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by riffraff 1y ago
Definitely cultural: Italy has a big tradition of merchants evading taxes, and there have been multiple steps over the year to mandate card payments cause those imply the merchant will pay taxes. So if you are a law abiding citizen you can
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by riffraff 1y ago
On European airlines I'm pretty sure you can buy with debit cards too.
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by riffraff 1y ago
technically a monarch: Pope Francis, famously kept his silver cross and made a big contrast with the more grandiose style of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI.
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by riffraff 1y ago
I think many ORMs can solve (some of) this these days. e.g. for ActiveRecord there's ar_lazy_preloader[0] or goldiloader[1] which fix many N+1s by keeping track of a context: you load a set of User in one go, and when you do user.posts
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by riffraff 1y ago
Italy implemented a wealth tax on investments (savings account, stocks, bonds) more than years ago, and it doesn't seem to have caused any loss in revenue. They tend to be removed because the richer people convince the poor they need t
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by riffraff 1y ago
Switzerland does have a wealth tax[0]. The latest destination for some rich foreigners is Italy due to the lump sum tax on foreign income (200k) for the first 10 years of moving there. But Italy also has a 2‰ wealth tax since 2013 or so. Al
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by riffraff 1y ago
that's fair, thanks for answering.
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by riffraff 1y ago
Literally: the democrats also proposed a plan that the republicans refused.
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by riffraff 1y ago
Ooooh that's why nimrod is an insult! Now it makes sense! Thank you! Btw, let me add my personal pet peeve: "egregiously" somehow went from meaning "very good" to mean "very bad" in American English. In my
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by riffraff 1y ago
> That's the only way to properly conform to jurisdiction, amirite? No, you're not? It's pretty obvious that if you try to, say, sell illegal drugs to my citizens, I as a country will come after you even if it's legal
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by riffraff 1y ago
Neat! I don't love newsletters though, any chance you may be publishing this using ActivityPub too? (Sorry if this sounds entitled, it's a genuine "do you have plans" question)
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by riffraff 1y ago
Neat idea, but how does that work? Can an app limit other apps ? I didn't know it was possible.
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by riffraff 1y ago
As someone who's dealt with this and know more people, good luck. You're doing God's work, pun intended.
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by riffraff 1y ago
isn't surely 2 sillables? That's how the "Don't call me Shirley" joke works in "Airplane!"
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by riffraff 1y ago
AFAICT metric sillables basically count the vowel sounds so service is two and chocolate is two or thre: "ser-vis" (ˈsɜːvɪs) and "chok-lait" or "cho-ko-lait" (ˈʧɔklət or ˈʧɔkolət).
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by riffraff 1y ago
to be frank, it reads like Rottingham[0] and it made me giggle a bit: "King illegal forest to pig wild kill in it a is!" [0] https://youtu.be/da4OEyLinRo?t=38
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by riffraff 1y ago
> The Musk Twitter massacre taught everybody a lesson Well, depends on which lesson. "The company can still run" or "we actually won't build anything new for years". Twitter released a couple things that were bei
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by riffraff 1y ago
quicksort, e.g. the haskell[0] example is quite well known. Problem is, it's not real since it doesn't work in place defeating the whole point. [0] https://qnikst.github.io/posts/2020-10-18-quicksort.html
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by riffraff 1y ago
Tribunals. But notice that a possible outcome here is that _Cloudflare_ gets mandated by the same tribunals to perform the blocking of sport streaming sites. This is what's happening in Italy, for example.
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by riffraff 1y ago
also football can be played in basically any number, from 1:1 to 11:11, which means you can go out with a ball, meet one other kid and play, and random other kids can just join in. I've literally seen kids unable to speak with each oth
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by riffraff 1y ago
the theory was that YT has pretty good VPN detection. But they stopped doing it immediately, so probably that didn't work out.
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by riffraff 1y ago
since when a market economy need to have no regulation? Market economies are contrasted with planned economies, i.e. how prices are determined and production allocated, and the EU most decidedly is not that.
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by riffraff 1y ago
no, like there's nothing preventing you from getting porn via USENET. This has always been a "best effort" initiative that is unlikely to stop "dedicated" users.
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by riffraff 1y ago
How's the tooling story with Scala these days? I played with it a long time ago and the IDE (eclipse plugin?) was a bit of a mess, sbt was prone to weird issues and lock ups and the compiler was pretty slow. Very fun language tho!
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by riffraff 1y ago
Well, sometimes innovation does destroy jobs, and people have to adapt to new ones. The plough didn't make everyone poor, but people working in agriculture these days are a tiny percentage of the population compared to the majority 150
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by riffraff 1y ago
Perhaps the people who pick HTML as "what programming language do you use" are a small number :)
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by riffraff 1y ago
He's voicedly MAGA-adjacent, has often written against the evils of multiculturalism and how happy he was about Trump winning the elections. I don't think he's a white supremacist, but it is understandable that some people do
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by riffraff 1y ago
The same people who created ruby central write the first versions of rubygems iirc (David Black , Chad Fowlernetc). But that was a long time ago and I'm not sure it matters to the current kerfuffle.
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by riffraff 1y ago
the US themselves are also propping up multiple companies for space deliveries. It's one of those things where it's important to have alternatives.

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