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by flexie 14y ago
Nina Schmidt, Danish professor in economics, calculated recently that every Danish baby girl born now, is expected to cost the government almost 300,000 dollars over her lifetime, and that every baby boy born, will contribute with merely 11
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by flexie 14y ago
The article doesn't mention the age of the mother when the family went into isolation in 1936, but judging from the age of the father and the age of the oldest child, she would have been somewhere between her mid/late 20s and late 30s. That
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by flexie 14y ago
Yep :-)
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by flexie 14y ago
Yes, your influence on the UK democracy is at least 2.17391304 × 10 * * (-6) percent (1 out of the 46 million voters) whereas your influence on the American government is 0 percent.
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by flexie 14y ago
Related: European companies considering hosting personal data on American servers need to consult the so called Safe Harbour List, which is a list maintained by the American Department of Commerce: http://safeharbor.export.gov/list.aspx N
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by flexie 14y ago
The Copyright Office (which also handles copyright registration) is part of the Library of Congress. Historically it made sense. http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap7.html
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Which is faster: CSS3 transitions or JQuery animations?(css3.bradshawenterprises.com)
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by flexie 14y ago
Nice layout. The - mostly - flat design is very well done.
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by flexie 14y ago
Let me make myself more clear. The article says that the Germans are planning on repatriating all the gold from France. But why is that a sign of distrust in the Euro, whereas bringing back gold from New York is not distrust in the dollar?
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by flexie 14y ago
The article asserts that this could be seen as a lack of confidence in the Euro but fails to explain why this should not be seen as a lack of confidence in the dollar or in America. After all, if the Euro broke down, the Germans might want
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by flexie 14y ago
I like this. It would be nice with an option to sign in with something else but twitter.
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by flexie 14y ago
Rocket Internet identified a market in the fact that American companies often ignore the European market for years. Because of their large home market, American web startups can grow to considerable sizes before having to worry about multip
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by flexie 14y ago
Very nice! I like the demo - How did you make it?
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by flexie 14y ago
Looks great. Nice feature that you can import content from any url. It's good that you can get started and see the product without signing in. Also a good guide.
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by flexie 14y ago
Prose is cheap.
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Robots and Robber Barons(nytimes.com)
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Skylon Space Plane animation(space.com)
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by flexie 14y ago
80.4 billion dollars is something like 255 dollars per capita or 700 dollars per tax payer, or 0.6 percent of GDP or 0.5 percent of US total public debt or 0.06 percent of US total unfunded liabilities (too many zeros on my calculator - I d
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by flexie 14y ago
- Only 25 percent of college graduates are deemed proficiently literate. How did the 75 percent complete college (and how did they get in to college in the first place) if they can't read and write at a proficient level? - 43 percent of all
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by flexie 14y ago
I find it implausible that some of the richest and most densely populated cities in America would just passively await submersion for decades when this could be averted with good old levees. What I do believe is that a major UN climate conf
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by flexie 14y ago
Well, I for one appreciate Schrems' efforts. Facebook is in the business of advertising. They make money selling ads in Europe and whereas they may be above the average, they are not above the law. They should abide by European rules or tak
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by flexie 14y ago
Funny how predictions on the future are often just extrapolation of recent advances in technology.
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by flexie 14y ago
I was looking for exactly that as well :-)
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Also, the Stockholm startup scene mainly attracts talent among the 9.5 million Swedes, whereas Tel Aviv benefits from immigration from Russia ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15797257 ). San Francisco attracts talent from all over the
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by flexie 14y ago
I think the article forgets one reason why Scandinavian countries do well in IT start ups: Allmost all Scandinavians speak English quite well. Given that most new technology and research is communicated in English, a decent level of English
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by flexie 14y ago
Would be interesting to see the EU import/export relative to EU GDP as a whole and not split up on member states. A large part of EU member states' export is export to other EU member states, just like these figures ignore the US interstate
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by flexie 14y ago
Well done!
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by flexie 14y ago
It's such a pain to search on iTunes so it's great you made this site :-) Did you scrape the info or is there an API?
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by flexie 14y ago
Sure. If you apply our standards, though, you might want to decry many of your founding fathers as well: Washington, Madison, Jefferson ("All men are created equal"), John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin - they all held slaves at some point. So,
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Human Greenhouse Gas Emissions Traced to Roman Times(livescience.com)
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