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by flexie 14y ago
Sure we paid. Little by little, over our taxes. Our European income taxes are not higher than NYC's combined taxes, though, and European healthcare is vastly cheaper than American healthcare.
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by flexie 14y ago
When my wife gave birth in Europe the 11 hour procedure, which apart from the traditional medical stuff, included massage and acupunture for relaxation, involved a handful of nurses, 3 midwives, 2 doctors, an anesthesiologist etc. After the
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by flexie 14y ago
I don't think it's either or. I think most people try to drive carefully but we make mistakes, and so do pedestrians. For those situations it would be nice with a reduced risk. Now, there are other reasons I wouldn't want to buy a Volvo but
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by flexie 14y ago
The risk of hitting someone is one of the worst things about driving. I would gladly pay a bit to minimize the risk of killing someone.
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by flexie 14y ago
Yes, that is also a problem. Judging from the ads that are shown to me they don't understand much of what they see, though ;-) Of course that is likely an issue with the advertisers that choose wrong keywords that their ads show up for.
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by flexie 14y ago
Until then you can just hide your ads in Gmail: http://lifehacker.com/5879757/how-to-hide-ads-in-gmail
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by flexie 14y ago
Yes, some studies have shown that people take more chances when they feel more protected by safety measures. This is called risk compensation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation Still, less people are dying in road accidents n
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Volvo introduces airbags for pedestrians(inhabitat.com)
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by flexie 14y ago
Interesting, but wonder if the tweeting part of the population is representative for the population as a whole.
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by flexie 14y ago
I don't agree. I'd rather have the - sometimes - incompetent, corrupt and selfish democratically elected politicians of the US or Europe, than the 'benevolent dictator' (even if he existed). I really like the idea of democracy that much. It
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by flexie 14y ago
Oh, but Singapore is a police state (a state where the government exercises rigid and oppressive laws). It is also a dictatorship. It may not be the worst of its kind in that it actually has (the thin conception of the) rule of law, but it'
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by flexie 14y ago
That is something I have wanted for a while too.
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by flexie 14y ago
For what it is worth I did appreciate it.
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by flexie 14y ago
If European policies seem Schizophrenic it's because Europeans don't have one policy maker. Don't all democracies have legislation that point in one direction and legislation that points in the other direction? "Public choice" is messy. Law
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by flexie 14y ago
Mass media is show business. Whenever I have known the facts in a story that happened to become a media story, the facts differed from how the story was presented in media. Sometimes a lot, sometimes a little. But always some. You can't tru
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by flexie 14y ago
True. So do you offer lower prices for clients with higher volumes? I mean, you don't want to loose clients just as their business takes off... In any case, I like to see competition in the this market so good luck :-)
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by flexie 14y ago
The extra 2 percent - that is 'only' 2 percent of revenue but for a webshop it is easily 20 percent of profits.
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by flexie 14y ago
Because we like laughing. Women laugh about men, men about women.
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by flexie 14y ago
People laugh when they hear a "sexist" joke because it's funny. Maybe gender related jokes don't have a place at conferences and work places - I am not sure - but there should be room for jokes about genders somewhere, right? I mean, where
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by flexie 14y ago
Here is some interesting statistics on adoption and costs: http://www.statisticbrain.com/adoption-statistics/
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by flexie 14y ago
All members of the European Parliament are directly elected. The entire Council consists of the member states' ministers, which are elected politicians in their home states or appointed by elected politicians. The Commission too consists so
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by flexie 14y ago
Why do you say he did nothing but kill himself? He did a lot more than just that. And does anyone think he killed himself because of facing 6 months of jail time?
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by flexie 14y ago
Great. Even easier access to guns is just what America needs. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2012/1...
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by flexie 14y ago
That's what I have always said about law. I can do about 4 hours of legal work a day. Then I am absolutely done. I have no idea how my colleagues can clock in 8 hours. Yes - there are days I can do more. But there are also days I do less th
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by flexie 14y ago
Anyways, a "right to be forgotten" sounds like a nice idea, doesn't it?
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by flexie 14y ago
Took me less than a minute to find this: http://www.youknowwhodesign.com/portfolio
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by flexie 14y ago
Yep. The whole tipping system makes prices seem smaller than they actually are. Sort of like the cheap airline tickets with additional fees.
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by flexie 14y ago
Nina Smith was showing gender differences. That's why she split the data up on genders. One of her conclusions was that the traditional family roles, in which the husband supports the wife, has been taken over by the welfare society so that
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by flexie 14y ago
That statement is true for all first world countries.
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by flexie 14y ago
Nothing fishy about her numbers. These are net values. Both men and women contribute in their (best) working years, but as children and young adults, and again at old age, they cost more.

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