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It is never as easy as that. Law of supply and demand is not a linear function and externalities count too. Also, most of the markets are somehow captive. I doubt that people will drink much more milk because it is cheaper. What happens is
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I was answering to you, not to all Spain. And I did because I think that your comment stating that Catalan language and culture are a "political experiment" is not only offensive to Catalans -and anybody a little common sense- but
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And this, kids, is how a Spanish hater looks like. If anyone is interested, Catalan[1] is a Latin language spoken in Catalonia and other areas of the North East of Spain, South of France and a city in Italy. It is also the official language
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11y ago
And Nissan Moco!
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The way Japanese houses are made, it is cheaper to rebuild than to refurbish. The most expensive part of a Japanese house is the concrete foundation, and this is reused sometimes. The rest of the house is just cheap wood and plastic (yes, m
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Now it is a good moment to remember when they started to pass Data Protection laws in Europe 15 years ago and everybody was freaking out like "Oh my good, with this laws it will be impossible to do Internet business in Europe! All the
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I suspect that price of the fuel that would be needed to tow that vessel would be greater that its value as scrap.
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Just relax. Assume that this is probably going to be a bad night, you will not sleep much and tomorrow you will be tired. First of all accept that, or you will feel even more anxious. The good part is that tomorrow night you will be tired,
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For most of the people, dignity is being able to sleep under a roof, being able to eat at least once a day, being able to be seen by a doctor when they are ill and being able to give an education to their children. We should be deeply asham
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In most of European countries, people has an ID card and SS number, and there is a centralized database controlled by the state. A single person cannot have 2 different IDs. At least, it is not something trivial to do.
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What you explain is amazingly similar to what happened in Europe 100 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
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Catalonia -> London -> Tokyo. Moved to London, met Japanese girlfriend, moved to Japan because we didn't love London that much, married, working for a a startup in Tokyo. I wouldn't mind to go back sometime to South-West Eur
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Not all councils behave like mafia. It just depend witch political party is ruling the city. Actually, some local governments are quite open to backup initiatives coming from the civil society. You know, governments are there because of an
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"Consider for a moment the possibilities of Wi-Fi-fitted lampposts, each with its own IP address, monitoring the numbers of Facebook posts, tweets, or credit card swipes as you stroll by with your smartphone (which identifies where you
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> Greece behaved like a heroin user and you're putting the blame on rehab clinic. In this case, we would be talking about a rehab clinic that gives heroin for free to the people in order to get more customers (patients).
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This kind of hate that Americans have for unions is something I will never understand. Unions have clear purpose: help the workers negotiate with the company with equal opportunities and prevent abuse from the employer. Companies have power
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That's always the same story. A group of researchers finds a funny correlation in the data. They don't know the cause of the correlation, but they just write an article explaining that. Of course, the article if full of conditiona
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70F in Summer? Then, which temperature would you set up in winter?
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In this world there's two kind of people: - Those who hate AC. - Those who know how a thermostat works. To the employers: - Buy AC that are powerful enough for the office room. - Have the office in a well insulated building. - Keep the
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Unfortunately, this kind of richness does not use to last really long.
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85% of the 1500 millionaires interviewed by Fidelity Millionaire Outlook "said" that they where self made. Still, I would like to know how many of this "self made" millionaires are not white, men, and don't come fro
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This is important because that could mean the beginning of the end of JavaScript. But also it means the end of the native apps. Apparently Microsoft and Google are playing hard against Apple.
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The problem is who defines what is under-performing. For some employers, not performing may mean not wiling to assist to meetings at 8 pm or taking job related phone calls on weekend. In many European countries it is possible to fire a work
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Actually, in most of the countries of the World, less than 50% of the population are taxpayers.
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> High speed rail is almost always a serious money loser. What are the benefits? When people make this statements is usually because they forget the cost of building and maintaining roads and highways (that is payed by all taxpayers, eve
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I ate quite a lot of Ramen. Some of them, quite delicious... but never a Ramen that I would consider healthy. All the Ramen I ever tasted were too salty and too greasy. Also, unlike most Japanese meals, Ramen is served as a main dish only,
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https://www.google.es/search?q=naritake+ramen&tbm=isch The layer of oil floating over the stock, the corn, the pork and the butter topping doesn't help neither. If you want healthy noodles, you can try Soba instead
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Well, Ramen is really tasty, but obviously it is junk food. Really nice as a threat, but no one with common sense would eat Ramen on a daily basis. Same way, no one with common sense would eat hamburger and french fries every day.
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Japan is not a really easy country for vegetarian people because fish, and specially meat, consumed in tiny amounts, but they are everywhere. I would say that sometimes meat is used more as a condiment than as an ingredient. Also, in my exp
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What I cannot really understand in the first place is why it is legal for the companies in the US to make (Black-)Lists of citizens. Isn't it any law that regulates that?
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