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by flexie 12y ago
18 years! The guy surely deserves some correction but 18 years? That's more than most murderers get where I'm from.
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On the Existence of Low-Mass Dark Matter and Its Direct Detection(nature.com)
11 points by flexie 12y ago|0 comments
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by flexie 12y ago
How does simple Bayesian analysis suggest that? :-)
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by flexie 12y ago
Looks like great fun! I doubt it has close resemblance with medieval long sword fighting, though :-) It must have been a lot slower fighting in leather, chainmail or plate armor than in this ultra light modern equipment. And, I assume a med
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by flexie 12y ago
In Copenhagen, it was revealed a few years ago that racist customers who didn't want a muslim taxi driver told the central when ordering a cab that they were 'bringing a large dog', and the operators at the centrals knew and
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by flexie 12y ago
A piece of advice from a non-Italian who never lived in Italy: Don't listen too much to people who left their first world country and tries to convince themselves it was the right thing to do. At the moment quite few Italians leave Ita
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Toxic Ammonia Leak in US Section of ISS – Spacemen Safe in Russian Sector(rt.com)
2 points by flexie 12y ago|0 comments
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by flexie 12y ago
Editors all over the western world exercise more caution when it comes to satire about islam than about christianity and in my opinion it borders a form of racism of low expectations. Then again, who wants to be the next Salman Rushdie, The
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by flexie 12y ago
Few or no European suburbs are as vast as your American suburbs (think Houston, Atlanta or the Bay area). In my home country (Denmark) young families now tend to stay in city centers rather than moving to suburbs so the trend is reverse. Al
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by flexie 12y ago
Makes me wonder about the future of democracy. If tiny Norway, which imposes no real threat to any other country, including it's mighty neighbor, Russia, is a target for intelligence services, then every country is a target. Norway has
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by flexie 12y ago
More or less. But would iTunes, Spotify, Netflix etc. have have had a ready market without Napster, KazaA, Pirate Bay and other file sharing sites making people used to getting music and movies online?
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by flexie 12y ago
Yeah. Let's see how it plays out :-) I remember how the music industry teamed up with politicians, and used police and courts to go after Napster and KaZaA. The founders of those companies were considered thugs by the establishment bac
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by flexie 12y ago
The devil is in the details but the principle of taxing money where it is made is sound. Taxing revenue instead of profits could be a solution for example by shifting all the tax to the VAT (and then having a single VAT rate in the EU). The
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by flexie 12y ago
Skype has video chat. So far Wire only has audio. Skype can call a regular phone or receive calls from a regular phone. It seems like Wire can't, yet. Skype has all my contacts, Wire has none, yet. Let's call it a Skype killer if
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by flexie 12y ago
Let's look at things in perspective. Axel Springer with EUR2.8B revenue and 13,000 employees and few million readers is a modest size company, and not that important to German economy, much less to European. Certainly less important to
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by flexie 12y ago
Indeed. And if they then put the VAT rate at 0 it would hurt businesses even less ;-)
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by flexie 12y ago
Best solution would be to have a common EU VAT-rate applying to all goods and services. It's going to be terrible situation for tech start ups but it's been bad for everyone for a while who sells across borders in EU. You have to
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by flexie 12y ago
20-56 is the working age. If you wanna do this comparison you should include whether skinny people work more/pay more taxes while the obese are busy being sick. It gets complicated :-)
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by flexie 12y ago
Same in Denmark. The government issued digital signature are so widely used that close to 100 percent of all adults between 18-70 years use them and also a significant percent of the older population and of children (15 years and up). And n
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Ambulance drone(alecmomont.com)
2 points by flexie 12y ago|0 comments
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by flexie 12y ago
In general, whenever it comes to human rights - or civil rights as Americans like to call it - it's appalling that they distinguish between citizens and foreigners (or aliens as they label us). Imagine European countries denying human
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by flexie 12y ago
I experienced the same thing. Nothing is as demotivating as seeing an edit you spent hours researching and writing deleted for some obscure reason and then rewritten a few days later by the very same guys who deleted your entry.
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by flexie 12y ago
Comets are thought to be remains of the frozen cloud of gas/dust that our solar system was created from. So the hope is we can learn about the creation of our solar system. On top of that it's the biggest acchievement of the Europ
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by flexie 12y ago
Landed!!! Awesome :-)
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by flexie 12y ago
Interesting. I wonder whether you wouldn't find the same pattern in many other metropoles. On Manhattan, when I lived there, everybody seemed to be from somewhere else. Maybe this is just a function of the facts that a city center is a
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by flexie 12y ago
This is the original article from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism, which uncovered the secret tax deals.
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Leaked Documents Expose Global Companies’ Secret Tax Deals in Luxembourg(icij.org)
55 points by flexie 12y ago|72 comments
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by flexie 12y ago
Not surprised to see Krane's take on crowdsourcing getting mentioned in NYT. She's found a niche that most crowdsourcing websites ignore: Good old fashioned loans. Seems to me everybody focuses on donations or equity financing.
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by flexie 12y ago
Everyone except me, apparently :-)
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by flexie 12y ago
That is one of the most successful Bulgarian companies being acquired. Telerik has been a center piece in the Bulgarian IT sector. There is hardly an IT company here in Sofia that doesn't have at least one employee that has been employ

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