Vespasian

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by Vespasian 5y ago
In some jurisdictions it already is. German / European courts have ruled many times that consumer TOS clauses which are "surprising" and/or "unusual" (e.g. "hidden" feed or waivers) are not enforceabl
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by Vespasian 5y ago
Not quite. They would need to coordinate a new hard fork before Mid-End August because of the incoming ice age which intentionally slows the chain to a stop unless a hard fork happens. Simply saying "No I don't want to do that&quo
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by Vespasian 5y ago
In the original Bunker video He briefly mentions inspections and permits.
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by Vespasian 5y ago
They are conservative in the sense that they don't want too much change and only slowly adapt to new things. Being sceptical of flag waving nationalism, in favour of global trade agreements and the EU and taking an (at least verbal) st
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by Vespasian 5y ago
The CDU is the largest center right party And most definitely NOT on the left of the German political scale. The greens have some conservative views and are quite popular with middle class, middle wealth people. (White collar workers)
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by Vespasian 5y ago
But even in the "best case" where 51% voted to remain it would still have not settled the conflict. It was essentially 50/50 and that's not a clear vote for anything. The UK was (is?) deeply split on what relationship it
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by Vespasian 5y ago
I'm quite interested in this topic. Does PoH encourages the "excessive" use of hardware and energy like PoW or PoTaS (chia) does? I'd be very interested in any solution which scales its resource usage with usability&#x2F
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by Vespasian 5y ago
This law is an old one and has been in effect forever (offline and online). I'm certain there is a lot of legal practice and precedence on what can be expected of a "reasonable" company. Courts are usually quite pragmatic in
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by Vespasian 5y ago
For B2C it is mandated by law[1] §1 (1) and (2) [1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/pangv/BJNR105800985.html
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by Vespasian 5y ago
Either that (see the jetbrains store as a random example) or other indicators such as language, tld-domain, ip origin, advertisement targets etc. Of course offering one price for everyone is fine as well. These rules are usually B2C only. F
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by Vespasian 5y ago
Do they offer a way to set a final price including taxes? In many jurisdictions your advertised price (e.g. for German users on your german page) needs to include taxes.
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by Vespasian 5y ago
It probably directs to a static page saying "YES" because after entering all that information your account will be under investigation for sure ;)
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by Vespasian 5y ago
That is a law enforcement mic drop and it's well earned by doing good police work.
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by Vespasian 5y ago
Google even managed to incur heavy losses from offering cloud infrastructure services. A business which usually is a guaranteed golden goose. They are really bad at making money with anything that isn't advertising.
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by Vespasian 5y ago
Additional that whole "fake contractor instead of employee" business has long been made illegal here and has not destroyed real contracting businesses nor has it prevented minimum wage jobs (and illegally below minimum) to exist.
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by Vespasian 5y ago
Well you need some kind of formal structure which owns critical assets (such as domain names, brands) and allows for your desired model of governance. Individual people owning things largely increase the risk of a hostile takeover. A non-pr
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by Vespasian 5y ago
The ability to save money relies on the ability to "reduce your lifestyle costs" by cutting certain expenses (raising income is oftentimes not realistic. Poor People in general are not lazy) Below a certain limit there is no way t
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by Vespasian 5y ago
But people can see the car/house/yacht etc you bought with it. If you want to actually enjoy your wealth you better find a way to legalize your anonymous money and pay taxes on it. "I dunno...It just appeared in my crypto Wal
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by Vespasian 5y ago
Is there an expected limit of storage where your average drive would die of old age before it yields enough income?
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by Vespasian 5y ago
Who buys up all the farmed coins on these new cryptocurrencies. It is really just speculation fever?
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by Vespasian 5y ago
Dear weeweww32, During a routine audit of registered exchanges we discovered that you transferred/received $30k of the crypto token Montero. Under penalty of perjury provide us with documentation as to the destination/source of th
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by Vespasian 5y ago
Well if the invisible hand off the market works in favour of me for once, I'm not gonna complain
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by Vespasian 5y ago
It's a niche for GPU usage when compared to gaming, rendering, video editing, machine learning. And it's most likely a really short lived niche
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by Vespasian 5y ago
Either proof-of-stake or ASICs are gonna make GPU Ether mining rather short lived. Nvidia fears that all those customers will vanish over night.
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by Vespasian 5y ago
I think I read the new cards will require a higher driver version
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by Vespasian 5y ago
That's true but to be honest they pushed back the self destruct several times in the past and will do so again if needed. Still it's very likely that this time the switch to PoS might finally happen unless something unforseen happ
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by Vespasian 5y ago
How decentralised and democratic is the steering and decision making in reality? Nobody elects the mining pool operators, nobody elects the people owning the mining hardware and not enough people elect the people who are steering the variou
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by Vespasian 5y ago
I'm not in the US so I don't have personal experiences with these services. It would be possible to require a bank/money transmission license in order to integrate with the iOS NFC payment scheme. That would prevent scammers
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by Vespasian 5y ago
Do emergency services work on Shabbat? If their apartment catches on fire would a very orthodox person be allowed to use an extinguisher / carry out some of their belongings?
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by Vespasian 5y ago
For payment apps you could tie this into the existing regulatory framework for money transfer services and banks.

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