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That's exactly why DNS verification is a overkill.

Yeah, RON hasn't moved against EUR - but the price of bread, butter, eggs, ham, cheese etc in RON (as well as EUR) has moved up. That's not pegged to prices anywhere.

The new trend in Europe is to talk about consumer price inflation (increase) when they say "inflation". What they mean is that usual stuff (food, building materials, etc) costs more. There's no reason the local prices should track EUR "inflation", and it's true that they don't.

How much that matters to you is another thing - it matters a lot to a poor/average wage person, I think it doesn't mean much when you're making a SWE salary.

Not really, my savings converted to EUR gained thanks to the currency movement and then the interest - which is bigger than anywhere in the Eurozone. I am mostly interested in that since I buy property in Eurozone countries. What I spend in CZ is peanuts. Yeah I can buy less bread and butter but I don't really care, it's not like I'm going to buy food for 5M CZK, I spend less than 15k/month on that. And Czech property prices are currently going down anyways.

What actually matters to an Eurozone resident is the currency movement against EUR, not the local consumer price inflation - you don't need to be a local consumer at all. These indicators don't move in lockstep, in case of CZK they actually moved in the opposite direction than expected.

I don't get this talk about fairness? How could be choosing based on sex fair in any way, ever? I thought that's exactly the unfair thing we wanted to avoid in the modern world. Is it now OK to hire based on sex too? What the hell...

> In response to an inquiry from Reuters, the USDA said it had found no conflicts of interest on Neuralink’s board when the department inspected its animal-research operations during 10 inspections since 2020. The company has passed all inspections with no citations, according to public records and a person with knowledge of the examinations.

If the regulator says everything is OK, we can't expect the company to think/act otherwise. They passed all inspections and are acting according to the law. If we want change at Neuralink, the law and the regulator need to change.

Just a little bit to the south.

Czech Koruna. Every bank there offers it now. But the currency is losing against EUR right now (after it gained a lot in the past year).

My European savings account has 6% interest. Not EUR though.

Well I think I meant something in between. You don't need to be from old money to get a property in Monaco and much less in other places in EU - I got several, and I started literally from 0. And you definitely don't need to be from old money to rent an apartment in Monaco for half a year. A senior software engineer (contractor) could afford it and would profit from the operation if they live in Scandinavia/Germany/Austria/France.

I have a good enough tax regime where I live in Central Europe - for 2022 I paid 8% including income tax, health and social insurance. But I'd definitely consider doing this if it was over 20%.

You don't need citizenship at all. Not even permanent or temporary residency. You will become a tax resident of a state even if you have just a tourist visa. You don't need to own the property either, a rental apartment is just fine. Even living in a hotel would work if you can prove it was your "base of operations" during that time.

Not sure what's the distinction between rich and wealthy, sounds the same to me.

Here's how you do it if you're rich:

Every European country (even Finland) has harmonized rules about "tax residency". The rules are simple: If you actually and honestly live there at least half a year and one day of a calendar year, that place becomes your tax residency for that year.

The rich person buys a property in Monaco and goes there for half a year + 1 day. That year Monaco is their tax residency. They take out dividends from their off-shore (or Netherlands) holding companies. Boom, perfectly legal personal income taxed at super-low (or 0) rate that Finland has no idea about.

Then the person returns back to Finland and again accumulates their income into the holding company for a few years until they run out of whatever they got as a dividend.

Repeat until...

Humans, animals, plants, microbes, etc are that technology. Life is self-replicating nanotechnology machines. If synthetic biology works - and we know it does, we have already created a synthetic cell - it's perfectly possible. Not to mention it could evolve on its own. Humans are Von Neumann probes in our environment.

Why trolls? Maybe they just want to learn about us. I don't see the reason to assume they have godlike sensors with unlimited range - they need to come closer to see detail.

Them being able to travel here doesn't imply they have significantly better technology than we do - it just means they had more time, perhaps their civilization is older than ours. 100k years older would be enough to send out a probe from some nearby stars. 1M years older would be enough to travel from thousands of not-so-nearby stars around.