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I've had Movistar (TF are using Movistar branding for home services as well as mobile now) fibre in Barcelona for over a year now and I can't remember a single outage. Don't get me wrong as with any large incumbent they suck in many ways but I've personally had no problems with them as an internet provider. Dealing with the for fixed lines for ADSL provided by other companies was more of a pain though.
But the cost of incorporating is really tiny isn't it (£15 in the UK where I live)? And I'm thinking about what users think seeing an app created by a person vs a company
I wrote Python (https://github.com/wbond/vat_moss-python) and JS (https://github.com/wbond/vat-moss.js) libraries for this. They include docs about how to handle other aspects of VAT MOSS also.

Included are methods to determine the applicable rate based on self-declared location, billing address, phone number or IP address. The Python library includes functionality to grab exchange rates and perform VAT ID validation.
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I'm impressed that it isn't even at version 1.0 yet. Really good piece of software.
> US companies selling to EU customers is also VAT-exempt

You got this wrong. US companies need to collect and pay VAT if they want to sell to the EU - edit: for digital goods.
Don't know about Guix, it seems to be inspired by/similar to Nix. As far as I understand, the advantage of Nix is that it's a stateless description of the system, so the advantages are:

* you can describe a tree of dependencies using any version of the package you want, and can easily rollback to a previous tree if an update broke it

* because you describe a tree of packages, you're actually describing the complete state of the system, there's no leftovers from previous installations which make it work by chance

* as a result you can easily partially alter (and rollback) or move nix configurations from one machine to the next

Essentially nix (and guix?) merges package management and configuration management in a stateless and declarative, easily audited and customised, manner.
I got rid of my land line more than 10 years ago but it did not help.
A page like this should show naked man and woman (not too attractive), with all their pubic hair and genitals exposed.

Most people think they have their body to hide. Showing them that it isn't so might make a difference.
Heroin + other drugs combined are responsible for a high percentage of all drug related deaths. You can make the argument that there's not much difference, because people are dumb, and I'd probably agree with you though.
By the point where it screws up someone's ability to earn and they don't have family money, they're no longer a functional human in society. Their other relationships are screwed, no matter which way you look at it, they're a welfare case.

My experience is that "those" crimes are caused by trauma and mental illness, but I guess the drug use is the easy thing to blame. It correlates super high at that point.

My experience with most of this is second-hand.
As a slack user, I think this is awesome. This is one thing that we do miss currently, a video calling facility.

I mean we can log into skype or google hangouts something else, but having it in slack would be totally cool!

I've never used Screenhero before, but going by the comments here, I wish I had!
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Wow. I've been struggling to teach myself objective-c, never getting beyond the simple tutorials. So I'm happy to try this out.

I currently have an MVP in ionic framework and would love to port this over to react. Though I should say that Ionic is amazing in its own right.

Also, I tend to agree with some of the comments in this thread -- regular Joe user can't really tell the difference. Ionic on an iPhone looks damn-near close to native. Android leaves a little to be desired.

Nice work React team
That's only for sales made to EU customers.
Here is a blog post by Andrus Ansip, the European Commissioner for the Digital Single Market, on the new EU VAT rules. It's not a particularly supportive or re-assuring post given the criticisms of the new rules

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-2019/ansip/blog/euvat_e...

Apparently these rules were agreed in 2008. Countries have obviously failed to communicate the impending changes. I liked this comment below the post:

"And so much for it being in place since 2008.

This is akin to the Vogons in Douglas Adam's Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy claiming that the plans for Earths destruction have been available for viewing on Alpha Centauri for 50 years."
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> From what I understand, heroin when injected is so addictive that using it even once can put you on a path you never would have gone anywhere near

Entirely incorrect. You'll need to take it daily for at least a month or so for withdrawals to even begin to effect you.

There are good arguments against heroin. We don't need to use propaganda and falsehoods to do so, in my opinion.
I generaly agree with those slides, yet something bother me in one of the video :

One of the slide gives a false feeling of equality between two quotes, one by Brice hortefeux and one by Eric schmidt on privacy.

The first one is about surveillance cameras put in public streets by an elected representative of the people (a mayor).

The other is about scanning private conversations by a private company who only deals with shareholders.

I don't think calling everything "a society of surveillance" helps to finely tune the measures that we'll have to put in place to improve security in a not too radical way.

He later makes the point that even measures taken by governments could be completely misused by fascists regime, which is true. But then the problem is maintaining a democratic power, and a fair legal system.

