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lapphi commented on The U.K. closed a tax loophole for the global rich, now they're fleeing wsj.com/world/uk/the-u-k-... · Posted by u/fortran77

comrade1234 · 7 months ago

> The exemption was restricted over time to largely benefit foreigners who don’t expect to live in the U.K. permanently.

Sounds like it worked out as planned, since they're leaving now.

Plus, 40% inheritance tax is crazy. You'd have to sell off half of what you inherit to pay the tax. Sucks if you're a farmer or a multigenerational family business

lapphi · 7 months ago

Very unmeritocratic society if you can just win by inheriting half of 20 billion dollars.

lapphi commented on Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? theguardian.com/books/202... · Posted by u/pseudolus

lapphi · 7 months ago

I would love it if there were a part of the internet where a) one person = one account and non-person accounts were somehow labeled. Kind of how south korea does it. But you know, better.

And b) i could block that one person on each platform with one click on all my accounts, including screenshots of their posts.

In real life i know the person talking to me is a unique individual and not one of several duplicate persons bc of physical limitations.

Wishful thinking: we are reaching that point where AI could solve this instead of AI just making the issue worse.

lapphi commented on Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07... · Posted by u/zdw

moron4hire · 7 months ago

Politically, you could probably sell the insurance idea as actually protecting officers. But then you'd get the wrong people opposing it...

lapphi · 7 months ago

We could call it a cost cutting measure to save the taxpayer billions in unnecessary legal fees and settlements.

lapphi commented on Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07... · Posted by u/zdw

giardini · 7 months ago

thisisit says: "...this guy will try that even if it is illegal..."

How will he "try that"? He hasn't done anything illegal and, if he does, his own staff and the courts will prevent him from doing it.

thisisit says: "With the what has happened to immigration..."

They've slowed illegals entering the country and they've begun to move immigrants out of the country. How is this a problem?

I never cared much for birthright citizenship other than for offspring of slavery but arguing about it hardly seems a good argument for or against Trump.

lapphi · 7 months ago

> How will he "try that"? He hasn't done anything illegal and, if he does, his own staff and the courts will prevent him from doing it.

Are we talking about convicted felon donald trump or some other guy?

lapphi commented on An embarrassingly simple approach to recover unlearned knowledge for LLMs arxiv.org/abs/2410.16454... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

Workaccount2 · a year ago

Imagine consultants had to cite sources and pay-out every time they referenced knowledge gained from reading a research paper at working at a formal employer.

I can understand the need to prevent verbatim copying of data. But that is a problem solved on the output side of LLM's, not on the data input for training.

It is completely legal for someone to pay me to summarize the news for them every morning. I can't help but feel that knee-jerk regulation is going to be ultimately bad for everyone.

lapphi · a year ago

I think, at one point in time, it was also completely legal to break into computer networks because there were no laws against it.

lapphi commented on Reflections on Palantir nabeelqu.substack.com/p/r... · Posted by u/freditup

swells34 · a year ago

I used it quite a bit early on during military operations. The ability to see the timing component was key; not only would you plot the purchase locations, but you could play the timeframe of records, work out the timing so you knew the order in which they visited the locations, where they must have stopped for gas along the route. In a classic workflow, you'd then investigate the gas stations, attach them to the event with confidence intervals, pull CCTV footage, see if you can get a payment receipt, and enter all of that data back into palantir. A few days of doing this, and you can build up all a map of every aspect of the drug run; the who what when where and why. It's a fantastic organization system.

lapphi · a year ago

I appreciate the technical achievements here. However, I wonder how long before it’s standard practice to track all peoples movement, not just those suspected of a crime. I know of at least one YouTube channel that is always recording all traffic camera streams in Washington so there must be some State entities doing the same. Back in 2020 there was a twitch channel that would play a 9x9 grid of all the livestream footage from the George Floyd protests. I’m sure an archive of that exists somewhere on a LE server.

lapphi commented on Gettiers in software engineering (2019) jsomers.net/blog/gettiers... · Posted by u/FigurativeVoid

lapphi · a year ago

Politicians all across the globe know and utilize this concept

lapphi commented on T-Mobile pays $16M fine for three years' worth of data breaches arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/pseudolus

beefok · a year ago

Why the fuck do we have to give out our personal information to any of these big companies if I can't trust that it will ever be safe-guarded? This is just so fucking insane to me to think these companies are just so big that they don't even give a fuck anymore. $16M is equivalent to $1.00 to them.

Our personal information/data should be given HIPAA-level protection enforced by the government. We as consumers should not have to deal with companies who do not compete on securing their customer's data. They should lose a "data protection" license when mishandling it, like a bar losing its liquor license.

lapphi · a year ago

Because we are “free” to “choose” who we do business with. Nevermind that many essential services are run by legal cartels.

And Tmobile has more lobbyists than you do. But you, an individual, are also “free” to lobby the government as much as you wish.

Thusly, the system is fair and balanced on paper.

lapphi commented on Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses about.fb.com/news/2024/09... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

jiggawatts · a year ago

Speaking of which, I just recently blocked Cocomelon on my kid’s iPad. How insane is it that a company is purposefully putting out crack in video form targeted explicitly at toddlers!?

Brought to you by the same people that thought cigarette candy was a brilliant idea.

lapphi · a year ago

I mean from the point of view of McDonald’s I mean Disney no no the tobacco companies, it was probably idea of the year.