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Taxing companies on revenue would completely wipe out low-margin businesses like supermarkets, and create massive distortions in the economy where one company being vertically inte…

Unfortunately if your employer pays for private health insurance, HMRC says that is a taxable benefit and you still pay tax. The more insidious part is how the government makes emp…

maybe it would be a little better to use ints rather than longs, as Java lists can't be bigger than the int max value anyways. Saves you a cache line or two.

The code: public int parseOrDefault(String value, int defaultValue) { if (value == null || value.isBlank()) return defaultValue; for (int i = 0; i Is probably worse than Integer.pa…

this comment is pretty obviously written by AI

Unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn't seem interested in this. Their revenue is more than enough be able to invest and sustain the site forever, but they just increase expenses on non-c…

Yes, last time I checked, Zig's comptime was 20x slower than interpreted Python. Parsing a non-trivial JSON file at comptime is excrutiatingly slow and can take minutes.

You’ve got a monopoly on lemonade because you pay all the grocery stores to be the default lemonade. So we’re going to force you sell your car. I don't think this is an accurate an…

> The above code is simple and correct Unfortunately not: Using notifyAll and wait in Java is tricky to do correctly, you'd have a much easier chance using concurrency primitives t…

soma fm has some good online radio stations: https://somafm.com/ (and shows you the track and artist)

GnuCash and KDE Money always seemed very similar to me. Why should I use GnuCash over KDE money?

> You can use GraalPy with GraalVM JDK, Oracle JDK, or OpenJDK https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/python/

No wonder he heard from his brother that the Border Patrol were always hiring; they seemingly make it impossible to get hired.

Can you DMCA yourself for someone else's copyrighted material? That's what I'm talking about here.

If you've inadvertently committed, say, copyrighted material to GitHub, and want to fully erase it, is there a way? Other than contacting GitHub as this article mentions. Even if y…

Not only that, but it makes the pronunciation difficult. Should this be pronounced like the English word "love", or interpreted more like a German word (which actually has this let…

Here is the AMD64 reference manual https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/40332.pdf The stuff you will need most is in Volume 3.

My question is, how was there enough liquidity in Beanstalk to be able to buy half of it in an instant? The article doesn't explain this.

Wikipedia's expenses go up year after year seemingly needlessly. It is making revenues far and above what it needs to maintain the project, but its expenses seem to go up each year…

I don't think you should be risking anything when there's $5bn at stake and a single failure can cause you to lose all of it

The article also argues that severity of autism doesn't really make sense.

It already does on mobile. It is impossible to view subreddits unless you sign in, you only get a "preview"

It's only a disincentive to ask for a raise if you don't know what it means. You only pay back student loans based on the percentage of money you earn above a certain amount. If yo…

A software firewall is useless against a DDoS attack. It will only serve to help your IP not get discovered in the first place.