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down, let's say, a guaranteed $200 million over five years to take the lesser money because the equity might be worth something too if everything worked out? I don't know. Or it could be that the difference between having $100 million and having $300 million isn't that much because in either case if you wanted I guess you could get your own airplane. That to me, that's the dividing line between th…
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Well I love this no tax on tips idea because today I learned that it will include digital content creators. Do you see the opportunity for abuse of the no tax on tips? You know I was wondering are people gonna pretend that they're being tipped instead of paid in just a whole bunch of regular jobs? You know when the plumber comes, I think plumbers are included actually, but suppose the plumber comes and says, "I worked all day. Here's my bill. It's $1 but I would really appreciate a tip of $700." So you know that's going to happen right? You know there's a 100% chance people are going to try to game the system and claim their regular income is tips.
But believe it or not, digital content creators like me, which is everything I do, it's all digital content creation, are specifically listed as included in the no tax on tips. I actually receive tips. Isn't that funny? I receive tips. Now it's not much. I mean it would be less than 1% of my income. Way less. But people actually tip on YouTube or somewhere I get tipped. I think on Locals you could kind of do what they call a tip. Oh there. Yeah there it is. Somebody, Kobe Yard Salad, is tipping $1 so I can see that. Thanks. That was worth a dollar. You got my attention. I appreciate that.
So of course I'm a high-profile person so I'm going to make sure I do everything the right way. I'm not going to test any laws but it looks like it's not testing if it's legitimately a tip. It looks like it's exempt. Won't make much difference to me.
Well you might not know or maybe you did that Google was in court. The Department of Justice was looking at maybe breaking them up because they were a big old monopoly said the government. But Google sort of won in the sense that they will not get broken up but they had to agree to not enter into exclusive agreements. So an aspect of their monopoly, or maybe it doesn't qualify for that technically, but an aspect of it they got to change but they don't have to break up the company. So that's a big deal.
Here's the weirdest part of the story. It's a story about breaking up Google and the judge's last name is Mehta. What are the odds that Mehta would rule on Google?
Apparently according to Breitbart News, Lucas Nolan is writing about this, that there's some European activist who is figuring out how to use AI to do facial recognition on people wearing masks. The AI only has to see 35% of the face and it can identify the person. Now apparently it's being used to identify ICE officers. You know they're masked to avoid being retaliated against. And I'm not sure I believe that. Do you believe the AI can identify somebody reliably by 35% of their face? And if you're wearing a mask why wou
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ld 35% of your face be showing? Because wouldn't you usually have a hat? I mean it's just your eyes right? It's the only thing. So maybe it doesn't work every time or maybe it works for some people. But here's my related question. Was it not a really big thing recently that there were some apps before AI, so these were not AI apps, that would do facial recognition like Clearview was one and it wa…
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