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by duckingtest 11y ago
I think you're ignoring the possibility of technical progress. Who says we will even need food in 100 years? Eating dying plants and dead animal bodies is, on the whole, a very, very inefficient way of getting energy from the sun.
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by duckingtest 11y ago
I think you should try medical tourism. The price of travel and accomodation is insignificant compared to the savings. Also, don't put it off. You can literally die from ignoring cavities. http://www.npr.org/blogs/
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by duckingtest 11y ago
They don't. Germany's GDP per hour worked as % of USA = 90.9%. http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=LEVEL
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by duckingtest 12y ago
What wrong with caning? It's a much more effective punishment than a jail term. Pain is a strong negative reinforcement, while prison for career criminals feels more like home than freedom. It's drastically cheaper than a prison t
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by duckingtest 12y ago
Probably the only developers that your company would hire are those that managed to market themselves as equal to Western ones, which are definitely far from average freelancers. Also, due to enormous cost of living and tax differences (~0
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by duckingtest 12y ago
Because customers aren't usually capable of assessing the technical capabilities. All they see is self-confidence, personal charm (English and accent is very important in this category) and past experience. So what happens is that a
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by duckingtest 12y ago
So Western centric. Now imagine you're a brilliant 2x year old guy in Ukraine, Belarus or Vietnam. That $30/hour would put you in the upper 1% of income in your country.
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by duckingtest 12y ago
Cybernetics were wrong because they began as efficiency optimization in the economy. It was wrong because it necessarily assumed shadow prices, which is incompatible with labor theory of value. The upper echelons were really that dumb. Ther
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by duckingtest 12y ago
Its probably fast enough for its purpose. If it isn't, making it faster is way easier than changing existing abstraction layers. In the extreme, it can ever be an asic.
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by duckingtest 12y ago
My SSD has a three core cpu dedicated to it. Removing the layer of indirection isn't going to make it faster. At best it's going to make the ssd cheaper by a minuscule amount due to a simpler controller.
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by duckingtest 12y ago
>Due to excessive spam certain IP ranges, referrers and languages had to be banned from accessing the site. The most likely reason for you seeing this page is that your language is set to 'ru', sorry if that is the case for you
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by duckingtest 12y ago
>I am not sure I understand. The property tax in the US is the tax on land + additions, both subjects to appraised value, so yes, the rates listed do include both. Land tax is a tax on a value of unimproved land only [0] >How would th
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by duckingtest 12y ago
>the states with highest property taxes (New Jersey, New Hampshire) don't seem to be the economic powerhouses compared to the states with ultra-low property rates as the theory would imply These are property taxes, not land taxes, u
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by duckingtest 12y ago
I think he should start a US nonprofit, or even better start cooperating with an international one, as that would allow people to deduct donations from their income. It's a lot easier to donate if you know that otherwise 30%-50% of tha
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by duckingtest 12y ago
Real estate is so expensive around the world now because of unfair tax policies. True wealth creation is taxed mercilessly via a multitude of income taxes, while gains from real estate are often not taxed at all, even though they're co
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by duckingtest 12y ago
>Local food types (rice, noodles, veg, SE Asian fruits) are ridiculously cheap in Cambodia What's the price for 1kg of rice there?
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by duckingtest 12y ago
It's not that they're exploited. Cambodia's economy is just really, really inefficient. Food prices in Cambodia are really high (ep 4), higher even than in Berlin [0] by 21%, not to mention Eastern Europe (2+ times Warsaw&#x2
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by duckingtest 12y ago
Modern GPUs have 32-64 independent cores, each can run different code path. Then each core runs the same code path on several different inputs in parallel. It's probably not possible with current tools, but architecture-wise complete
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by duckingtest 12y ago
>He had to pay, on average, $7 and some change to buy the mugs back from people. By contrast, he had to sell the mug for about $3 and change to get them to buy when they did not already own it. Kahneman’s conclusion was that people put a
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by duckingtest 12y ago
>I'm counting the days until someone notices Phenylethylamine You can't ban chocolate in the current world. Dark chocolate can contain up to 0.7% of PEA.
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by duckingtest 12y ago
It sells in India for about one eighth of online's price. The price of ten 200mg Modalert pills is about $2.5. Counterfeiting simply doesn't pay, as it would kill any return business for minuscule one-time gain.
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by duckingtest 12y ago
I would describe modafinil as an internal task-switcher disabler. For this reason, I don't use it often. For example, if I accidentally start reading reddit, on modafinil this will probably end in writing long, thoughtful comments fo
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by duckingtest 12y ago
>An often reasonable way to ensure that you can mechanically apply a problem solving technique (which is related to, but absolutely not the same thing as understanding the maths) is to make a program that does it. What "problem solv
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by duckingtest 12y ago
If I were to design a school program from the ground up, I would teach programming just after reading & writing. The best way to learn math is to try to make a program that solves specific problems.
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by duckingtest 12y ago
>Lamarckism is dead Lamarckism is more alive than ever before, it's just called epigenetics now. Portia spiders can even transfer hunting behaviors to their progeny (although it's unclear how that happens).
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by duckingtest 12y ago
>but in another country you can walk or take public transport to the restaurant or tailor without the fear of being the victim of a crime That's unrelated to the prices. 3 relatively poor countries are in fact much safer than the US
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by duckingtest 12y ago
CC billing address is the simplest one to falsify, just use an anonymous prepaid card (they accept all addresses). Still, not many people will go out of their way to exploit this loophole.
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by duckingtest 12y ago
Customer location vat seems to be really easy to abuse. Luxembourg VPN + Post Forwarding = 15% rate on everything that can be ordered online. Compared to maximum vat in EU (Hungary, 27%) that's an enormous difference.
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by duckingtest 12y ago
Author's argument against using C++ isn't true. New/delete can be easily redefined to use malloc/free [0]. You can compile (a bit limited) C++ code without any special C++ dependencies. [0] http://ptspts.blogs
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by duckingtest 12y ago
Perhaps a better version of Colobot [0]? Ie. better graphics, more rewarding gameplay, some multiplayer. If someone who otherwise wouldn't even try, will find programming fun due to that, well, that's it, s/he will figure out

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