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by flexie 13y ago
Oregonians will be pay for college until their late 40s? What about the next tech billionaire. Will he pay USD 30 million for every billion he makes?
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by flexie 13y ago
Interesting :-) But I still do think it's a good idea for all of us to cool off before we jump to any conclusions based on things posted by new members with links to websites few of us had heard about before, even if these websites are
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by flexie 13y ago
This is just mean. Why don't you put your own name and salary up there for us to see, mariusz331? Whether your employer is the government or a private entity and whether or not you participate in a strike you don't deserve to have
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by flexie 13y ago
Surely you can't let a 20 year-old get away with what might be a beer. Law enforcement showed great mercy in dropping charges against this girl. In fact she should consider herself lucky they spared her life. But I fear other disobedie
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by flexie 13y ago
Yes, that is sad and it makes me angry too but it's hardly relevant for HN, is it?
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by flexie 13y ago
Just release them. Since the US was the country which arrested them in the first place, interrupted their lives and kept them for 11 years without a trial, at least the US could grant them residence permit. Sure, there might be a terrorist
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by flexie 13y ago
There could be many different explanations for that: 1: US foreign intelligence is incompetent. Viewing Germany or France as a military threat to America in 2013 is just nonsense. 2: The US uses its foreign intelligence to gain competitive
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by flexie 13y ago
What is even worse is that the next president - who taught constitutional law for more than a decade - cannot see the problem with his government spying on everybody.
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by flexie 13y ago
If you are selling products or services where the variable cost is close to zero then free or freemium is an option. Some people will always have the incentive to go free and it makes perfect sense for them. Google and Facebook would be lit
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by flexie 13y ago
Absolutely. I remember how in 2001 when the US as the first country ever invoked article 5 of the NATO treaty, within hours all NATO members had followed through with support. And the minute of silence that was held all over Europe for the
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by flexie 13y ago
Very brave kid. I hope he will not be tortured and imprisoned.
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by flexie 13y ago
It's the war on terrorism. Every time you hear officials talk about terrorism, replace terrorism with "the devil". "an act of terrorism" == "an act of the devil" The war on terrorism is our witch-hunt.
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by flexie 13y ago
No, not really. Right now I don't care about the usual stories about someone launching a photo sharing app or creating a javascript framwwork. The thing I take away from it these days is that if it succeeds it's going to be used t
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by flexie 13y ago
The European Court of Human Rights has established that the right to remain silent under police questioning and the privilege against self-incrimination applies. All over Europe elections are held at least every 4th or 5th year and governme
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by flexie 13y ago
That's a very good point - in the last months the world listened in on Americans debating whether drones can be used against Americans or just against us foreigners, as if we are worth less. Now we learn that the American government sp
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by flexie 13y ago
Whereas we in the EU have our own dubious surveillance programmes, at least they are made by governments we can overthrow ourselves. Also, European governments mostly grant us basic human rights, have no secret overseas prisons, no death pe
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by flexie 13y ago
I think the apparatus available to today's government for spying on its citizens would make a 1980s KGB or Stasi agent blush.
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by flexie 13y ago
Dane here. Todays headline in Danish news is that the government just learned that a database containing ID numbers of all people with a driver's license was hacked last year and an unknown amount of information may be leaked. The Danish ID
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by flexie 13y ago
Yes, it's hard to maintain free healthcare and free education like in Northern or Western Europo when Greeks pay little or no tax. As I understand it unemployed Greeks receive free health care for up to one year. After that period, patients
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by flexie 13y ago
And then this is not a union either: http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/labor/state-unemployment... The difference between unemployment in North Dakota and Puerto Rico is 4 fold, not that different from Austria vs. Greece. Also, the figu
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by flexie 13y ago
It's different from country to country, but in general lot's of them live with their parents and most of them receive some welfare. In Southern Europe it's not unnormal to live with your parents way into your twenties or even early thirties
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by flexie 13y ago
If 500 million Europeans are suddenly given a basic income of, say 1,000 Euro per month, on top of whatever other income they already have, then things will get more expensive.
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by flexie 13y ago
As I said, poverty in South Eastern Europe is mainly a problem among Romas, elderly people and people who stayed in the rural areas. From what I can read the pattern is similar in Central Eastern Europe. It is bad enough that poverty is ass
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by flexie 13y ago
Of course I have seen homeless and beggars - also in rich Scandinavia in the heydays 5-10 years ago. Virtually everybody who is without work in Denmark is entitled to some kind of welfare. Often that welfare is higher than what working peop
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by flexie 13y ago
You keep updating your post, so it's hard to reply to it all :-) Yes, many South Eastern Europeans have left for the US, UK, Germany, Italy, and Spain (not so many for Scandinavia, though). So far, few have returned. I am not sure it's fair
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by flexie 13y ago
In spite of the crisis, the Mediterranean countries are among the wealthiest in Europe: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/poor-germany-it-i... As for Scandinavians, I can assure you they aren't going to bed hungry.
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by flexie 13y ago
If everybody got a basic income, basic necessities such as housing and food, would just get more expensive. Those who had very little purchasing power before would still have very little purchasing power. And where is the need for this in E
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by flexie 13y ago
The problem is that multinational companies are allowed to place IP in low income countries, set the royalty payment themselves (only subject to transfer pricing rules) and then deduct royalty payments from the earnings in all the high tax
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by flexie 14y ago
Yes, that's all I could focus on as well when reading the article. What kind of non-violent crime deserves 25 years in prison: Cocaine dealing? Where I am from, selling cocaine on a grand scale (huge amounts, running an organization, smuggl
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by flexie 14y ago
Well, at least Antonio Meucci's Globe Telephone Company was sued by the Bell Telephone Company for patent infringement. It was really a messy law suit where one question was whether Meucci had invented the electromagnetic telephone or "just

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