rwarfield

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by rwarfield 5d ago
> That's treasonous/seditious bullet to the back of the head activity. Evidence please. You're unintentionally illustrating my point here. > Also let's not pretend Reuters / western media polling on HK under
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by rwarfield 5d ago
I was there too. It's just absolutely false that "a vast majority of the locals hated the protests". See for example the contemporaneous polling done by Reuters below - 59% of the population supported the protests at the end
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by rwarfield 4mo ago
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, requiring specialist tax advice encompassing two countrie
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by rwarfield 10mo ago
> 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? A safe amount of sex? Are we supposed to stop enj
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by rwarfield 10mo ago
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) radioactive to overseas financial institutions because of the pote
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by rwarfield 1y ago
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 and other necessities - is insane. And sanctimony about &quot
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by rwarfield 1y ago
But the ultimate goal is never to decrease costs; it's to provide people housing.
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by rwarfield 1y ago
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 Phoenix, Atlanta, Miami, Dallas... Then two paragraphs l
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by rwarfield 1y ago
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 leads to debanking of small accounts - payments firms e
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by rwarfield 2y ago
I absolutely love this, and love it even more because of the Nix integration. Fantastic job.
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by rwarfield 2y ago
Because for all of Mark Zuckerburg's flaws (or Elon, or whoever), America is unlikely to go to war with him?
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by rwarfield 2y ago
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 issues need to be debated by Americans witho
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by rwarfield 2y ago
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 difference in the way private companies relate to the gove
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by rwarfield 2y ago
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) viewpoint that China just needs to amplify. This isn't about
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by rwarfield 2y ago
> 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 same. As I said, export controls are such a
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by rwarfield 2y ago
> 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 control over private companies is far more pervasive, and less
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by rwarfield 2y ago
This claim is incompatible with the reality that the U.S. runs an enormous bilateral trade deficit with China.
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by rwarfield 2y ago
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 is no reason to let a foreign adversary have
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by rwarfield 2y ago
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 with fewer resources. Also the store is immutable so yo
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by rwarfield 2y ago
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 generally conceived in any meaningful way.
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by rwarfield 2y ago
Slow Boring frequently discusses academic studies and quantitative evidence around the relationship between housing supply and affordability, if you're actually interested. But what really requires evidence is the extraordinary claim t
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by rwarfield 2y ago
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 private capital out of real estate (which an
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by rwarfield 3y ago
So how does Pkl compare to Nix or Dhall?
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by rwarfield 7y ago
ptGHCi runs GHCi as a subprocess and uses GHCi commands to request type and completion information.
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by rwarfield 7y ago
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 all GHCi features are supported out of the box. No matter y