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by effn 13y ago
You can't use Social Security funds to fund a Basic Income. It operates similarly to a pension fund so it would be equivalent to confiscate peoples lifetime savings. Good luck explaining that to someone who is just about to retire.
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by effn 13y ago
Your suggestion has the same problems as most basic income proposals. 1) The numbers don't work out. Even a very steep CO2 tax will produce too little revenue for any form of meaningful BI. 2) The money collected on the CO2 tax could a
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by effn 13y ago
That's a description of an evacuated tube.
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by effn 13y ago
It's worth noting that Facebook's European datacenter is in Sweden so a large part of Facebook traffic passes Swedish borders.
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by effn 13y ago
But it's not solitary confinement in that way. You are allowed to see your lawyer, you interact with staff and you are allowed to go outside every now and then.
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by effn 13y ago
Sweden sends aid to Cambodia every year, they did not receive any extra for arresting Anakata. What you call "solitary confinement" is standard procedure before a trial. This is not considered torture by either the UN or Amnesty Internation
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by effn 13y ago
ActiveRecord doesn't even support constraints in the first place.
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by effn 13y ago
> you cannot because you have to pay local government for all licenses and whatever taximeter they provide you, not the one you design for your own company and your customers' safety. The reason you can't provide a service with 2x lower
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by effn 13y ago
The mistake was not researching local laws before entering a new market. It has nothing to do with anti-govt sentiment.
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by effn 14y ago
Most desktop applications that where written for the desktop back in the 90's and early 00's where boring internal business stuff, not well known shrink-wrapped stuff such as MS Office. Today, almost all that development has moved to the we
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by effn 14y ago
Which is exactly what happened to Bitcoin last year.
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by effn 14y ago
Bitcoin has experienced more inflation than any other developed country's fiat currency in recent times, with prices rising 700% in just a few months.
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by effn 14y ago
There is a lot of ignorance in that thread though. This is one of those subjects where you should be very careful about who you listen to, given all the disinformation floating around on the internet.
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by effn 14y ago
This is true for Vertica as well.
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by effn 14y ago
There is a case to be made that the trade deficits that the world runs against Germany is unsustainable.
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by effn 14y ago
What makes you think the Swedish economy is unsustainable?
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by effn 14y ago
I was merely pointing out that hydrocarbons don't have to be liquid to be a viable vehicle fuel. Where I live, all the vehicle gas comes from sewage and municipal waste.
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by effn 14y ago
What do you have against natural gas? Compressed natural gas/biogas is available today and has been for years, at prices far below that of electric cars, with none of the range and refueling issues that electric cars have.
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by effn 14y ago
This is not possible in Haskell either. You never hear people claiming Haskell doesn't support closures.
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by effn 14y ago
You made a typo, it should be "y > 2" in your filter expression.
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by effn 14y ago
MW is the wrong unit to use for that comparision. TWh/year is more appropriate.
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by effn 14y ago
Do you actually believe their numbers? If they where true, it would mean that the US has been in a depression for well over 10 years. That would be the longest depression in the history of the US, but somehow nobody noticed because the BLS
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by effn 14y ago
No, CPI includes food, housing and fuel. There is a "core" measure that excludes those, since they add little information but a lot of noise when you want to track the underlying trend.
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by effn 14y ago
Chile has a GDP per capita 50% higher than that of Brazil.
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by effn 14y ago
Slide-to-unlock was pioneered by Neonode long before Apple even considered going into the phone business.
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by effn 14y ago
> Sweden and the swedes is okay, but a bit envious of Denmark. Really? In what way? I have never ever heard anyone in Sweden talk about Denmark that way.
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by effn 14y ago
What's "painfully awry" about thinking jews are no different from other people apart from the circumcision thing?
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by effn 14y ago
I second this.
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Kodak to file for bankruptcy(abc.net.au)
2 points by effn 15y ago|0 comments
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by effn 15y ago
The lack of tail call optimization, persistent data structures, pattern matching and the cumbersome lambda syntax makes functional programming style very painful in Javascript.

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