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by emn13 5y ago
But that's what a merge commit is - the diff along the merge commit is what the squashed commit would be; the only thing squashing does is "forget" that the second parent exists (terminology for non-git VCS's may be sl
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by emn13 5y ago
There wasn't a lot of point. Almost nobody needs this; but since everybody wants to do what the hyper-successful mega-scalers are doing...
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by emn13 5y ago
I never understood the point of squashing if you just want the short version, only read the merge commits; if you want the full details to figure out some bug or whatever, then yes, I want those fix typo commits most definitely, because as
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by emn13 5y ago
Yeah, what a hilariously click-baity title; worth a LOL ;-).
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by emn13 5y ago
You mean xl - xr is also a thing, but itself quite old by now, and not really likely to break through any more.
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by emn13 5y ago
However, the attractiveness of privatizing network effects and the simplicity of doing so pretty much killed any hope of blogs being a long term pragmatic solution for self publishing. Time to move on or at least give up until the underlyin
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by emn13 5y ago
I meant populism in the pejorative political sense, not in the sense of popular with rational, self-interested and well-informed voters, say. As in populism: when various actors tout extremely simplistic (and generally bad faith) solutions
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by emn13 5y ago
If you consider that laws tend to be passed to support populism first, business interests second, and national security somewhere well down the hierarchy, and citizens right even lower than that... it's not really that surprising. Only
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by emn13 5y ago
But on that very same wikipedia page you can see it took less than a year for both intel and AMD to release openCL 2.0 drivers, yet nvidia didn't even start evaluating that for years . Then again, it sounds like OpenCL 2.0 required so
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by emn13 5y ago
It sometimes surprises me how people don't seem to see that while all of this is part of a healthy (and seemingly normal) societal change, that it's unfortunate that not just are oldfashioned behaviors shunned, but that merely tal
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by emn13 5y ago
According to Morales, no Viennese authorities boarded to plane, and in any case it's a bit of a moot point - after all Morales may well have cooperated well beyond what was required; after all, he had no reason to prevent transparency
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by emn13 5y ago
Could Evo have landed in Basel? Could he have returned to Moscow? Which airports could he have landed in? To be clear; I'm not saying that the US pressure and European action were anything but petty. But you know; not all pettiness i
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by emn13 5y ago
On the other hand, protecting whistleblowers is essential for honest, transparent government, no matter their crimes. And the US simply does not do that, not even close. Unfortunately, the crimes Snowden revealed may well not have seen the
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by emn13 5y ago
He may well have been heading to the Azores, which are in range to both La Paz and Moscow, and would explain the bits of the story about the Portuguese denying a refueling stop. If Evo Morales wanted to fly back to Moscow, they would have
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by emn13 5y ago
A more plausible Portuguese refueling stop could have been the azores, those are sort of close to half-way between moscow and la paz, and both legs of that journey are well within the 900EX's range.
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by emn13 5y ago
It surely was forced to land... somewhere. However, this plane is capable of crossing the Atlantic, and surely wasn't going to make unnecessary refueling stops. And indeed, they didn't make the implausible claim that they'd
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by emn13 5y ago
That however, is not true; the air traffic control in Belarus directed them to land in Belarus; and scrambled fighter jets to intimidate them into compliance. A kidnapping is not the same thing as denying entry; nor are the victims equall
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by emn13 5y ago
They did not ground the plane. France and Italy (and some less relevant countries) denied usage of their airspace (though the french sorta-kinda dispute that?), then Evo Morales's plane chose to land in Austria instead of turning back.
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by emn13 5y ago
But the plane was not forced to land in the first place. It landed under some flimsy excuse about being unclear how much fuel they had. The plane could have simply flown around. It could have returned.
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by emn13 5y ago
Evo Morales' plane wasn't grounded by anybody ; they chose to land, with a suspiciously convenient reason. Given Evo Morales whole anti-imperialist persona, and how he hyped his support for Snowden (appearing to consider offering
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by emn13 5y ago
Just because a previous intervention was ill advised does not mean a later one was; quite the opposite; you could even consider it taking responsibility for damage caused. It's clearly not disingenuous to include the 2014 intervention
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by emn13 5y ago
This is clearly the wrong question to ask if you want to determine whether interventions were merited. You need to ask: is it likely the situation would have been worse... or better had whatever specific intervention not taken place, and yo
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by emn13 5y ago
Evo Morales's plane was not forced to land in Vienna; it chose to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident What did happen was that countries caved to US pressure to deny even the possibility
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by emn13 5y ago
As an individual, if you spend more in a year than you earn, are you still required to pay taxes? Of course. Whether or not a corporation is profitable is not relevant. A corporation that is consistently loss making may fold slightly more
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by emn13 5y ago
The wikipedia page on the infamous double irish with a dutch sandwich has a considerable list of similar arrangements, and most of those do not involve the dutch tax authority - in fact, Ireland moved to make the tax avoidance possible with
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by emn13 5y ago
Assuming you (or the corporation) have no money - yes. That's exactly how it works for individuals, and how it should work for corporations too; they would need to take a loan (or dip into capital) to cover the 50$ loss, and would the
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by emn13 5y ago
I think framing matters a lot here. I'm sure the dutch were particularly pragmatic in this regard, but fundamentally, the EU/US corporate tax system is based on profits, unlike for individuals, where it's based on revenue (a
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by emn13 5y ago
Focusing on tax compliance is misleading; because tax avoidance is legal. The point is that BEPS techniques allow businesses to have lower than average tax burdens - the fact that they can do it without fraud makes it worse not better, b
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by emn13 5y ago
Because profits are easily gamed (e.g. via loans and IP licenses), the double Irish with a dutch sandwich depended not only on shifting profits (the dutch sandwich part) but also on a low-tax EU state (the double irish part, though that als
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by emn13 5y ago
The real fix is taxing revenue, not profit. The 50 shell companies here are surely useful to Uber, but the core problem here is that Uber is at least on paper non profitable, and therefore doesn't owe taxes. The fact that it plays som

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