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gutnor
11y ago
> Since I do not have any pre-existing condition, and have never smoked, that $84 I'm almost 40 and never had use of my health insurance - if you are like me you can save 124$ per month ! Think of all those years I would have been a
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11y ago
Just wonder how long they will manage ? Their competition is fierce and cloud storage is indeed an additional feature of their competitor products. A bit like standalone digital camera losing out to smartphones despite obvious quality diffe
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11y ago
That's making a lot of assumptions about the plumbing. Especially considering that a lot of public toilets and even hotel indicate that water from the tap is not safe. For a practical example, in my old flat, the bathroom tap was hooke
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11y ago
Well, for that song, that does not matter, it is hugely successful so it made it into our culture despite everything. The problem is all the moderately successful art. They matter to a generation, but they get forgotten because the legal fr
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11y ago
Well it does illustrate how transient "exemplary" is. Ireland and Spain were exemplary in the years leading to the crisis, beating Germany in the debt and surplus metrics.[0][1] Media like to show "feel good metric" to p
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11y ago
The bit that probably make GP puzzled - out of the EURO countries, only Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Slovakia matches those requirements. Or less than 20 millions out the 330 million people living in the EURO zone.[0] Th
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11y ago
> the latter aren't a market of their own but usually a pass-through mechanism for regulatory arbitrage. Out of curiosity, what do you mean by that ? So I get that CFD are not traded on a central exchange, and are custom investment
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11y ago
> Typically a system works okish if only the people at the top skim That's not how that works though. People one level under the top will try to get their cut too, then the level under until you get to the bottom. The system is ok-i
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11y ago
> There is no abdication of responsibility in a democracy and the Greeks should know that better than anyone. You get history sadly backward. The no abdication of responsibility is what dragged the world in 2 world wars and what Europe i
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11y ago
How much research did you do into all the fiscal decisions of the country you live in ? Are you even qualified enough to interpret the result at all ?It seems to me you are asking from the average Joe Greek more than professional actually d
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11y ago
Do you remember Cyprus ? One day they are good hard working European, the next day all of them are gangster laundering russian crime money and taking money out of their bank account is fair justice ( but fear not brave citizen, your money i
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11y ago
> That article smells of ignorant sensationalist journalism to me. This a EU related article on a UK blog. Knowing the US position on this is interesting but is no indication of the quality of this article.
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11y ago
The tone of the comments at the time when I replied was more like "fool and his money are easily parted" and I framed my reply focusing on why not allowing the fool being parted with his money is really good for everyone. But you
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11y ago
Being able to sell magic/fraud legally only means that client will be more cautious when buying. Regulation is not to protect the dumb, it is to promote competition when the majority of consumers are clever enough to not try a service
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11y ago
> I personally consider that opening borders is a moral imperative Or close them. The moral imperative is to have a consistent and fair rules. You can't really be the US and let people live for decades in a grey state with all the o
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11y ago
Well that's the point. Feed the team with a trivial problem to see how they react. A well working team will probably do as you say - volunteer an individual to write the rule in an email and follow it from there on. If you going to int
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11y ago
Bikeshedding like this is useful as a team efficiency metric. If you can't get quickly to an agreement about such a thing, or if the members of the team that didn't get their way actively rebel (or worse sabotage), you are working
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11y ago
Well, supermarket and even local shop are opened 7 days a week, sometimes 24 hours a day where I live. The stuff that I never understood is the administration. Opened from 9:30 to 11:30 then from 15:30 to 16:30 on appointment only. ( Embass
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11y ago
Often in metric Europe, a pint is exactly 500 ml. Same as the pound that has become exactly 500 g.
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11y ago
It is probably more a fashion trend like what affect everything around us. Low contrast works especially well with the retina and above screens we currently on everything nowadays.
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11y ago
That's a bit a simplistic way to view the situation. Greek People is not a single individual. To take an analogy, that would be like talking about a family. A cousin you have never met decide to take a loan "in the name of the fam
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11y ago
Even if you have used them like a few months ago. Very few people work on variation of the same problem over and over again, except in research. Generally, you have a problem, you research, you experiment and then you wrap all that in a nic
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11y ago
You missed the bit: > That day, I made the mistake of telling him, in English, “Thank you for inviting me” before leaving his house, realizing the import of my words only after they had left my mouth. He didn’t respond, but I saw his exp
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11y ago
Not quite sure what the follow up is supposed to teach ? Is it a critic of EU/US development plans in developing countries in Africa. Come in, transform self-sustaining economies into EU/US dependent one (eg: replacing traditional
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11y ago
Not exactly sure why the downvotes, but I guess maybe it has to do about offtopic comparisons. Hyperloop is designed for medium distances transportation like between 300 and 1000. Over that, it probably make no sense against air travel. So
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Well, as a European, that's actually interesting to compare it to high speed train. Outside the US, high speed train is not only something we can do, it is something already done.
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There is always a time when you go too far and a time when you don't get far enough. If you can, you refactor when it becomes clear. In the case of Spring though, they have a tough problem to solve. They are gluing technologies togethe
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11y ago
You joke, but seeing Amazon lately, that seems like the kind of things they would like to know.
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I guess what you say is actually what that means. Not a literal deathbed realization. There is no end-game, there is no winning, no failure, no goals in life except what you put in it. The only thing that will decide if you are worthy or no
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11y ago
You probably mean that you like the good design from 2000 (and well I share your opinion on that). But there was also the bad ones and there was a lot of them. The majority of banking sites required you to use ActiveX, very frequently the s
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