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The worst part of this is that now everybody who writes comments on Hacker News will violently insist that every company and individual in the world has to pay this tax and that you'll be in big trouble if you don't.

I've already had enough endless discussions with people saying that the US government will jail and fine US individuals on the behalf of France and Germany if they don't put cookie banners on their websites...

If you want a good servant for a cheap price, you will only find it in a non-industrialized country. In an industrialized nation, all labour is gobbled up by industrially organized employment, because your average labourer produces hundreds of times more value in such employment compared to non-industrial employment. And in this includes restaurants for your food.

There's a reason why supermarkets went from having different counters for asking for your stuff to having you pick out your stuff yourself.

You can't drown somebody with a gun either.

There's no better written communication tool than email. It's one of the most successful inventions of the 20th century.

If you are developing iPhone apps, perhaps it would be reasonable that you buy an iPhone?

And a web browser.

Yes, but that could change. The hardware itself would certainly be capable. And a POS system can also be cloud based, although not ideal. For hotels, these systems are already cloud based, but then the display is a bit small instead.

Any person or business actually needing 24gb of RAM in a Mac is doing cutting edge computing work and is making 3 grand of revenue at least per day.

Small business POS system/register?

It's incredibly easy to see the difference. Cell phones used to have low-DPI displays, and I don't think you can find anybody who wouldn't be able to easily see the difference.

Retina displays have been around for more than 10 years now and are just much better than low-DPI displays. Especially for text and user interfaces. For movies or gaming it doesn't matter so much.

They would do that as part of their journalistic investigations. Just like a private eye would also track people. The difference is motive.

But it's a big grey zone between some clear cut "black" and "white" cases. I don't know if prosecutors are using or will use the fact of surveilling law enforcement as a crime itself or as evidence for intent to commit other crimes.

That's why drowning somebody or attempting to drown somebody is a crime. Just like using fireworks as a weapon against somebody.

> and business owners no choice but to keep hiring them.

Um?

No, it's not. Which newspaper or news network would continuously track the physical location of cops - or of anybody for that matter?

That would be the MacOS app ecosystem, I'd say. And by purchasing (or selling) quality apps for a fair price, we contribute to maintain that watering hole.