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The FEIE and foreign tax credits are just there to limit the scope of double taxation, and often they can't even do that much. Then you have to consider the cost of compliance, req…

> no safe level of alcohol I hear this kind of phrasing frequently in the discourse nowadays, but it doesn't seem like a useful framing to me. Is there a safe amount of chocolate? …

Besides the extraterritoriality issue, the other problem with FATCA is that it makes Americans living overseas (99% of whom are just normal people not trying to evade taxes) radioa…

Foreigners on DTVs are allowed to stay for five years. To prohibit someone living in Thailand for such a long period from opening a bank account - often necessary for paying rent a…

But the ultimate goal is never to decrease costs; it's to provide people housing.

This article is a mess. From the third paragraph: > What happens when prices actually start to fall? Because that’s not just a hypothetical. It’s already happening in places like P…

We have normalized the treatment of the financial and payments systems as things that exist primarily to perform law enforcement surveillance functions. It's the same dynamic that …

I absolutely love this, and love it even more because of the Nix integration. Fantastic job.

Because for all of Mark Zuckerburg's flaws (or Elon, or whoever), America is unlikely to go to war with him?

I disagree (I don't know what "military power projection over China's coastline" even means - do you think the U.S. has military bases in Taiwan?), but the point is that these issu…

Right, the CCP committees are just there to organize picnics. Sure. Look, I think anyone who has spent a significant amount of time in both places understands that there is a major…

The propaganda on TikTok comes disguised as Americans sharing points of view that just happen to serve CCP interests. Often the creators are expressing a genuine (but rare) viewpoi…

> US spectrum export controls have been every bit as pervasive as PRC ones, pretending muh "rule of law" is a distinction without difference at this point. It's functionally the sa…

> PRC banned exporting Bytedance algo. By that logic, no US companies are independent private companies due to US export controls. And TBH both points are true. Chinese state contr…

This claim is incompatible with the reality that the U.S. runs an enormous bilateral trade deficit with China.

The big issue isn't data security; it's propaganda. Irrespective of whether the government has control of the narrative on Facebook (I would argue they pretty clearly don't) there …

Isn't it better to use `nix store optimise` for dedup of the nix store? The nix command has more knowledge of the structure of the nix store so should be able to do a better job wi…

The top comment on that article is really insightful. While I found the numbers in the article interesting, they don't really explain "the housing affordability problem" as it is g…

Slow Boring frequently discusses academic studies and quantitative evidence around the relationship between housing supply and affordability, if you're actually interested. But wha…

Vienna's affordable real estate is entirely down to the quantity of housing they build - around 2/3 as many units as NYC with 1/4 the population. It has nothing to do with locking …

So how does Pkl compare to Nix or Dhall?

ptGHCi runs GHCi as a subprocess and uses GHCi commands to request type and completion information.

ptGHCi author here. IHaskell and ptGHCi are really quite different in goals and design. ptGHCi is a wrapper around GHCi. In fact, it runs GHCi as a subprocess. That means almost al…