And that problem existed with disastrous consequences far before the internet was created.
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If suddenly there was a regime that was going to exterminate all French people you might change your tune.

You have no idea what the world will be like 10 years from now.

The French nationals that dutifully filled out their 1930s census form had nothing to hide, until IBM rolled into town and started doing 1940s Big Data on it, then lots of people wanted to hide.
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The reason is stablishing two facts: that he wouldn't have sold if not for SR and that the buyers wouldn't have bought if not for SR. Also in he article you'll find why: it's a rebuttal to some defense's argument.

I would have asked the witness the source of the $3,500 before he had access to Silk Road. But it doesn't seem just an arbitrary emotional trick.
Amazon's customer service basically exists where Google's doesn't.

People often don't realize what a chasm of difference that is.

It doesn't help Google any that Amazon's customer service is _great_.
I think it's a reflection of an uneducated society that cannot apply common sense or the Golden Rule. Everything has to be specified in extreme detail.
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Oh great, more bloat and potential vulns.

Anyone got a way to disable it yet?
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That's the exact point of the article...
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Spare a thought for the people at the BBFC in the UK who in addition to having to watch every feature film to rate it also have to watch all the pornography videos to rate and check for legality.

I attended a university debate once between a BBFC censor and a female porn director. Watching the two of them talking about "counting knuckles during a fisting scene" to check that the UK requirement that at least one knuckle is always visible was a truly bizarre experience. The BBFC man had the look of an individual who has stared into the heart of darkness for a little too long. He had some excellent stories though!

If anyone does organise debates, talks, conferences etc in the UK on associated topics I can highly recommend getting in touch with the BBFC. They're really keen to engage with the wider public rather than just be two signatures on the screen just before a film comes on.
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> From what I understand, heroin when injected is so addictive that using it even once can put you on a path you never would have gone anywhere near. It takes rational thought out of the occasion, changes your personality and your goals - your life becomes about getting your next fix and you'll do anything to get it.

All bullshit. The vast majority of people who try heroin (even multiple times) do not get addicted.
I love Inkscape, I still use it, even though the Mac version is abysmal. It's such a shame that it does not have any proper OSX developers as I think it can more than compete with professional vector software.
I don't understand how it makes a difference. Unbundling is a sales strategy. They could have unbundled even without changing the compiler at all.

In any case, the literature I read (see earlier links) included discussion about improved optimizations, so even without ANSI there was a differentiation between the new unbundled compiler and the old bundled one.

Why do you think it's anything more than a coincidence?
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The problems you mention seem generic issues others face when using clojure in similar ways. So may be we can convince clojure core developers to add hooks that provide these features without having to introduce new fileextensions each time somebody needs to refer an extra namespace by default.

Just a suggestion. But the current solution seems reasonable until then.
I'm with you on this. I'm currently travelling around Europe. I'd rather a one sim solution to keep my family and friends up to date rather than the three prepaids I have on me.

That being said I'd like it if the website was a bit more straight forward and ,if they feel like it, maybe some ssl on the Buy page.
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I thought exactly the same. Why they're using ISM band which is free to use, if they want reliable networks they should use such band in the very first place.
I think you've struck upon the fundamental issue when it comes to substance legalization: we've made the U.S. government the arbiter of safety. People think, "If it's legal, it must be safe."

That isn't a true statement even now, but it's the mindset people bring to discussions about decriminalization.

Legalization does not need to mean "encouraging people to take it up." If we want to end the war on drugs, we need to all accept responsibility for determining what is safe for ourselves. The government's role should be in providing information and support.
Guix is based on Nix, so the following applies to both.

apt-get allows at most one version of a package to be installed at a time; if you want two versions, you need to ask the maintainers to split the package into two. Guix doesn't suffer this problem; packages are given an ID based on a hash of their contents and dependencies, so two versions will happily sit side-by-side. An "update" is treated more like installing a separate package.

If two applications depend on two different versions of some library, you can't install both applications. In Guix you can, since each can use the version it needs.

apt-get affects the whole system. All users are affected by a change; if some other user installs/removes/updates a package, you have to just deal with it. In Guix, every user gets a "profile" package, which can depend on anything they like. Installing/removing/updating packages just creates a new version of your profile, with its dependencies added/removed/changed according to what you asked for.

apt-get is stateful: the contents of /usr, /etc, etc. are changed as packages are installed/removed. Guix is immutable: packages live in their own read-only directories, so nothing can break them after installation.

apt-get can't roll back: packages can't be down-graded, all kinds of actions are taken by pre/post install scripts which can't be undone, etc. Since Guix is immutable, "rolling back" just means going back to the old selection of packages; ie. installing the old version of the profile package.
I learned to create vector graphics on CorelDraw 3, Inkscape looks like an old friend for me.
Don't forget http://asciiarena.com/

It has the history of Amiga's Ascii scene. 3879 collys.

