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Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade

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Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade

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Post by 13of40 »

toyg wrote: post #161
mc32 wrote: post #142

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Cumbersome, but cam you imagine the benefits to health, if expanded to food production, when an e.coli etc. outbreak happens or mad cow, etc. Trace back the farm and know exactly which lots to pull.

Cue the food industry crying about massive increase in costs (to track, but also to drop cheap ingredients sourced in PR-unfriendly ways).

I think the difference is that we're still valuing marijuana at prohibition prices, which means the producers have enough money left over they can bear the price of a system like that and still make a hefty profit. With something like corn, it takes an acre of land to net as much money as you'd get from a couple ounces of weed. [1]

[1] http://smallbusiness.chron.com/profit-margin-raising-corn-34...

Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade

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Post by yuubi »

DrScump wrote: post #159
kafkaesq wrote: post #80

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There is no legal marijuana trade in the US, You mean interstate trade, of course.

FDR's Supreme Court blew the Commerce Clause open such that the Feds can regulate purely intrastate commerce as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

It's worse than parent makes it sound: the conduct in that case was growing grain without permission, not for sale, but to feed to chickens on the same farm.

Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade

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Post by retbull »

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #147
gberger wrote: post #118

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Per month, not per year. So ~12 per day.

I would get absolutely nothing done...

I'd sell 11 for 10 dollars a pop and get nothing done on 1 a day. 110 a day isn't bad spending money. The reality is though it would almost definitely be ridiculously hard to get away with selling government weed. Fuck if I know what I would do with that much.

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Post by MikeHolman »

icebraining wrote: post #37
tmm wrote: post #35

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Also from stolen goods, unless you return them in the same year: "If you steal property, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you steal it unless in the same year, you return it to its rightful owner."

I wonder if one could deduct it if they return the item in the subsequent year instead :)

You can deduct business expenses for illegal activities, except for specific categories (for example, bribing public officials is not a valid deduction).

So you might actually be able to deduct that, if you could justify returning the property as a business expense.

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Post by Sylos »

vegabook wrote: post #143
thaumasiotes wrote: post #77

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Ads delivered to your computer by Windows? Check. I'd rather have the old Microsoft back. :/

fair enough. But let's compare them to the competitors, Facebook, Google, Apple. Only the last can legitimately be said not to pollute your life with more ads than Microsoft. MS is benign by comparison with the first two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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Post by sb057 »

MikeHolman wrote: post #169
will_brown wrote: post #75

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> as all marijuana trade is criminal under federal law You may be right because of the word trade ; however, the Federal government itself has authorized the growing (University of Mississippi) and interstate distribution of legal marijuana since 1976 through CIND. Not trying to split hairs, because the total patient list has probably always been under a dozen people, but it is still an interesting fact and one I onl…

360 joints per month? That's an absolutely insane amount of marijuana. Even if marijuana isn't inherently unhealthy, I have to imagine it can't be healthy to put that much smoke into your lungs.

Weaker lungs is a small price to pay for not being blind and/or insane

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Post by sblom »

spinlock wrote: post #44
ethbro wrote: post #23

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Incidentally! I thought about this the other day. Given that it's been about 15 years, is there anyone in the HN community / internet that's spoken about the design decisions with IE 6? Specifically, was it incompatible by design or simply by incompetent management?

As an observer I always assumed it was purposeful. MS was _not_ a company that conformed to other people's standards. After all, they're just now putting a POSIX compliant shell in their OS. They were playing a monopoly game not trying to offer an alternative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade

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Post by MikeHolman »

sb057 wrote: post #176
MikeHolman wrote: post #169

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360 joints per month? That's an absolutely insane amount of marijuana. Even if marijuana isn't inherently unhealthy, I have to imagine it can't be healthy to put that much smoke into your lungs.

Weaker lungs is a small price to pay for not being blind and/or insane

I didn't know marijuana was a cure for blindness or psychosis (if anything I thought it was an aggravator of the latter).
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