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by jusssi 6y ago
Your list has some inaccuracies and omissions. There are also quite significant 14% (e.g. groceries, restaurants) and 10% (some specific services) VAT categories. Most of employer payroll "tax" (~18%) and employee payroll "ta
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by jusssi 6y ago
Public healthcare in general is good, once you get past the first level to the actual specialists. Public dental care sucks. For regular checkups and maintenance, go for a private clinic. Yearly checkups, cleaning, occasional minor patching
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by jusssi 6y ago
Unlimited & uncapped, yes. Excellent, doesn't match my experience. I'm not sure if I've been too rural or not rural enough.
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by jusssi 6y ago
> Instead of taking a huge salary, the CEO would borrow money to pay for everything, using the shares of the company as collateral. This would mean that they essentially pay a "wealth tax" (interest on all their borrowed net wo
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by jusssi 6y ago
> Personally I don't think it is fair or likely healthy in the long term for the society to let vast majority of the income/wealth of wealthy and thus powerful people to go untaxed But this is already happening even with the cu
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by jusssi 6y ago
An alternative to attempting to tax companies, is to tax people. There is no company that would just exist to forever eat money away from the public. Eventually they intend to pay the profits to a real person (either in money, or other bene
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by jusssi 6y ago
With all other things equal, the coffee maker you use seems to make a big difference for drip coffee. Variables I can think of would include flow rate (both on the grounds and into the jug), temperature of water when it drops on the grounds
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by jusssi 6y ago
This is internet; the place where people go to exercise their right to feel offended. Welcome! I read the quoted part as the whole class of people with this auditory issue being binned as truth-is-out-there nutjobs, and decided to offer a b
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by jusssi 6y ago
For me the first google result the Wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum ) which offers several explanations, including actual measurable man-made external sources, a type of tinnitus, and some more rare
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by jusssi 6y ago
> (Don't confuse this with the world wide paranormal hum people claim to hear) Taking this sort of random swipe at at people who experience this is kind of rude. Even though it's pretty much confirmed it's not a real audio
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by jusssi 6y ago
The strategy representation could also be rationalized as the Mars actively positioning their forces near most efficient transfer routes between points of interest. There seems to be relatively few places in the Belt and outside where anyon
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by jusssi 6y ago
> This page doesn't exist > At least not in this universe. Good one. Did they take it down? Edit: looks to be back now.
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by jusssi 6y ago
There's literally no reason to be happy about a mass migration to your neighborhood. Regardless of who the newcomers are (even internal migration in the same country), the target areas always suffer from the social problems the newcome
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by jusssi 6y ago
Feel free to cherry-pick a recent success story from Areva / Framatome to counter mine.
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by jusssi 6y ago
Sure. Just make sure you don't ask the French to build your plants. It's 2020 now and we're still waiting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
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by jusssi 6y ago
You can get it in capsules. That should solve any taste and smell problems.
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by jusssi 6y ago
If the other company can also do the same, why would they piss into their own cereal by reducing their profit? And if the other company is a newcomer looking to gain market share by undercutting, they'll likely find themselves strongar
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by jusssi 6y ago
I believe it's enough to be EU resident to get GDPR protections. So just change your address for a bit.
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by jusssi 6y ago
Doesn't the state already provide the basic living necessities for anyone who demands it? And somehow it's possible to pay for it already?
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by jusssi 6y ago
> I don't think this is true, otherwise we would see a lot more business models where development is largely outsourced for a cheap price and in-house work is mainly solution architects producing technical documents. But we did see
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by jusssi 6y ago
> All of these people who would otherwise have less/no money are now spending that printed money to purchase goods like food, thus driving inflation higher. This assumes those goods are a scarce resource, so that increased consumpti
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by jusssi 6y ago
If the only physical evidence of a crime are a bunch of encrypted bits on someone's iPhone, was there any actual crime?
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by jusssi 6y ago
From my time at the uni, I wish we'd had a proper course that covered Laplace (and the important special cases, e.g. Fourier and z) transforms properly. Instead, the coverage was interspersed to general math courses and to the courses
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by jusssi 6y ago
But the database doesn't need to be the component enforcing those schemas, right? They could validate the schema of a document on storage and retrieval. And keeping the schema version within a document would allow for multiple schema v
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by jusssi 6y ago
So you made me curious and I googled. Not quite most everyone, it rather seems to be regional: under 20% in Northern Europe, 30-60% in rest of Europe, up to 80% in Middle East. Source: https://eje.bioscientifica.com/view&#x2
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by jusssi 6y ago
They are actually quite handy when the only allowed method of submission is via snail mail or fax. Much better than the alternative of printing an empty form and filling it all in by hand.
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by jusssi 6y ago
The problem with high inheritance tax is that it only hurts the rich when it catches them off guard. In otherwise free economy there are so many legal ways to circumvent inheritance tax for the lowest rate tax that is available.
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by jusssi 6y ago
If there's tax progression, everyone's net income does not go up. That UBI money has to come from somewhere, and it comes from taxes. To fund the UBI, taxes will need to increase. So at some threshold level of income, flicking the
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by jusssi 6y ago
> #1 Rules are good Only when combined with "Rules are made to be broken". Nothing is worse than taking an arbitrary set of rules and turning it into a cult religion. Other than that and some of the programming language rules (
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by jusssi 7y ago
Still it might be an improvement over "whoever yells the loudest", which is the current situation. And even though it has multiple interpretations, I only mean that at the technical implementation level. Edit: downvotes because yo

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