1. What goat says. Still need steam to download and install on new/reinstalled PC.
2. I don’t know of any way to filter non DRM games on steam. If I have to research them one by one, that’s a big friction to buying the game.

Sure, but then why pay for them at all, unless you really want to support the devs?

It being legal and convenient is the improved service that can help reduce piracy.

I personally don’t get the fixation on physical media. Like sure, you may put it on the shelf, which can be nice. But realistically digital is the way to go for most people. I just want what GOG is doing, where you gat a real installer that just works without internet connection, without steam/gog installed, same today as in 20 years, even if GOG goes under.

Ah, that makes more sense. I was suspicious of a news site being so good. The search for good news source continues…

Wow, a news site that actually links primary sources like the SCOTUS decision. 10/10 Absolute amaze!

What is this news source? They claim 21 US vassal states but don’t even bother listing them? Utter garbage.

The sad thing is - we COULD produce processed foods designed for our health. We just choose not to.

Yes, mostly.

(Meanwhile we evolved to eat not-ultraprocessed food so obviously that’s best for us.)

Not how this works. Evolution cares about us procreating and spreading our genes, not living long healthy lives. Hence there being plenty animals that die after having children. “We evolved to” just means it won’t kill us quickly, not that it is healthy long term.

Assuming it is implemented well, yes! If the audit paper is a QR code that no one will reasonably check, then it is not worth much.

Exactly this. You are just telling your vote to someone (some machine) that pinkie promises to count it correctly with no asurance whatsoever.

Realistically though, it can be quite a complicated situation. One I’ve written about numerous times before. Servers behind the scenes can be incredibly complex, especially when it comes to games that have DLC and micro-transactions. And then you have to add to that the licensing on music and other things. Plus various other things I’m not thinking of right now

Holy lazy writing Batman!

As if this all wasn’t adressed by SKG 100 times before. Did the author never hear about SKG before writing this article?

So in the case of the emails, where there is plenty of context, it’s not an issue. Right?

You are absolutely right. But you forgot a tiny detail, we are talking about the US of A. Which law there is not stupid beyond measure?

This doesn’t stop real estate being valued for tax purposes. Use the same approach - proxy valuations.

There is pretty reasonable way to value real estate. Hard to do objective valuation of a company whose value is mostly hype anyway. Also, real estate value estimations are riddled with corruption in most places.

Yeah, that would just be nationalisation. After 5 years the government would own 90% of all businesses.

Re-read the comments up the thread, I asked about the same thing. It is not ment to be yearly.

Average price over the last 30 days.

There are so many issues with this idk where to start. Maybe with: not all stock given as compensation are publicly traded yet. There may be no average price yet when they vest.

PS: Also, the original comment proposes taking 40% of the shares, not monetary equivalent which I originally misunderstood as well. So neither of our comments is really rellevant.

The tax deductions are meant to offset the tax on the loan. You don’t get your loans taxed as income so you don’t get full deduction on repayment. They wouldn’t pay less than you overall in my proposal.

That makes sense if you have a balanced government budget or a surplus. But if you are running a deficit, you want cash.

Ok, I see what you mean, but now you have government holding stocks with 0 idea if they should cash out or hold. Both cases could result in the government loosing out on tax money.

If government immediately sells, and you hold until the stocks are 10x the value, the governmwnt lost out on 90% of the money.

If government holds and you sell, the government stocks can become worthless (e.g. company goes bankrupt) and again lose out on tax money. Plus government needs money in the budget, not stocks.

This is why you usually tax the income when you sell the shares. The loophole is taking a loan against those shares, but if you ask me, the answer is to tax the loan money and make repayments tax deductible. The loan is basically getting the money from selling shares early, so it should be taxed when you get it.

I think that doesn’t work well due to price fluctuations of the stocks and avoiding double taxing, but I don’t understand stock options and current tax laws enough to be confident about that.

Personal loans against business assets should be taxed. The repayments can then be tax deductible so they are not double taxed. Without taxing these loans, it just creates a tax loophole where you avoid income tax.

As for company prices being inflated, to some extent, who cares? As long as they don’t get a bailuot when the bubble pops, it’s the investors issue.

One time? Every year?