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by gahahaha 14y ago
See my other comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4262430
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by gahahaha 14y ago
Any piece of info in particular you wanted sourced, or just all of it? You might need to whip out Google translate. Jakobsson, Anders; Oscarsson, Magnus; Karlsson, Karl - Göran. Det fria skolvalet hotar kvaliteten Svensk skola. http://ww
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by gahahaha 14y ago
The experiences that were made from privatizing Swedish schools were: * generally worse results and increased inequality * 5 companies dominate the market, and makes huge profits * Sweden has fallen from 3rd to 19th on the PISA test in read
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by gahahaha 14y ago
Can anybody say that the executive board hasn't failed? I don't see how Nokia could have fumbled the ball more totally than they have. The Stock price: https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...
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by gahahaha 14y ago
There is also the little fact that Flame seems to have been targeting Iran, Syria, and the West Bank. Not proof that a nation state was involved, but surely there are more profitable targets for a criminal master mind capable of inventing n
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by gahahaha 14y ago
It wasn't raw economics, it was politics. Thatcher saw that the miners helped bring down the Heath government, saw an opportunity to break the unions and consolidate her power. (Creating the insane social and economical inequalities in the
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by gahahaha 14y ago
A company is an OPEN system (they can cut jobs and make more money), but a country is a (mostly) CLOSED system (someones spending is somebody else's income). Even the most ineffectual government employee is more valuable than another mother
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by gahahaha 15y ago
Does anything like this exist for Javascript?
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by gahahaha 15y ago
I think he answers your question: "That's because in 47 percent of cases, prisoners in Sweden are held incommunicado." I've read (in comments on blogs, so apply grain of salt) that the prosecutor in Sweden has requested that he be held in d
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by gahahaha 15y ago
The unemployment rate in Japan is low, but the (arguably more important) labor force participation rate has been dropping a lot lately: http://i.imgur.com/WJiUx.jpg Of course, a big explanation for the lower labor force participation rate
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by gahahaha 15y ago
"are they an A player that just doesn't get as much mindshare?" I think so. Via @mikko: Mobile web access marketshare changes in 2011: iOS: 25% -> 23% Android: 15% -> 22% Symbian: 30% -> 34% For real.
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by gahahaha 15y ago
There is a huge amount of ignorance about what Ron Paul really stands for - when he becomes a serious candidate (not very likely) and is given the scrutiny and attention that other candidates are given, then he will implode like Perry and H
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by gahahaha 15y ago
Ron Paul didn't decide he had never written or read his newsletters until 2001 http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/12/27/395391/fact-che...
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by gahahaha 15y ago
"""wacky, radical, no-hoper and quirky""" That IS a great summary of Ron Paul, so the Economist is being reasonably objective - as they usually are. Only the libertarian fringe and people who don't know much about anything support Ron Paul.
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by gahahaha 15y ago
"""Have they come up with any estimate of the global cost of the switch, and compared that to the benefit of the new calendar?""" If there are ANY benefits at all from switching, then that benefit can be enjoyed every year forever, dwarfing
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by gahahaha 15y ago
"""Montaigne likes to point out that philosophers don’t know everything, and that they would be a lot wiser if they laughed at themselves a little more. He also writes in a personal and often very frank way designed to shock the prudish. “K
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by gahahaha 15y ago
I am reminded of this article on learning math: http://www.ams.org/notices/201010/rtx101001303p.pdf """The alternative route to acquiring problem- solving skill in mathematics derives from the work of a Dutch psychologist, De Groot (1946
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by gahahaha 15y ago
I am disappointed that it can't extract the text from a password protected pdf since I have a few such documents. Not knowing much about the pdf format I would assume the text would be easy to extract since it is easy to show the text on th
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by gahahaha 15y ago
Living in Norway has its benefits even for startups: (from HN a while back) "In Norway, Start-ups Say Ja to Socialism" http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110201/in-norway-start-ups-say... But looking out at a foggy and dreary Oslo right now, I
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by gahahaha 15y ago
Thanks for the link. My first thought was that it would be a potential disaster like the inflexible and pro cyclical American balanced budget laws, but the Swiss law seems very reasonable """It states that each year, the budget must be in b
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by gahahaha 15y ago
David Brooks wrote once "the rich don’t exploit the poor, they just out-compete them" And if out-competing people means tying their ankles together and loading them down with extra weight while hiring yourself the most expensive coaches and
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by gahahaha 15y ago
It would probably be an even worse idea to cut government wages than to cut government jobs (also a very bad idea). It is true that people are unhappy if their wage increases don't keep up with the rate of inflation--if inflation is 4% and
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by gahahaha 15y ago
'"unnatural", whatever that is supposed to mean' It is supposed to mean huge changes from the relatively stable environment present during human evolution. The environment we are adapted to operating in. Unless you are a creationist, that s
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by gahahaha 15y ago
If the kids are otherwise healthy and eat a lot of the medicines, then yes, obviously. Eating a lot of medicines is OBVIOUSLY very bad for healthy children.
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by gahahaha 15y ago
He wrote "I'm sure some of the gap is because of mere correlation", so I think he IS grasping the point. Personally I thin it is OBVIOUS that TV is damaging children since it is unnatural the same way sugar is. The kids of our ancestors hav
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by gahahaha 15y ago
The quote is not by Galbraith but Lord Keynes. Still true, tho'.
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by gahahaha 15y ago
Turkey has grown strongly lately, but GDP/Capita is still 1/3 of Greece and 1/5 of Germany. I wish them all the best, but they are still a quite poor country. (and if you look at stuff like the acceptance of evolution (extremely low), an ar
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by gahahaha 15y ago
I always wonder: Wouldn't it be much cheaper to just spend a few billions to buy some new patent legislation from congress?
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by gahahaha 15y ago
Fancy underpaid drivers and fancy low low fares.
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by gahahaha 16y ago
The Zloty is now worth 18% less than in 2008. That translates into 18% cheaper wages. So for Poland, one important aspect is that they had their own currency. The PIIGS are forced into years of deep depression and painful wage cuts to achie

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