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by cbeach 11y ago
Frustrated that the author neglected to elaborate on the crucial detail - the truth behind Iceland's post-2008 "revival" is that it imposed capital controls on its own citizens. It imprisoned their money to avoid "capita
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by cbeach 11y ago
Wealth would effectively become a burden - it will cost you time and money to maintain it. So I wonder if people will aspire less to become wealthy in the first place? I suspect fewer people will go all-in building a startup in their twenti
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by cbeach 11y ago
People ought to be able to enjoy the wealth they've earnt over their lifetime without having to defend it from the state. But when they die, IMO their wealth ought to be redistributed to society. Their own kids didn't earn it any
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by cbeach 11y ago
Piketty gets away with a distortion of the debate because his conclusions are so populist. http://www.cityam.com/1416252493/financial-crisis-saw-uk-bec... It's questionable whether a) there is growing inequality a
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by cbeach 11y ago
Out of curiosity, did Hacker Monthly print articles from the web? With permission of the source websites?
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by cbeach 11y ago
It is creating value. Every new cleaning job means a cleaner gets another job to choose between. So his/her salary will be better, and ditto for working conditions.
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by cbeach 11y ago
Far too much wasted space in the new UI - between icons, tweets etc. I used to be able to see all my accounts on the left-hand navigation bar, and now I can't because the increased spacing pushes them off the bottom of the screen. Anno
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by cbeach 11y ago
Could be @jackstormwriter, whose account has now been switched to private on Twitter. Here’s what’s in the Google cache for @jackstormwriter: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
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by cbeach 11y ago
Personally I think tax and welfare should just be simplified to a flat rate of tax and a universal basic income to all citizens. That way we avoid welfare being a trap (no welfare is lost when the claimant gets a job). And we simplify both
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by cbeach 11y ago
If tax is lower, tax loopholes are less lucrative. Basically you kill the market for accountants.
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by cbeach 11y ago
The Laffer Curve illustrates a sweet spot of taxation to produce maximum revenue. People will always avoid tax if it's too high. Either they'll pay millions to accountants to avoid paying tens of millions to the taxman, or they&#x
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by cbeach 11y ago
I see you didn't read even the abstract of the study I posted, then?
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by cbeach 11y ago
The post went from 1, 2, then 3 votes, down to 1, zero and then -1. Interesting. I thought Hacker News might be the kind of forum where an argument backed with facts and sources (including peer reviewed papers) might be enough to break thro
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by cbeach 11y ago
Studies show that immigration, sadly, is linked to the spread of antibiotic-resistant diseases. Example: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25418572/ Immigrant hotspots in London now have tuberculosis rates
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by cbeach 11y ago
I really hope this is tongue-in-cheek humour..?
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by cbeach 11y ago
That's a bogus argument. Any flagship phone from Samsung or Lenovo will make the same tradeoffs that Apple does between thinness/weight and user-servicability. In any case, you suggest Samsung/Lenovo phones take 10 minutes fo
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by cbeach 11y ago
I upgraded the SSD in my Macbook Pro Retina myself, using a relatively cheap replacement (not sourced from Apple). As for the RAM, at some future date when 16GB is inadequate, I suspect the graphics card, CPU and bus performance will also b
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by cbeach 11y ago
The PC analogy is a good one...and this is exactly why I moved to Macs after a decade of building and upgrading "Frankenstein's monster" PCs at great expense (time and money). With my first Mac I started to treat computers as
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by cbeach 11y ago
My favourite: "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours" --Stephen Roberts
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10,000+ atheist quotes, in order of greatness(askatheists.com)
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by cbeach 11y ago
It does actually work like that, for me. I'm in my mid thirties and have worked in financial software development for over a decade. Given the day rate I'm earning for Scala development, I will be able to retire comfortably long b
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by cbeach 11y ago
Such good news. I've bet my career on Scala, but Swift is sufficiently similar in style that it will be an easy transition. A language to write native (not VM-based) apps for the desktop, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, CarPlay and Apple TV
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by cbeach 11y ago
You claim we need women to encourage different "experiences" and "thoughts." And by saying that you imply that different men don't have different experiences and thoughts. When it comes to coding, there's a hug
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by cbeach 11y ago
I'm yet to see any compelling evidence of discrimination against women in technology. I've been in the industry 12 years. I know plenty of women in tech. They have the same minor grievances that men do. But none due to sexism. I a
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by cbeach 11y ago
Bryana refers several times to a fear she has been chosen or favoured due to her gender, and because of the positive discrimination we have allowed to happen in our industry. Positive discrimination is not positive, because discrimination i
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by cbeach 11y ago
Sounds like a great idea, although I fear people may stockpile points in order to promote their own material later.
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by cbeach 11y ago
House prices rise because an area is prospering. Those with no investment in the area are forced to move to an area they can afford. Such is life for all of us.
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by cbeach 11y ago
Personally I don't care about tracking if it means advertisers show me adverts I might want to click on (and thus the ecosystem I use can be funded). But I do care about adverts that aren't targeted to my needs and wants. I'd
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by cbeach 11y ago
“Aid is just a stop-gap. Commerce—entrepreneurial capitalism—takes more people out of poverty than aid.” --Bono Bono's brave enough to admit this. Kenyan economist James Shikwati: "for God's sake, stop the aid:". http:
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by cbeach 12y ago
I added facebook "friends of friends" features to StreetLend. A nice Neo4J graph DB powers this. Unfortunately it didn't save the site from the other issues described in my earlier comment

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