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by flexie 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_... Check out the list based on Alesina’s analysis. Or go to Sweden. In the younger population groups, muslims are now are huge minority.
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Sweden is as diverse as the US, or more so.
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That Elon Musk can sell $10M worth of something as silly as flamethrowers, should be a sign of worry for car manufacturers. The cult surrounding Elon Musk is second to none in the auto world. Which car manufacturer could sell useless mercha
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Indeed a very nice way to prove this thread wrong :-)
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Have any other human species been found in America?
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It's really not true. I'd say that it's more Silicon Valley recruiting all over America, than the rest of the US trying to recruit in Silicon Valley. And even if they did, they don't need to pay SV salaries to compete. S
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Basecamp is selling all over the world. What should their salary level be like? Bay Area because that’s where a lot of the larger tech companies are situated? Washington State (Microsoft, Amazon)? Copenhagen (where one founder, DHH is from)
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Why would you want to be disturbed every few seconds? It's bad enough with interruptions from emails, chats, skype, calls, messages, coworkers walking in etc. This might actually have the potential to kill your remaining few productive
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This is wrong in so many ways. Indian engineering is many things just like in the US or Europe and you can get world class IT specialists in India. If anything, the existense of the IT outsourcing industry in India has helped establishing a
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An idea that the EU, China or any of your other large trading partners would never allow to fly for more than a split second without introducing reciprocal measures.
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It’s simply not true. In the 4 countries I have lived in, the US was the only one with very expensive heathcare, and in the other 3, which all have what Anericans call socialized medicine, healthcare was even more detached, but much cheaper
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This is true. But the easiest way to fix the inadequate transportation is to build more densely. Build more highrises. A 30 floor highrise with 8 apartments per floor can easily house 500 people but only takes up the land that 4 single fami
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by flexie 9y ago
You seem to know about this. Am I risking anything driving my 6 year okd old winter tires for 3 years non stop (winter and summer, 15k km yearly)?
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Oh, there are countless ways governments can regulate crypto currencies without such regulation being built into the currencies themselves. Right now, crypto currencies are entirely useless for 99 percent of real world purchases. You cannot
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Or Copenhagen where 62 percent bike to work, 21 percent take metro, bus or train, 8 percent walk, and only 9 percent drive a car to work.
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And how ridiculous is it that it would take half a decade to state the obvious while this company funded by tech billionaires competed on unfair terms with tens of thousands of tiny taxi companies that followed rules and acquired licenses,
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70 years after the author's death is a very long time. That's maybe 100 years after the works were published. Not only has language changed a bit. Many of the issues that authors dealt with 100 years ago are also different today.
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It’s the exact same cables that powers the thousands of light bulbs, hundreds of computers, AC, TV, fridges etc in the buildings next to the street
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When doing business in the EU, Whatsapp and whatnot will have to abide by EU legislation, including EU data protection rules, EU consumer legislation and national rules on entering into and interpreting terms and conditions and other contra
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The consideration thing is considered an exotic common law curiosity in continental law countries :-) Generally, an offer and an acceptance creates a binding contract inmost of Europe.
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We don't need improvements at a rate that is anywhere near Moore's law. Moore's law is about doubling transistor density every two years. But for EVs to reach that kind of ranges (7-800 km for mid range price) we just need to
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First world city streets already have electricity supply (for the street light and for the buildings). Setting up charging ports is already rather cheap and once cities realize that they can - drastically reduce air pollution - make more mo
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Articles like this is when you doubt whether journalism even deserves to survive (it does, inspite of the abundance of these poorly written, never researhed pieces). CNBC is a larger network, not the weekly paper in a small town. Why don’t
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In a few hours the Americans will wake up and a bunch of them on HN will say that it's a loaded or divisive or misleading title or that the statistics is flawed. And HN is decisively more progressive than most of the country which simp
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Now it will get much easier to fabricate statements and much easier for someone to deny something they actually said (by claiming it was fabricated). This is a Photoshop of voices and as such it is neither more or less dangerous. We despera
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Apart from the Porsche family that would be all 8 million citizens in the state of Lower Saxony and the 2.5 million in Qatar? Why stop at the shareholders? Some shares are owned by pension funds. Surely those greedy savers would fit in your
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It should, thanks!
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I chose to believe that this is a side-effect of facebook trying to combat fake news with some lame algorithms and an understaffed department of reviewers, not facebook actively trying to please the Romanian authorities. But even so, this s
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It's not that I disagree, especially with the opinion that the gaming industry is over-saturated and that a lot depends on luck in that industry. But I'd say that 4 months worth of savings is in the better end when starting a new
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There is personal liability for board members and management boards (CEO etc.) in many (most?) jurisdictions, usually including for some things that they should have known but didn't know, typically if the "not knowing" part

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