<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: BrandoElFollito</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BrandoElFollito</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:16:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=BrandoElFollito" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BrandoElFollito in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I'm not sure what nitpick you're trying to make.<p>The non voters are routinely used in discussions to lower the results of various parties. The message is "in reality only (a small) percentage supports them" (and then a ratio voters for that party / total population is taken).<p>What I am trying to say is that the people who did not vote do not exist in these statistics. Taking them into account is just a tactic to lower the results of competitors.<p>Additionally (but this is utopia) these people should not be allowed to comment in any form about the situation of the country (but again - this is utopia of course)</p>
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<p>I am glad I'm not the only one. At least in France there were traditionally stacks of cartoons as well (and some magazines)</p>
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<p>The French head of Microsoft ctor not, under oath, say that Microsoft can guarantee sovereignty. This is the evidence that until you have a EU company, under EU rules <i>and not present in the US at all</i>, you cannot have sovereignty.</p>
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<p>I was on the cybersecurity side of that, "advising" huge, multinational companies that hold the world together.<p>Oh boy.<p>I was told for instance once that my concerns about an open, unencrypted Wi-Fi for SCADA systems were not a big deal because "we are  in the desert anyway, who would come here".<p>I saw terrible things and people who were made "cybersecurity expert" when they did not want to. They were sent to courses which were totally useless and the architecture was completely fucked up anyway.<p>I often wondered over the years why we have so little significant incidents in the utilities sector.</p>
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<p>The third that didn't vote does not exist. The net result was roughly 50/50.<p>Now, <i>maybe</i> this third will start to exist and vote if they either wake up, are seriously hit financially or someone annoys them enough.<p>Until then they decided to erase themselves from any decision making and if the world was fair they , would not have the right to any comment regarding whatever is related to their country.</p>
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<p>This is and have always been the case for Masters and above across Europe. It varies for Licentiates.<p>It is also often the case for exams in majors (they are often oral).<p>So nothing innovative there</p>
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<p>Why? If the low revenue busyness is taxed at 1% and the mega one at 30% (just examples).<p>Taxing on the income also means that you can offload taxes elsewhere easily</p>
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<p>It all depends on the tax level. If today they are texted at, say, 20%, this could be a 5% on gross revenue (or whatever), and indexed on the revenue (like for humans).<p><i>I</i> also run on narrow margins, and nobody cares.</p>
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<p>Sorry, I mixed them up (I am not a native speaker of English, but would have probably mixed them up in French as well :)). Thanks (I updated my post)</p>
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<p>I seriously do not understand why companies pay taxes on the income and not the revenue. (EDIT: I mixed them up)<p>I pay on the revenue. I also buy things. I also consume. And somehow I can manage with taxes on the revenue.<p>This would also solve the problem of companies that get 10 M€ in revenue, but somehow only 10€ is taxed because expenditure, capex etc</p>
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<p>The French Post is also living in the 90s. They send SMSs that look like a scam ("your package something, click here"), the link is on a wild domain completely unrelated to anything close to a post office service, and then the content of the page screams Nigerian fraud.<p>But it is real. I wondered one day how many people opening it fall into the category<p>- this is normal and expected, it is France<p>- this is a scam, let's see how it was done<p>- this is obviously from the post office and I would do the same if I was scammed</p>
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<p>I have tons of devices and I wish everything was Wi-Fi.<p>Wi-Fi has its problems but at least it is easily measurable, debugable, ... Zigbee is a voodoo protocol: you initiate the pairing and hope for the best. And then you hope for the best to have it stay on.</p>
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<p>I work in cybersecurity, have seen a lot.   
For your own good, really listen to the legal advices.</p>
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<p>I find it perturbing that one completely corrupt organization haggles with another completely corrupt organization using some moral arguments. It is just missing the Olympic Committee to complete the podium of corruption.<p>On top of that these organizations explain how doping is bad and in the case of the Olympic Organization - that there is some kind of amateurism expected from the participants.<p>We want sport to be exciting so since these people are completely specialized, we should let anyone use what they want (on their bodies and in terms of equipment). It is a commercial entity anyway, intended to bring recreation to people.</p>
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<p>YEs, absolutely, there is a big difference. My point was rather that both drivers and cyclists can be assholes (with different outcomes)</p>
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<p>True. Still showing 10$ when it is actually 11.75$ because there is a random tax is really, really insane. I truly wonder why the US does this when the rest of the world does not.</p>
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<p>When visiting the US, I lerned that a meal that costs 10$ is actually 10$ + some random tax + a tip = 20$</p>
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<p>This also includes cyclists. (I drive and cycle, and see all the combinations)</p>
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<p>Why not reconfiguring it with something like AutoHotkey at the OS level ?</p>
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<p>Thank you for the information - and what about communication? I don't think they have an antenna that reaches out to the surface?</p>
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