flipbrad

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by flipbrad 2y ago
"Those are taxable events for the people who sell the shares Tesla is buying back." But in which jurisdictions is that tax payable, and at what rates?
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by flipbrad 2y ago
I dont think we know the actual range of motives for shutdown. Oracle may have forced it, for instance.
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by flipbrad 2y ago
First time I've heard of nuclear being a cheap technology to deploy
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by flipbrad 2y ago
What do you mean? At least in England, there's https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/26/section/2
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by flipbrad 2y ago
Firstly, there's less conflation these days - go see recent banner wording for yourself. Secondly, if you're still just acknowledging Wikipedia hosting costs - and thus pretending there's (for example) no legal work necessar
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by flipbrad 2y ago
It would be nice if we had a "lot of lawyers", given how frequently we're sued to try and get content censored, or having to fight orders to hand over user data - and more generally, how massive these new laws we need to comp
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by flipbrad 2y ago
There's also r&d going into additional, inferred data layers, e.g.: https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/Breaking_n...
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by flipbrad 2y ago
Not quite what you're looking for, but something to play around and give feedback on in this area is https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences/Experimen...
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by flipbrad 2y ago
EU law to the rescue: https://www.eu-digital-services-act.com/Digital_Services_Act...
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by flipbrad 2y ago
https://transparencyreport.google.com/eu-privacy/overview?hl...
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by flipbrad 2y ago
I was thinking of sales tax / VAT.
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by flipbrad 2y ago
Don't forget true factual information disappearing due to things like the GDPR Right to be Forgotten. It's not just about creation of misinfo, but also about censorship of true info.
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by flipbrad 2y ago
First, you take USD4-5 off that in tax. Then more for support, finance and and marketing. Then electricity, bandwidth and insurance. Then games licences. Then hw...
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by flipbrad 2y ago
Might help show prior art to defeat software patents too.
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by flipbrad 2y ago
Historically it was always interesting and quite challenging legal work, reconciling some things a bit like this with privacy, lawful intercept and anti-remote-exploitation-tool (anti-trojan) laws, especially in Europe (think: the cookie ru
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by flipbrad 2y ago
Billion has wildly different meanings. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion
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by flipbrad 2y ago
This isn't (AIUI) relevant to that exact problem. As Wikipedia explains: "[T]he Orange Book lists patents that are purported to protect each drug. Patent listings and use codes are provided by the drug application owner, and the
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by flipbrad 2y ago
Plurality of search engines?
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by flipbrad 2y ago
[Citation needed]
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by flipbrad 3y ago
DMCA is sometimes just used as shorthand for all similar notice-and-takedown regimes.
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by flipbrad 3y ago
No moreso than the OS itself. The real responsibility actually lies with the people causing the remote access (e.g. the website operator, the remote hacker, etc).
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by flipbrad 3y ago
Yes. Although in fairness, the "cookie rule" part has been updated since then. But not anytime recently. And the GDPR's subsequent entry into force created the current emphasis on how actively (and individually) you need to
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by flipbrad 3y ago
Note that this isn't a cookie law, it's also the EU's main anti-malware law. The principle is that no piece of third-party controlled software should write information to your computer/phone, or read info from it, over
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by flipbrad 3y ago
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/1-severn-tidal-po...
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by flipbrad 3y ago
The fact that Eric Holder is a judge on this new court - while also working at Covington & Burling [1], a law firm actively involved in helping large companies defend these very same transatlantic data flows [2] - tells you all you need
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by flipbrad 3y ago
AFAIK these are changes that apply to any company in the UK (whether or not theyre LSE-listed). This also wouldn't depend on whether they operate within the City of London.
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by flipbrad 3y ago
The absolute first thing I ever do when publicly working on a doc like that (if I absolutely must) is Ctrl+r any trademarks, swapping them for [#x].
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by flipbrad 3y ago
My electrician (UK) was recently very upset at use of twisting in sockets - made uncoupling them (to bisect the ring and thereby find where a fault was occurring) very time consuming.
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by flipbrad 3y ago
Fortunately, politics are totally sane everywhere else in the world.
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by flipbrad 3y ago
I have read a few, and - at least when I was a more open-minded young adult - thought they were really insightful. I wouldn't say they're 100% on the money, but there are still many moments in life when something I see really res

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