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rorhugon Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year

FYI, Ireland has not been in the UK since 1921.

rorhugon Studying the effects of interruption on motivation

> The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel, you will never be stuck.

This is always hard. When things are going well (in flow, on a roll etc.) you want to continue and get it all out. When you get stuck in writing, programming or anything, taking a break seems to make sense after a few moments of toil.

rorhugon Linux: IO without entering the kernel

Would someone care to summarise the possible benefits of being able to do polled IO, without entering the kernel?