Inthenameofmine

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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Most definitely, yes. That, and the fact that there is no real parliamentary opposition vying for as many populist points. (see my other comments in this thread).
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
In Switzerland referenda are a very institutionalized and regular decision making tool. It is mostly used to get rid of political gridlock and making sure special interests don't filter out the will of the people (director proposal). T
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Well, it's not like the swiss didn't have their fare share of ethnic issues in th past. Keep in mind that Switzerland is linguistically diverse. The difference is that because of direct democracy and every male being armed to the
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
> When they are rare, and limited, and like in Switzerland not something pulled on a whim but actually requires some work to call, they might just work. In Switzerland you essentially vote on 2-5 issues every quarter. I think this very r
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
> She has lobbied Congress and The Senate at the federal level and written a state bill (with 2 other high school students) that passed and was signed by our governor. At least doing auch lobbying and drafting was possible. This would be
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
> We haven't figured this shit out yet. Kings anyone? How about the best wrestler gets to be in charge? ideas? As a Swiss citizen, I think the swiss system is very close to perfect in this regard. Sure, emotional and stupid argument
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Generally speaking the longer someone has been in a specific field, the lower the probability of them thinking of a new method or agreeing with new things. This is a general pattern across the board with anything ews, startups, projects, et
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
As someone actively working in this space for the past 3 years, I have a few observations on Bitcoin's price movements: * The only parameter that in any way is correlating to Bitcoin's price is it's transaction count over tim
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
While I agree about the howling, that was already not allowed. The referendum was only about the physical minarets. Unfortunately the church clocks make just as much noise in Switzerland.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
I gotta say I am intrigued. I own a devshop and we're expanding globally with remote developers. Finding a good solution to standardize workflow has been a pain so far. What would you say differs you from Amazon Workspaces? I see your
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
I wouldn't be so sure on that. The R&D transfer and ready human capital was definitely profound in SpaceX's case, but if it was that incremental, why didn't NASA or anybody else do it before? I think almost the sae can be
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
The tube would not be evacuated. The train sucks the air in front of it and pushes it around and especially below, creating an air cushion just like an air hockey, further decreasing energy requirement for movement. That way you also get ri
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
That's so cool! The word for strawberries un Albanian is "Dredheza", which means roughly "a twisted small edible thing"
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Only tangentially related but still interesting. This is IMO how most governments will unfortunately implement People QE once negative interests fail and the next crisis comes rolling in. U think in the last crisis the US already implemente
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
I think there is one extremely important takeaway from all of this: > At the heart of the protesters demands is an end to the political quota system, which was put in place after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 and sees positions shared ou
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
People QE seems to be the very last thing they want to do, which I think really tells a story here. Considering the money the government is still pumping into the market directly, I don't think people QE will have the same effect. It r
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Viber has become a shadow of its former self. It regularly crashes all phones in my family, you get message notifications way too late, and it takes up a ton of storage on your phone.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
https://wikileaks.org/nsa-france/?2 https://wikileaks.org/nsa-brazil/ http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA0P0DE20140126
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
So I guess the electricity companies also get most of their margins during daytime? Of that's the case, solar might screw up traditional electricity's business model much earlier, even without storage and feed-in laws.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Totally agree. That said, WikiLeaks has shown that the US regularly shares global industrial espionage with US companies. The strong do what they can, the weak what they must.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Sounds like a non-issue. How many of today's "policy heads" would know anything about the situation on the ground of that hypothetical nation? I personally think anybody with sufficient STEM background has a higher chance of
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by Inthenameofmine 11y ago
It might have something to do with all those German-Turkish corporate joint ventures in the Balkans. I can't remember a 6 figure corruption scandale in Kosovo and Albania that did not have a German-Turkish corporation involved.
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by Inthenameofmine 11y ago
I wonder how Virtual and augmented reality will change that. Just being able to Skype or use Whatsup with my clients during the day, ad-hock, has hugely changed the way I build business relationships.
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by Inthenameofmine 11y ago
What's your opinion on the Skylon engine? http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/space_skylon.html
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by Inthenameofmine 11y ago
I think the answer is a combination of culture and sunk cost. The people hiring do so locally for personal cultural reasons; hiring globally means changing almost all busines processes. They already have thousands of co-located employees, s
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by Inthenameofmine 11y ago
"FinTech is not an acquisition space" might be the only universally true point here. At Bitsapphire.com we talk with tons of Fintech founders every month. Exit strategy is the Nr. 1 problem for almost all of them except B2B SaaS
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by Inthenameofmine 11y ago
> That being said high fees don't negatively affect the main retail use cases Bitcoin has demonstrated the best suitably for: cryptolocker payments and contraband. They do. Hugh fees per tx bite means higher cost for multisig transa
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by Inthenameofmine 11y ago
This reads like an overly serious Onion article. That said, it's certainly a scary prospect.
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by Inthenameofmine 11y ago
Negative income tax + citizen dividend would be awesome. Also completely dynamic and self adjusting.
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by Inthenameofmine 11y ago
This might not quite be what you're looking for but the Netflix aeries "Sense8" had very similar concepts of humanity and identity. The movies "Revolver" and "MR Nobody" might also be up you alley. I reall

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