Jeremy Derr

Delivering nine fives of availability since last Thursday’s Reliability Scrum of Scrums (🇺🇸 ➜ 🇳🇱 ➜ 🇬🇧) (he/him)

[Jeremy Derr @jcderr]

I tried to order a @DavePollotArt print today and then this happened.

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Oddly enough, if I try to sign up with a different email address, it knows where I am - it's clearly my existing email address being forced into the Dutch subscription models.

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I recently moved to the United Kingdom from the Netherlands, and just tripped across a ghost from my professional past. You see, my @DisneyPlusNL account permanently believes me to be an NL resident. I've been here 2 months, and my main account doggedly insists otherwise.

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I just want to give Disney my money, and it's like they don't even want it. :P

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I'd suggest that we use this money to fund projects to house the homeless and to fund the VA, but I know for a fact this would be the response.

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@MTabarrok @sam_d_1995 It’s wild but this has already been solved in other countries, much easier, much cheaper, and much faster.

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I’ll also add that for the trouble of paying an extra 2%, I get an annual healthcare deductible of just €385 and a system that’s basically Medicare for All. It’s not perfect, by any means, but they’ve sent an ambulance to my house for free twice. And I’ve never waited for care.

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This is my favorite topic to wade into. You see, I moved from Texas to the Netherlands. It will curdle your milk to know that the Dutch income tax top rate is 49.5% starting at €77k. I make quite a lot so my effective rate is about 40%. In the US my effective rate was about 30%.

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Whether these expenses should be baked into an income tax is a philosophical question and worth discussing. But at the end of the day, things that “round up” to “taxes” are roughly the same here - it’s just front loaded into an income tax instead of being spread around.

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@erosramazzzoti @bencoates1 @realDavidKatzin "Someone did something predictable" is not nearly the same as saying "someone was justified in doing something." Something can be both predictable and also horrific.

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I’ve been off the ice for about two years now, but this is the shit that makes me want to put the pumpkins back on.

[LandysKnee @skneelandky]

I absolutely demand the @nhl do this with their officials immediately. If you won't have them answer questions then we need to see their POV.

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@adhib @shynafo @dieworkwear @007ina911 I live abroad. Very few of my colleagues are American. They mostly know that Labor Day is an American holiday, but they don’t all know when it is or exactly what it is. Honestly, it’s so distant to me now that even I forget about it most of the time.

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@_MarlonJames @CastroPodcasts Each service seems to maintain its own cache of podcasts on their servers, and whether it shows up seems to be correlated to whether users of that app have previously subscribed to the podcast. It might be that you're the first Castro user to sub?

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@Nowooski "You can't be denied service if you can't pay."

No, you can't be denied _life saving service_ if you can't pay. If you need anything at all that sums up to non-critical care, you absolutely can be denied service.

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@Nowooski Wait til you see what wait times look like in the US if you can't afford your co-pay or deductible. In Texas, when I was younger, we once had to wait an entire year to see a specialist because they refused to see us unless we paid the deductible up front. ¯\_(o.o)_/¯