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I dont think thats what software evangelist mean ^^

This also happened in Turkey on a massive scale. When the government implemented the 11-digit national identity numbers for the first time in early 2000s, there have been thousands of cases where the same ID number was given to the multiple people, and also many other citizens with no ID number.

Some reported that it was due to the ID number field in database not being a primary/unique key in database. The leaked Turkish citizenship database also confirms this, although we don't know if that leak reflects the original database structure.

In addition, I like the way Estonian ID numbers were designed:

- 1st digit for gender at birth + century born (1,2,3,4,5 or 6)

- Next 6 digits are birth date in YYMMDD format

- Next 3 digits are the incremental birth order within the same category (same day/gender)

- Last 1 digit is checksum

As a resident in Estonia, I believe you're talking about the basic exemption of 6000 euros [0]. The rest is as you said.

Also if you're married, this amount is combined between spouses. And for some things like 3rd pillar unemployment funds, tuition fees and donations, we get paid 20% back regardless of our income previous year. Some years I got around 500-1000 euros as a tax return, but when I checked this month (for 2022), it was 0, as I didn't have any of these exceptions last year.

[0]: https://www.emta.ee/en/private-client/calculation-2022-basic...

Free public travel is only for Tallinn residents (main address registered inside Tallinn city borders).

I think there's also free public travel for tourists with cars if they park their car (in certain places or under certain circumstances).

There are 2 ways to find a company in Estonia through E-residency:

1- Create it yourself (using your E-residency and various e-services)

2- Use a service provider that handles all the steps. Note that this method may have some limitations. Service providers can be found at marketplace[6]

For the method 1, here are the costs:

Finding company:

- Creating a sole-proprietor company (FIE): 20 euros, one time [1]

- or, Creating a limited company (OU): 200 euros, one time [2]

Accounting:

- Using Estonia's e-financials (yourself): free for first year, 5 euros starting next year [3]

- or, using an accounting company. I used to pay once a year hourly rate for end of year taxation (R-Form) ~60euros a year. See marketplace [4] for other accounting companies.

Other requirements:

- An Estonian contact address is required to find a company. There are companies providing this service in E-residency Marketplace[5]. Last I checked it was from 5euros/month.

- An Estonian contact person, if you are not a resident of Estonia. Same E-residency Marketplace[5] has some service providers.

[1]: https://www.eesti.ee/en/doing-business/establishing-a-compan...? [2]: https://www.eesti.ee/en/doing-business/establishing-a-compan... [3]: https://www.rik.ee/en/e-financials/service-fee-0 [4]: https://marketplace.e-resident.gov.ee/?services=19 [5]: https://marketplace.e-resident.gov.ee/?services=4 [6]: https://marketplace.e-resident.gov.ee/

Feel free to check out market prices directly, from the following top supermarket chains' websites:

https://www.prismamarket.ee/products | https://www.rimi.ee/epood/en | https://www.barbora.ee/ | https://www.selver.ee/ (no English)

AFAIK the only 2 local requirements to find a company in Estonia are:

  - Address in Estonia
  - A contact person from Estonia (resident or citizen)

Both of these services could be rented separately or together by various service provides. Accreditated ones are listed at E-residency's website.

I moved to Estonia 6 years ago and living here ever since. I also helped many friends and expats to move here or get an e-residency, AMA.

