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Property taxes are already in place, but they are rather small, and don't apply to primary residences or long term rentals
Re:Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf] on Friday November 14, 2025 @08:43PM (#45934311)
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.
Re:Fake Books on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @03:36AM (#33327350)
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.
Re:Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant on Thursday December 09, 2021 @07:53AM (#29496793)
You can say one is 1st generation immigrant, and other is 2nd gen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant_generations
Re:German Court Rules Against Internet Security Non-Profit Quad9 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @11:48AM (#29405839)
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...

That reads like obvious sarcasm, but the follow-up comments by same author made me doubt it.
Re:Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules on Monday September 13, 2021 @02:07PM (#28514694)
I'd expect entrepreneur to have a freedom to set own rate and market own brand, for example.
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...

Re:The mutation that helps Delta spread on Saturday August 21, 2021 @12:17PM (#28258144)
Bras are often a question of necessity (avoid extra attention to nipples) than a style preference.
Re:I Don’t Want to Be Like a Family with My Co-Workers on Saturday August 21, 2021 @11:56AM (#28257969)
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.
Re:Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO on Thursday July 29, 2021 @04:02PM (#28000754)
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.

Re:Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2013) on Thursday July 29, 2021 @10:16AM (#27996831)
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?
Re:A better business model for video folks on Friday July 09, 2021 @03:43PM (#27787728)
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.

Re:A better business model for video folks on Friday July 09, 2021 @03:39PM (#27787683)
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.
so it just flattened the code by removing parentheses and braces around `using`? Looks like a really simple transformation.
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.
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...

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.
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).
Re:IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @03:11PM (#27439503)
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...

McDonald's probably can be automated enough to do without any burger flippers.
I can't speak for Japan, but in Thailand, Philippines etc. the intent of such girls is to find a long term partner and settle down.
But shouldn't carbon tax equally apply to imported steel? It wouldn't make any sense to only apply it to domestic.
Re:My Favorite One Liners on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:17AM (#27035844)
As a tiling WM user, I virtually never drag & drop between windows. And 98% of time I have maximized browser / editor / terminal.
Re:Coinbase from YC to DPO on Thursday April 15, 2021 @08:30AM (#26819617)
Charlie Shrem (BitInstant) was a bit less lucky, or maybe it was "too early"?
Re:Tesla cars can be bought in Bitcoin on Thursday March 25, 2021 @04:33AM (#26577687)
Are there any Tesla buyers who just "need a car"?
Dataset similar to yours (github data) which you can query using Clickhouse: https://gh.clickhouse.tech/explorer/
You can just try converting it into Parquet with ZSTD compression (and set high enough level). You can even fiddle with dictionary settings: https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.parqu...
Re:Free for Developers on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:34AM (#26247903)
I'm sure that at least .ru and .pl have lots of legitimate users, but likely lots of spammers too.
Re:Free for Developers on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:27AM (#26247858)
> Unixtime - Free API to convert Unixtime to DateTime and vice versa.

Can anyone explain why would you want it as a service?

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