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ChipChapChopChao t1_j8u0o6k wrote

Same with self-driving cars. Oh my god, who should we blame if there's a car accident?

Meanwhile: In 2020, a total of 35,766 fatal car accidents occurred on roadways across the United States. Another 1,593,390 crashes resulted in injuries and 3,621,681 caused property damage. That means a total of 5,250,837 collisions happened over the course of a single year.

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DanielPhermous t1_j8u05l6 wrote

They are allowed in the US. They want to be in the US. There are 320 million potential customers, most of whom have no idea what a VPN is in the US. You don’t just ignore the worlds third largest and richest country.

It whooshed because it’s an argument that makes little sense in this context. Relying on VPNs is a terrible business decision here.

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Cranky0ldguy t1_j8tvkj3 wrote

"ChatGPT is a robot is a robot con artist, but please continue to read the 25 daily stories BI writes about it."

There's no we here. In all probability, most reasonably educated people understand that it is just software that simulates human responses. The suckers are anyone naive enough to pay any attention at all to Business Insipid.

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voyageur77 t1_j8tuh1e wrote

How does that avoid any taxes? The director has to pay taxes on the rent received from the non-profit, while the non-profit has no use for deducting rent expenses.

Non profits are not allowed to own whatever investments they want and do whatever they want with the money, look up Unrelated Business Taxable Income for example. A charity that is controlled by some rich guy will only qualify as a private foundation instead of a public charity. It is then not allowed to own a large amount of stock, and not allowed to pay high salaries or rent to the family members. It must operate exclusively for charitable purposes, it cannot act to favor the family's business. All the income and spending goes on Form 990 for the IRS to see.

The IRS isn't dumb. The scams you're describing are tax fraud and they will get you audited. There are hundreds of pages of IRS rules against this kind of stuff.

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