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USB-A, FireWire and that video output converged to Thunderbolt, which also means I can connect several displays to e.g. a 2021 MacBook Pro. The separate headphones and microphone jacks got merged as well. After the whole Touch Bar brouhaha, the card reader and HDMI also made their return.

So the one connector we did lose is Ethernet. Which, to be fair, is a bummer indeed. Luckily, we can easily push 1 Gbps over Wi-Fi nowadays.

That’s the most sensible thing I’ve read all day. I think much of the reasoning for Cargo lockfiles could apply here as well.

Income tax doesn’t do anything to the 1%. You have unrealized gains, and borrow against your assets? You owe zero tax.

A wealth tax, or income tax on yet unrealized gains, would be better. Of course, that comes with its own set of issues. But, I don’t think they are insurmountable.

I went to the HSBC Main Building, rode up the escalator to the retail banking department, and, after some waiting time, asked one exceptionally well dressed clerk for a simple checking account. Mostly, I wanted one because it makes paying for things easier in some specific corner cases. (Fortunately, 95% of the time you’ll be fine with just your Octopus card and any old contactless credit or debit card from wherever you’re from.)

After clarifying I wouldn’t be drawing a HK salary or taking profits from investments in HK securities, the very polite agent let me know that her company wasn’t terribly interested in accommodating me.

I think that’s fair, because there’s like at least half a dozen reasons this business relationship could go bad, and not a lot of upside for the bank. I wasn’t devastated or anything; I was pretty much just curious if it was possible at all, and under which circumstances.

When I went to ICBC in China a week later, I walked out of there with an account and a debit card in my name. Chinese banks just have a lot less abuse to deal with, I’d imagine.

This was me at HSBC in Hong Kong.

Granted, I neither live nor pay taxes there, so… fair

That’s pretty interesting. Do you happen to have any introductory material to that topic?

I mean, it might even have applications outside of running a techno-communist nation state. For example, for designing economic simulation game mechanics.

Auf der einen Seite: “hm, vielleicht werden dann Teslas in den nächsten Monaten günstiger, wenn sie nicht mehr gekauft, oder sogar aktiv abgestoßen werden”.

Auf der anderen Seite wäre es interessant, wenn dann irgendwelche Regierungsorgane und/oder Staatsanwälte darauf hinarbeiten, dass die Firma eines Nazi-Sympathisanten in Deutschland nicht mehr geschäftsfähig ist.

According to my mom, the calcium off her teeth.

“My dentition was so great, but then you came.”

I’d argue this counts as dog-sitting. The dog is around people in every panel, and actual sitting (i.e. doing nothing else) isn’t required.

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Wer regelmäßig größere Mengen an Bargeld zu tatsächlich nutzbarem Guthaben auf einem Bankkonto umwandeln möchte, weiß, dass Banken darauf wenig Bock haben und man im Geschäftsumfeld für diese Dienstleistung ebenfalls Gebühren entrichten muss. Deshalb gibt es ja überhaupt in Supermärkten das Angebot, Bargeld “abzuheben”. Das ist einfach ein guter Deal für den Markt… Natürlich bekommt eine REWE oder Schwarz-Gruppe bessere Konditionen bei der Kartenzahlung als ein SMB-Gastronom, kann dafür aber auch bei Barzahlung nicht so easy die Mehrwertsteuer hinterziehen wie ein Kleinbetrieb.