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by toyg 2y ago
It should be said that loophole was supposedly closed in 2015, after prolonged pressure on Ireland and the Netherlands.
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by toyg 2y ago
> any company in existence now needs a lawyer who understands the Treaty of Lisbon! Hyperbole makes you look hysteric. The reality is that every other company is doing just fine, paying the tax they owe. The only companies who have to
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by toyg 2y ago
EU law supercedes national law. Ireland can legislate as much as they want, but if they ignore ECJ judgements stating that their laws are incompatible with EU legislation, they will be fined.
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by toyg 2y ago
> It certainly makes me question whether or not I want to ever expand into the EU. Well, you are free to ignore one of the biggest markets on the planet. I'm sure your European competitors will enjoy filling your niche.
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by toyg 2y ago
Correct. This said, if the incentives are tailored a bit too much (i.e. there is clearly only one company that satisfies the prerequisites), it could be challenged as state aid. You still need someone to start the challenge though - either
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by toyg 2y ago
After some initial mistakes, the Soviet system did provide basic needs. It was inefficient, badly led, conservative, repressive, ultimately undemocratic, and often produced very mediocre output (crappy houses, etc), but it ensured that ever
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by toyg 2y ago
> The UK summer vacation (summer holiday in British English) is significantly shorter than in other countries This is compensated by "half-term" weeks, where schools close in the middle of a semester, so in total there is no
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by toyg 2y ago
They were legally forbidden from going the Embrace-Extend-Extinguish route there, so they had to build their own version from scratch. C# exists because J++ couldn't.
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by toyg 2y ago
Nobody builds a centralized app and then successfully decentralizes it. Nobody. If you want a decentralized network, you build a decentralized network - and then centralize it to the minimum degree necessary for it to actually work and scal
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by toyg 2y ago
.Net is "Microsoft Java". Like Java it was designed to do everything, but as desktop development died (and mobile development was locked down by Apple and Google, limiting it to their corporate languages), it pivoted towards netwo
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by toyg 2y ago
UAE, not Saudi.
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by toyg 2y ago
Can't wait to share sweaty goggles with "Wet" Joe, who last washed his face for his wedding in 2006.
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by toyg 2y ago
Branding be branding, yo.
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by toyg 2y ago
It has always been, but for 20 years Microsoft used it as a way to maintain lock-in at the OS level. They've now abandoned that strategy, and instead they use it as a way to maintain lock-in at the IAAS/PAAS level (Azure).
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by toyg 2y ago
> Kotlin has replaced Java as C#'s largest competitor Er, I don't think this assertion is backed by data. See for example https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html Is Kotlin the most "active", "hot&quot
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by toyg 2y ago
There is probably a historical element. Bricklayers and other tradesmen have traditionally been drinking beer (or cheap, watered-down wine) at lunchtime throughout Europe for centuries, since it was cheap, refreshing, and packing calories;
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by toyg 2y ago
The whole point of .NET-Core was to remove all the (largely desktop-oriented) platform-specific dependencies that tied it to Windows, so you could run server-oriented .net programs on Linux. So no, afaik you can't simply run GUI apps b
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by toyg 2y ago
> you will get what most people look for in your location, in your case probably sex, violence, politics, memes, ragebait... The feed should adapt to your tastes That's a bit of a metaphor for the current world, isn't it? Out
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by toyg 2y ago
Instead I see "Something went wrong" and underneath "Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com". I guess it must be great to be tracked by Elon Musk's minions in exchange
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by toyg 2y ago
Genital-censorship laws in Japan are a fig leaf, barely ever upheld, afaik. They are absolutely more relaxed with the type and amount of content getting published, and have been for a very long time. The likes of Miguel Angel Martin in Japa
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by toyg 2y ago
Er, the killer apps were word-processing and spreadsheets, dude. The Internet is nice, but the PC Revolution happened long before it.
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by toyg 2y ago
Happens to me all the time. The company I work for has 1300 employees, and what I do means going cross-team pretty often, talking to people that I might have met once or twice a year ago. I speak to customer teams that pack consultants I mi
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by toyg 2y ago
LinkedIn users volunteer their information to connected people. There is nothing wrong with that.
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by toyg 2y ago
Literally: it's an ever-so-slightly more immersive Assassin Creed 2. I mean, great, but worth spending a grand? Probably not.
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by toyg 2y ago
I should say that that type of forced context switching could be very irritating too. It was a joyous time when laptops started booting in seconds... This said, you can and should slow it down if you feel overwhelmed, generally speaking. Us
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by toyg 2y ago
Everything was slower back then; we just worked at a slower pace and "disconnected". Turn on the PC, and go make coffee; start a build, and go over notes and comments again; start a download, and clean up the desk or go for a drin
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by toyg 2y ago
Apple targets developers of software for Apple platforms , who will always be able to operate (obviously). Everyone else is not a priority.
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by toyg 2y ago
The harsh reality is that this sort of tooling requires a lot of publicity to be successful. Nobody is going to try an unknown package manager from some random developer, but people will enthusiastically adopt anything pushed by a "fam
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by toyg 2y ago
You'll have to define "we all". Politically, most discourse that matters still flows through Facebook and Twitter/X, and will likely continue to do so until alternatives emerge. Once knowledge moved to the online world,
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by toyg 2y ago
The LSD of this century is social networks. People now see reality through them, with distortions and all.

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