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Wasn't that exactly the plan publicized by Musk?

Very good point that I didn't think of, thanks.

This is not about russophobia, I have plenty of Russian friends and have respect for the culture - though I think that every intelligent Russian left years ago, or at least between March and now.

This is about avoiding having the kind of people who will scream "THIS WILL BE RUSSIA ONE DAY TOO" into your face at your hometown (not an unusual thing before the war). People are being turned back to Russia now because they don't even peel off the Z signs from their cars...

There's too many of them now to sort properly - so sorry, but we can't take them. We offered humanitarian visas to anybody before now, they should've thought about where this is going.

Why are LASERs and railguns better than biological weapons? At least the more efficient a biological weapon is the less it hurts. Not an option while literally burning someone with a LASER or pushing a piece of metal through their body.

(Of course biological weapons are bad, but I don't get this preference of yours)

Not true at all! My (EU) tax form has a special field just for this case - income from out-of-EU employment... (and because of tax residency rules that applies only if I live there)

And there definitely is a legal framework - this has very exact rules specified by the bilateral tax/trade agreements, every combination of western countries has them, and many non-western countries too.

Then come to Czechia and your problems are solved. There the test is simple - are you using your own equipment or do you have multiple clients or are you your own boss in terms of working hours and arrangements or could your contract end at any time or are you an exporter? Then you're clearly a contractor. Only one of these rules needs to apply.

Indeed - and yet I'd think it's not close at all. I bet there is going to be the same level of variation as compared to relative differences between unrelated humans.

Intra-company transfer, but it's more restricted than H1B - the hassle falls on your employer though.

So I tried to Google myself - I had some problems with my debts in the past - and found nothing... And it's not like I'd just let it be if I found anything, I'd go for the GDPR takedown immediately.

Still - do twins have the same/similar brain structure?

I consider it the opposite. I don't care about setting the scrolling speed - I can adapt to that. I just can't stand pixelated windows though.

How do you "just Google" how often someone doesn't pay their debts? Credit rating is a data broker, sure - but they're brokering access to private data that shouldn't be accessible by itself, and they're adding validation/verification on top. You can't just Google that.

Why not rather distribute Python as NPM dependency?

The exact same thing was happening to a Volvo I've driven around 5 years ago (I have never chosen Volvo again since then because of it). I don't think they're going to help now.

The problem is that it's what inexperienced elders say to force their opinion on you.

React Native, or React in a web view.

I am not talking about the current situation, I am talking about the times when gas was cheapest ever around 10 years ago. People were building resistive electric heating because it still came out cheaper than using gas.

Currently our state is net-exporter and probably always will be since the states around us are refusing nuclear altogether. And Germany nor Austria has never ever offered electricity cheaper than our own.

You're talking about electricity, I am talking about replacing the entire energetic demand. That means fuel for ICE vehicles, ships, etc in addition to all the fossil fuels used purely for heating.

What Cyprus, Romania and other states do internally is not so interesting - every state is selling electricity for outrageous prices internationally, so it's not really something we'd want to rely on.

If you're comparing only solar panels, then maybe. I'm comparing the whole system - batteries, transmission, gas usage when it's not enough sunshine for a third of the year here, etc. Our electricity got more expensive mostly thanks to renewables, not cheaper. Now we're building reactors to have it cheap again.

I don't know what you're talking about, we're building and the reactors we built previously work cheaper than any renewable/gas/coal/whatever, the only problem is that we don't have enough, but we will have more soon. You're the one wishing for renewables - and indeed, wishing won't make it happen.

The Greens slowed us down for two election intervals but they're gone and the building is resumed. Don't let Greens decide your policy and you can build too - and when you take them out of the equation it suddenly becomes cheap. We will happily build for you if your nuclear industry is not up to it, all it takes is ask.

I'd certainly say it has merit - large companies have separate teams maintaining the Kubernetes/Git/CI/AWS/emailing/auth/etc cloud setup that's used by individual product teams, and what else is that if not "platform engineering"? They don't have anything to do with development, we have in-team DevOps guys for that kind of work - configuring the provided K8s for our particular services, making use of the cloud services the platform team has made available to us, writing the Dockerfiles, etc.

