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Does Apple pay tax on that 30% to the EU for sales in the EU?


well apple cannot pay tax to a group of institutions that don’t have any business collecting taxes.

and this is because taxes are national matters. the EU can try some legal ways of forcing some countries to take more or less tax, but all of those tries are not only being litigated, but also pushed against by the national governments.


The sun should dictate when we sleep. Sunrise is nature's alarm clock. Sadly we've messed that up with electric lighting inside and outside.


Where I am, I'd be asleep 14 hours a day.

I don't think that is sustainable.

For a start I don't actually want to sleep that much. Nor do I think I could.


That works for latitudes near the equator were the day duration is more or less constant. For higher/lower latitudes daylight changes vastly during the year. How do you cope with that?


All the other critters manage just fine. People can too.


Animals do it doesn't sound like a good reason to me. There is plenty of things humans do and animals don't and vice versa and it's perfectly fine.


The other critters, in general, evolved where they are found.

Humans live in all kinds of environments that are far removed from the East African Rift.


Lots of animals manage by either migrating to the tropics or hibernating through the winter. Neither is viable for a modern human society.


Where I live there are places where the sun doesn't go down for months in the summer and doesn't come up for months in the winter.


I've unsubscribed before only to find myself subscribed to a bunch of similar things instead. Clicking a link confirms your address reaches a person and is therefore worth spamming. Plus the risk of phishing. Plus the dark patterns in the unsubscribe UI.


> Clicking a link confirms your address reaches a person and is therefore worth spamming

I think this is received wisdom that might have been true 20 years ago, but doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.


I use unique email addresses for everything, so I know where emails come from. More than once in the last two years I have unsubscribed from lists using the unsubscribe link, only then to have that email address received emails from new sources.

So for me, it does stand up to scrutiny, it still happens.


I don’t think you’ve proved implication here though; as plausible an explanation is simply that the original source has sold your information on regardless?


It's the timing that makes it suspicious. It's exactly for this reason that I usually don't click the "unsubscribe" link for the first few emails I get. After all, if it's a one-off, why bother?

But I have scripts that count them, and when they get to five I then make the decision. Again, sometimes I continue simply to bin them, but sometimes I click the unsubscribe link. Mostly then they stop and there's no additional problem, but more than once that address has been used on other spam emails, and only after the unsubscribe.

Do you have actual evidence that it doesn't happen? You might, as others have, be arguing that it's not worth the spammers' effort. But setting up a script triggered by an unsubscribe is pretty trivial, and emails can then be sold at a premium, accompanied by a certificate of sorts that the address is valid.

So maybe it is worth their while.


A site about privacy with a cookie approval wall. Couldn't make it up.


Can you use ublock origin on android with edge?


That would a actually be a hell of a competitive advantage. There are a few forks of chromium that have extension support but MS throwing down might push Google to allow them.


I did it before for weight loss, it worked amazingly, but the weight came back on just as easily. It would have to be a permanent lifestyle change, and I'm not convinced that's safe.


What makes you think that it isn't safe? I guess the other question is what makes you sure that another diet is safe?


It’s a really extreme diet. I would be concerned with the fat intake, the cholesterol intake, and limits on certain fruits and vegetables.


Your body makes more cholesterol than you get from diet, it's more complicated than just "cholesterol high = bad".

Also would encourage you to read up on recent literature about fats. The "low fat = healthy" fad hasn't held up for some time.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073510972...

> The recommendation to limit dietary saturated fatty acid (SFA) intake has persisted despite mounting evidence to the contrary. Most recent meta-analyses of randomized trials and observational studies found no beneficial effects of reducing SFA intake on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and total mortality, and instead found protective effects against stroke.


This is true for every diet. If you get gain weight on your current lifestyle, start dieting and go back after you lost it, you'll gain that weight back.

There's no magic pill, if your current lifestyle makes you fat, you need a lifestyle change.


IMO any extremely restrictive diet is not sustainable and therefor not a real, long-term solution for health


Windows because of Windows Updates.


Twitch for not moderating chat.


Android because 2-3 years of updates is far shorter than the lifespan of the hardware.


Amazon Music on Android because every time I open it it shows a full screen ad for their music subscription service.


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