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New comment by st1ck in "Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf]"

st1ck — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 01:43:46 +0000

It's a good opportunity to experience what most people on Earth have to deal with. Please don't take it personally Simon, it's just that your compatriots tend to be the most entitled people I've met.

New comment by st1ck in "Fake Books"

st1ck — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 07:36:40 +0000

Certainly energy crisis is of political nature, but let's say Germany invested massively in the renewables. It's just not the best source of energy in most places in terms of return on investment. Not to mention the intermittency problem. If they just didn't close their nuclear reactors, Germany would be in much better position to weather off the crisis.

New comment by st1ck in "Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant"

st1ck — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 12:53:33 +0000

You can say one is 1st generation immigrant, and other is 2nd gen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant_generations

New comment by st1ck in "German Court Rules Against Internet Security Non-Profit Quad9"

st1ck — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 16:48:09 +0000

Well it seems neighboring Austria will fine unvaccinated residents[1], so it's definitely not a wild take. Second, totalitarian !== Nazi.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-22/vaccine-h...

New comment by st1ck in "A notable JavaScript developer shamelessly copied one of my most downloaded nod"

st1ck — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 17:22:00 +0000

That reads like obvious sarcasm, but the follow-up comments by same author made me doubt it.

New comment by st1ck in "Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules"

st1ck — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 18:07:38 +0000

I'd expect entrepreneur to have a freedom to set own rate and market own brand, for example.

New comment by st1ck in "Berlin’s university canteens go almost meat-free as students prioritise climate"

st1ck — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 18:03:21 +0000

Dairy is almost as bad as beef & lamb in terms of carbon footprint [1][2] - see the charts. It'd make a lot more sense to use chicken or pork.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local [2] https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food?cou...

New comment by st1ck in "The mutation that helps Delta spread"

st1ck — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 16:17:21 +0000

Bras are often a question of necessity (avoid extra attention to nipples) than a style preference.

New comment by st1ck in "I Don’t Want to Be Like a Family with My Co-Workers"

st1ck — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 15:56:11 +0000

I've read quite a few stories where American parents kicked their grown-up child out of the house, so I don't know what to make out of it.

New comment by st1ck in "Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO"

st1ck — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 20:02:02 +0000

For 2, how often do you see Future Perfect Continuous or just Future Perfect anywhere outside of literary works?

I'd put grammar at much lower priority than vocabulary & common phrases, since knowing just a bunch of words (at least in most languages) can get you very far.

New comment by st1ck in "Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2013)"

st1ck — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 14:16:45 +0000

40 hours of flashcards and practice can cover maybe 90% of your typical tourist conversations for many languages. Where are you from? What is your name? What do you do? How much does it cost? Can you give me a discount?

New comment by st1ck in "A better business model for video folks"

st1ck — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 19:43:23 +0000

I haven't figured out how I can upload videos to Odysee without buying LBRY (which is also not that trivial).

I guess the easiest way is to ask someone to donate me some, but I don't know anyone on LBRY well enough for this.

New comment by st1ck in "A better business model for video folks"

st1ck — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 19:39:24 +0000

I didn't even realize you can potentially upload videos on Peertube instance which is not hosted by yourself. I'm totally not surprised this feature is not allowed on most instances.

New comment by st1ck in "Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams"

st1ck — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 15:56:12 +0000

so it just flattened the code by removing parentheses and braces around `using`? Looks like a really simple transformation.

New comment by st1ck in "YouTube’s rules are used to silence human rights activists"

st1ck — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 06:52:04 +0000

LBRY is barely decentralized. AFAICT, you can't go and upload videos without either going through verification (and many regions are not allowed) or buying LBRY which are listed only on a few exchanges.

New comment by st1ck in "Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days"

st1ck — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 06:15:08 +0000

Are you just being sarcastic?

Just a random result from searching for "bolivia coup": https://theintercept.com/2020/07/23/the-u-s-supported-coup-i...

New comment by st1ck in "Amazon reverses course, expands work-from-home options"

st1ck — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 20:16:53 +0000

You may like "location independent", already used for years. However "remote work" or "working remotely" are a lot more common and don't have pajamas connotation.

New comment by st1ck in "Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility"

st1ck — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 06:37:49 +0000

At least in Europe, Skyscanner has more airlines than Google Flights, which makes the latter kinda useless if it misses the cheapest/shortest flight. That said, at least GF lists Rynanair & Wizzair now, but through Kiwi.com OTA which I'd rather avoid (direct is cheaper and less issues with changes).

New comment by st1ck in "IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax"

st1ck — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 19:11:13 +0000

There are some comparisons, like https://thebanks.eu/compare-countries-by-tax-rates

But a lot of details are missing in them. Countries like Romania, Ukraine and Georgia have single-digit % tax for sole proprietors, but IIUC it applies on revenue, not income.

Estonia has 0% corporate tax, but 20% on dividends, which should go well with technique discussed in the OP.

Or for the higher income brackets, Italy has €100k/year flat tax: https://www.economist.com/europe/2020/10/29/a-flat-tax-schem...

New comment by st1ck in "We’re all paying for someone else’s 4-hour work week, not ours"

st1ck — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 14:31:44 +0000

McDonald's probably can be automated enough to do without any burger flippers.