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- Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law 1 day ago:
People who can’t figure out things (and as you noticed it’s very hard), pay the most taxes of anyone in Europe, while people who earn enough can hire a specialist that tells them how to profit from deductibles, subsidies and fake self employment etc. The tax services routinely issue fines that were deemed illegal multiple times by judges in the past and it’s up to their victims to protest against this.
Are you sure you’re not Eastern European?
- Comment on Joe Biden issues 'full and unconditional' pardon for son 2 days ago:
The same place it will be for the next two months.
- Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law 2 days ago:
So the thing is that for a recent hire most companies, especially small ones, don’t know about the supplementary days. That makes for an awkward conversation immediately when you start.
The only real source is a government website with no good law citations that says ambiguous shit, and the actual law, available in Dutch or French, but the legal text is very hard since it’s a modification to an older royal decree, so you have to read the two together.
Ask me how I know. Capital of the EU my ass.
- Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law 3 days ago:
As someone who writes computer code for a living, I might match those up differently than you’d expect.
- Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law 3 days ago:
Your leave policies are a mess for people just moving here from other parts of the EU. You can end up with practically no leave for a year.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 weeks ago:
Or maybe, just maybe, fine companies that commit criminal acts.
There really is a fine line between turning into an authoritarian regime and doing basic police work, right?
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 weeks ago:
Twitter is not the sole, or even the biggest social media company in Europe. It’s not even in the top 3.
The advertisement sector will be fine.
- Comment on Would there be any merit in the idea of NATO waging a "benevolent war" (for lack of a better term) against Ukraine? 2 weeks ago:
or, if I’m mistaken, replace NATO with any other military alliance Ukraine would want to join
This is essentially what the Ukraine EU accession talks are about. The EU is the military alliance they want to join, and it is actually even more protective than the NATO.
So the question isn’t stupid, Ukraine actually wants this, the EU is of two minds about it so far.
- Comment on Would there be any merit in the idea of NATO waging a "benevolent war" (for lack of a better term) against Ukraine? 2 weeks ago:
even then calling it an organization is not really that accurate
It is an organization, you can go work for the NATO directly. They are headquartered in Brussels.
That said, military intervention on behalf of NATO works as you described, but there would be an obligation to help Canada in your example if the war would spread to its home soil. That said, the help obligation is literally worded “as they deem necessary”, so they could pretend that no large-scale intervention is necessary.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 2 weeks ago:
So that means that since bacteria and the like outnumber us by orders of magnitude, statistically speaking, multicellular life would be wiped out completely.
- Comment on Palworld dev details the patents Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are suing for 3 weeks ago:
So if Nintendo wins, could Google buy the PUBG IP and use it to sue for Fortnite and destroy Epic?
There can be only one game of every genre made! \s
- Comment on Take-Two are selling Private Division and closing Roll7 and Intercept, because they're in "the business of making great big hits" 3 weeks ago:
How about Juno New Origins (formerly SimpleRockets?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Criticism of ‘Woke AI’ Suggests ChatGPT Could Be a Trump Administration Target. 4 weeks ago:
RTL got bribed or what?
- Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era 4 weeks ago:
I’m running Fedora KDE on a Framework laptop and a custom built machine, but they are all AMD so IDK about Nvidia cards.
As I’ve heard Nvidia nowadays releases Linux drivers.
TBH I haven’t had any problems installing and using Linux for years now, I think just go for it and see what happens.
- Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era 4 weeks ago:
My current Linux machine needed exactly zero config post install, and even stuff like the fingerprint reader is working, I’m using it instead of passwords in a terminal.
I can also play games pretty well, it’s usually smoother and less buggy than on Windows.
I feel Linux is not a compromise for me anymore, Windows is fast becoming one though.
- Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era 4 weeks ago:
Piping VSCode Server through SSH is pretty nifty.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 4 weeks ago:
Not if you’re running afoul of the DMCA.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 4 weeks ago:
It’s a thing for any measure said to enforce copyright under the DMCA.
So it’s a thing for most proprietary software.
- Comment on Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes 5 weeks ago:
Home users are QA for enterprise.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 5 weeks ago:
Making it super simple, it runs with full access on your machine, always. It can fuck anything up, and see everything. It can get your browser history, banking details or private messages you enter, activate your webcam or mic without you knowing, or brick your computer even.
And you can’t even check what it’s really doing on your computer because it’s a crime under US law.
- Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era 5 weeks ago:
I used Windows, Mac and Linux in the past year.
It’s not Mac that’s fast, it’s Windows that sucks hard.
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah but they only do that in the EU, they still offer a degraded service everywhere else.
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 5 weeks ago:
You need to believe that you can get ahead in society by being smarter than the competition, instead of just being luckier.
They are naive if anything.
- Comment on Be a rebel, pick up trash. 5 weeks ago:
Save the trees, eat the beavers!
- Comment on I hate that that happens 5 weeks ago:
It’s basically a mishmash of Ancient Ugric, Turkish, German, Slavic and Romani words with grammar that is an eldritch monstrosity, nobody really knows where it came from, and it is seriously weird.
There are only two real tenses, but nineteen cases and two different ways of doing imperative, which are kind of equivalent but carry cultural and tonal differences in certain contexts.
- Comment on Looks like a toy 'yota. 5 weeks ago:
And made machine looms.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 5 weeks ago:
Some Hungarian prefixes can be piled on without limit, while still creating meaning.
The word “úszni” means “to swim”.
Úsztatni - to make someone or someone swim
Úsztattatni - to make someone make someone swim
Úsztattattattattattattattattattni - to make someone make someone make someone … make someone swimCan be done with any verb, and maybe some other suffixes as well.
- Comment on LinkedIn fined $335 million in EU for tracking ads privacy breaches 5 weeks ago:
There is in fact a requirement, and also that it’s off by default.
- Comment on If you find any German words, you can keep them 1 month ago:
DU
- Comment on Who all wants a silent spring? 1 month ago:
It’s literally just that the language uses compound words constructed on the spot, as opposed to compound phrases. When you say “insect death”, German grammar just dictates that if it’s written without prepositions as “insect death” and not “the death of insects”, you have to write it in one word.
The same works in Hungarian as well. “The death of insects” would be “a rovarok halálozása”, while “insect death” has to be written as “rovarhalálozás”. Every compound phrase without a preposition to clarify the relationship of the words becomes a compound word.
Actually, Hungarian is even worse, because prepositions and some other stuff also become suffixes, and are thus attached to the word. So the phrase “happening at the time when insect death is caused” can be translated word for word as “a rovarok halálának okozásának idejében történő”, but it is equally right, and more succinct to use the adjective “rovarhaláloztatáskori”.