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by devdas 11y ago
Also if they can get work visas.
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by devdas 11y ago
And if the work they can do happens to be in a different country?
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by devdas 11y ago
There's a lot of history on calling non-white people monkeys. http://theconversation.com/the-ape-insult-a-short-history-of...
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by devdas 11y ago
Meh. Why not all of them?
335.
by devdas 11y ago
Nothing stops anyone else from peering. There's no differential pricing involved here, just regular infrastructure.
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by devdas 11y ago
The problem is that poor people spend all (or almost all) their income. Flat taxes impact the poor negatively. What you can do instead is just tax net worth as a flat tax (or a slightly graded tax), instead of taxing income. This impacts on
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by devdas 11y ago
However, if your mutually beneficial transaction has negative externalities, those need to be corrected. Taxation is one way of achieving that correction.
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by devdas 11y ago
That's the modern day equivalent of "I was just following orders".
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by devdas 11y ago
Nagpur is close to the center of India, not the north.
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by devdas 11y ago
The name Unix is a pun on Multics.
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by devdas 11y ago
Perl 5 is still around and being developed. Perl 6 is a different language.
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by devdas 11y ago
The benefits of high income levels tend to compound across generations.
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by devdas 11y ago
1 => one 10 => ten 100 => one hundred 1,000 => one thousand 10,000 => ten thousand 1,00,000 => one lakh 10,00,000 => ten lakh (one million)
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by devdas 11y ago
India also has to dismantle the social systems and institutions set up by the British, which were designed to make people at the top rich, instead of running for the benefit of society. Dismantling this is hard work, and you cannot simply d
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by devdas 11y ago
Global warming just means there's more energy in the atmosphere. Hotter summers, colder winters, more powerful storms, ...
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by devdas 11y ago
And then Indians will spend that on cooling instead.
347.
by devdas 11y ago
Naming is a hard problem in computer science :)
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by devdas 11y ago
Most of the colonised countries were left out of the technological race too.
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by devdas 11y ago
Would those countries have the same benefits without British rule? I think they would. And as for Britain "giving up" their claims, they simply couldn't afford to keep India after the Indian military rebelled, and without Ind
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by devdas 11y ago
Pressure cookers are for pretty much anything you want to steam. Rice, legumes, vegetables, meat (stews, pilafs, biryani, etc). It saves a lot of cooking time.
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by devdas 11y ago
If you have a function which invokes a different object (or more commonly, a different network service), you pass that as a parameter instead of making a call inside the function. foo() { service = someRemoteService(authn, authz); http:&
352.
by devdas 11y ago
s/Europe/America/
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by devdas 11y ago
Switching programming languages is far more common than switching databases.
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by devdas 12y ago
Because you end up being write limited, and there is only so much you can do with SSDs.
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by devdas 12y ago
If I need a few terabytes of data to be stored reliably enough that I can lose a node (or two), support mostly writes and some reads, for a duration of a few years (at least three), would you still suggest storing this in RAM?
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by devdas 12y ago
Before we do that, we should find the monolith. After all, landings on Europa may be prohibited.
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by devdas 12y ago
The price of an open computing platform is that you spend time learning to maintain it. The price of not having to learn is that you give up control to someone else. A manufacturer. An IT department.
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by devdas 12y ago
Dividends, as opposed to earning with a stock price increase.
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by devdas 13y ago
Tax wealth and capital rather than income. You want to tax gain in capital rather than direct income (just reverse the capital gains and income tax rates, and gains are realised when stock prices go up, rather than when you sell if your sto
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by devdas 13y ago
What about the counter case of one statement needing more than one line?

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