If your company is just one product or one team, it might be used as a buzzword. Not when there's tens of products, hundreds of dev teams and thousands of microservices - maintaining this kind of platform is a very distinct discipline from DevOps.

If you have so much free space as US or Romania, maybe. There are much smaller states without enough sunshine though, and people hate having wind turbines visible near their houses (also, if you care about ecology then the blades are a big problem). Both wouldn't be nearly enough to replace fossil fuels anyways - only nuclear allows us to ditch natural gas and benzin/diesel entirely.

Just yesterday my state (in Central EU) has incorporated a company that is going to deploy several SMRs here. One of the US ones got certified just few months ago (they are buying that one too) and we also have our local designs ready to certify and then build - this country is extremely pro-nuclear (over 80% support) and has significant nuclear engineering industry and world-class nuclear regulation authority. I really don't think you're right it's not happening.

And talking about nuclear in general, we are building several standard big reactors too (expanding older power plants), with no sign of insurmountable problems - ever since we stopped letting the greens affect the projects with their FUD and fake "studies" it's going more than well enough, unfortunately they backtracked us for a decade before we were able to change the law otherwise we would have the new reactors running today (the local Green party went from 30% to literally 0 over this, lol).

In practically any country with socialized healthcare you will be strongly encouraged to terminate a child that might turn out unhealthy, and in a lot of them you will lose "benefits" (on which you depend because you were forced to pay mandatory social insurance before, taking away your ability to save/invest by yourself) if you don't listen/go to the doctors as "you are supposed to because that's the system". Where I live in Central Europe, going to the gynecologist and listening to their recommendations is a requirement to get full parental social benefits - and the policy most certainly is also based on what's economical for the state/"the system", and only parents that were previously working can get the benefits.

Additionally, you will have to pay the full price for any treatment that's outside their recommendations, this often turns out higher in absolute prices than in any US hospital - even though the people are much poorer.

Then once an unhealthy child is born they often don't get the full benefits of socialized healthcare as they should according to the constitutions, the administration will say "the system works in a different way and you went outside it, so you need to take care of it yourself" and the parents are forced to pay for treatments and medical equipment by themselves because what "the system recommends" is not nearly enough (we are talking about US$ millions of additional out-of-pocket expenses in some real world cases that I follow locally). That could be interpreted as a form of tax too, especially since you are forced to pay mandatory health insurance in most of these countries.

If you'll excuse my frankness, at the point of screening it's much more an idea of a child, than an actual he/she.

These are real issues. Saying nuclear is too hard/too dangerous/too expensive/takes too long is the real FUD, simply because it's a wide range of significantly different technologies each with vastly different properties (whereas solar panels are all pretty similar and the problems are not with one particular kind but external - caused by how the solar panels are used). We need both/all.

I guess it's more about intuition - they see when they damage someone immediately and stop doing that (e.g. wrong choice of prescription pills). With nutrition, they don't see the effect and/or don't attribute it to their advice because it takes decades to take effect, so they keep repeating the old advice. Practically all doctors I ever visited acted primarily on their intuition - "I have experience this works so use it".

Yes, I think violence in the name of affordable satellite phones is plausible.

Good thing other manufacturers are going to copy the feature soon.

This is absolutely ridiculous.

> Voxer's rights to features such as "find friends"

You mean like any random phpBB forum or the thousands of web dating sites that appeared between the 90s and today?

They don't say in the article what "live" features they are talking about but I guess it's just as ridiculous as this claim.

My Sony Ericsson had a push-to-talk as well as video call features in 2006 and there were internet video streaming apps for J2ME in 2008. Remember ICQ? Same thing.

Did Voxer invent WebRTC (or whatever they use - I bet they didn't even write their own code but used a lib) or any of the underlying internet protocols? Did they invent the concept of live video stream? I really don't think so.