DomreiRoam

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If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer(theguardian.com)
2 points by DomreiRoam 8y ago|0 comments
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The inescapable weight of my student debt(theguardian.com)
32 points by DomreiRoam 8y ago|42 comments
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
From an article in Le Temps[1], the bridge had some conception issue; Concrete viscosity wasn't consider correctly. The cost of maintenance was very high and a replacement was considered but the project was opposed. [1] https:/&#
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
On the topic of reading, read "The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads" by Daniel T. Willingham [1]. It is very nicely written and each chapter focus on one aspect of reading (recognition of let
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
A very nice book in French is "Le Chat au pays des Nombres" by Ivar Ekeland. The book tell a story that happens in the infinite hotel on the numbers planet. This hotel managed by the Hilbert is always full. It is a very good appro
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
in theory, when all transactions happens between participants on a free market, then the real value added by a participant tend to be their sale price minus all their cost. I think it's only when you have non perfect market condition (
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
It seems that multinational uses price transfer to move profits from high tax country to low tax country. Would it make sense to tax trademarks, patents, goodwill from abroad to reduce this abuse?
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
I'm not sure if you oppose sale tax only or also VAT. Both are regressive but VAT, while more complex, is based on taxing the added value so it is collected along the supply chain. In the supply chain everybody is charging VAT on their
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
from another case but should be the same principle http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-09-235_en.htm?loca... Where does the money go? Once final judgment has been delivered in any appeals before the Court of Fir
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
Isn't the same as what the USA did against Cuba or Iran or some countries against Israel? Boycotts are quite powerful tools to achieve your goal so it make sense that country try this.
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
As an French speaking European, I m not sure to precisely understand American taboo and other cultural rules. But I find the practice to not be able to report the use a taboo or swear word quite strange. If you report a fact, you need to re
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
I think you can replace US by EU and China by US and then justify that EU raise tariffs against US. I don't think it makes sense to have tariff. EU ask mostly US goods to follow EU laws and regulations.
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
The difference is that outside China, Chinese leaders doesn't try to push for a model. They don't push for things like Human Right, Intellectual Right, Representative Democracy ...
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
I was under the impression that the importer must do a declaration and pay the duty. The exporter is lying but the importer is really the one committing fraud.
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
It doesn't count services. I did find a useful link when I wanted to respond to another comment : https://www.usitc.gov/publications/industry_econ_analysis_33...
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
My understanding is that your reference doesn't include services. I find this: https://www.usitc.gov/publications/industry_econ_analysis_33... and a synthesis by the WP: https://www.washingtonpost.com&#
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
What I find sad is that github didn't find a way to be profitable on its own. I would really like to have some Consumers' co-operatives that would provide hosting/online services around open source. I wouldn't mind to pa
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
As a non native speaker i just reacted to "belong to" and I think "belong with" is really better in the context of parent-children relation. I 100% agree that intellectual outcomes (and even more fitness to the job marke
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
I just checked the definition of "belong" I didn't like the idea that parents own children . I did find to meanings: "be the property of" and "be a member of". So I really prefer to say that children are p
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
I agree with you and in a pure profit oriented you will always have rare diseases without remedies. You may even have curable patient that are non-economical to save for for-profit health-care company. Imagine you have only pure market that
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
Under a pure market approach, if a drug is not profitable it will not be produced ans sold. If you have a rare disease, you would probably prefer a mixed approach like a mix public and private medical research.
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by DomreiRoam 8y ago
"The US has been developing its health care system, uninterrupted, longer than other nations." I don't understand this. How do you define Health care system? because we have care institutions that predates the foundation of t
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by DomreiRoam 9y ago
I've the impression that representative democracy is clearly fragile at the moment (Cambridge analytica, concentration of media control, money in politics). I believe it would be very useful to consider adding some sortition to the mix
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by DomreiRoam 9y ago
"Creating a public institution with no pressure to make profit is a disaster waiting to happen." Do you really think that we should ask the army to be profit oriented? What about the coast guard, Justice, Child protection service?
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by DomreiRoam 9y ago
You don't need to know more than sql to manipulate the data. The semantic of your query is fully contained in sql. You may need to go deeper and understand the underline model if you want performance but sticking to normal form can mak
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by DomreiRoam 9y ago
Lots of our technology cannot work without the support of a complex society and I think you can't have that without court and some kind of rules. We are interdependent.
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by DomreiRoam 9y ago
I just read the provided link and it seems to me that that will not provide anything without a court order. They say they may decide to terminate an account or preserve the requested account data without a court order.
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by DomreiRoam 9y ago
Another free course made by the same team: https://www.coursera.org/learn/mindshift This course is more focused on how/what to learn to boost your career. I liked both courses; they take 2-3 hours per week for 4 w
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by DomreiRoam 9y ago
It's expensive but I like it: http://www.eizoglobal.com/products/flexscan/ev2730q/index.ht... . It s crazy how nice it is to have so much vertical space.
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by DomreiRoam 9y ago
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_th... , No ambassador to the EU since January 20, 2017.

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