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rest in peace :(


> But regardless, US exporters to the EU end up paying more taxes than domestic EU producers.

but only because of tariffs, not VAT system. we pay VAT regardless from where the good came from.


there are some exceptions, when US jails EU CEO https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/6/16743308/volkswagen-olive...


the point is that US has clear and direct influence to twitter/facebook/instagram algorithms and recommendations and they can suppress one topic or another. it is not the case with tiktok, and this is primary reason for this ban


the same argument was about Russia and west relationship with it in the last 20 years, look what we have now


Russia is far less a threat to us in the last 20 or 30 years than it was the 20 or 30 before that.


I agree.

So much bitterness and toxicity here, it is even surprising to me.

Sure, in current climate people are upset about economics and whole situation in general, but still it was unpleasant to read comment section here...


just want to send you some moral support.

I have more than two years of sobriety already, time flies incredibly fast.

if it will get hard, keep reminding yourself that even this worse feeling is still better than being drunk. at least it helped to me and then lows became much smaller over time.

it gets better!


Thank you for your kind words. I need to just get off my ass and get to an AA meeting already.


how long ago you were a junior engineer?

I suspect it was possible because availability/performance requirements were different.

also-I think your defined problem is partially caused by developers themselves: if you give them simple (even if it is challenging) project, they get bored and start creating problems themselves to make project "worthy" of their time


did not find anything metioned about namespaces/packages support? quite disappointing :( this is the main disadvantage for my tastes


The unqualified imports are definitely a major pain point. In a large Swift app I find myself having to be eternally vigilant organizing my files so that I'm not dumping surprises into the import site.

Makes me appreciate how even Node.js got it right so early on.


I also disliked unqualified imports. I can never get used to languages where you can 'import foo' or 'use foo' and it just dumps a bunch of symbols into the current scope. That combined with Swift's 'implicit member expressions' makes it difficult to read code outside of an IDE (although I understand why they made that tradeoff given some of the long identifiers Swift inherited) [1].

[1] https://github.com/Quotation/LongestCocoa


yeah and do you realise what you are suggesting?

your proposed change will take decades to rework cities to move away from car-centric city design, to introduce public transportation, to rework current districts, to move shopping malls/restaurants closer to living districts etc.

all of this just because you wanted to make stricter insurance just to make it more (by how much?) efficient for insurers, so that they would make more profit.


No, I'm suggesting it because I don't want to pay for Bob to smash several cars a year. I'm saying it because there's lots of people who have no business being out on the road. Having Bob drive when he's a bad driver makes everyone around less safe.

But I guess you'd have society pay for all the cars Bob ends up destroying. We'll subsidize him crashing cars over and over and hurting Alice but we just can't seem to find the money to add another bus line!


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