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It's time for Steam to launch their own payment processing company, and apply pressure directly on the card networks and the future competition.

It won't be nearly as profitable as their current business model, but sometimes industries need a shakeup.

Judges usually don't know this stuff, but they primarily work with systems and software supplied by the state...whose experts should know what they are doing.

My bet is that this guy decided to work on personal equipment, probably in violation of the rules. Being a judge, he's unlikely to be sanctioned for it, and will certainly learn from the experience. If anything, there may be some internal discussions which we'll never hear about.

Law is an area where AI can add value, though... searching through past rulings and legal opinions is tedious, and anything that can assist to find needles in haystacks would be welcome. It shouldn't be used to write legal judgements or arguments though...

They have a fetishist concept that anyone with a business empire is someone to be admired. They probably think they have a chance, the fools.

DMOZ forever!

Is this the right room for an argument?

It sounds like one should be building deliberate AI workflows with extra checks (automated or human in the loop) that make careful and cost efficient incremental progress toward a measurable goal.

Sounds like hard work... when we could just build 1,000,000 MCP servers instead. (raises pinkie to corner of mouth)

https://archive.is/b0S4D

There are so many time-saving things that can be done with a little bit of scripting. It's one reason why excel is so abused. Now that the bar to real scripting is dropping significantly, and we'll see more and more people solving their own small problems rather than relying on others or suffering through repetitive work. Good stuff.

It doesn't mean that they are ready to design, build and maintain reliable software or services...

We'll see more APIs and libraries being used directly by end users, though.

AI agents are a counter-force to this, letting LLMs interact directly with APIs, meaning users don't have to even touch code.

It sounds like a wilful lack of investigation & enforcement, in that case. The US gets what it votes for, I guess.

Some countries do it simply: You can hire from abroad if (a) you can demonstrate problems hiring in the local market for that position, and (b) the position is at/above market rates.

There's still room to game the system, but it's no longer a ridiculously low bar. And there is scope for investigations and legal action, which most companies try to avoid.

(Don't get me started on social insurances... the US super majority seems irrecoverably brainwashed, and would probably cheer on non-contributions by gainfully employed foreigners)

In the EU, there are typically three levels of VAT, with members having some leeway to choose which applies to what.

Health services, public transport, rentals/housing and education are often exempt, while most groceries and medications are at a reduced rate. eg. Germany has 7% and 19% as the reduced and normal rates.

Income taxes are additional and (in most EU countries progressive). Social insurances are often separate, and similarly progressive.

This works alongside the basic welfare nets, which ensures that people have just enough to survive if they fell through the cracks. Without this net, even the reduced rates on groceries would seem punitive.

Not every EU country is equal, but there is a goal to provide these societal safety nets alongside fair taxation, which is invested back in society.

It sounds like another benefit of the free plan is safe experimentation without getting a huge bill when doing something stupid like making IAM credentials public (then going cap in hand to AWS to ask for forgiveness).