What makes you think the same can't happen with Porkbun?

How about banning the most deceptive practice that is advertising prices without taxes?

If taxes were uniform across geography (political boundaries) you could argue that, but as it is, taxes are not uniform.

The store is uniform across geography, in the sense that it doesn't move and a system within the store is capable of calculating the taxes. If there was a simple flat "10% sales tax" on every single item in a store, the store could simply print price tags with that included. Marketing materials posted in the store could have the advertised price slapped on a sticker by the store too.

The issue is really that taxes in most places are not uniform in application, not necessarily just because of geography, but also all of the specific carve outs and exceptions and so on that America tends to have, e.g., SNAP and WIC often don't pay sales tax. So its actually hard to know what someone is going to pay without communicating with them personally beforehand.

Wait, not being able to make a picture of yourself is pretty draconian? In this case, the world before smartphones was a living Hell on Earth.

Fun fact: cameras have existed long before cellphones (let alone smart phones)

Its draconian not because selfies are a fundamental need, but because they seem harmless. Rules should be justifiable.

The bloody kid can take up some nice linen canvas, few sticks or charcoal, oil paint, turpentine and bloody paint his selfie! If it was good enough for Caravaggio, it is good enough for you!

It was a hard time for pedophiles. They had to physically walk up to children, hide in bushes, run when the police showed up.

> And jet engines do not have any lower-tier market with underserved demand

They actually do. The segment of small jet-powered (military) drones is rapidly growing and isn't served by the big jet engine manufacturers.

If there was ever a sector where the Chinese ability to cost effectively churn out good enough then drone applications are it.

Getting a handle on how nations are doing for jet powered drone is a bit tricky because of limited data available for what is primarily a military application. But, if we take model aircraft applications as proxy, then my understanding is that the Chinese company Swiwin (est. 2013) is already undercutting everyone else.

We need standards and protocols, not another megacorp inserting itself between people. Micropayments should be part of the HTTP protocol.

I hear ya! But technically http status 402 has set that expectation of micropayments at the http level for quite a long time (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#402) ...but little to no one has done much of anything with it...and so now, this foundation and cloudflare seem to be doing something with it. Whether it will be good or not of course remains to be seen. So, not a new concept, merely a new implementation.

x402 is the standard.

Which RFC number?

I had a look at their website, it relies on every HTTP request creating a separate blockchain transaction, which is a volume of requests that blockchains can't possibly handle - even the layer-2s. It also makes the requests take a long time.

Good point. I've found their website: https://www.x402.org/

Arguing without a common goal (objective) is always about personal beliefs (subjective).

It develops itself once you drink wine frequently enough.

It's not laziness. It's a shift of burden (bullshit checks) to the consumer. That burden is not trivial. It takes time and energy, so it's much better for the society when people don't have to do it often. LLMs (will) increase that burden by orders of magnitude as we're going to experience bullshittification of pretty much everything - entertainment, services, software, gadgets, science & research, healthcare, lawmaking, etc.

I knew which one it was even before clicking.

Benefits of being a billionaire are vastly overstated. To live a happy life, you don't need to be a billionaire.