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by flexie 14y ago
As someone who has lived on both continents myself I find that Americans are more conformist and worried about stepping outside cultural norms than Europeans.
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America the innovative?(nytimes.com)
5 points by flexie 14y ago|4 comments
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by flexie 14y ago
If Harvard really wanted that they could offer their education for free to all 21,000 students right now, cover the tuition with a 4 percent interest on their endowment and still have more than $5B left for other expenses.
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by flexie 14y ago
"excellent students from poor schools really should apply to the elite private universities, because the private schools will pretty much pay for their education through their huge endowments" How long would the Ivy-league schools maintain
875.
by flexie 14y ago
Equal opportunity is nice :-) Here is the study, that the op-ed refers to: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/projects/bpea/spring%202013... The study suggests that around 4 percent of all US high school graduates are high-achievers so we a
876.
by flexie 14y ago
I totally agree. But those CEOs, politicians and investment bankers would like their sons and daughters to attend the same Ivy-league schools and not risk them being outcompeted by some geeky kids from Missouri or Kansas. If that happened t
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by flexie 14y ago
There are more than 15,000 high schools in America and just 8 Ivy League schools and maybe 5-10 other universities in the absolute elite (Stanford etc.). How would these maybe 15 schools go about sending recruiters out to all 15,000 high sc
878.
by flexie 14y ago
40-80 EUR is not that bad compared to many single country subscriptions in Scandinavia. Depends on whether it includes data traffic, free talk etc. If this works as advertised I believe it will be a game changer. The EU maximum roaming char
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by flexie 14y ago
I worked as a lawyer in another European country for several years and at least once a week I would be contacted by Cypriotic lawyers, accountants and financial advisors who wanted to sell what I would describe as tax evasion schemes to my
880.
by flexie 14y ago
Come on. It's a great little service whether there is a map or not. Drop downs with autocomplete work well for choosing countries. I especially like that there are links to primary sources and that the service is careful when it doesn't kno
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by flexie 14y ago
I don't understand the concern. It's a real problem and if someone wanted to do it for free, they could have and would have. Here is a guy who offers to do it if he get's paid a minimum amount. Fine. No moral issues.
882.
by flexie 14y ago
It also uses * Battery Lot's of it on my iPhone. But it's worth it :-)
883.
by flexie 14y ago
Sorry. Got lost on me :-)
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by flexie 14y ago
Well, that's an easy bet to settle. 97 percent of Finns have either Finnish, Swedish, Russian or Estonian as native language and only 0.26 percent of Finns are native English speakers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Finland
885.
by flexie 14y ago
I bet students in Finland start off with a lower English level than students in South Los Angeles.
886.
by flexie 14y ago
The flipping of classrooms is promising but Colorado has around 1 million school age children so if you dismiss the idea of learning from Finland because of its size you may want to ignore Colorado as well. On a related note, saying that th
887.
by flexie 14y ago
And if you count everyone who has committed a misdemeanor or felony as a criminal, then everyone is a criminal. The amount of felonies and misdemeanors is overwhelming, as is often the severity of the punishments.
888.
by flexie 14y ago
But do you think that is what made Dropbox buy them or that it substantially influenced the price?
889.
by flexie 14y ago
I don't know the Dropbox guys but I doubt they take investment advice from Techcrunch. It also doesn't seem likely that Dropbox with its 100 million users bought Mailbox for their 750,000 users. Why is it so hard for some people to stomach
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Opus Dei loses trademark court case to card game developer(globalpost.com)
1 points by flexie 14y ago|0 comments
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by flexie 14y ago
I actually read this paper without knowing it was sponsored by the Motion Picture Association of America and without realising that it wasn't peer reviewed. I cringed on the thought that this is the level of social science. In my profession
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by flexie 14y ago
A lot of these look great :-) If only they worked in IE 7, 8 and 9 they could be used in real projects...
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Pegasus Atlas - flying car (project for car, plane, quadrocopter)(pegasusatlas.com)
1 points by flexie 14y ago|0 comments
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by flexie 14y ago
Regarding cancellation of goods bought over the internet, directive 97/7/EC applies in the European Union: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:... Directives are implemented differently in different EU countries an
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by flexie 14y ago
Cool site! Just notice that in some jurisdictions sellers of digital products also have to worry about taxes, cancellations, refunds etc.
896.
by flexie 14y ago
Listen, 50 percent or 100 percent of revenues - that easily leaves you with a bankrupt company. That's not in the interest of consumers. Microsoft was fined around 1 percent of their global sales for a violation of the terms of a kind of a
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by flexie 14y ago
Here is the European Commission's press release about the decision: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-196_en.htm
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by flexie 14y ago
No wonder mass media is of such poor quality if original, reported articles consumed by up to 13M readers pays $100. Guess that's supply and demand (?)
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by flexie 14y ago
Granted it sounds high, given that the corporate tax rate was 30 percent 10 years ago. I truly don't believe it's politically motivated, though. I could say a lot of bad things about the Danish tax system, and I do so all the time, but the
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EU may fine Microsoft over browser ballot bungle(allthingsd.com)
1 points by flexie 14y ago|0 comments

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