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st1ck | 4 months ago | on: Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf]

It's a good opportunity to experience what most people on Earth have to deal with. Please don't take it personally Simon, it's just that your compatriots tend to be the most entitled people I've met.

st1ck | 3 years ago | on: Fake Books

Certainly energy crisis is of political nature, but let's say Germany invested massively in the renewables. It's just not the best source of energy in most places in terms of return on investment. Not to mention the intermittency problem. If they just didn't close their nuclear reactors, Germany would be in much better position to weather off the crisis.

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant

You can say one is 1st generation immigrant, and other is 2nd gen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant_generations

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: German Court Rules Against Internet Security Non-Profit Quad9

Well it seems neighboring Austria will fine unvaccinated residents[1], so it's definitely not a wild take. Second, totalitarian !== Nazi.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-22/vaccine-h...

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: A notable JavaScript developer shamelessly copied one of my most downloaded nod

That reads like obvious sarcasm, but the follow-up comments by same author made me doubt it.

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules

I'd expect entrepreneur to have a freedom to set own rate and market own brand, for example.

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: Berlin’s university canteens go almost meat-free as students prioritise climate

Dairy is almost as bad as beef & lamb in terms of carbon footprint [1][2] - see the charts. It'd make a lot more sense to use chicken or pork.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local [2] https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food?cou...

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: The mutation that helps Delta spread

Bras are often a question of necessity (avoid extra attention to nipples) than a style preference.

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: I Don’t Want to Be Like a Family with My Co-Workers

I've read quite a few stories where American parents kicked their grown-up child out of the house, so I don't know what to make out of it.

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO

For 2, how often do you see Future Perfect Continuous or just Future Perfect anywhere outside of literary works?

I'd put grammar at much lower priority than vocabulary & common phrases, since knowing just a bunch of words (at least in most languages) can get you very far.

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2013)

40 hours of flashcards and practice can cover maybe 90% of your typical tourist conversations for many languages. Where are you from? What is your name? What do you do? How much does it cost? Can you give me a discount?

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: A better business model for video folks

I haven't figured out how I can upload videos to Odysee without buying LBRY (which is also not that trivial).

I guess the easiest way is to ask someone to donate me some, but I don't know anyone on LBRY well enough for this.

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: A better business model for video folks

I didn't even realize you can potentially upload videos on Peertube instance which is not hosted by yourself. I'm totally not surprised this feature is not allowed on most instances.

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams

so it just flattened the code by removing parentheses and braces around `using`? Looks like a really simple transformation.

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: YouTube’s rules are used to silence human rights activists

LBRY is barely decentralized. AFAICT, you can't go and upload videos without either going through verification (and many regions are not allowed) or buying LBRY which are listed only on a few exchanges.

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days

Are you just being sarcastic?

Just a random result from searching for "bolivia coup": https://theintercept.com/2020/07/23/the-u-s-supported-coup-i...

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: Amazon reverses course, expands work-from-home options

You may like "location independent", already used for years. However "remote work" or "working remotely" are a lot more common and don't have pajamas connotation.

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility

At least in Europe, Skyscanner has more airlines than Google Flights, which makes the latter kinda useless if it misses the cheapest/shortest flight. That said, at least GF lists Rynanair & Wizzair now, but through Kiwi.com OTA which I'd rather avoid (direct is cheaper and less issues with changes).

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax

There are some comparisons, like https://thebanks.eu/compare-countries-by-tax-rates

But a lot of details are missing in them. Countries like Romania, Ukraine and Georgia have single-digit % tax for sole proprietors, but IIUC it applies on revenue, not income.

Estonia has 0% corporate tax, but 20% on dividends, which should go well with technique discussed in the OP.

Or for the higher income brackets, Italy has €100k/year flat tax: https://www.economist.com/europe/2020/10/29/a-flat-tax-schem...

st1ck | 4 years ago | on: We’re all paying for someone else’s 4-hour work week, not ours

McDonald's probably can be automated enough to do without any burger flippers.