gonvaled

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by gonvaled 10y ago
What they do is secret
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by gonvaled 10y ago
We got some hints.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
If I am right, we are talking about FISA / FISC [1]. This was widely reported during the Snowden scandal, but I do not have the links. Anyway, this is secret stuff, so by definition you won't find a lot of information out there. [
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Don't forget Snowden's laws, in particular the Zero, First and Second laws: Zero) Any US company might be in bed with government. First) Any US company might be forced to deny involvement with the US government. Second) Any US
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Armed with that information, I will click around everything that catches my eye!
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by gonvaled 10y ago
That simple things that we take for granted in our day-to-day live are luxuries (or even impossibilities) in other contexts . Which I use to show that poverty is a relative them. The analysis is surely incomplete.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Why? If he is afraid that it is downvoting, and he has nothing to downvote ...
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by gonvaled 10y ago
A cursory search shows that the US is protectionist too: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/22/huawei-well-re-enter-us-marke...
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Your treaty blueprint for a deal EU-Switzerland is a treaty with a non-European union, with roughly the same surface as the whole Europe, and in one case with a population close to EU's? Also, both areas have much higher GDP than Switz
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Sure, so he was chosing his particular brand of experts, of which there seems to be few.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
But demands free movement of people. Actually, the EU is happy to negotiate treaties with countries outside the EU. Conditions usually include free movement of people. If the country negotiating does not agree with these terms, the treaty i
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by gonvaled 10y ago
So people are tired of incompetent experts? Sure! And experts from organisations with acronyms? As oposed to those from organisations without acronyms? This looks like he wants to hear opinions from his preferred kind of experts.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Erasmus is an EU program. Why should Switzerland be allowed to take part in it while breaking the rules that all countries taking part in this program are respecting? Is Switzerland wants to take part in an exchange program with different r
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Excellent!
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Sure, if you consider the "lack of external event" to also be an external event: we have been not been thrown back to the stone age, or pushed to the brink of extinction, because no big asteroid has impacted the Earth in recent ti
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by gonvaled 10y ago
And Elsevier is still going strong, and annoying people. It seems that piracy[1] is the only way to bring them down. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11177957
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Sure you do: the problem is that you dont have the feeling of the currency: only when you pull your calculator and start typing numbers, you have an idea how high or low prices are. I am talking about a walk in the supermarkez, or a shoppin
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by gonvaled 10y ago
We are talking about different things: you talk about somebody alive today, but basically living in the past. His peers are those in times past, so he is as rich or poor as they were. I talk about your average “very poor guy“ in a modern so
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by gonvaled 10y ago
So are the carrots you buy ecpensive? In april? Two years ago? Basically, you go to the supermarke, get your carrots and say: whatever, lets just get over with it. Sure, you can get use to a new currency - it took us the best part of a deca
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Maybe I got carried away. Maybe not the poorest, but a very poor man today has resources at his disposal (via modern societies, no matter how poor) vastly greater than the resources a very rich man could get millenia ago. He can be cured of
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by gonvaled 10y ago
That applies to each and every decission. If we accept this argument, policy discussions are meaningless. Let's be less theoretical: if Britain does much better than the EU it could be due to: 1) EU was bad for UK 2) The UK is abusing
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by gonvaled 10y ago
The Eurozone is suffering. All economic areas have up and downs. Being in a shared monerary union, you sacrifize some advantages for others: we compromise - I know, strange word. We are building a stable, long term monetary union. We are le
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Sure, great experience traveling to Poland lately, being used to move in the Eurozone. And I give up on balancing my books with my detailed expenses (cash, credit cards, ...) there. I just have a big “Poland expenses, 1250 €“ entry.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
They are not doomed: the argument is that they would be better off in the EU. And that Britain would be worse off outside. Not that it would be a poor country; it would still be one of the richest countries on Earth. Just a bit poorer.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Poverty is a relative term: somebody without a shirt is poor because nearly everybody has a shirt, not because shirts are absolutely necessary. Edit: not sure why I am being downvoted. Take the poorest man on Earth today; he is richer tha
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Ideas, which can improve the amount of resources (virtually without limits, by say exploiting the asteroid belt), are not limited. That is, ideas can hugely increase the size of your petri dish. What I dont know is if human nature can be co
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by gonvaled 10y ago
You charge 1€/1000 km for bicycle for road use, and give a 100€/100km tax credit for health impact. That is my pricing model.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Since you so much want it, pay for the taxes for delivery of your 3 thousand underpants, then we are quit. Your future is not Utopian, it is Dystopian: worsening the quality of living of most of the population, while those with resources le
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Having children and dogs is already expensive, and has other "opportunity costs" which somehow balance the positive sides, so that I do not end up with 3 thousand dogs and children fooling around my house. All-included Prime Deliv
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Or for a proper pricing of infrastructure costs: everybody who uses the roads should pay for them, according to the use they make (heavier trucks should pay more than bicycles)

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