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Over the past week I wasted about an hour of my time dealing with my fiat bank's chatbot, which told me to file a chargeback and then immediately rejected it. It also needlessly blocked and replaced my card. And of course it fake apologized for all of that. To add insult to injury, it made me talk to the even dumber chatbot of another company. This was over €4, but I wasn't sure if the card was compromised because it kept giving me incorrect advice. Eventually I figured out it wasn't.

CAN WE AT LEAST REVIEW A COUPLE OF LINES OF CODE?

waxwing @waxwing · 4d
As both users and developers, we're rapidly approaching the point where we have to decide 'is it OK for the software I use for serious things (health, money, privacy etc.) was not fully vetted or fully understood, line-by-line, by expert humans.' Tests were always a vital part o Show more
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Sjors Provoost · 4d
The Apocalypse of Incompetence has been in progress for a long time, but AI is accelerating it. * = Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance already complained about it
waxwing · 4d
I honestly think that's orthogonal to what I'm talking about. What you're talking about is a very serious problem of vastly expanding automation of real world interaction. I have experienced similar. I'm talking about pure software. I think it's only the latter where AI has such an advantage that i...
Karnage · 3d
Have your clanker talk to them 😆
hazzvaan · 3d
Shrinkflation in progress
Sjors Provoost · 1w
There's a lot crypto investors out there, but they're not going to realize what this law means until they file their 2028 tax return somewhere in 2029.
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At which point presumably some of them will go to court, which could take many years. They won't get their money back until the late 2030'ies (you don't get to defer tax payment).

I suspect they'll eventually win for the same reasons the current system got shot down in court: it's discriminatory. E.g. someone who buys an ETF is subject to realized capital gains, but if you an exchange it's unrealized gains. And unrealized gains means you're forced to sell assets to pay taxes.
Sjors Provoost · 1w
At which point presumably some of them will go to court, which could take many years. They won't get their money back until the late 2030'ies (you don't get to defer tax payment). I suspect they'll eventually win for the same reasons the current system got shot down in court: it's discriminatory. E...
Sjors Provoost · 1w
There's a lot crypto investors out there, but they're not going to realize what this law means until they file their 2028 tax return somewhere in 2029.
Sjors Provoost · 1w
The Dutch unrealized capital gains tax saga continues... #box3 The coalition's latest proposal is to exempt 90% of the tax base from this madness, with regular capital gains tax. Guess what's in the r...
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As it stands, Bitcoin, gold and a few other things will be subject to unrealized capital gains tax from 2028 until at least 2031, after which a (potential) new law switches everything to (regular, realized) capital gains. Or not, if the coalition implodes before it manages to pass that law and the next coaltion is left-wing, or just "needs" the money and doesn't care too much about crypto and precious metals investors.

We should have more clarity in early November.

Relevant letter: https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/detail?id=2026Z20444&did=2026D47255
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Sjors Provoost · 1w
The strongest lobbies are real estate, familiy business, startups and regular stock brokers. Those all got what they want.
YODL · 1w
Had a feeling. 😔
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The Dutch unrealized capital gains tax saga continues... #box3
The coalition's latest proposal is to exempt 90% of the tax base from this madness, with regular capital gains tax. Guess what's in the remaining 10%?
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Sjors Provoost · 1w
As it stands, Bitcoin, gold and a few other things will be subject to unrealized capital gains tax from 2028 until at least 2031, after which a (potential) new law switches everything to (regular, realized) capital gains. Or not, if the coalition implodes before it manages to pass that law and the n...