As for the experience, downs:

  - Cold+wind.. Not as cold as Reykjavik or as windy as Helsinki, but when these get together in Estonia, it's the worst.
  - I definetely miss socializing, especially when compared to countries like Spain or UK. Less interaction makes a less pleasant day and even less pleasant hospital experience.
  - As Estonian's doesn't socialize or talk much, it's much harder to learn the language by practicing-living here
  - Many brands or services not here. Estonia is usually one of the last countries in EU to receive some brands or services. Ie Apple products, official Apple store, HBO+. 
  - Also not many options for global companies to work
  - Travel options are limited. Flights are longer, more expensive and less frequent. 
  - Maybe few other things that I cannot remember atm

Everything else is either good, great or amazing, but mainly:

  - Digital mindset and almost non-existent bureaucracy. Both gov and private e-services very fast, transparent, digital, accessible. So far, I've done many I've applied for a bank account, multiple university applications and admissions, residency permit and driving licenses renewals, employment and rental contracts etc. 
  - Nature and silence, even in the middle of the city. 
  - Trust in the government, police and legal system

I think it's not related to (Estonia's) E-residency program, but requirements by the EU to physically verify non-EU citizen bank account owners.

Similarly, (non-eu) expats who moved to Estonia with a D-visa but have not received their residency permits yet cannot get a bank account until they receive so.

When I look at your messages in this thread, to me it sounds like you're doing deliberate anti-Estonia propaganda?

Btw AFAIK there's only 1 e-embassy (called a Data Embassy) atm. https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-governance/data-embassy/

On a side note, I think it's kind of sad that we still haven't figure out (or standardized) a way to prevent these two very common problems.

Any will eventually die.

I think for the same reason Vue.js is more popular in China than almost anywhere else. Chinese was also the only non-English docs language at the beginning.

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Not OP, but I've been using NextDNS [1] (a similar pi-hole like setup) on my phone and in its analytics there's a GAFAM Dominance graph.

This graph [2] isn't mine but it looks similar to my results.

[1]: https://nextdns.io [2]: https://twitter.com/NextDNS/status/1159804929680257024

I used to use Guake for a long time, then when I was looking for an alternative with less dependencies, I found Tilda (https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda), which is very similar.

I have been using an email address with .cat TLD on the side for a year and I've only had a handful of times where I couldn't sign up for a new account because email was not marked as valid. Ps: Email provider is a known hosting/domain provider.

https://archive.ph/912r6 if you're also receiving "Sorry, this content is not available in your region."

Non-paywall version: https://archive.ph/RLbRP

Would an "existence fallacy" predate this?

Not OP, but I think the question is not about the thing you fully understand, instead, amongst the things you know/understand, which one is the most complex compared to the others.

I wouldn't go that far, but I understand where this comes from. To some level and in some ways, I can confidently say I understand where I live (Tallinn, Estonia) more than most of my friends.

I moved here almost 6 years ago and I have been enthusiastically trying to follow and attend events, follow news, travel inside the country, discover new restaurants/bars/museums/activities as much as I can. As a result, many of my local friends have told me that they have never been to a city or venue that I mentioned.

OTOH, as most my friends are between 20-40 years old, they have that much experience inthis country and there are many things they know that I don't: like deep command of language, local history/experience (especially in soviet-post soviet era) books/literature, nature, handicraft, songs, etc.

Have you ever used/considered using another rolling release? If yes, how would you compare them to Debian testing?

Also, are there any parts of Debian testing that is not rolling (i.e. OS version number or some package versions like kernel or Node.js)?

This has always been my concern as well.

I wonder if there are any global standards, requirements recommendations about m the minimum retry count or timeout.

While I'm generally in favor and progress of reducing consumption of processed food, I would also take most news coming from non-scientific sources with a grain of salt, especially when it's coming from The Guardian.

Yes, especially recently. My motivation/goal is:

- Saving some money

- Reducing digital usage and increasing spending more time IRL/AFK

- Reducing media consumption, addiction and FOMO (movies, shows, albums)

- Reducing number of service I use and manage

- Reducing digital footprint, attack surface and shared personal data

- Other minimalism and anti-consumerism related reasons

I was, and even after the recent events like Oculus or leaks or layoffs, still thinking the opposite, actually.

It may be a red flag for some, but IMO a FAANG/GAFAM/etc experience on a CV is one of the best parts of it, unless one can top even that one. Personally I dont like or use facebook much, but I respect their engineering at that scale.