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Yeah because it worked so well for piracy. /s

All phones in most countries, amazon, steam, microsoft acount, spotify etc etc.

Look up Lightning Network.

To realize that gain you actually need to sell the Apple stock. It would be perfectly possible (as I am proposing) and viable to make that transaction be forced to go through US. Y…

The government takes tax from the same amount of money twice. How is that not well described by the term "double taxation"?

Why not just tax any sale of a stock or a divident payout in the country of the company, - not the country of owner of said stock? These operations have to go through country of co…

That is just a very terrible idea.

Well it is tax money that is sent to the government and that is taken from the total amount of money that the company receives for the products it provides. If we are talking about…

> long time 4 decades is not a long time. It is a minuscule amount of time in the grand scheme of things.

Is that calculation really correct? Does it count tax for all the employees? Does it count all specialized tax for things like gas or VAT, for all the things Netflix buys in their …

> plenty of great niche hardware keyboard phones Plenty? In what way? There seems to be one company that makes a keyboard phone with outdated CPUs and other hardware, to make ends …

Does it look like they have some good avenues of fixing that?

Well look at something that might change your mind: there is this device called Muse headband that actually uses your brain signals to help you meditate. Meditation is a tool of mi…

Being careful is always good, but the dangers are overestimated and the benefits underestimated, by most people. In terms of security, you could solve 80% of problems you mention b…

"50 years where instead of computers and computing being a tool to be mastered and controlled by humans, we've seen computers switch the power dynamic and render us humans the tool…

In the sun your skin (even under some clothes) can be much higher temperature than 36C.

No, the risk according to this topic is increased compared to standard rate of blood clots. (The parent comment wording was basically "wrong", meaning- giving off a false impressio…

What is your alternative approach? To not tell people the truth? Because the truth is that almost any cure or vaccine or medicine in general has side effects. The thing is that the…

The argument is that the numbers should be reported properly - with their context and baseline. For COVID cases in general, it can, it should and it is being applied in many statis…

> born and raised touching the screen What does this have to do with the market? People don't want physical keyboards because they are "used to" them. They want because the experie…

Surely it's "35C" only when powered on? Which is still a weird figure which is probably wrong because how are those products going to work close to a human body which has a default…

> there doesn't seem to be any talk of using "AI" (ie Neural Net stuff) for planning and strategy AlphaStar: excuse me?? People write that these games have predefined rules, as opp…

Meditation is a word that is used to describe some very different activities. Thus the lot of confusion that seems to perspire in the comments.

> A trailer can spends days to weeks and even a month in a yard waiting for a tractor Imagine what a similar investment in a stationary solar panel in that same yard would yield, a…

Yes, this is such a disingenuous argument when people say PoW incentivises to use more electricity. It doesn't care about electricity, at best. Also the specific Bitcoin model even…