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@NickJ_UK @rcbregman If you look at the paper being cited, these are "income tax" rates; looks like they exclude social insurance, corporate taxes, and so on. This is figure 2 from the paper; figure 1 shows total effective tax rates (including VAT, etc), which are much higher than these numbers

@rcbregman Smth is very odd about this graph. There is no way no one pays an effective tax rate above 16% in France and above 21% in the Netherlands.

Whenever European billionaires threaten to leave Europe for the US, feel free to remind them that they'll actually pay more income tax over there 👍

More people should have read Eisenhower's farewell address. Not just the "military-industrial complex" part, but also the _other_ big problem he was concerned with, which got ignored (in both the facets he mentions!), with predictable consequences: archives.gov/milestone-docu…

@FedEx It would be nice if your automated system didn't just hang up on people, perhaps understood problems like "package delivered to wrong address" (not _shipped_ to wrong address, _delivered_), and actually connected someone with a representative when it claims it will.

@EmpowerToday E*Trade changed from 8 to 9 digit account numbers last week, but your system only allows 8-digit account numbers when trying to do roll-overs to E*Trade. Could you please get that updated?

@EmpowerToday @EmpowerToday It's been another several weeks, and tax filing deadlines are approaching rapidly. Not being able to import the relevant transactions into my bookkeeping system is going to be a problem for tax filing. When is this going to be fixed?

@really_bz Hello. We are actively working on getting this issue resolved but do not currently have a timeframe for when that will occur. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused. Thank you.

@EmpowerToday The "download transaction history" functionality seems to have disappeared from the "Transaction history" view. What happened to it?

@7homaslin Yes, clarifying that would be ideal. In general, actually writing down the rules as rules, not as an extended example, would be good. Thank you for the fun game!

@really_bz Hello! The game allows you to string together digits for the first number in your math equation, but you can only use one digit for the second number. So you can’t do 817 - 48. It would have to be 74 - 8 or 8174/8 or 4 + 8 or 4 x 8, none of which make 9. We’ll make this clearer.

@7homaslin why does the following sequence not work for hyperjumps.quantamagazine.org? 8, 1, 7, 4, 8, 9 8 - 1 = _7_ 81 - 7 = 7_4_ 7 * 4 = 2_8_ 817 - 48 = 76_9_ so I would have expected this to work.

@EmpowerToday Any update on this? It's been well over a month with this not working now.

@really_bz Hello. We are aware of the issue related to the transaction history and are working on getting it resolved as quickly as possible. Your patience is appreciated.

@wanderview Thank you! Now we just need to make some improvements to it... ;)

@really_bz Congrats!

csa-iot.org/all-solutions/… is here.

@wanderview Yep.

@really_bz Is this what you have been working on?

Is the @YouTube "Time watched" functionality available on the website (when using a desktop browser), or just in the mobile apps?

@ericlaw @nytimes I appreciate the advice! That said, I know how to get these things fixed, or have the network to find out, as here. But not everyone is in my position....

@really_bz @nytimes The Application tab in DevTools will get you sorted. Wild that 5gb wasn't enough and the Wordle history pushed you over the limit.

Well, I was wondering how long it would take @nytimes to do something with #wordle. As of a few days ago, powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ redirects me to this:

@sleevi_ I appreciate the vote of confidence. :) If you have questions, by the way, let me know!

@sleevi_ That's the hope! I think we'll get there. :)

@WesGarland4 How does memccpy solve the fundamental problem of strncpy, which is that the destination can end up not null-terminated? And yes, I know getting strlcpy on Linux is a pain. The question is _why_ given the obvious safety benefits.

@really_bz Why not memccpy, which is POSIX, SVR4, 4.3BSD, and already in string.h? Around here I need to either -lbsd, or -lssl to get strlcpy IIRC. Or write a macro around memccpy. :)

If people have to use C strings, why not at least use strlcpy instead of strncpy?

@MikeHommey Well, yes, but the real question is why it's not in glibc!

@really_bz lwn.net/Articles/50731… (this is 10 years old, but it's still not in glibc)