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by skywal_l 4y ago
> I disagree with that frame Let's agree to disagree. Here are the reports: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/emploi/carriere/vie-pro... https://www.lesechos.fr/finance-marches&#x2F
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by skywal_l 4y ago
> Also France is the most taxed country in OCDE Mostly because in France pensions are financed through taxes and managed by the state. If you want to compare apple to apples, you would have to include spending on healthcare, education AN
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by skywal_l 4y ago
> The people don't understand a lot of things. Let's agree to disagree. > That's why representative democracies, voting on the basis of higher level choices, are effective. Working 2 additional years is a pretty high le
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Yeah I am not a big fan of "difficult decisions" against your people and the whole TINA thing [0]. Historically it's not great. Democracy is about responsibility. The people is supposed to assume their decisions and if this i
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by skywal_l 4y ago
There's been report a couple of years ago that Blackrock was in cahoot with the french government to privatize part of the pension system during the previous pension reform plan. The plan was met with strong opposition and was cancelle
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by skywal_l 4y ago
> ridiculing politicians in China is taboo, having people ridicule Xi on MJ would make it unwelcoming to people in China Your entire argument relies on this assumption that I have a hard time to believe. I know close to nothing of Chines
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Nice april fools, but not as good as the "Really" proposal from last year: https://www.kdab.com/cpp23-will-be-really-awesome/
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Don't know why you are downvoted, maybe because you are unclear. Most of the people sent on site to perform tests and surveys are private contractors payed by the train company (Norfolk Southern) [0]. This is 1980 USSR level of corrupt
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by skywal_l 4y ago
The original sentence is: > I hope the tax prep industry is scared out of their minds I am pretty comfortable with an elected government putting the general interest before Inuit's. I am pretty confident that Thomas Jefferson would
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by skywal_l 4y ago
I don't know anything about this and on principle AOC is right in my optionion but Europe has the GDPR and other national legal privacy protection and Tik Tok is still being used in Europe. Do we know if Tik Tok[0] does anything differ
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by skywal_l 4y ago
The article in not about BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) which still has an aggregate GPD a little more than half the G7 one (at least according to a cursory google search) but about BRICS-extended which include a lot
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Worlds FASTEST R/C Tracked Vehicle(youtube.com)
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by skywal_l 4y ago
On this site, 25% of people believe that Fox News is Left/Center Left [0]. I wouldn't give much credit to those polls. [0] https://www.allsides.com/blog/fox-news-bias-rated-right-alls...
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by skywal_l 4y ago
To be fair, Rust also comes with some specific `if` constructs to deal with error management and has the equivalent of zig's `try` with `?`. I also like that their Result object has many methods to express how you want to specifically
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by skywal_l 4y ago
The error management was purposely build so you don't have to pass an additional parameters to know if your call failed or not. If you have to pass a parameter which will be then unused (null, undefined, etc) if no error was raised the
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Indeed, once you officially support a format and it becomes a standard, you have to support it forever. Sunsetting a feature is not that easy on the web. So if for some reason the maintainer of a library used by the browser drops the ball y
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by skywal_l 4y ago
The best move is not to play.
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by skywal_l 4y ago
It is an interesting comment but misleading and irrelevant to the subject. When you pay for your pension (in a country like France) it is not included in the GDP because it is considered a tax. When the government pay their pension to a pen
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by skywal_l 4y ago
> * Currently there is only 1.7 active contributors per retiree! Productivity has been raising continuously for the past 60 years in France. They are producing more wealth than they ever have. The number of people does not matter it&#x27
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by skywal_l 4y ago
I do not know from which country you are from and what you are saying is probably true in your context but this is counterfactual for the situation in France. As I said in another comment, this reform, according to the french government, is
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by skywal_l 4y ago
The system in France is perfectly stable as the government itself proved. Macron and his aides have publicly stated that this reform is not about "saving" the pension system which work actually pretty well. It's about reducin
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Taxes are high because the pension system is managed by the public sector and are financed by taxes. In a country when pension are a matter of personal responsibility, they are paid to private companies. So you see, when a french person pay
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by skywal_l 4y ago
And even though I like to think myself as smart, it's a hell of a lot easier to be first!
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Have a look at Circle from Sean Baxter [0]. It's pretty impressive. [0]: https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle/blob/master/new-circle/...
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by skywal_l 4y ago
What makes you think that if people are stupid enough to elect corrupt government officials they will be smart enough to invest their money wisely? If you trust the financial markets more than the government that you elect, I have a bridge
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by skywal_l 4y ago
That is not correct. Have a look at this 20mn interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngnxmampNBM
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Single-source C++ shaders for graphics and compute with Circle (2021)(youtube.com)
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Single-source C++ shaders for graphics and compute with Circle (2021)(youtube.com)
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by skywal_l 4y ago
> “This is how they’re going to get rid of another 10 or 20,000 people.” Nailed it there.
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by skywal_l 4y ago
It's possible but improbable. When the Andromeda galaxy and the milky collide, there will be comparatively very few actual star collisions because galaxies are mostly made of empty space. There is a much higher chance of being hit by a

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