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by stefano 7y ago
Yes, it was introduced in late 2018 and came into effect this year. It's basically an extension of an equally bad tax cut that was previously reserved to people earning less than 30k. Given the higher limit, it makes the jump above tha
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by stefano 7y ago
A politician wanted votes. To get votes, you need to lower taxes. But that requires money, which there isn't much to go around. So they picked a niche of people (freelancers earning less than 65k) and gave them a tax cut. Making it pro
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by stefano 7y ago
I'm not OP, but he's referring to the so-called "flat tax" for freelancers.
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by stefano 7y ago
The limit is 65k. You pay 25% to the mandatory pension fund. Of the remaining, they assume 22% of expenses and tax you 15% on what's left. So you take home ~42k net after taxes. If he were to earn 65.001 euros, he'd take home ~32k
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by stefano 7y ago
Where's the irony?
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by stefano 7y ago
Yup. It's a 1080p monitor running at 1080p. I tried all the other available (non native) resolutions and fonts looked blurry in all of them.
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by stefano 7y ago
Thanks, but I tried that some time ago. It didn't make much of a difference.
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by stefano 7y ago
I tried. It didn't help, the root issue is that Apple removed anti-aliasing, which is the only thing that can make fonts look readable on a 1080p resolution display. An old MacBook running OSX 10.6 looks perfectly fine on my external m
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by stefano 7y ago
Thanks, but I already tried that in the past. I didn't notice any difference. Maybe it looks decent if you have a screen with high enough resolution, but ony my 1080p screen it still looks bad.
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by stefano 7y ago
I had the same problem. I ended up downloading the xip archive from the developers center and installing that, bypassing the app store.
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by stefano 7y ago
Regarding the first point, I had to give up on using an external monitor because fonts look blurry and give me a headache after a while. The same monitor with Windows and Linux shows perfectly fine fonts. I tried all sort of incantations fo
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by stefano 7y ago
The London stock exchange would be an obvious candidate.
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by stefano 7y ago
Swift. Automatic reference counting still requires more developer attention (to break reference cycles) than a GC, but is still easy to get right. Too bad that outside of iOS development it's still unusable.
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by stefano 7y ago
France and Germany are sovereign states, not businesses.
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by stefano 7y ago
Did they improve the download size?
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by stefano 7y ago
> That said, a lot of people say JavaScript is bad. And yet this language is one of the most popular one in the world. The post is about the fact that just because something is popular, it doesn't necessarily mean it's good. Th
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by stefano 7y ago
Most likely, they're both going to lose.
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by stefano 7y ago
> reinventing research papers from 20+ years ago The first(?) paper on type classes, "Parametric overloading in polymorphic programming languages", is from 1988, so they're reinventing things from at least 31 years ago. I
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by stefano 7y ago
> helps reveal its simple and elegant semantics JS semantics are neither simple nor elegant. There's a reason there are whole books dedicated to avoiding certain parts of the language, and it's not the syntax. For example, the
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by stefano 7y ago
Does anyone here have experience on using Rust for shared business logic between Android and iOS? It's something I'm considering but it seems there isn't a lot of documentation around it.
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by stefano 7y ago
> wasted space inside the allocator itself If you're only allocating fixed-size cons cells, you won't run into fragmentation issues.
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by stefano 7y ago
That privacy seems a bit overboard though. This is fine if a user can create his account directly inside the app. But it's not very clear how to support a workflow where you have an organization with multiple users authorized by an adm
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by stefano 7y ago
How does authorization (as opposed to authentication) work with apple sign in? With Google sign in you get an actual email that can be pre-authorized on the server. With this, the server only has a phony email to work with, so how can you m
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by stefano 7y ago
It's pushing chinese firms to create an Android competitor. In the long term, this might hurt Google a lot.
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by stefano 7y ago
You'd think people would learn from the 2to3 debacle.
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by stefano 7y ago
> Surelly with a bit of backward compatibility sacrificed like 2 vs 3. After 10 years, the 2to3 transition is still ongoing, and lots of companies will be dealing with python2 code for a long, long time. Breaking backward compatibility w
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by stefano 7y ago
> The primary problem was Java developers compiling code where they had no idea what the output was doing Wasn't this the same argument made back in the day against C when comparing it to assembly?
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by stefano 7y ago
But it's harder to install this, import it, and add a decorator than it is to type "breakpoint()".
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by stefano 8y ago
Don't the Django ORM and Django Admin do the same thing?
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by stefano 8y ago
Boilerplate is complexity.

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