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zxspectrum1982··on China's tech invasion is a national emergency
China was busy training the best scientists and engineers while the USA were busy expanding their woke bullshit inside and outside of America. Thank you for nothing, progressives.
zxspectrum1982··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
Not true. The European Union runs RHEL, OpenShift and some SUSE.
zxspectrum1982··on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
52% is not fair but pure robbery. Not so long ago, people paid the tithe (10%) and if any lord, governor or king dared to go just a little further, they'd be killed, usually by hanging. There's many countries in the world with smaller taxes and still great services. Public money is just wasted by politicians trying to buy votes for the next election.
zxspectrum1982··on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
Considered good by whom? By socialist teenagers? Work hard and build a family, then re-read your comments in a few years. You'll think different.

Also, again, the thresholds are ridiculously low. They don't even cover the cost of the deceased's house. Stop the theory, start the reality.

zxspectrum1982··on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
Nobody said "no" to taxes. Fair taxes are necessary. FAIR TAXES. Not 45% taxes on something that already paid taxes several times (income, property, VAT, etc). That's robbery.
zxspectrum1982··on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
Communism never ends up well. Remember that when your wishes become reality.
zxspectrum1982··on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
The fact that you think 45% tax is fair is enough to disqualify your opinion.
zxspectrum1982··on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
"Benefit society"??? Pal, stop with the communist propaganda and start thinking for yourself.

One thing I can assure you: the moment you get a job, a house, a family, that's the moment you'll realize you are being systematically robbed by taxes that end up eating 70% of your income. If you are not socialist when you are young, you haven't got a heart; if you are not conservative when you grow up, you haven't got a brain.

zxspectrum1982··on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
Read my comment: your brother passes away without children and the Tax Agency steals 45% of his estate (and that's after the "discount" for the threshold, the actual tax rate over the threshold is higher than 45%). That's not reasonable at all.
zxspectrum1982··on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
Stop the communist brainwashing "redistribution of wealth" and start thinking: 45%, that you saved after paying taxes, is pure robbery.
zxspectrum1982··on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
For starters, 100.000 EUR is nothing. Also, in many jurisdictions that threshold only applies to direct (eg father-son) inheritance but not eg between siblings.

I have an unmarried aunt with no kids. Most of her estate is land (that has passed through centuries in the family and is almost illiquid because the European Union has killed agriculture) and some stock (that cannot be used to pay the taxes because it's not yours until you pay the taxes). I just checked and when she dies, my mom (her only sister) will have to pay 45% of that in death tax. We may need to turn down the estate when she dies because we cannot pay the tax. And you think that's fair? Grow up.

zxspectrum1982··on Elon Musk backs US withdrawal from NATO alliance
China and Russia are very happy today
zxspectrum1982··on Elon Musk staff has been caught installing drives inside the OPM office
What does "Elon Musk staff" mean? DOGE staff? Tesla? SpaceX? X?

If it's DOGE staff, then it's not surprising.

If it's his private companies' staff, then it smells very bad.

zxspectrum1982··on Spain proposes 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents
It is firmly established. Read the article I linked.
zxspectrum1982··on Spain proposes 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents
It's illegal according to European Union law so this is just one more lie by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

https://www.vozpopuli.com/economia/el-castigo-fiscal-a-los-c...

zxspectrum1982··on DoxyPress – Modern Doxygen
You can use Verdigris to achieve the same with Qt https://github.com/woboq/verdigris
zxspectrum1982··on A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023)
These days, you can easily implement your own ChatGPT in a snap by using gptscript: https://github.com/gptscript-ai/gptscript
zxspectrum1982··on North Korea's Smartphone Market Expands as Border Restrictions End
How do North Koreans afford those phones?

With so much smartphone penetration, how come foreign intelligency agencies are not developing ways (eg new firmwares) for North Koreans to circumvent the limitations imposed by Pyongyang?

zxspectrum1982··on Thunderbird for Android Now Available
Nice but there are a zillion mobile e-mail clients already. What I really wish is a good desktop e-mail client for Linux that I can use for enterprise use: - Thunderbird is heavy, slow and the UI feels dated - KMail was very advanced 15-20 years ago but it's lagged behind and even HTML e-mail is semibroken today - evolution... well, let's say it has not really evolved in the past 10 years, since Red Hat lost interest in the desktop - others (Geary, Trojita, etc) are toys and unfit for enterprise usage
zxspectrum1982··on Show HN: Microsoft Teams Ticketing System – Ticketing as a Service
Open source, lean and powerful (but sadly, ugly) https://www.projeqtor.org/en/
zxspectrum1982··on DOjS – A DOS JavaScript Canvas with Sound
I wonder if @jart's Cosmopolitan could target web browsers

https://justine.lol/ape.html

zxspectrum1982··on Elasticsearch is open source, again
As a matter of fact, yes, AWS rev shares with Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical and the likes.
zxspectrum1982··on X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk's refusal to comply with local laws
Progressive The Guardian conveniently conceals "local laws" actually are "censorship for anyone that doesn't sing and preach by the current Brazilian Government". Shameful.
zxspectrum1982··on Kubernetes Cost Management with the New OpenCost Plugin for Headlamp
Red Hat Insights Cost Management does cost calculation and it calculates exactly how much each pod is costing, no matter what ratios, or node sizes, or discounts you may have.

It looks at what nodes are running on each cluster, how much each node is costing (it reads the actual cost from your cloud bill, including any discounts you may have), then it looks on which node(s) each pod is running, and then it calculates how much each pod on each node is costing.

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/cost_management_ser...

It's free for Red Hat customers, both for cloud costing (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) and OpenShift costing. No support for EKS, AKS or other third-party Kubernetes, though.

https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-cost-management

https://console.redhat.com/openshift/cost-management/

zxspectrum1982··on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
I find the use of docker on Windows totally overkill and added complexity for non-technical users. Why don't you just build a single .exe they can download and run? With Golang, that should be rather easy.
zxspectrum1982··on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem
Essentially, yes, that's how stupid law is in Spain. But if a third squatter would break in, they'd be safe. See eg https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.antena3.com/programas/espej...
zxspectrum1982··on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem
So let's now worry about killings, bombings, rapings, etc because there's not so many of them, right? Don't be that naïve.
zxspectrum1982··on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem
Maldita is a joke. Sometimes they don't know how to read data, other times they actively engage into twisting numbers. Every time they debunk something, you can be sure that they debunked is actually true. I remember a case where the claim was something like "there's 300.000 cases of <something>" and they debunked it with "FALSE, bla bla bla bla bla"... and when you read the fine print, it was not 300.000 cases but 298.000 cases. They are 1000% unreliable.
zxspectrum1982··on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem
In Spain, that would put you (the rightful owner) in jail and the judge would tell you to give the keys to the squatter. Yes, it's that crazy.
zxspectrum1982··on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem
Pal, you don't understand how the market, or even real life, works.
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