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And what will those people do who have their pensions as the only source of livelihood or major source?
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So, if some country (and as you say Europe) where still primary mode of parking your earnings is banks what are other options to play safe in case such a seizure happens? Real estate is one I can see. What else? Gold, you will have to keep
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To me it looks like a tiny screenshot where I cannot see anything.
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That is actually very surprising at its price; given they didn't add anything which is not already better in every other smartphone in the price range(actually well below that) out there.
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And what is more difficult? Making 10 millions a month from 5 millions a month or making 10000 a.m. from 1000 a.m.? Considering the starting amount also contributes to the bread and butter.
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There are some paid solutions but all them are either not accepting new users or require you to have more than one users(5 or 10 generally) like AlienCamel, ATMail an likes of Rackspace email hosting. They aren't Gmail carbon copies. I woul
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First Shelfari which Amazon bought 3 years ago and now Goodreads. In three years there's been no updates to Shelfari and that was my biggest peeve against Goodreads - lack of update) and absence of even a half decent mobile app(I use Androi
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That is exactly why I told him that it is perfectly fine and legit to do that. I didn't mean to sound anything else, if at all you heard so. Though it was not clear whether he actually meant a squatter or a hoarder.
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It's because of "I/O - Input Out". Gives a nerdy touch to the URL. Maybe also because it's one of those easy sounding, feels real short and quick like some other domains i.e. .in, .co and .ly. Nth beats a .com yet. Anyway reason you think,
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It's like real estate. You found a company or whatever and have good money - you buy a land or house in a suburban area(not yet developed). You leave that land just marked or fenced for years and when the area develops your land is worth se
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India's secret history: A holocaust, one where millions disappeared...
(guardian.co.uk)
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MacVim, TextWrangler, Xcode on Mac at home. N++, IntelliJ and Eclipse on Windows and gedit, gvim on Linux at office. Favourite language: Python (which I am learning). BTW I work with Java and C/C++(little) on Android platform.
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|| and figure out how to pick better leaders. More important, IMHO, is - how to keep those elected leaders good, honest and in check!
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I switch off my computer before going to bed. Never wakes me up.
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>> "by only loading tabs " and then "the only tab " So, Firefox opens tabs or tab (as in juts one tab or many/all tabs)? Because in my case it opens all the tabs and if there were 20, it opens all. Even though the last time I open
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The costs tell how capitalism ruined the capitalism and twisted it to work solely for the (already) capitalists who are/were on the upper deck of capitalist yacht. It's not just insurance cost - it's the entire healthcare system it seems th
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Can't you sue your Government for this crime? It's a crime, isn't it? Your government is doing it on the behest of all those companies who fund the lobbyists. You must be having some public litigation system. It disturbs me when in countrie
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If only I could try their service, without entering my credit card info, then I would have loved to try their official Firefox add-on. Because Pinboard add-on is the part of Pinboard I dislike most and maybe the only think I dislike. And ha
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Things like "number of working hours" and "free weekends" - you didn't find important enough they are part of one of your points? >> - actively studying philosophy, economics, psychology, business, art, literature, religion, science
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Working on your project regularly(as in everyday, not even every week) is entirely different from working on it every six months or each month using one of those extra leave days or weeks. So, the extra leave is hardly a worthwhile compensa
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It is the hjkl of line length.
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Yes, that is why I said last two. I knew that. I own Nexus #3 and have worked on both #2 and #3 (and of course #4 is LG's and maybe #5 too) :-) Thanks for reminding though. Maybe I should have explicitly excluded the current from from last
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I just couldn't concentrate. Lots of things would come to mind. Revenge, sex, regret, frustrations, hope, plans and a lot just used to happen in mind at that time. More than usual. More than it would usually come to my mind. It's not that t
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>> The threat is still enough that Samsung have chosen not to try forking Android. I can't think of anything great or innovative Samsung can after forking Android. It will let it die a sad and quick death by turning into an extende
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I doubt Tizen will take off . Samsung's software prowess is nowhere near to companies making and capable of making world class/sophisticated OS(or mobile OS). There is a lot of things that goes against Samsung which is in the company's DNA
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Changing careers at a certain age(that too sth as young as 30) is hindered more by mindset and years of stereotype we have been believing. How well travelled you are? Around the world. Do you think about such things because as you see you a
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>> See you next year. I doubt they would invite you or let you attend next year. If they do, they shall have to rent a bigger venue just to make room for you and the empty seats around you. Not joking. I wouldn't want to be near yo
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Not again Ruby. Please. PG needs to put in a filter over there, just like he deleted Adria's firing posts yesterday. Though the contexts are different. >> that .NET started out such a remarkably well designed language – literally wh
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This guy (author) has no idea what he has talking about. It seems he hates Real Madrid just because Madrid was on Franco's side.
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>> China, however, remains centrally controlled, with the Communist Mao Dynasty, as I’ve dubbed it, simply replacing the dynasties of old. More or less it's just the same in India. Here instead of a dynasty or a group it's a famil
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