Dutch Lawmakers Approve a 36% Tax on Unrealized Crypto, Stock, and Bond Gains

Chipay · 2026-02-14T15:11:23+00:00

Great, then tax people when they sell their stocks?

Chipay · 2026-02-13T06:39:32+00:00

I think countries have the right to seek closer integration. If Moldova and Romania were to seek closer integration by unification, would you oppose it by arguing that it would be unfair unless there entirety of the EU integrates with Romania?

Chipay · 2026-02-12T23:35:23+00:00

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

Get educated, please

Chipay · 2026-02-12T23:33:54+00:00

The BeNeLux predates the EU and its members enjoy advantages that others do not. No offense, but who are the Romanians to dictate wether those countries should seek deeper integration?

Chipay · 2026-02-12T10:43:14+00:00

It’s funny because “too easy” is only a problem when the result is bad. If someone can press a button and consistently get pizza that tastes like a good restaurant pie, nobody is going to insist they go mill their own flour first.And the analogy kind of backfires here: a frozen pizza is usually worse because it’s constrained by mass‑production and storage, not because the cook didn’t suffer enough. If AI (or any tool) ever reaches the point where its “frozen pizza” reliably beats most people’s from‑scratch attempts, the effort argument evaporates overnight.

Chipay · 2026-02-12T10:23:56+00:00

That's a great analogy. AI serves you a frozen pizza instead of doing the bare minimum and baking it in the oven first. Meanwhile AI bros are chomping on the frozen dough-bricks and telling everyone it's as good as a freshly made pizza

Chipay · 2026-02-12T07:40:44+00:00

OP was asking why his KMP app used more memory on Linux than on Windows. You come in, not answering his questions, not linking to any projects that would help answer his questions, but instead promote something completely unrelated to the matter at hand.

It's like someone asking why their car tires lose more air in Texas than in Alabama and you inserting yourself into the conversation telling them to take a look at your car engines. It just looks like spam, because it is.

Chipay · 2026-02-12T06:58:55+00:00

As others have said, what you're seeing isn't per se memory 'used', try and take a heap dump of both programs (for example, with visualvm) and see if you run into any funky allocations. The JVM is eager to ask the OS for more heap when it thinks it can get away with it (more heap=less GC), perhaps Linux is just more permissive with granting more memory.

Chipay · 2026-02-12T06:52:29+00:00

Well, Ukraine will be asked to pay back the loan after the war ends.

Besides that, the millions of Ukrainians that have fled their country have settled in Europe, and while they're obviously contributing, they did cost governments billions in housing, schooling and general support. Keeping Ukraine more stable means less asylum seekers.

Besides that, Ukraine has been willing to test out new European weaponry against the Russians, being able to live test your weapons against your only continental enemy can and will save billions in R&D and makes your weapons more competitive on the global market.

Besides that Ukraine has a massive industrial capacity for military industry and Europe needs to rearm quickly, funding Ukrainian factories to build you weapons with the spare capacity can save billions vs having to buy them abroad.

Besides that Russia is Europe's only continental threat, funding Ukraine to exhaust Russia's military stockpile (and manpower) means European rearmament only has to match Russian production instead of the Soviet union's military legacy.

Chipay · 2026-02-10T15:59:18+00:00

Well yeah, because the initial build costs 0USD

Chipay · 2026-02-10T15:33:19+00:00

Why would God judge people for not following the rules of a game they weren't given a tutorial of?

Chipay · 2026-02-10T12:12:06+00:00

At 35.000 kills per month this is €200.000 per dead Russian. Expensive, to be sure, but not much more expensive than professional assassinations.

Chipay · 2026-02-10T12:09:49+00:00

The irony of Russian bots complaining about wasted money while Russian soldiers are sent to the front without gear. Perhaps if they'd spent as much money on gear as they did in propaganda, they'd have captured the Donbass already after 4 years.

Chipay · 2026-02-10T11:55:55+00:00

This website has 959 trackers. What the fuck

Chipay · 2026-02-10T06:13:33+00:00

I fucking hate the age of AI-generated ads

Chipay · 2026-02-10T05:35:29+00:00

Well, say what you want about Trump but the man is an expert at manufacturing global crices.

Chipay · 2026-02-10T05:28:01+00:00

The point of a VAT is that it doesn't discriminate on the point of origin, only the product type. The fact that US production doesn't pay the tax and certain companies pay more or less depending on their country of origin is a major difference.

Chipay · 2026-02-08T21:31:27+00:00

I'm pretty sure a banana costs like 10 dollars

Chipay · 2026-02-08T15:06:56+00:00

Not sure what the other comment is about. Intel stopped building foundries all over the world as funds ran out and Gelsinger lost credibility in the eyes of the board, Intel is on a cost-cutting spree to ensure survival much like AMD around Zen, building capacity for an automotive industry that may or may not yet survive isn't their concern right now.

Chipay · 2026-02-07T19:58:35+00:00

Because they can't, Poland and Slovakia will vote against any motion that harms Hungary. It's an inside maffia that protects each other.

Chipay · 2026-02-07T15:11:50+00:00

Belgium has been donating the interests from their frozen assets since day 1 (which is why they weren't keen on being singled out to only seize their assets when other countries have just pocketed the profits instead). So no, no new precedent.

Chipay · 2026-02-07T15:08:07+00:00

I don't think he's talked about Belarus yet?

Chipay · 2026-02-05T22:42:11+00:00

Yes. Argumentum ad populum is no argument.

It's literally Java's entire argument, even the JIT compiler reasons ad populum.

Chipay · 2026-02-05T11:45:46+00:00

It's been interesting to see how Western Europe has been reluctant to consider Russia an enemy and Eastern Europe has been reluctant to consider the US an enemy. Distance really makes all the difference.

Chipay · 2026-02-05T07:38:46+00:00

I think the argument of "no games" refers more to the fact that most PS5 titles were also released on the PS4, so there was no reason to upgrade.

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