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Even if the VAT tax ends up being the same for imported goods versus domestically produced goods, that is still a discriminatory tax against the import. The reason is because the imported good already paid taxes in the country it was produced in.

It makes sense for a German car manufacturer to pay taxes to Germany, since the German state provides it with services (roads, police, infrastructure.) It makes no sense for an American car manufacturer to pay taxes to Germany since it gets no services from Germany. (And no, earning the "privilege" of unloading the car from the boat isn't worth 20%.)

If the EU has an interest in making this fair, they can remit the sales tax they collected to the US government. Or they can just accept that this is a discriminatory tax and may incite another discriminatory tax on the US side.

You should probably check out "being a pedantic douche" -- oh wait, you already did.

The "homebrew computer club" made their own computers. It wasn't about being scrappy or hip, but just a cooler way of saying "homemade"

Read his comment. This guy literally writes exploits for C/C++ software. Of course he wants you to keep using memory-unsafe languages, otherwise his business dries up!

Perhaps we could spend the billions on electric cars rather than on unused bicycle lanes.

Is beer part of "tech" now?

homebrew has a pretty straightforward meaning... beer you brewed at home. It's actually legally defined that way too

Over 60 years, actually. The coffee industry is regulated the way it is in Kenya because the current government wants it to work that way, not because of "colonialism."

"homebrew" just means you made it yourself. nothing to do with snobbery.

If we only do a little bit, we'll only accomplish a little bit.

If you don't have a birth certificate, there are other ways to get an ID card. Immigrants do the US do it all the time. Pretending this is some unsolvable problem is ridiculous. It's like saying we can't collect taxes because it's impossible to identify people. When the government needs money, suddenly it's very possible to identify everyone and send them bills. Funny how that works.

The point of India requiring identification for benefits is to prevent waste and fraud. And given the number of poor people in India, and the limited amount of money they have to help them, it seems like quite a good thing to do so.

Identifying people is not hard, even for the poorest countries, and it's quite easy to do with modern technology. There is no good-faith reason to oppose it, any more than there is to oppose driver's licenses.

Yes, only advanced countries like India can give everyone an ID. The US is too poor and backwards to give everyone a plastic card.

The for-profit Mozilla Corporation is wholly controlled by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.

Pretending that government IDs are super duper hard to give out is a time-honored American tradition.

After all, imagine if the government had a database with every person's name in it! You'd have like 300 million rows? Nobody's built a computing machine that could do that. And then how would you get the cards to people? You'd have to send out horses and buggies to every corner of the nation. And where would you find enough coachmen to do that, and roads to drive the coaches on???

No, clearly it's unpossible.

So we have to reserve the use of government IDs for really important things, like checking if you can buy cold medicine, and voting must remain insecure.

The Mozilla Foundation is already a non-profit.

The Mozilla Foundation is already a non-profit.

What if (and just hear me out here), the mouse was attached to a cord? This would have several benefits. No need to charge or have a battery. The mouse would stay near the computer and not get lost.

The Fed doesn't let banks do this because it would be "too safe"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow_banking

This seems like annoying pedantry. Holding same-as-cash assets is not rocket science, there are plenty of professionals who could help you with that. On Vanguard you can buy things like T-bills with a few clicks. (I am not suggesting that they're using Vanguard specifically)

It would be very simple for Tether to just hold $1 for each 1 Tether coin. They could invest their cash in safe assets like treasury bills that yield 4% or more. Meanwhile, they pay no interest in Tethers. So they get a 4% return for doing nothing at all.

As far as I know, there is no evidence that they are doing anything else. (There is some evidence that they did something else in the past, when interest rates were way lower.) But this hasn't stopped tons of people from speculating that they are.

I use them for work versus personal in Chrome. The main use-case is Google Drive. For most other personal stuff I use a different browser.

Sir, this is Hacker News. Nobody here takes showers.

It's an architecture from the Linux kernel's point of view, although it runs on existing hardware. However, it's not accurate to say it has nothing to do with Intel -- they designed and funded it. And it was a waste of resources since the world was going 64 bit, and that was obvious even at the time.

Realistically, Windows is the platform keeping 32 bit code alive, in the form of all those legacy binaries. MacOS and Linux have moved on. So if you design something new for 32 bit that can't be used by Windows, it's DOA.

x32 was such a waste of time and resources for Intel. While the world was moving to 64 bit, someone at Intel had the "bright" idea to go back to the past, and create a new 32 bit architecture (???) that was incompatible with traditional Windows applications (????)

Now, in 2024, 32 bit cell phone CPUs seem like a distant memory and nobody remembers what the hell x32 was even for.

I have solar panels myself. But let's be honest about what the technology can and cannot do.

Solar only makes energy while the sun is shining. Most people want to charge their electric cars at night, unless their employer has a charging station ready for them to use at work. (Many employers have a small number of charging stations for this purpose, but none of them that I'm aware of have enough charging stations for everyone.)

Feel free to step up and support your own serialization library. You too can have this "power"

Note: Your budget will be $0, your reward will be people hurling insults at you.

The "annoying" thing that the naysayers are pointing out is that we are not building enough power generation to support universally switching to electric vehicles. Unfortunately this "annoyance" happens to be true.

Also, California struggles to get new desalination plants through environmental approval. And most industrial processes need continuous power, not just power whenever the weather looks good.

The new Google motto?

The Google:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/The_Goog...

Is it actually a single toolchain? I was not clear on that from reading the article.

Anyway, all I can say is that having used both C++ and Rust for many years, I have zero desire to use another C++ toolchain.