@cmuratori But making that work requires *abolishing the local laws*. Removing the ability to set taxes would be a major loss of sovereignty
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Replying to @erincandescent
@oshepherd Not at all. Imagine a website called "20questionseuvat.whatever". Business just go there and classify their stuff.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@oshepherd The thing asks 20 questions and it navigates down to some 32-bit code, right. And it's just all the tax laws amalgamated.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@oshepherd I think every business would be fine doing that once, say, every year. Then local laws can all get uploaded there.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @cmuratori
@cmuratori And what line of questioning, returning to my example, determines that Jaffa Cakes are sometimes cake sometimes biscuit?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @erincandescent
@cmuratori This isn't even trivial with national law alone - it actually took a court case to resolve this one!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @erincandescent
@oshepherd Again, so what are the businesses supposed to do, then? What's Amazon supposed to do if you _can't_ know what something is?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@oshepherd The problem doesn't go away just because you say "let a big business figure it out"!2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@cmuratori They probably figure it out by having individual national categories...2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @erincandescent
@cmuratori Like, if this is so easy, why has no payment processor done this?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@oshepherd Because they have no incentive to! Until _one_ of them did it, no other one has to.
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Replying to @cmuratori
@oshepherd That's why the law should require it, because then it'd get built, and the problem would be solved.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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