Agreed 100% but it is more complicated for online shopping in general as sales tax is largely unknown in many cases until you have billing or shipping address which is not always known upfront.
In the case of this rule though, related to events and short term lodgings, there is a pretty obvious jurisdiction in most cases so allowing a “government charges” exemption is nonsense.
There is already traction here at the state-level. It’s been the law in California since the summer and Minnesota has something similar going into force on Jan 1st.
I expect many more states to follow with their own rules if these federal rules die with the new administration. I expect some noise to be made but wouldn’t be surprised if it survives for some time to avoid more complex state-level that would be more expensive to manage.
I’d recommend keeping the signal digital for as long as possible, so you should go through S/PDIF if you are able to. Not only will this reduce the amount of noise/distortion introduce by extra analog components, it’ll also avoid any potential ADC the amp may be doing if it applies any DSP before outputting, which is extremely common in modern hardware.
It’s Terranigma, it never got a North America release so not well known there. I’ve never played it but I hear it’s pretty good.
This is a NY state criminal trial, the president can only pardon federal crimes. Doesn’t mean shenanigans can’t happen but it’s unlikely to go away the moment Trump gets into office.
Authors say that, in the United States, 99% of fire deaths occur in buildings without sprinklers, making that the key component of a safe building over multiple exits.
Article doesn’t mention that but it does mention that the vast majority of deaths come from buildings without sprinklers, most likely buildings built before a lot of modern building code.
Sprinklers + properly fitted fire doors are probably good enough for such small buildings to provide both suppression and spread prevention.
Looks like it’s pretty easy to add assuming the instance adheres to the policy documented in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/blob/main/src/features/auth/login/data/README.md
Edit: looks likes ToU and Privacy Policy needs to be added to https://vegantheoryclub.org/legal at the bare minimum. Probably worth pinging the instance owner to verify the criteria are met and submit a PR.
I’ve seen a few of these on the road over the past week and was quite confused given their legal status. They are a good sight to see next to the monster SUVs and pickups I see all the time.
Maybe they will start to realize the persistent election cycle is not a good thing. I would love to see a ban on all election campaigning until 90 days before said election but that wouldn’t get past a 1st amendment challenge.
Not surprised, my basement is 58-64F (~14-18C) year round, no matter how hot or cold it is outside.
It’s cheaper if you don’t have constant load as you are only paying for resources you are actively using. Once you have constant load, you are paying a premium for flexibility you don’t need.
For example, I did a cost estimate of porting one of our high volume, high compute services to an event-driven, serverless architecture and it would be literally millions of dollars a month vs $10,000s a month rolling our own solution with EC2 or ECS instances.
Of course, self hosting in our own data center is even cheaper, where we can buy and run new hardware that we can run for years for a fraction of the cost of even the most cost-effective cloud solutions, as long as you have the people to maintain it.
America has thousands of tax jurisdictions, every state, county, city/town can impose their own set of taxes. For the longest time, online shopping was effectively tax-free shopping unless you happened to be based in the same state as the seller. That is largely not the case anymore though as various states passed legislation to enforce tax collections on online sales rather than trust the consumer to volunteer that info when it’s time to fill out tax forms.