If someone is not familiar with the term "ascii colly": It was (usually) a .txt file made by a single person. As they originated from Amiga scene, they were mostly in latin1 encoding. In many cases released under some group's name. A typical colly featured 20-60 requested or gifted ascii logos, foreword, index of logos, greetings, respects, some other messages. And of course guest art from other artists (for artist logo, group logo, file_id.diz or headers for "greetings", "respects" etc.). In these text files the file_id.diz was put between @BEGIN_FILE_ID.DIZ and @END_FILE_ID.DIZ tags.

Too bad the site is going down, because the site, as it is today, is consuming too much of the server resources. Some handy web developer could save the site. Currently it seems that there isn't a person in "today's" Amiga scene who had the time or skills to save the site.
Absolutely.

Also "slack" might be a useful concept here. E.g. I frequently ended up doing the backups at the startups I worked for, because it's one of my specialties and I really care about avoiding data loss. And after doing the setup, "turning the crank" each day was some non-intense work to do, a welcome break from the 7 hours of heads down programming that's always been my max of "real work".
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i am sure they will think about this. Plus slack is working on public channels which would be a workaround for one time users.
Knowing nothing about this person I thought It was a woman:
"I want to spend some real time with my parents, while I still have them, with my husband ...".

He/She wants to write a book and has time for his family and take care of his health.

The writer seems to be very good: A world of mass intimacy
with their reader, he loves them, he cares and that is the reason I find so hard to go away.
Sigh. Another argument based on (1) missing the context under which many people say that phrase, which is "nothing to hide" from law enforcement, and on (2) images of a future totalitarian system, which regardless of how likely it actually is, it's not considered so by most people.

In my case, they're preaching to the choir, but if I was actually one of the people they were trying to convince, it'd fail completely.
If the originator of the trust maintains a controlling ownership in the trust, no sale has taken place. If they transfer control of the trust, the page I linked says that triggers a reassessment.
This brings up a really interesting point - how do blind people visualise code, conceptually? When people talk about stacks, heaps, lists etc, there's generally a visual representation that goes along with it. I wonder what kind of abstractions blind people use.
It's the codification that begets the complexity.
> it's a reflection of an uneducated society that cannot apply common sense

The problem of common sense is that everybody has his own, you can't build rules on sand and that's what "common sense" is.

For one person it's common sense to snip bits of genital organs from infants, for the next it's common sense to pray 5 times a day, for yet an other one it's common sense to flog your children to bleeding, outright own other human beings or threaten those who don't agree with you with maiming or death. You will find people telling you it's common sense to have live grenades on your coffee tables, plant anti-personnel mines in your garden, answer a door-knock by shooting through the door or walk around with enough weaponry to take over a small country.

Relying on "common sense" is relying on hyperlocal groupthink, it's not even workable in tribal societies, it's barely workable within a small family.
As a long term user I'd agree to some extent, the 1.0 version feel has definitely been and gone - probably I'd say this is about a version 4, to my mind.

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InkscapeInvariants are the stated aims of the project and AFAICT they've not achieved the SVG spec compliance completely yet. Though I thought I recalled them aiming at the reduced SVG "basic" set (? if that's what it's called) and reaching it.

I've been a user since it forked from SodiPodi (and indeed was a SodiPodi user too).
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If you want help determining what rate to charge a customer, I built both JS and Python libraries that include functionality to:

- Determine rate based on
- phone number
- billing address
- self-declared location
- IP address
- Validate VAT IDs
- Fetch exchange rate info from the European Central Bank

You can find the code at https://github.com/wbond/vat-moss.js and https://github.com/wbond/vat_moss-python.

I also wrote up a bit about dealing with registering for VAT MOSS, generating invoices, etc.
It's from a slide set, the first draft of RISC-V's "Privileged ISA Specification" is still being worked on before initial release, which is supposed to happen RSN.

