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zxspectrum1982 commented on Proposal: GUI-first, text-based mechanical CAD inspired by software engineering    · Posted by u/thinkmachyx
zxspectrum1982 · 2 months ago
Other than git-friendly, this is how I remember AutoCAD 10 from ancient times.

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zxspectrum1982 commented on Gemini CLI   blog.google/technology/de... · Posted by u/sync
lazarie · 2 months ago
"Failed to login. Ensure your Google account is not a Workspace account."

Is your vision with Gemini CLI to be geared only towards non-commercial users? I have had a workspace account since GSuite and have been constantly punished for it by Google offerings all I wanted was gmail with a custom domain and I've lost all my youtube data, all my fitbit data, I cant select different versions of some of your subscriptions (seemingly completely random across your services from a end-user perspective), and now as a Workspace account I cant use Gemini CLI for my work, which is software development. This approach strikes me as actively hostile towards your loyal paying users...

zxspectrum1982 · 2 months ago
Same here.
zxspectrum1982 commented on Gemini CLI   blog.google/technology/de... · Posted by u/sync
zxspectrum1982 · 2 months ago
Does Gemini CLI require API access?
zxspectrum1982 commented on China's tech invasion is a national emergency   washingtonexaminer.com/re... · Posted by u/aa_is_op
zxspectrum1982 · 3 months ago
China was busy training the best scientists and engineers while the USA were busy expanding their woke bullshit inside and outside of America. Thank you for nothing, progressives.
zxspectrum1982 commented on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries   cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trump... · Posted by u/bhouston
foepys · 5 months ago
Easy: because next to 100% of EU government computers run Windows and MS Office.
zxspectrum1982 · 5 months ago
Not true. The European Union runs RHEL, OpenShift and some SUSE.
zxspectrum1982 commented on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall   nymag.com/intelligencer/a... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
ath3nd · 5 months ago
> FAIR TAXES

Agreed with you! A progressive tax (the more you earn, the higher % you get taxed) makes sense as a fair thing to me.

Where I am from, it's 52%, and that's a reasonable price to pay for having bike paths, greening, parks, good roads, affordable public transport, great public schools, and paid time off and maternity/paternity leave.

Once there was a strike of the public sanitation workers in my city due to their low wages. You know what happened? In 2 weeks it changed from a beautiful place to live to a cesspool. Don't know about you but I was happy to spend some of my $$ so I didn't have to fight rats, rabid dogs and mountains of garbage to take my kids from school.

As a matter of fact, once somebody reaches a certain amount of wealth, I'd be very much in favor that it should be 70%, 80%, 90% and 99%. And, of course, then you get the prize "you won capitalism, now relax".

zxspectrum1982 · 5 months ago
52% is not fair but pure robbery. Not so long ago, people paid the tithe (10%) and if any lord, governor or king dared to go just a little further, they'd be killed, usually by hanging. There's many countries in the world with smaller taxes and still great services. Public money is just wasted by politicians trying to buy votes for the next election.
zxspectrum1982 commented on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall   nymag.com/intelligencer/a... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
lores · 5 months ago
Limiting the snowball effect of the wealthy getting wealthier generation after generation through no contribution of their own is considered a societal good. Whether it is can be debated, but Europe seems to be in a happier position regarding that than the US, at the moment. Why is it always the rugged individualists, the pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps proponents who are in favour of receiving unearned money? It feels less like a considered philosophical viewpoint than naked greed.

(and, on a side note, where do you get that you can give unlimited tax-free money to your children in almost every country of the world? I checked the US, France, UK, Spain, Morocco, South Africa and Brazil, and all have limits after which tax apply. China and the Philippines don't, but neither do they have inheritance tax.)

zxspectrum1982 · 5 months ago
Considered good by whom? By socialist teenagers? Work hard and build a family, then re-read your comments in a few years. You'll think different.

Also, again, the thresholds are ridiculously low. They don't even cover the cost of the deceased's house. Stop the theory, start the reality.

zxspectrum1982 commented on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall   nymag.com/intelligencer/a... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
ath3nd · 5 months ago
Stop the tsarist/oligarch propaganda then /s.

If you don't want to pay taxes, don't be a part of society, don't use public roads, public schools, public hospitals, and public education.

If you do want to be a part of society, accept that it's a give-and-take situation, and move on. Some people give more than they take, and some people do take more than they have given, and that's alright with me.

Side rant:

It's no wonder that a show like Breaking Bad, where a teacher gets cancer and has to become a drug kingpin to finance his healthcare, has to be situated in the US. The plot simply wouldn't hold in any other civilized country.

It's no also wonder that the name Luigi is no longer only the name of Mario's brother but synonymous with something else, and again something that happened in the US.

zxspectrum1982 · 5 months ago
Nobody said "no" to taxes. Fair taxes are necessary. FAIR TAXES. Not 45% taxes on something that already paid taxes several times (income, property, VAT, etc). That's robbery.
zxspectrum1982 commented on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall   nymag.com/intelligencer/a... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
lores · 5 months ago
Why should one be entitled to the property of their brother? What's special about a brother that should be unavailable with leaving property to, say, one's best friend?
zxspectrum1982 · 5 months ago
Communism never ends up well. Remember that when your wishes become reality.

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