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I wouldnt use it myself, but definitely have ideas of people I could offer a new email adress to.


Yeah. I was thinking politicians, corporate customer service departments etc. Put a header on each email saying "This email was sent to [politician name]@fullofcr.app"


Thanks, we could definitely start from this



Thanks. I checked and dbeaver can indeed store columns ordering as a filtered view. Seems like a bit overcomplicated to me but I guess I've been spoiled with mysql in which the ordering is trivial.


Brilliant tool ! I started to put all my notes there. However I cannot figure out how to display a note at the bottom of the screen (below another one as in the featured page ?)


In France you could probably start a revolution in suggesting that the students should pay for university.

https://www.study.eu/article/tuition-fees-in-france


comment_on_crypto_fail = ( author_religion == 'crypto' && author_lost_money == false ) ? 'misstep' : 'regulate_urgently'


French guy here. I think a lot of comments miss the point of the new tax : Some US tech companies use fake transfer prices to avoid paying income taxes in France. Eg Irish facebook subsidary owns the Facebook brand for Europe and charges other subsidiaries for using it. The French Facebook subsididary was charged so much in past years that it didnt declare any benefits in France. This is fraud. But this is fraud at EU level and EU is not yet organized to face it. So French government is taking the lead and expects other countries to follow soon (very likely). You have to understand that French companies and French taxpayers a getting reasonnably upset for paying high taxes when some US companies dont.


French guy too. I have to add that’s not specific to US company : Total, Ikea, and even EDF (french electricity state owned company ) also use the same practices. I too would prefer that they fix the law. It has been decades we know this and nothing seems to be done. I hope that the fact that population is getting more and more upset by the situation will push the politics to move. Btw the way the same companies dont seem to pay taxes in the US either.


I think the key point here is that all global companies structure their tax in the most efficient fashion possible. They pay a bunch of money (millions) to save far more in tax globally. Forget morality. They are behaving optimally for their incentives.

The only way forward is to shut down the model of "redirecting profits to the place with the lowest tax". Kill it with fire.


However the situation is much better now. It was very common for us French people to discover a huge roaming bill after a trip in another European country. At least roaming cost are becoming predictable


Yep. Still remember when I got charged 8 EUR just for being close to the border with the Czech Republic but still within our side of the border.

They made a lot of money with this roaming business.


All GSM and later digital phones, starting with Nokia 2110 and its contemporaries, had an option to refuse roaming - just to avoid accidental phone bills like this.

(I think the 1st generation NMT network in Nordic countries also had the same, though I am not sure as I never owned one.)


Yes, because it appears the Latvians are now subsidising your roaming charges.


And the French are subsidising Latvian agriculture, universities, roads, and infrastructure. I don't think it's fair to evaluate this policy isolated from the rest of EU policies.


The French are subsidising French agriculture and so is everyone else in EU.

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


There are two million Latvians. Pre-Brexit EU has over 500 million citizens. Your math doesn't work unless each Latvian is paying 5000 euros / month.


It's possible that visitors to Lithuania were paying high termination fees to the local telco and subsidizing the native subscribers.

Assuming the telco profits remained static (which may or may not be true) presumably someone was paying these costs before and if it wasn't Lithuanians then who was it?


I guess you're not serious, are you?


Not that serious.

But the grandparent post was someone from Latvia saying 'this is terrible our prices have gone up' which was followed by someone from France saying 'no this is great our prices have gone down'.

Someone's paying for it, and I doubt it's the Telcos who are losing out.


Oh, telcos absolutely lose, because there were a few companies present in most EU countries and somehow most of them charged for roaming anyway only because they could - it cost them nothing extra.

Parcels are next, so I hear.


Do you think Latvians don't go to other EU countries and don't use roaming? Those who do now pay less, so it's Latvians paying for Latvians.


Static typing is an excellent new for PHP developers. However I wonder if Hack has an some kind of included framework in it or if it's compatible with cake PHP, symfony, laravel, etc.


In my opinion a very partial reaction on Buffett's analysis. Bitcoin's value is nowaday more related to speculation than to what you can buy with it. This is true whatever the value of the technology behind and that's probably Buffett's point.

I think that mentionning the huge appreciation of the bitcoin in 2013 doesn't really make the currency more trustful. I would say it's the contrary.


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