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by borism 16y ago
Did they also disable JavaScript?
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by borism 16y ago
Someone haven't heard about WinAmp? No way!
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by borism 16y ago
But WHY did Irish banks invest more in property than everyone else?
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by borism 16y ago
Oh well. But WHY was the bubble bigger in Ireland? Do Irishmen need some kind of bigger houses and more of them than the rest of the world? Anyway, we keep going and going in circles. Let's stop. The whole story (including why more debt) is
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by borism 16y ago
OK, let's make it clear once and for all: 22.2% - overall effective tax rate in US in 2009 (compared to 27.8% in 2008) 2.4% - average overseas tax rate 2007-2009 (that's what they pay to the Rest of the World, where they earn 88% of profit)
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by borism 16y ago
I don't think I suggested anywhere that it's Google's fault?
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by borism 16y ago
I have a very hard time understanding how you translate my line of thought: low tax rate->more multinationals->higher debt for local business and government->higher tax rate->less multinationals->social catastrophe into
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by borism 16y ago
What's the other alternative? Defaulting on it's obligations? Why other countries with property bubbles don't have problems as large as Ireland? (all the downvotes would be appreciated if they can provide alternative solutions)
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by borism 16y ago
Um, Ireland's structural problems are not limited to property bubble? Perhaps it's the symptom, not the cause?
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by borism 16y ago
And that's the reason Ireland has something like 1000% external debt to GDP [1] - politicians and local businessmen alike got so drunk with their success of luring in corps that they assumed it will continue forever. The reality is however,
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by borism 16y ago
Why it's so hard to digest this? GS is so successful and so hated for certain reasons, and that's one of them.
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by borism 16y ago
We can argue what is legal or illegal, and whether something that is legal should be illegal etc for ages. The fact is that they pay 2% tax while most US based persons pay at least 10x that rate.
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by borism 16y ago
Everyone laughed at it because at the same time there were OSes available that could run unlimited number of daemons simultaneously. Now it's a matter of choice for system owner. And of course all those single-daemon VMs run inside OS that
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by borism 16y ago
dudes, WTF?
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by borism 16y ago
Windows 98 with GPU card
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by borism 16y ago
I wouldn't call several days or almost a week of standby with a healthy battery a "fast drain". Nobody on HN leaves their computer sleeping for more than few hours anyway, right?
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by borism 16y ago
Character assasination aside the key point of the article is questioning whether it's a good idea to pay 1st year college kids so they can dropout and do a start-up. Maybe you can overlook your anger and focus on an important issue (and ver
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by borism 16y ago
that doesn't say anything about continuation of the trend
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by borism 16y ago
Most of those are not mined in China, but in Africa.
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by borism 16y ago
Oh, a lot of them did. Many of those can only be described as religious cult followers - practitioners of Elliott Wave "Theory". Some even went as far as accusing Mandelbrot of plagiarizing Elliott's work: http://www.math.utah.edu/vigre/re
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by borism 16y ago
Aha, we should leave it to pilot to decide what he brings onboard. After all he doesn't want to lose his job, right? We may also totally skip flight school certification requirement - after all pilots don't want to die either, right?
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by borism 16y ago
Oh well... Nice!
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by borism 16y ago
More often than not he can. But there were successful cases of other crew subduing him and recovering the plane. Anyway, the fact that pilot is in full command of the plane doesn't mean that he should be able to bring onboard whatever he de
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by borism 16y ago
True. I thought about EgyptAir and Aeroflot cases too. Correct me if I'm wrong, but both planes didn't have FBW flight envelope protection either? That might have prevented pilot/child from upsetting planes attitude irrecoverably. And Egypt
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by borism 16y ago
I absolutely agree that security measures have to achieve balance between security, comfort and civil liberties. But I'm still not seeing him advocating not screening the crew. And how could he advocate something like that. It would be like
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by borism 16y ago
I read Schneier all the time and agree with him most of the time. Not once did he advocate not screening pilots, did he?
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by borism 16y ago
You find that funny?
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by borism 16y ago
Of course he does, but he won't admit it because it dents his argument and won't get him any upvotes.
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by borism 16y ago
Did you notice there are at least two people in the cockpit?
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by borism 16y ago
He used his privileges as a pilot to bring the concealed weapons on board. How the fuck is that not relevant to the discussion?

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