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721.
by loeg 8mo ago
This is a moved set of goalposts from the comment I responded to -- and we know that, because the original author had already confirmed that replying to me before your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139400
722.
by loeg 8mo ago
There's no crime element here.
723.
by loeg 8mo ago
> If you have an audit target to meet you want target meta? I don't believe the approach the IRS takes is to set targets and only audit the lowest hanging fruit up to some target. They have different sub-organizations pursuing diff
724.
by loeg 8mo ago
> [The IRS] say the company failed to report roughly $54 billion in income and owes nearly $16 billion in back taxes and penalties. That's... just not very much? The claim is that Meta's global ex-US income for the last 15+ ye
725.
by loeg 8mo ago
About $16 billion a year, every year since 2022 or whatever. You can see RL spending in their public financials. Every company deducts ("writes off") R&D spending.
726.
by loeg 8mo ago
I don't think that really disproves GP's hypothesis. The Trump admin is happy to drop lawsuits for connected entities. The fact that they're sustaining a Biden-initiated suit is plausibly because they just don't like M
727.
by loeg 8mo ago
> Isn't archive.ph associated with .org? No. > Guidance published as a result of the decision asked editors to help remove and replace links to the following domain names used by the archive site: archive.today, archive.is, archi
728.
by loeg 8mo ago
"Wealth extracted from it" seems like a disingenuous framing of "voluntary market exchange of money for services." It's not like Europe is a colony. Tech companies only make money by providing goods and services p
729.
by loeg 8mo ago
> It will be very naive to believe adding IRS staff will help with that. It is far easier to audit W2 employees than dealing with mega corporations. You're saying auditing megacorps is hard, but somehow more staff won't help?
730.
by loeg 8mo ago
See https://zkae.io/
731.
by loeg 8mo ago
1Password comes out looking relatively good here.
732.
by loeg 8mo ago
My state assesses annual car taxes based on MSRP rather than real market value, unfortunately, so these fake MSRPs matter to me. :-(
733.
by loeg 8mo ago
It's hell to store. The energy density is terrible and as a tiny molecule it escapes most seals. When it transitions from a liquid to a gas, it expands manyfold (i.e., explodes).
734.
by loeg 8mo ago
I can just about comprehend the 1500 stuff (that was also my experience attempting to read Chaucer during jury duty, though I don't remember Canterbury Tales having the 1400s "þ" this article uses).
735.
by loeg 8mo ago
Mostly that if you actually have both readers and writers, they obstruct each other; this is often undesirable. And you have to pick some bias in advance. You can get priority inversion because readers are anonymous.
736.
by loeg 8mo ago
This is true, but it is a subset of designs using shared_mutex.
737.
by loeg 8mo ago
> What I would really like is the ability to change defaults for all mutexes created in the program, and have everyone use the same std mutexes. Yes. I imagine subbing out a debug mutex implementation that tracks lock ordering and warns
738.
by loeg 8mo ago
https://www.cppstories.com/2026/shared_mutex/#newer-concurre... > Since C++17, the concurrency library has expanded significantly. We now have: > ... > safe memory reclamation mechanisms (RCU, hazard poin
739.
by loeg 8mo ago
A significant number of people do not seem to want copper thieves, porch pirates, and organized retail thieves in jail.
740.
by loeg 8mo ago
> The real issue is prosecutors who refuse to incarcerate repeat offenders. Sometimes judges contribute as well.
741.
by loeg 8mo ago
If you're concerned about critical mass, Bluesky is also a dead end.
742.
by loeg 8mo ago
Many reasonable people would argue this was significant / enough of an emergency to justify devoting that bandwidth, even by the standards of the Supreme Court.
743.
by loeg 8mo ago
Yeah, in an alternative universe RBG and Sotomayor both stepped down and got replaced under a Dem admin.
744.
by loeg 8mo ago
This is relatively fast for an issue to move through the courts.
745.
by loeg 8mo ago
Two of the justices would be happy to let Trump get away with murder. It's not that the law is ill-defined so much as a few justices are extremely partisan. Happily, a quorum of saner heads came about in this instance.
746.
by loeg 8mo ago
And it's, you know, identified cases.
747.
by loeg 9mo ago
I think hard drives was before RAM but it kind of all happened contemporaneously.
748.
by loeg 9mo ago
Right. It's one thing to build the equivalent of Result into the language -- great. It's another to make it only support simple enum variants and not be extensible.
749.
by loeg 9mo ago
Not really. It has slightly more well-defined criteria than that. Material must satisfy all three prongs to be considered obscene.
750.
by loeg 9mo ago
"I know it when I see it" notoriously does not work in law, either. Instead, we have the Miller test.

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