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by grotorea 3y ago
I'm not sure about the present justification, but VAT is an alternative to sales tax, which has existed for a very long time, while Wikipedia says income tax as we know it started in 1798, so there may be an aspect of historical legacy
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by grotorea 3y ago
VAT is a variant on sales tax, which is a consumption tax. And VAT is paid when buying things.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Naively speaking, but if it's the same price as an hotel, that just means there's enough demand for AirBnBs to push prices up to equality, no? Isn't that good for AirBnB? Sure it probably means it doesn't make sense fo
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by grotorea 3y ago
Reminds me of this must see video for anyone interested in the topic, from someone explaining how to do these monetizations tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4 Sometimes I wonder what is is about specifical
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by grotorea 3y ago
Must see video for anyone interested in the topic, from someone explaining how to do these monetizations tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4
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by grotorea 3y ago
At least on the stock market, assuming the Efficient Market Hypothesis, the expected payout is 100% minus fees.
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by grotorea 3y ago
There's some countries that enforce making the % of payouts publicly available for apps. Hope that goes global at very least.
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by grotorea 3y ago
> This is equally fascinating to me. Before each flight, someone had to generate a flight plan and punch it onto a physical tape, then load it into the plan. T > No mid-flight "re-calculating route" if stuff goes wrong. From
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by grotorea 3y ago
I partly feel that the real reason it was a waste of money is that after it was finished, the country was too nervous due to Francis Gary Powers' U-2 being shot down to actually try using the SR-71 for its original purpose of flying ov
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by grotorea 3y ago
Cyberwarfare ended up quite low on the escalation ladder, but I think that's partly because the most extreme cases (i.e. where you're actually trying to destroy or incapacitate) like U.S./Israel attacks on Iranian nuclear inf
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by grotorea 3y ago
I think we all know that in casual use nation, state, country and nation-state are all synonymous. Or if you'd prefer, the WW2 interpretation of air warfare probably leans towards treating the entire populace as hostile.
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by grotorea 3y ago
In that case, why both sides of the Cold War spent fortunes on conventional forces along the Iron Curtain? Like yes it is playing with (nuclear) fire, and maybe they were wrong, but there plenty of professionals who, maybe biased by their p
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by grotorea 3y ago
Seems like the complaints that have been showing up here a for a while have reached the mainstream. Any chance of an upstart competitor taking the opportunity?
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by grotorea 3y ago
Cryptocurrency has a lot more negatives than just scams. This thread started because of it increasing prices for drives. Do you think whoever created Chia, decided to attempt to profit by mining it, or attempted to profit by speculating on
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by grotorea 3y ago
Aren't hash collisions supposed to be extremely unlikely in general?
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by grotorea 3y ago
Would you be happier if people were having their guttural reactions to the people involved in creating or using cryptocurrency instead of the technology itself? Would it make a difference?
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by grotorea 3y ago
So, it will really matter when everything runs in a container or AppArmor or something like that. I wonder if that will ever be made convenient and "it just works" without having the impression of having apps being on somewhat inc
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by grotorea 3y ago
The methodology on the site only includes games with a minimum popularity, so the long tail of tiny indie games isn't included. By the way, since steam has a fee to be included, aren't most of those tiny indie games over at itch.i
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by grotorea 3y ago
Not really in a position to say anything conclusively either but I don't think you are at the mercy of the community. First, it's open source, so your company can look and fix the code themselves. If it's restaurant software
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by grotorea 3y ago
Not not it's an everything engine it's the most popular engine on steam by far from a quick search, although it does leans towards indie. https://infogram.com/1d560b7e-21a1-437a-91f4-198309bf3e25 https:/&#x2
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by grotorea 3y ago
> They have no moat How easy is for a studio to change engine? Isn't that a decent moat?
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by grotorea 3y ago
That's even weirder then. Is it like when Blizzard decided they wished they had owned DotA money and enforced new ownership rules for mods for their new games but ended up just getting bad press?
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by grotorea 3y ago
I wonder what they are thinking in making this move then. Someone mentioned Genshin as the big legacy customer and someone answered on why it doesn't make sense. So why do they think this is a good move? Is there really enough profit t
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by grotorea 3y ago
I don't think this changes the enormous benefit of not having to build your own engine, specially for indie games. To me this is encouragement to avoid situations where you can have the rug pulled out from under you, i.e. either go ful
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by grotorea 3y ago
Yeah that's the part I haven't figured out. Why isn't there a offering for the market demand for something like old OKCupid? A dating site doesn't seem like an enterprise that needs a lot of startup capital or anything.
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by grotorea 3y ago
I think this is going to start in East Asia if anywhere
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by grotorea 3y ago
Yes but it doesn't have to be upheld in a court of law. It just has to be what corporate officers are ordered, selected and incentivized around. It doesn't need to be legally required for people to do something.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Yeah I think this is the missing part. Even if enshittification is more profitable, people should still be able to just change services to a better one.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Would he be expected to know we would spend decades doing ballistic studies on that bullet trajectory in the heat of the moment?
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by grotorea 3y ago
> I would support reverse primogeniture-based inheritance - ie the youngest son takes the throne - just so we can have a “King Barron”. I think that's called ultimogeniture, or at least that's what Crusader Kings told me.

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