The study you're quoting also says that roughly half of the remaining 81% thinks that God has guided human evolution, so it does contradict OP's statement of 40% believing God created the Earth 10,000 years ago at all.
> I can’t sell my family member my house for $1 for example
In most countries you absolutely can. The difference between market value and the sale price might be considered and taxed as a gift, but such a deal is generally not prohibited.
A better solution is to not tie visas to jobs. While at it, also stop tying healthcare insurance to jobs.
As someone from a country with strong labor protections, I'm in favor of making it easier to fire people. There's too much dead weight around in companies here. But being fired shouldn't be a life threatening event.
This is something I can get behind. I don’t want to be a deadweight to a company and still expect to get paid handsomely.
But the reality is that tying visas and healthcare to jobs, and treating expats who pay taxes in the 90th percentile like unwanted immigrants, is a bad deal for everyone involved.
I do hope this gets fixed at some point—I’d love to go back. I made some great friends there. But until then, I still stand for better labor protection.
> A business (supplier) that doesn't sell to end consumers pays no VAT
They indeed pay no net VAT (it's not a cost for them in the sense of their profit and loss statement), but they do remit a bit of the VAT collected by the end consumer to their _local_ tax authority.
As an example, let's consider a VAT rate of 20%, and a Dutch company that buys from a French one and sells to a German one. Their costs per product are €80, and thus they pay €16 of VAT over that to their French suppliers. If they sell a product for €100 (i.e. they add €20 of value), then they collect €20 of VAT from their German buyers (which might in turn get it from the end consumers). There's a difference of €4 between what they received and paid in VAT, and that difference is collected by the Dutch tax authority. That €4 is not coincidentally the 20% VAT over the value added by the Dutch company.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. When the good passes from one country to the next, the vat from the first country is given back - as if it was bought tax-free - and the VAT of the country you're in applies.
Before the EU common market, you used to be able to do that VAT refund even for your own purchases as a private person on vacation - you can still, for example between the EU and Switzerland. It was even translating to tax-free vacation shopping because they weren't interested in collection taxes below a certain value.
It's not an engineering problem, it's a political problem. If you present this problem to any power engineer at Nvidia, they'd probably say something akin to "yeah, delivering 600W at 12V over a 12-prong connector is insane, up the voltage". The issue is that 12V has been the standard voltage for ages, and if you want to sell a product that requires a higher voltage, you first need to get the industry to produce PSUs that deliver a higher voltage.
> A 48V system would have only ~13% the resistive losses over the cables (more importantly, at the connections!)
It's one-sixteenth (6.25%) actually. You correctly note that resistive losses scale with the square of the current (and current goes with reciprocal voltage), so at 4 times the voltage, you have 1/4th the current and (1/4)^2 = 1/16th the resistive losses.
Because there is a non-zero chance that at some point you'll need a medical procedure that is, even at non-inflated cost price, more expensive than your net worth in order to survive; and society considers it unethical to let you die in that case. With the same reasoning you're not actually the single payer for your food, and food stamps exist.
In case you don't know, you can use the `-n` argument to `systemctl status` to tweak the log output, e.g. `-n0` to disable the log output and `-n40` to get more than the default 10 lines.
That's a great option to tweak the behavior and I hadn't known about it (or if I ever had, I'd well forgotten). Thanks!
From the man page it ?looks like? if you want reverse or full then it's still off to the journalctl command and arguments but at least "-n9999" is better than "always 10 lines".
Glad you like it! I'd rather learn to deal/work with the rough spots than stick my head in the sand with an alias and be even more lost when I don't have it or am working with someone else though. At least for the super common tools like git, systemctl, grep, and the like.
> I'd rather learn to deal/work with the rough spots than stick my head in the sand with an alias
I highly encourage you to learn the commands. But it seems like you did.
I would not call something so stylistic as `git branch -vv` as "sticking your head in the sand". Your fallback is not going to really confuse you or put you at risk of not knowing what's going on. I can totally understand if we were talking about aliasing something much more complicated, but at that point it's a script...
