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You said "pay taxes regardless of residence".

Well, if they are residents of California, then they should "pay taxes regardless of residence", i.e. in California ?

Instead, decamping to Florida, Texas or wherever else seems to me very much paying quite a lot of regard to residence ?

> American billionaires basically fund the US and pay taxes regardless of residence

US billionaires pay taxes ? Sounds like the start of a a great joke, what's the punchline ?

Remind me, who are those groups of people moving to Florida, Texas or wherever else just so they can escape the California wealth tax which is only a one-time 5% ?

Oh yeah, that's right. The US billionaires who are apparently so diligently willing to pay their taxes.

> This is why the EU will never be a tech powerhouse, the culture is just not there.

Yes, France is in the EU. However, the actions of France do not equate to the actions of the EU.

Despite what pro-Brexit type people will tell you, there is a lot of sovereignty in local laws within the EU. And the ability to set your own taxes is one of them.

> Juniper when it came end of 90's did understand this and made even better configuration system for Junos than IOS was and still is.

"even better" is an understatement ! I was working on a dual-vendor network at the time, we ran Cisco and Juniper in parallel.

Working on Cisco always just felt like going back to the 18th century, I mean the whole candidate and active config thing alone in Junos was insanely valuable:

    show | compare  # diff the config
    commit check    # lint it
    commit confirmed 10  # apply it, but don't persist unless confirmed
    commit # confirm

Meanwhile, back in 18th century iOS land, a fat finger on the ACL would leave you with a bad day in the office until you rebooted the box via OOB.

> American big tech only to get obliterated by slop security in Europe

Oh right because American tech companies are not equally capable of shitty security.

Remind me, oh yeah ... it was just TODAY we saw that Azure exploit providing full cross-tenant compromise.

A big part of why European companies are turning away from American companies is the sort of MAGA bullshit you just demonstrated.

Sadly this is entirely predictable.

Some time ago my colleague and I were doing some due-diligence on Bunny as a potential service provider.

We asked them some basic security questions, nothing low-level, just some basic high-level overview type of stuff to roughly check if they were following well-known best-practices.

Their response was a consistent and constant "cannot tell you due to security reasons".

That rang alarm bells. Any provider such as them who is not sufficiently confident in their security to be willing and able to discuss security at a high-level perspective is not worthy of trust as far as I am concerned.

> Anyone that's had to deal with Microsoft will tell you this means nothing...

In relation to everything you said in your post, let's just say "trust me, I know".

But you missed the point I was making.

The GP said "Makes me wonder why enterprises still flock there".

And anyone who's had to deal with enterprise procurement knows if you've got a vendor on the list then its easier to deal with that one than push for multiple.

And then there's the whole budgeting thing. If management can see you're already buying every single employee in the org a Teams license, then getting extra budget for some Azure toys will probably be an easier sell then "yeah, I know we're paying Microsoft a lot of money, but can we have some AWS too". Since in their eyes Azure and Teams licenses is the same thing, "money for Microsoft".

Sadly the tech desk experience in enterprises tends to fall low down the list, if it is considered at all.

Sure, in theory, if you've got a good CTO to fight your corner then YMMV, but not everyone does.

> Reporting “theoretical” issues with validation as an Employee

Microsoft still has employees ? ;)

(Sorry. Low bar. But in all honesty I thought they outsourced the majority of ops. I was surprised to hear in recent news that they actually had that many employees left)

> Makes me wonder why enterprises still flock there

Well, when you're already paying Microsoft $/user/month for Intune, Teams&co. you might as well use Azure too.

Only one vendor relationship to manage, and I suspect you probably have to spend far less money than you do with AWS to get some personal attention.

> An 80Wh battery from six-random-letters-off-Amazon is going to be more dangerous than a 160Wh battery from a reputable manufacturer.

I think the point is more the amount of energy stored in a fully-charged or 80% charged battery.

In that respect it doesn't matter if your 160Wh battery is from a leading manufacturer or some knock-off factory. 160Wh is 160Wh.

Also the airlines have to draw a line about what level can be permitted without specific permission, what level needs authorisation and what level needs dangerous goods handling.

So suspect the numbers feel arbitrary because its the result of various committees having consulted with various different interested parties and then having the unattractive job of needing to write some rules at the end of it.

It is an inevitable part of the process that some numbers will need to be picked which can easily be explained to passengers, and are workable for manufacturers and the airline industry.

> While rates in the US may be rising, they are still below countries like Japan, Italy, France, and the UK.

Average life expectancy in Japan is 85 with average 88 female and 82 male.

Meanwhile US is 79 (avg), 81 (f), 76 (m).

So I suspect diet and lifestyle is still more likely to kill you in the US.

> I assumed Japan would be much lower.

Maybe it is per-se. Overall the Japanese diet is substantially more healthy than the US one. However Japan is also quite a white rice heavy diet on average, so comparable to the US's preponderance for processed bread. So if you're not careful in Japan you can quite easily go days without much fibre – it is much easier to get a healthy meal in Japan, but its also easy to get poor meals in Japan (e.g. 7-11 snacks) !

However the thing about Japan is they have an aggressive annual health screening programme which is mandated by law for all employed individuals (twice per year for those working in hazardous environment).

So the more interesting question for Japan might be in relation to early diagnosis and associated outcomes. I suspect both would be materially better than in the US but I haven't gone looking for the data.

The US also happens to be a country with a notoriously poor lifestyle and equally poor diet involving foods full of additives either not used or banned elsewhere.

And that's before we get to the subject of the US healthcare system.

Of course colorectal cancer has numerous causes but it is worth considering that when reading the somewhat clickbaity headline.