Mirioron

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by Mirioron 8y ago
We need to make video games where you have to take loans at the start and then later pay them off. If this mechanic became popular enough I would wager that a lot of people would have some form of intuitive understanding of these loans.
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by Mirioron 8y ago
It's partly a cultural problem too. In this kind of a culture young adults (or maybe not even adults yet) have to make decisions about the rest of their life. In the US they even have to consider borrowing ungodly amounts of money to d
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by Mirioron 8y ago
I always figured that the singularity idea might work in theory but in practice it would likely take an ungodly amount of time for it to work.
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by Mirioron 8y ago
Principles-based regulation means you're still committing the same number of crimes per day if you somehow anger the wrong people. If the local police don't like you, then principles-based laws can be used to single you out and ta
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by Mirioron 8y ago
I have family that suffered at the hands of communists. Many were deported and exiled, some were sent to gulags. Some of them made it back, some died there, because the conditions in Siberia were horrible. Do you think it would be reasonabl
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by Mirioron 8y ago
>I haven't been notified of any changes in premium for our policy related to the new regulations, fwiw. I don't see how you can legitimately believe that there is not going to be an increase in costs. Either the insurance compa
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by Mirioron 8y ago
I'm not the person you're asking this from, but any regulation tends to require extra work to be done. Just the fact that you need to know that you're compliant requires work. Then you have requirements such as being able to
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by Mirioron 8y ago
And in your mind there is absolutely no possibility that a reasonable explanation would exist why a company would pull out because of it? How about cost of compliance? For example, just the fact that you need to figure out whether you are c
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by Mirioron 9y ago
Because those "pennies" can and do matter when your monthly income is 500 euros otherwise.
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by Mirioron 9y ago
But that's part of it: it's better to be safe than sorry. Having comments on your blog has very marginal benefits for you, but if you feel the risk is large, then just delete them. No single blog losing comments matters much, but
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by Mirioron 9y ago
You're very naive about this situation. Just because the possibility legally exists already means that you're taking this into account when calculating risk. Also, EU tax-law is one of the reasons that small digital businesses hav
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by Mirioron 9y ago
>You know Europeans can build software too right? As a European it sure doesn't seem to be that way. I'm using Windows, Google, Wikipedia, Youtube, ycombinator, Reddit etc. Very little European stuff in sight, despite the fact
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by Mirioron 9y ago
Have a login system? You're likely storing email addresses, which are considered personal data.