Comment by thelastgallon
20 hours ago
The simplest explanation is Anthropic hasn't paid the necessary ‘taxes’ to get the required blessings. SpaceX did the right thing: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-03/spacex-ip...
20 hours ago
The simplest explanation is Anthropic hasn't paid the necessary ‘taxes’ to get the required blessings. SpaceX did the right thing: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-03/spacex-ip...
Please don't refer to bribes as taxes. Extremely, extremely counterproductive.
I assume the HN community is smart enough to pick up on “taxes” as meaning bribery, especially when they link an article explaining how SpaceX did that through an IPO mechanism that rewarded the current administration.
This forum is full of libertarians that might view bribes and taxes as synonyms.
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they used quotes. Is nuance dead?
Nuance died with the attention economy
Honestly, I completely missed the quotes on the first read. I agree with the sentiment that crimes should be called out as crimes and not, e.g., ‘oopsies’.
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I mean, there is no nuance to be found here. Let's call a spade a spade.
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It's not taxes, it's "taxes" or "settlement".