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by carlob 6y ago
From what I could gather they are digitally printed, honest question: knowing this do you still consider it cheap?
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by carlob 6y ago
Except I can fly to Ireland from most of the EU for cheap (sometimes under 10 euros), with no passport and it's part of a very interconnected economy. Ireland also shares a land border with hr UK.
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by carlob 6y ago
Pretty sure the difficulty will go up accordingly then
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by carlob 6y ago
Then again a few taxi drivers I have talked to in the US admitted starting to drive for ride sharing companies after finishing their maximum allowed shift of 12 hours... Also I've heard multiple reports that in most of the gig economy
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by carlob 6y ago
Goose barnacles are a fun example, because they were used to claim that the goose was fish rather than fowl and hence it was the only meat to be allowed during lent.
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by carlob 6y ago
IIRC Vancouver taxes empty properties more than the ones in use to prevent this kind of speculation.
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by carlob 6y ago
I think I have the same plan. I have to say the only thing I'm missing (and I would gladly pay 2 euros more for) is global (or at least EU) free SMS while not roaming.
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by carlob 6y ago
I was trying to make a point about decreasing fiscal competition. So, yeah, good!
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by carlob 6y ago
His newest book goes much further, if you read Capital in the XXI Century you should give it a try. My takeaway from this blog post and his book is that: 1. we should have way more transparency on who owns what: currently information about
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by carlob 6y ago
> actual Portuguese would you consider British English the only actual English? Not only Brazil has 20 times the population of Portugal, but there are considerations to be made about how languages evolve in the periphery, which might not
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by carlob 6y ago
I was exposed to this as a teenager some 20 years ago (when it was called StarLogo) and it was one of the main reasons why I got interested in collective behavior and emergence. I've also been lucky enough to meet some of the people wh
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by carlob 6y ago
Exactly, my conclusion would be that totally unfettered capitalism tends to collapse either because of catastrophic economic crises, or war or revolution. As such even capitalism itself doesn't benefit from the extreme exploitation of
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by carlob 6y ago
For example look at Plots 11.12 to 11.15 here[0], which show an inverse correlation between growth and inequality and a direct correlation between tax rates and inequality. There are some pretty simple arguments that would justify this: one
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by carlob 6y ago
I don't want to defend capitalism, but I'd say that capitalism needing the exploitation of the weak is not even entirely true. There is strong evidence that overall economic growth peaked at times (or places) where income taxes we
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by carlob 6y ago
Regarding mass-production: I once saw an exhibition entirely devoted to brands in ancient Rome. Here's an article in English about it https://www.realmofhistory.com/2016/07/05/made-in-roma-roman...
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by carlob 6y ago
I'm not sure I agree about the fact that notation is a pseudo-mathematisation. For example in Mathematica there is a (mostly deprecated) package called Notation`[0] that does just this kind of stuff. I have to admit that it's not
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by carlob 6y ago
I recently discover that mesmerize is also named after a person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Mesmer
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by carlob 6y ago
I had this idea of starting a business selling homeopathic antidotes to vaccines. If anyone wants to partner up...
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by carlob 6y ago
I wonder if there are any studies about the effects of removing highly gifted students from a class of otherwise average students. I'm aware of a few about the lack socioeconomic mixing: rich kids in classes with just rich kids seem to
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by carlob 6y ago
True but we're interested in power consumption per distance traveled so it goes back to O(v^2).
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...and through its target...
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by carlob 6y ago
Not OP. First of all I wanna say that Mathematica/Wolfram Language is not just functional and certainly not purely functional. Thus said, I feel trying to be purely functional has its drawbacks whenever you have to keep track of a lo
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by carlob 6y ago
Of all the things we can make a competition out of, fewer violent deaths seems way more meaningful than football/soccer.
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28.4 per 1e8 inhabitants USA 0.5 per 1e8 inhabitants UK better now?
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by carlob 6y ago
2019 was a bit of a bad year for the UK: the 2010-2019 average was 2.2...
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by carlob 6y ago
At the beginning I was wondering whether 9 and 1 were to be considered consecutive. It's not stated anywhere, but it seems that the solution has this property.
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And I'm pretty sure no receipt and under-reported taxes. But what am I saying, that's only something that happens in PIGS, nobody evades taxes in Germany...
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by carlob 6y ago
Though you don't want to use chicken breast with a doner, it would come out too dry. I think it's very common to use brown meat from birds, something like turkey thighs, which are gonna be even cheaper than chicken breast.
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by carlob 6y ago
Maybe it sounds good to you, but I'm assuming that if you have some economy of scale you are going to pay less than what the general population does. Also that should be the average between beef, chicken and tofu, and if you take that
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by carlob 6y ago
I think a lot of this is context and language dependent: I've noticed on an android device I sometimes use instead of my main phone (which is dumb) that sometimes the autocorrect is really smarter than I thought. In Italian "c&#x2

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