I'm assuming it's the virtual address space limit.
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I'm a software developer in training from west Germany. We discussed this "nothing to hide" topic in our class (ages about 17 - 30) and about half of them didn't care or even appreciated surveillance.
A blind friend of mine is a programmer, and honestly can hold the structure of his code in his head far better than I can. The same is true of just about anything else - he's quite capable of holding the state of an entire game of Scrabble in his head while still playing better than I can.
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I am just asking a hypothetical question, what if you could do everything in python and every thing in js. Would you still use js cause you like the language or use python.
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Working for a major player in the WebRTC space certainly gives me a bias, but "noone cares" is pretty far from the truth. There are millions of WebRTC users already, hell, we might even be approaching the billion now if you count Snapchat and Hangouts as WebRTC services. (Yes, Snapchat uses WebRTC for their video chat features)

Check out:
- https://appear.in/
- https://talky.io/
- https://screenhero.com/
- https://github.com/feross/webtorrent
- https://peercdn.com/
- https://sharefest.me/
- ...and lots, lots more. Sorry to the ones I forgot to mention/don't know about.

For some pure WebRTC experiences. http://simplewebrtc.com/ if you want to build something yourself.

The thing is, you don't know that the service you're using uses WebRTC, quite frankly because the technology doesn't matter, the user experience does. Also, the sheer fact that we seem to have standardised a very good (and very secure) way of doing peer to peer transfers, and that's getting implemented in browsers, with client libraries for iOS and Android is HUGE.
Funny, I have the opposite experience. Where clauses force you to look down and then up again (bonus if you managed to use both let and where in the same function!). The lambda syntax is a matter of debate, writing "fun" instead of "\" doesn't bother me and is, IMHO, clearer. OCaml has an equivalent of $ with @@, but I haven't seen it used very much, since chaining functions with |> is so convenient.

OCaml does not have generic ways of doing monadic stuff (do notation or generic >>=), which means in practice that monadic code looks like "fun1 x >>= (fun r -> )" which is kind of awkward. It also doesn't have typeclasses (yet).

However, one thing you're unlikely to find in OCaml and which is unfortunately not uncommon in Haskell is functions with a long list of positional parameters (since you have named arguments) or different versions of the same function with a "_" suffix, depending on various defaults (since you have named arguments). It makes a tremendous difference of readability when dealing with complex code.

Also, interface files (.mli), while a bit of a pain to maintain at times, give a very clear idea of what interface a given module exposes.

All in all, I find OCaml code much easier to read, not to mention less "clever" than equivalent Haskell code.
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Plus, because almost all of what they do is based on customer demand, they haven't killed many products. Whereas Google…
Oh, I missed that. I'm a big fan of React (working on DOM-diffing stuff myself for GWT), but I skimmed the video, didn't watch it through yet (rushing to airport)
Own and run a business that competes with an American/British/Canadian/Australian/Kiwi business? You have something to hide.

Got a strong viewpoint about a religion you don't like? You have something to hide.

Like to travel around the world and see new places, do new things? You have something to hide.

People need to understand the use-case for pervasive surveillance is not stopping terrorism. Its controlling civilization ..
That depends on geographical and historical context. In my country (ex-Soviet Union), the opposite is true. Older people, who have experienced what totalitarianism and mass surveillance is (thanks to KGB), are very pro-privacy. My grandmother still tears up every single letter to the small pieces before dumping it, even though that's a casual utility bill. On the other hand, youth, that are used to share all their life details on Facebook, Twitter and whatnot, are mostly of "I have nothing to hide" attitude. Only minority of young people (usually more technically literate) understand how important privacy is and how powerful information can be.

EDIT: grammar.
Both Guix and Nixos allow your system to be defined declaratively. This means that the details of reproducing your system state, given a declarative configuration, are fully handled by Guix/Nixos. So, if you like, you can consider the mapping between declarations and systems a pure function (i.e. you always get the same startup state for a given config). It's not hard to see how this could be valuable when deploying many servers (reproducability), getting out of dependency hell / failed upgrades (perfect rollbacks), bug reporting (just append the config that fully describes your system!), etc...

I've also found that the increasing entropy caused by stateful alternatives (e.g. apt-get) eventually becomes impossible to manage. This is entirely due to hidden state that grows in complexity over time. Eventually, things break in a way that nobody on StackOverflow has seen before, and you're SOL. In the declarative world, everything specific to your setup is required to be defined upfront, in one central place. This provides you with a much better chance of understanding your system as it evolves.

(Your account name makes me think you've appreciated functional programming data structures at some point. In not surprisingly, the benefits of immutability and declarative style in programming languages seem to carry over to configuration management.)
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