ericjmorey @ ericjmorey @beehaw.org

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It would be the difference between paying no taxes to either a) paying taxes on all funds received at regular income tax rates without the benefit of deduction of expenses or b) doing 99% of the work to still need to pay income taxes on net income (revenues less expenses). So if you're going to do the work, it's worthwhile to do the additional 1% to get all of the benefits.

Does the NSA need a warrant to purchase information that’s being legally gathered and sold?

The governments in the US shouldn't be collecting non-public information without a warrant if acquiring that information directly would require a warrant. Seems like a clear infringement of the 4th amendment.

We should look out for all the villagers and reduce the risk of tiger attacks.

Why not use the $9 plan at ghost.org?

Solution? What do they think the problem is?

FYI, I cross posted your question to three Programming.dev communities:

Shell Scripting

Python

Learn Programming

These are conserted efforts to reduce the presence of "undesirables", also known as homeless or unhoused, in the areas without public bathrooms.

When to use a VPN

VPNs are not magical fixes for privacy and security on the internet. However, there are some specific situations where they are useful tools.

Network blocks and internet censorship. VPNs can help you access sites and services that are restricted by your local network or government. That's why downloads of VPN apps in Russia skyrocketed in 2022, after the country's invasion of Ukraine and more services became blocked. The same trend happened in Virginia and other U.S. states after they passed laws requiring photo identification for adult websites.

Piracy. Internet service providers can sometimes detect when you are pirating movies, TV shows, music, or other media and send you angry letters. You can avoid that entirely by using a VPN when you download or torrent copyrighted material. Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free... but use a VPN.

Region-locked content. This is a popular selling point for VPN companies that is actually true: VPNs can help you access online content that is officially restricted to a certain region. Switching your VPN server to a different country can change what movies and shows are available through Netflix, and UK-based VPN servers are frequently used to access BBC iPlayer content in other countries. However, this is not always reliable, as service providers will usually detect VPN servers after a while and block them.

Accessing your home network. Setting up a VPN server at home is one way to access devices on your home network (such as self-hosted security cameras, media servers, and remote desktop) without opening up more of your network to the rest of the internet.

There are other more niche use cases for VPNs, but those are the most popular ones that aren't completely made up.

What would it take for you to leave the platform?

the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one.

I stopped reading there. This flawed axiom will not have a good argument built upon it.

Reducing the dependencies on cars is a great goal to strive towards, but articles like this don't feel helpful to that end.

Were the startups manufacturing vehicles or were they purchasing from companies like BYD?

I feel like simply knowing that X, formerly known as Twitter, paid for neo-Nazi content and promoted it is all I need to know about their content moderation policies.

The law does seem like a generally good thing, but I doubt that anyone who would care hasn't already abandoned the platform.

I felt like I was the only one that liked Tales From The Loop.

Look like Tidal pays 4x more than Spotify on average. For small artists, it's likely hundreds of times more.

To give one example. It puts a link on paywalled Medium.com pages to view the page's content on another site since a block list will no longer be able to bypass the paywalled content on Medium.com.

We need to wait until Monday to find out what IBM did?

Mechanics generally don't inspect vehicles that are in for routine maintenance unless the customer is paying for inspections.

I don't think you're following the hypothetical being presented.

In this hypothetical, many people will view Amazon as unreliable for future purchases after their deliveries didn't show up in time.

Somewhere in-between is probably the sweet spot for communication to a lay-audience