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by comrade1 11y ago
This is more of a problem with GitHub than git. Remember, it's not that hard to host your own git repo. There's no need to use GitHub.
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by comrade1 11y ago
They weren't flying in salt water fish to North Dakota in 1905. And so their sushi was probAbly local fresh water fish. They probably all got worms, or maybe even had worms to begin with. The freshwater clam lifecycle is one of the mor
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by comrade1 11y ago
If you don't mind the moral implications, try the self destructing cookies plugin.
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by comrade1 11y ago
There's a richest person that dies every time after the last richest person died. The idea that he was the richest person in history sounds very euro-centric.
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by comrade1 11y ago
Whenever I'm in the u.s. I think people look bizarre with their super-white teeth. I mean, my teeth aren't yellow or anything, but they don't glow in the dark either. There are some things that don't transfer so easily b
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by comrade1 11y ago
I was writing about vat. That's basically sales tax. It looks like it's 8% now.
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Oldest Continuous Democracy(en.wikipedia.org)
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by comrade1 11y ago
There's at least one piece of Germany inside of Switzerland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCsingen_am_Hochrhein There are a few others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_enclaves_and
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by comrade1 11y ago
Based solely on stock value. Which, I guess if you had to take a measurement based on something it may as well be that. Assuming we're not in a bubble. The last two crashes the stock value dropped 50%. Does that mean Silicon Valley pro
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by comrade1 11y ago
I don't mean to derail the discussion, but the Indian Nepalese and Bhutanese people are so beautiful. I know that they're discriminated against in India. One would hope India would have a higher regard for all of their citizens (n
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by comrade1 11y ago
They were lucky to not get invaded by the Germans but they totally expected to be invaded and built a defense strategy based on this belief that lasted until the 1990s. Twice the Germans started the process of putting together a Swiss invas
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by comrade1 11y ago
Taxes in Switzerland are quite low. Federal around 2 or 3 %, and at the state level, from 7% to 22%. Wealth tax is usually less than 1%. But it is always a level society.
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by comrade1 11y ago
Income taxes. As for sales tax, it's 7% here. Lower than most of Europe, and lower than some parts of the u.s., but not all parts of the u.s. But the low taxes more than make up for it. (about 1/2 compared to the u.s., but depends
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by comrade1 11y ago
Happy Swiss National Day Switzerland! You've been a democracy since 1292(?). Good luck and hopefully you'll be independent and free for another 800 years.
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by comrade1 11y ago
$120K is pretty average in Switzerland. As for getting a job here, I know a handful of people from 'third-world' countries here although the term doesn't mean as much these days (India, China, and Brazil) and they all have MD
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by comrade1 11y ago
They provided a place for the jews in nazi germany to move their money outside of germany. But if I was Jewish and in Nazi Germany I would have done the same, as my Catholic great-grandparents did by moving their money from Germany to Switz
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by comrade1 11y ago
The Swiss attitude is that many countries, including the u.s., are corrupt with corrupt governments and it is your responsibility to put your money someplace safe and out of hands of that corruption.
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by comrade1 11y ago
Interesting note - switzerland has workers councils too.
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by comrade1 11y ago
Switzerland has considerably lower taxes than the u.s. (I'm an american living in switzerland)
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by comrade1 11y ago
The news article and my comments are about purchasing housing. And we have permanent residence and are able to use our pensions but chose not to, other than pillar 3 which one does to get a tax advantage. Most people only use pillar 3 since
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by comrade1 11y ago
In order to keep things on topic I'll ignore most of what you wrote and just talk about purchasing housing here. My wife and I just bought an apartment in Zürich and found it very different than the u.s. One must put down a minimum of
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by comrade1 11y ago
Switzerland
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by comrade1 11y ago
If I had to give advice to a young person in the u.s. now it would be to not act responsibly when it comes to their finances because the government will bail you out. I was responsible but it's put me at a disadvantage. I would have be
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by comrade1 11y ago
Wow. I remember this is exactly what happened in 2001 and 2007. Maybe things are different this time.
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by comrade1 11y ago
I have no idea what this has to do with the character gatsby, unless the author is referring to the sandwich instead - it makes about as much sense. I didn't see the recent movie(s), but from the previews it looked like it was mostly a
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by comrade1 11y ago
I've jokingly referred to Wikipedia moderators as autistic for, for example, diligently reversing changes to articles even when done by experts in that field. I guess I'll try to come up with something else...
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by comrade1 11y ago
How do you read that quote as a positive thing? The first half merely says it was successful in collecting data and the second half uses weasel words "could improve". I've worked on projects in the past where we collected a t
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by comrade1 11y ago
How often does a google car go past a location? I always assumed it was less than once a year based on how often they update street view where I live. Plus, you have no idea what time of day the car will be passing through a location. So yo
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by comrade1 11y ago
Why not just, I don't know, install a permanent sensor. This doesn't seem very useful unless these cars are driving the same route every day.
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by comrade1 11y ago
Can't operate in vacuum. Can't operate underwater for more than 3 minutes. Can only operate in a very narrow temperature range. Needs to shut down 8 hours a day.

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