Hirom @ Hirom @beehaw.org

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Kenya is a cautionary tale for any state which is considering China's investments predatory loans.

Don't forget the 15% minimum corporate tax. This now have to be turned into law.

Taxing individuals by itself cannot solve shortcomings in the tax system. The super rich have corporations and shell companies in tax heavens to avoid taxes.

We tend to overestimate the risk from rare events like terrorist attacks, and underestimate risk from likely events like flu, domestic violence, and dumb accidents.

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Taler is closer to an EMV card alternative, rather than a cash alternative.

Hopefully cash remains. But regions and businesses are already starting to go cashless, so I'd rather have Tale as an option.

Would Taler be more resilient than a typical EMV/AmEx card? It's designed as an online payment system but it's less centralised, so that could help.

It's already an attractive project due to its privacy feature, and due to it being more regulation-friendly that cryptocurrencies. If it's resilient enough it could act as a digital cash.

Science Based Medecine is a fine source, and has a very high rating, but more sources are welcome.

The Author is Steven Novella, an actual human, a medical doctor, and associate professor at Yale. He's not a chatbot.

Reddit would then sue for plagiarism.

A simple fix to make it more transparent : replace the blue check by a 🪙 or 💵. Now, the blue check just represent paid users.

A suggestion: disable it by default, and show a prompt and warning to Meet users asking if they want to enable this Meet extension, while warning them this would allow more tracking from Google.

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Neither. I use a chromium package from my linux distribution.

It has many patches on top of the upstream chromium. That probably explain why that unwanted feature isn't there.

This issue appear on Google Chrome for Windows on my other machine. Just uninstalled it, never used it anyway.

Cannot reproduce on chromium. Has anyone reproduced it?

Texas isn't used to regulating businesses, to say the least.

Nepal just dodged a bullet. Good for them.

That's interesting. Thanks for pointing it out.

My point is having a very old constitution isn't much of a boast if keeping it as-is causes political issues.

Tradition and inertia.

The USA is proud to have the oldest and longest-standing written constitution. The fact it hasn't been rewriteen in a long time help explain why there's still an electoral college, slavery for prisoners (13th amendements), and weak regulation of campaign finance.

That sounds a bit contradictory but there's an important details. Part of the accusation seems to be about picking winners, ie giving subsidies to specific companies rather than the sector as a whole.

The anti-subsidy investigation has been intended to confirm the Commission’s allegations that manufacturers of battery electric vehicles (BEV) in China benefit from countervailable – i.e. specific and advantageous to the receiving companies – subsidies

If that's true then a tweak to subsidies might technically solve the issue without changing the EU-China competition balance.

IMHO the EU should focus on carbon border tax, and on doing it quickly and efficiently. The idea is taxing import from countries that don't tax pollution, or at least less than the EU does, to make competing companies subject to similar emissions tax/regulation.

Thanks for the explanation. I'm considering Matrix but will hold off, at least until v1.11 or v1.12 solves the unintended CDN issue described in another comment here, cf https://matrix.org/blog/2024/06/20/matrix-v1.11-release/#continue-reading

I'm interested into the technical details, not actual URLs. How come servers cited in the video keep hosting/seeding chatrooms despite closing corresponding accounts? Is this impossible due to Matrix's design, or is it poor moderation from server admins?

About URLs: the author is absolutely right to blur these. The only people he should be sharing this is police, or maybe admins if they're not aware of the abuse on their server.