ranzispa

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[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Indeed, however this is not a common problem across Europe. That would not explain otherwise why most digital nomads are mostly Europeans. Such issue was mostly generated by the specific tax policies of Portugal who incentivized rich people to move into the country without ensuring this would lead to a common good. All in all, I do not believe this is a problem strictly related to the fact that Portugal is part of the European Union, but rather the result of poor policy planning. Mind you, I'm not saying the policies were without reason, but probably did not obtain the expected results.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I'd attribute that problem to Portugal specifically though. Especially to the taxation policies that incentivized people to move to Portugal but without requiring them to specifically set up business in Portugal. This resulted into many people working in other countries to move to Portugal to pay lower taxation. This indeed increased prices, especially for rent but also in general, as those people had higher purchasing power but did not significantly increase salaries. There is a reason why Lisbon is the heaven of digital nomads. I hear things are changing, but I don't know too much about it. Indeed I know many people in Lisbon who work mostly in other countries. Sure they pay taxes, but that doesn't directly translate into higher paying jobs.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

I don't get the meaning of this. What is your meaning of casserole? A casserole is a pot.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

We rely on Microsoft. Most other alternatives that offer such services are on foreign servers anyway. We do have a NAS for our own backup, but we still need something that is accessible everywhere and where we can collaboratively edit documents. Would be nice to spin up our own server, but cannot really dedicate too much time to maintaining it.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I doubt cannabis is the biggest business of organized crime.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Nah, he's a cool guy. Everyone around enjoys his company. A little bit of the philosopher of the town.

He does not work, if that is what you mean by giving something in return. However he also does not use many things. We live in a rich country and things are plentiful. What he gets is either stuff that people throw away or that they are happy to give him.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Everyone gets free healthcare in Spain. No matter whether you do pay taxes or not, as long as you're a resident. There's places where they offer showers for free in town, however I believe he doesn't use those places and just washes in the river. To survive the cold of the winter, he has the tent and blankets. To be fair, it doesn't get too cold where I live. It never snows. The guy goes around in shorts and sandals all year round, doesn't appear to suffer too much cold. In fact he often complains he has to leave the tent half opened because of heat.

The place where he set up tent is private and owned by someone. It's a small spot in the woods. Nobody could ever care less. Police can not kick him out because the place is private, and I guess the owner doesn't give a damn and would rather have someone live there in peace rather than kick them out for no reason. He's now been staying in that spot for over seven years. I've been in the place a few times as he invited me for lunch, it's pretty nice.

Now, I'm not romanticising anything. This is not a lifestyle I would conduct. I know this is possible and works out because I know people who live this way and they are happy.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess tarp is what I meant.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

I imagine if this ever becomes a problem, they can just set th and the thorn to the same token in the LLM and it will then make no difference at all which is which.

If this ever becomes a problem in training the solution is extremely easy.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can imagine. This fact does not affect me in such a way that I'd be interested in checking multiple sources. I mostly do not actually care. I don't know the guy and it's not my country.

I just find American politics to be very polarised. I was appreciating someone giving context.

Not that the US is the only country with polarised politics.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

You not working?

AWS down

Oh ok, don't worry

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

Carp for best results, may be substituted with salmon or tuna but do not expect the same quality.

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