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Taxing companies on revenue would completely wipe out low-margin businesses like supermarkets, and create massive distortions in the economy where one company being vertically integrated and owning everything being practically the only option, as otherwise goods passed between businesses means tax is paid on the revenue twice.

It would kill the economy overnight.

Unfortunately if your employer pays for private health insurance, HMRC says that is a taxable benefit and you still pay tax. The more insidious part is how the government makes employers pay a hidden 15% national insurance tax that needs to be paid on top of the tax on your salary.

maybe it would be a little better to use ints rather than longs, as Java lists can't be bigger than the int max value anyways. Saves you a cache line or two.

The code:

  public int parseOrDefault(String value, int defaultValue) {
      if (value == null || value.isBlank()) return defaultValue;
      for (int i = 0; i < value.length(); i++) {
          char c = value.charAt(i);
          if (i == 0 && c == '-') continue;
          if (!Character.isDigit(c)) return defaultValue;
      }
      return Integer.parseInt(value);
  }

Is probably worse than Integer.parseInt alone, since it can still throw NumberFormatExceptions for values that overflow (which is no longer handled!). Would maybe fix that. Unfortunately this is a major flaw in the Java standard library; parsing numbers shouldn't throw expensive exceptions.

this comment is pretty obviously written by AI

Yes, last time I checked, Zig's comptime was 20x slower than interpreted Python. Parsing a non-trivial JSON file at comptime is excrutiatingly slow and can take minutes.

    You’ve got a monopoly on lemonade because you pay all the grocery stores to be the default lemonade.

    So we’re going to force you sell your car.

I don't think this is an accurate anaology. It's more like, you own the vast majority of grocery stores, and you make lemonade, and you force all the other grocery stores to only sell your lemonade.

To put it another way, the problem is not so much that Google shouldn't be paying to be the default search engine, but that it shouldn't own both the browser and the search engine.

I think this harkens back to the anti-trust court case, United States v. Paramount Pictures, where the court ruled that the film studios cannot hold monopolies over the movie theatres, and that theatres must remain independent.

Similarly, browsers and search engines being independent is good for competition because the internet is too important to let a single company dictate how it is used.

GnuCash and KDE Money always seemed very similar to me. Why should I use GnuCash over KDE money?

No wonder he heard from his brother that the Border Patrol were always hiring; they seemingly make it impossible to get hired.

Can you DMCA yourself for someone else's copyrighted material? That's what I'm talking about here.