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New comment by landosaari in "Yanis Varoufakis on the future of capitalism [video]"

landosaari — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:55:09 +0000

The UAE has a CT (corporate tax) of 9% since 2023 [0, page 8]

This provides an overview [1]

For 2026 "The UAE's tax system is getting stricter. Not in rates. In enforcement." [2]

[0] https://mof.gov.ae/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Federal-Decree...

[1] https://mof.gov.ae/en/public-finance/tax/corporate-tax/

[2] https://www.kayrouzandassociates.com/insights/uae-tax-change...

New comment by landosaari in "The past was not that cute"

landosaari — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:24:07 +0000

See Bullerby syndrome [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullerby_syndrome

New comment by landosaari in "World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says"

landosaari — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:26:28 +0000

In South Korea pet strollers outsold child ones [0].

DINKWAD (Dual income, no kids, with a dog) is rising [1]. Hospitality is changing to accommodate this [2].

[0] https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/trends/20231226/sales...

[1] https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/dinkwad-meaning-origin-u...

[2] https://rochsociety.com/rise-of-the-dinkwads/

New comment by landosaari in "NASA Downgrades the Risk of 2024 YR4 to Below 1%"

landosaari — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 12:16:20 +0000

Here is ESA information regarding the asteroid [0]

[0] https://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2025/02/04/asteroid-2024...

New comment by landosaari in "Single cigarette takes 20 minutes off life expectancy, study finds"

landosaari — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:58:34 +0000

Jeanne Calment gave up smoking at 117 [0].

Number of people who also lived past 117 is three [1].

Sarah Knauss had a fondness for sweets and hated vegetables [2] lived to 119.

Edit: Merely a curio of the people who held number 1 and 2 position of verified oldest people for over two decades.

Apologies, if the post suggested otherwise.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment#Health_and_life...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Knauss#Health_and_lifest...

New comment by landosaari in "A better approach to gravity: how we made EGM2008 faster"

landosaari — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:29:20 +0000

Related: Dr. Martin used PINN for creating a gravity model [0] and video [1].

[0] https://github.com/MartinAstro/GravNN

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UNtZ4sOVEI

New comment by landosaari in "Ask HN: Should I Go Back to College?"

landosaari — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:48:45 +0000

For a sense of the workload, here is an open source curriculum [0]

[0] https://github.com/Artoriuz/OSEE

New comment by landosaari in "Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US"

landosaari — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:53:32 +0000

Spain fined Booking (Dutch company) 413M€ last month.

For abusing its dominant position, the post has only 2 points [0].

Yet, this one has significantly more comments.

The only political aspect is where the company comes from.

Forum members then want to speak up.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41115644

New comment by landosaari in "U.S. maternal death rate increasing at an alarming rate"

landosaari — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 12:22:55 +0000

New comment by landosaari in "How to choose a textbook that is optimal for oneself?"

landosaari — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 20:06:49 +0000

Thomas Garrity discussing mathematical maturity [0]

Author of All the Math You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School

[0] https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=zHU1xH6Ogs4

New comment by landosaari in "Data brokers sell our location data and jeopardise national security"

landosaari — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 21:13:37 +0000

Bill Hicks on advertising and marketing [0]

[0] https://yewtu.be/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0

New comment by landosaari in "Ask HN: Why Are We Ignoring the Urgent Need for End-to-End Encrypted Emails?"

landosaari — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:44:35 +0000

Could someone explain what happened via telephony?

Telegraph->Operator->Rotary->Touch-tone->Cellphone.

It would seem everyone of these would be a next step in technology and protocols.

Sending a text message via rotary phone is probably not possible. However, calling a rotary phone via smartphone should work.

Is there a reason why newer protocols could not be implemented/enforced?

Whereby email from proton to tuta (and similar new email services) it acts differently than when sent to the older version of email (current method).

New comment by landosaari in "Ask HN: What advice would you give for someone who just turned 30?"

landosaari — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:15:34 +0000

Read Kafka's The Trial [0]

The protagonist just turned 30.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7849

New comment by landosaari in "We are at our most creative just before we fall asleep, scientists say (2022)"

landosaari — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 08:16:56 +0000

New comment by landosaari in "Harvard Railroad Economics Exam (1906)"

landosaari — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 08:57:28 +0000

Cursory search yields two things: Flour mills [0] and railway system [1]

[0] https://www.mnhs.org/millcity/learn/history/flour-milling

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.)

New comment by landosaari in "Ask HN: Learning Maths from the Ground Up"

landosaari — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:27:14 +0000

Susan Rigetti has a nice overview [0]

In this Susan recommends https://www.khanacademy.org/, which is good for most things learned in primary or secondary school.

There is an open source curriculum equivalent for an undergrad compromised of MOOC and similar resources [1]

Similar to the above is a markdown [2], with a scope directed towards people coming from a CS background.

After this perhaps focus more on statistics & data science for metric interpretation. R for Data Science [3] is an option.

[0] https://www.susanrigetti.com/math

[1] https://github.com/ossu/math

[2] https://github.com/NavigoLearn/RoadmapsMarkdown/blob/master/... for computer science/full-roadmap.md

[3] https://r4ds.hadley.nz/

New comment by landosaari in "Hackers found a way to open any of 3M hotel keycard locks"

landosaari — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:14:36 +0000

"In business news, 3M and M&M have merged to form, get this, Ultradyne Systems." Simpsons S14E12 [0]

[0] https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_script...

New comment by landosaari in "On DMA eve, Google whines, Apple sounds alarms, and TikTok wants out"

landosaari — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:30:12 +0000

From details elsewhere [0], Dutch company booking.com could be added.

There are probably more that did not make the first round:

Spotify - Sweden

OLX - Netherlands

Ryanair - Ireland

Are some possibilities for the next round.

[0] https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/the-digital-markets-act-i...

New comment by landosaari in "Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants more"

landosaari — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 13:34:48 +0000

Sorry, have not seen "very receptive".

Received a masters degree in STEM from a Nordic country. This somehow rendered me less desirable in being hired?

Living on the streets is not what I envisioned while signing up for an university program.

New comment by landosaari in "Ask HN: What strategies and tools to hide reading and writing in plain sight?"

landosaari — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:23:01 +0000

Find a place where your back is against a wall.

Libraries tend to have a place for seclusion; where you can have an interview or small group meeting.

These may need to be reserved. Speak with the librarian, services provided are higher than one perceives.

Using polarised glasses and modification to a monitor [0]

[0] https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=zL_HAmWQTgA