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by axlee 6y ago
That question is banned until a board meeting comes up and your owners asks you "What are your plans for the products the next quarter, misters CEO and CTO"? If you babble around saying plans and deadlines are for suckers and that
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by axlee 7y ago
It is very often Americans themselves who seed the "low tax meme" in order to criticize European social democracies. Those profiles tend to be right-wing. They have drunk their own kool-aid.
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by axlee 7y ago
Does Wayland do anything better than Xorg? Every time I see it mentioned, it is about how it does not support this or that core feature of Xorg (e.g multiple displays with custom pixel densities/scaling, screen sharing apps being broke
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by axlee 7y ago
You could host that wiki for ten bucks a month.
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by axlee 7y ago
As a matter of fact, I cannot think of a single industry that can serve a full service to the entirety of their clients at a discrete point in time.
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by axlee 7y ago
Can't Norway bail them out? It's not like they lack the capital, and they're the country largest airline.
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by axlee 7y ago
Why would he? It's not like modern desktop email applications have any more features than the ones we used 20 years ago. If he is comfortable with the UX...
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by axlee 7y ago
Could not be because they checked you out by name on facebook?
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by axlee 7y ago
More likely adress book / phone contacts import.
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by axlee 7y ago
> Nothing is particular about the US here, humans are omnivores whose optimal diet for health contains both meat and plants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_meat_cons... In 2017(latest data I coul
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by axlee 7y ago
The same way living in your own feces but taking a shower before leaving the house does not make you a clean person.
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by axlee 7y ago
> Nobody owns the word "Amazon" Good luck calling your next venture Amazon then. What this shows is that Amazon now effectively owns the word Amazon, stripping countries where the largest river in the world flows, of the right
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by axlee 7y ago
I remember "How Not To Sort By Average Rating" by the same author, which I am confident helped shape thousands of recommendation/quality sorting algorithms (including Reddit or Yelp), over the years that followed its writing.
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by axlee 7y ago
A high crime rate is a telltale sign of a dysfunctional society, anyway. Something is rotten.
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by axlee 7y ago
69.2% of all men are in the labor force, and 57.7% of all women are in the labor force.
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by axlee 7y ago
> I got to use that quote at some point. Pure gold. If you are not Linus, you might come off as a major asshat. Careful.
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by axlee 7y ago
They are are already paying twice as much as any other developed nation with a "free-market" approach to healthcare. I do not understand the mental gymnastics to reach the conclusion that citizens as a whole would pay more in a si
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by axlee 7y ago
In europe I have mostly heard of "GAFA" as an acronym for large tech companies. I believe FAANG is a term coming from the financial world about high-performing tech stocks in the '10s, and thus included Netflix but dropped Mi
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by axlee 7y ago
> How many times have we seen a company out-perform expectations and then the stock plummet, or a company under-perform and rally? Far, far, far less than a company's stock surging after a good quarterly, a great product launch or t
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by axlee 7y ago
> taxes are insanely high (>50% income tax after a 24% employment tax) This is a lie. The top bracket is at 45% above €156.244. This means it is mathematically impossible to pay more than 45% in income taxes, let alone more than 50%.
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by axlee 7y ago
If your speech negatively impacts another citizen, and your speech turned out to be all lies, you are absolutely liable for the consequences of it. The "government" is simply here to handle the arbitration.
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by axlee 7y ago
The highways are actually privately operated. The privatization of highways was a big public issue back in the days, with most people against it arguing that it will lead to an increase in prices due to the profit-seeking nature of the oper
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by axlee 7y ago
That's one of the standard metrics to judge any currency. Bitcoin is not advertised as an asset but as a digital currency. But it has clearly become primarily an asset, given the minimal uses of it as a currency.
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by axlee 7y ago
I would believe it if that would apply to other positions. Why is it the case for us but not regular businessmen, lawyers, etc?
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by axlee 7y ago
I have personally noticed large differences in side-effects between various generic brands of SSRIs. That's anecdotal, but now I always pick the same generic brand out of the ~5 I have tried for the same compound.
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by axlee 7y ago
The farmers that you're talking about are not "farmers", they're heirs. Their parent's capital is what make them wealthy now, not their jobs. Transfer them to the same job without the capital, and suddenly they&#x27
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by axlee 7y ago
But why are they so stingy with salaries, then?
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by axlee 7y ago
Is the recent trend of Boeing failures a sign of diminishing quality?
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by axlee 7y ago
How can you talk about a "lack of respect" when more than a billion euros have been raised within a day to rebuild it?
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by axlee 7y ago
The "way it was" is a 19th-century reimagination from people who obviously did not follow your advice.

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