mitsakos

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by mitsakos 7y ago
A contributing factor could also be that because for many in the Apple world, hardware goes in tandem with the software, it follows the natural cycle of hardware refresh. Sure every now and then someone finds that an app no longer works, bu
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by mitsakos 7y ago
> If the taxes aren't bearable or just or aren't spent wisely, then they should vote accordingly at the next elections. There's a number of assumptions in that sentence that I 'd like to challenge: a) That people act
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by mitsakos 7y ago
> the only solution is to enforce bans against illegal transactions And that has happened (for a very very long time now). The key problem being "enforce". Enforcing works up to a point and there is always the need for a cooper
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by mitsakos 7y ago
No, that's not true. The reason that was done was because of a regulation that forced the electrical grid to treat church grid connection in an expedited manner. So one would built a house with a tiny church and would file papers for e
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by mitsakos 7y ago
All of these have happened, in some degree at least. And yet it's still a mess. e.g. 1) That panel exists in a variety of forms. The problem is, how do you nicely estimate land value in an economy were real estate transactions are few
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by mitsakos 7y ago
The article btw is really really shady. Barely at the beginning of it: "The scheme is a radical attempt to cast some light on Greece's huge shadow economy, the world's largest" and let's look at https://w
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by mitsakos 7y ago
The argument that corruption is very high on Greece and hence people prefer to not pay taxes makes intuitively sense but it's probably also (at least partly) confirmation bias. Note that per https://www.u4.no/publicatio
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by mitsakos 7y ago
> The way I see it is that the government wants Greek nationals to use electronic payments for at least 30% of their expenses That does not compute. How does one prove that 30% of their expenses were done using electronic payments? Submi
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by mitsakos 7y ago
Every single day. Logged in > 30 channels and talking to >20 people every day. It's a prereq for work anyway (more than half the company is actually on IRC). I also vastly prefer it to other solutions (yes, I tried slack, matrix,