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byMr. Barky
2026 @01:47PM
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Attached to: EU Parliament Calls For Detachment From US Tech Giants
The problem is that the big companies have datacenters that are 100% European, so no data is stored abroad. But... the master keys are still stored in the US, which means any promise - even if it 100% validated to be the case - of locality of storage is useless.
Previously there was trust in the US government that this power wouldn't be abused. What has changed is that trust has gone away.
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byMr. Barky
2026 @01:42PM
(#65944722)
Attached to: EU Parliament Calls For Detachment From US Tech Giants
ASML's biggest customers aren't American, they are Korean and Taiwanese
Which makes it all the more easy to cut off the Americans.
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byMr. Barky
2026 @11:38AM
(#65929328)
Attached to: 'Star Wars' Boss Kathleen Kennedy Steps Down From Lucasfilm
Now that Trump is in the White House, Disney will decide that the Darth Vader character was unfair in portraying conservative values as "evil". The new creative director will make sure to show Darth Vader and his movement in a better light.
(Yes, I kid... uhh... but somehow I think it is just too close to reality)
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byMr. Barky
14, 2026 @12:06PM
(#65924036)
Attached to: Europe is Rediscovering the Virtues of Cash
Cash is also for the undesirable but still legal things. Things one doesn't someone else to know (e.g. buying porno). Having every transaction traced electronically is very dangerous - it allows central analysis of spending to flag outliers and deviants (however you wish to define deviant).
In my opinion, anonymous transactions are vital to a free society. I don't really think there is an alternative to cash (crypto currencies can be traced with enough effort) if one wants to maintain a free society. (I know, there are plenty who don't really want that.)
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byMr. Barky
2026 @05:10AM
(#65920260)
Attached to: Supreme Court Takes Case That Could Strip FCC of Authority To Issue Fines
By this logic, the local police shouldn't be able issue speeding tickets. Maybe this is what you think, but forcing this will make enforcing traffic laws extremely inefficient and impractical. (You can challenge traffic tickets in court if you disagree with it - and you can do the same with the FCC. So the courts are involved if needed.)
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byMr. Barky
2026 @08:51AM
(#65917692)
Attached to: How Long Does It Take to Fix Linux Kernel Bugs?
It depends on what you are looking for. The total time from the creation of the bug to its fix is important. A bug might be having adverse effects without being explicitly logged and known to developers (something like random disk corruption that nobody can reproduce - maybe it's a hardware problem, maybe it's software). Adverse effects include black hats keeping the bug to themselves. The total reaction time of the developers (e.g. once a bug is known how long does it take to fix) is also important.
180559784
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byMr. Barky
0, 2026 @12:34PM
(#65914934)
Attached to: Scientists Tried To Break Einstein's Speed of Light Rule
And wait. A long, long time.
180559020
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byMr. Barky
0, 2026 @08:14AM
(#65914616)
Attached to: Why Care About Debt-to-GDP?
I do not mean that the net taxes ought to be different (well, actually, I think they need to be higher because the deficit spending can't last forever, but that is a complete different debate). Also note: there can still be a debate over relative rates - "tax the rich" or "flat tax" or whatever.
The principal problem to me is that businesses concentrate power. This in turn gives the largest ones leverage over lawmakers to bend tax laws in their favor (at the same time as acting as a large corrupting force). Individuals, even the richest ones, have less power than the largest corporations which in my opinion would reduce the corrupting forces (of course this will never be eliminated). Businesses also won't need to play games with shuffling around expenses to reduce profit which likely will make them more efficient.
What is important to me would be that all income from whatever source is treated the same - capital gains and dividends the same as wages. If money (or things of value - e.g. a car or apartment leased for your exclusive use) goes to an individual, it should be taxed. And of course, the loophole that the basis gets reset when you inherit should be eliminated. Note: I wouldn't be agains the concept that investments into businesses count as negative income (to help with what you point out that unprofitable businesses might be disadvantaged by this change). This would change "basis" to always be 0 as you get the deduction when you invest (I haven't much thought about this and how it might work - probably opens up a lot of room for gaming the system).
The net effect ought to be individuals have about the same purchasing power and the tax system will be simplified.
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byMr. Barky
2026 @01:41PM
(#65912922)
Attached to: Why Care About Debt-to-GDP?
Because the Russians helped out? They played a bigger role than most US histories recount. Note: I am not defending current or past Russian policies... but the reality is that without the Russians taking a huge, huge toll, Hitler would have been very hard to defeat. American histories focus on the greatness of America but there was a larger war going on that didn't have a lot to do with Americans except a common enemy.
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byMr. Barky
2026 @01:35PM
(#65912910)
Attached to: Why Care About Debt-to-GDP?
The huge hole is that capital gains basis is reset upon death. So someone who inherits uses as a basis the price at time of death (or something like that). Essentially meaning families pay no capital gains,
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byMr. Barky
2026 @01:32PM
(#65912904)
Attached to: Why Care About Debt-to-GDP?
I really wish people didn't think that businesses were somehow separate from people. You tax a business, their prices go up.
I've said this before... I honestly think the best tax system would be tax business 0%. Taxes should be only money individuals. Capital gains should not be treated specially. But I know this will never happen.
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byMr. Barky
07, 2026 @04:12PM
(#65908797)
Attached to: New Dietary Guidelines Abandon Longstanding Advice on Alcohol
I can't imagine a post that is further than the truth. Alcohol is cheap. Yes, there are fancy beverages, but throughout soooo much of history (including our own times) there have been poor drunk people because there are many affordable alcoholic drinks. They continue to be drunk because it is affordable.
If consumption is down, it is due to other reasons, not the cost.
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byMr. Barky
3, 2026 @12:34PM
(#65899227)
Attached to: NYC Phone Ban Reveals Some Students Can't Read Clocks
Sorry about the link.
This is the link
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byMr. Barky
3, 2026 @08:12AM
(#65898811)
Attached to: NYC Phone Ban Reveals Some Students Can't Read Clocks
I've often wondered why we haven't switched to metric time
It was tried by the French (around the same time the Metric system was introduced) and was very unpopular, eventually being abolished.
Each day was divided into ten hours, each hour into 100 decimal minutes, and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds. Thus an hour was 144 conventional minutes (2.4 times as long as a conventional hour), a minute was 86.4 conventional seconds (44% longer than a conventional minute), and a second was 0.864 conventional seconds (13.6% shorter than a conventional second).
My bet is that it is because 3600 is evenly divisible by 2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10, ... This is far more practical than decimals which only have 2,5 as divisors. (I also think that units like the Foot/Inch remained popular because 12 is evenly divisible by 2,3,4,6).
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byMr. Barky
1, 2026 @01:24PM
(#65895055)
Attached to: Warren Buffett Retires As Berkshire Hathaway CEO After 55 Years
My bet is that he did make those companies more productive. He consistently outperformed the market even after he became a significant player in the market which shows that he didn't just neglect his investments. Note: productive does not necessarily mean good. Many employees may have suffered from "productivity gains".
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