Oh yeah, they’re going to want to see some serious reason why you shouldn’t be paying tax.

It’s a lot easier to start an SCorp or an LLC in the US. Starting the corporation’s not horribly expensive either

Since you’re not selling the product, you probably just need to pay the tax on The money they pay you to do the pickup. You need to start it more like a postmates where they ask you to go pick up the order they placed at some shop. But then I suspect you would have timing issues if you have a limited staff. You couldn’t just place the order and then wait a unlimited amount of time for it to show up.

Then there’s that daunting problem of when the store screws up the order. Because they always screw up the order.

But you’re still going to have to deal with labor laws, You’re going to need bonding, a CPA, advertising, presumably a web presence and software maybe across platform cell phone app. These are all things that get easier as the company gets bigger but are rather daunting it small scale.

I guess it’s kind of a tough business to break into. Owning my own car, I could place an order, drive to McDonald’s pick up the food and come back for pennies. Obviously that 30 minutes is my time but it’s time I would spend not making money else wise. Because I’m already spending a couple hundred a month on a car, it’s not worth very much for me to pay someone to bring me food. But at a livable wage, plus someone else’s maintenance, that’s probably $7 to $10, assuming there’s a limited number of orders they can pick up at once in a small area.

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Sure they will!

https://www.fcc.gov/enforcement/orders

They’d be more than happy to fine you 10k for that.

I’m not completely clear on what happens if you don’t pay though…

Hold on, GumpyDuckling… checks clipboard tsk tsk, I see here you’re not wealthy enough to effectively lobby to get us in trouble; I’m afraid that’ll be a $10,000 fine.

about buying dog or cat food a couple times today.

I have both, also, if it’s real, you’d have to match up with an advertiser that really wants your profile.

I search for crap all the time but don’t get ads most of the time, then one time, I look up this one kaz air filter and get nothing but ads for it for a week. hundreds of home depot ads.

Once ai llm catch up with writing credible texts,

We’re there. Current-gen stuff is good enough you’d have no idea. Kind of a catch-22, once it’s that good, there’s no way to tell it’s that :)

Now that AI can write reasonably good-sounding copy, reviews are increasingly unreliable.

One of my weirder hobbies is trying to convince people that the idea that companies are listening to you through your phone’s microphone and serving you targeted ads is a conspiracy theory that isn’t true.

ARS said, that reuters said, that users said.

Someone needs a new hobby. “Proof” from 3 layers of journalists interpreting a case that they themself said never went to court. Trying to use evidence of absence as proof will never win any hearts in a debate.

I didn’t seriously believe it happened either for quite some time because confirmation bias is a bitch. But I’ve seen it happen a few times where it would have to be a seriously unlikely coincidence.

If it was searched for in Google, Facebook, apple, or whatever sure

If it was correlated with locality and time, sure.

You can infer a lot from a few searches but there are times where nothing was searched for and a novel concept came out of conversation and book there’s ads and search completion for it.

Maybe, just maybe, someone settling a lawsuit without being found guilty, doesn’t ACTUALLY mean they’re innocent.

I’m honestly very excited I bought the coral about 2 months ago and it’s just been sitting there. I even loaded proxmox on a laptop with a decent GPU. I’m just so sick of alerts every time headlights flash up in my driveway or a cloud goes over…

The article is an example of selection bias. Prices are up on most groceries, manufacturers are reaping record profits.

Well, coffee had a disease issue and oranges have weather problems so let’s focus on those.

This isn’t to say that the article isn’t being truthful and what they are saying but they are specifically trying to paint a picture to hide corporate greed.

The entirety of Nix configuration is in somewhere between 1 and 3 files depending on how you like your poison.

It’s immutable, so stuff can’t just change on you.

Every change you make is stored into a new configuration and you can roll back to any configuration you’ve ever done with a reboot, so it’s kind of hard to brick it.

Apps can’t just go in and modify your users or your host table or any of the other configs so it’s got an extra layer of security. But then, the package system has more packages than God and is maintained by a million randos with very little oversight.

It has some substantially neat tricks. I moved from one box to another by just doing a fresh install, moving its three configuration files and letting syncthing rebuild my home directory from my other box.

I think, if I were going to use Nix as a home server, I just install all of the services directly on the OS. Updates and configurations for everything would be maintained by Nix itself.

Replace Blue Iris with Frigate + Coral

Set up Immich with proper backups

Set up Peertube

Increase my storage pool to fit 100% of my local backups.

Nearline my critical backups

Move my remote backups from BackBlaze to synctoy untrusted crypt on a pie at work.

Voice dictation censors, getting to the setting is a pain, I use dictation for work a lot so it’s better for you to be imaginative them me to screw up and get in trouble.

In any case, when it cost me $20 more to get the meal through delivery, and f**** over a delivery person I’ve got a lot more incentive to drive 10 minutes to pick up food.

The awful part is, even without tipping the driver the food is drastically more expensive. The restaurant takes an extra cut, The delivery service takes an extra cut. This person’s delivering your food practically for free and the meal is already sit down restaurant price.

There’s a whole working system that exists. All it would have taken is for Google and Microsoft to use it.

How journalists don’t just slide into PGP, I’ll never know.

That was knee-jerk because we can’t do shit about the espionage. As we go down the slippery slope of authoritarianism, their ability to see everything we say will become paramount to them.

They don’t have to touch the budget to make an effect day one. He’s essentially free to fire whoever he wants. When a project don’t see traction, watch SpaceX swoop in to save the day.