amount in taxes because of lacking regulations" or something similar.

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