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by hikarudo 12y ago
Thank you for writing this! I just bought an ebook copy. I found it weird that Packt Publishing changed the currency from USD to British pounds when I input my address, which is in Brazil.
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by hikarudo 13y ago
(:) is a data constructor, not a type constructor, and its type is a -> [a] -> [a]. Examples of type constructors: [], Maybe, Either.
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by hikarudo 13y ago
It would be great to see a discussion of this proposal from the point of view of Austrian economics. Anyone here cares to give an opinion?
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by hikarudo 13y ago
"It is an elementary requirement of economic incentive as well as justice that the man who works for a living should always be better off because of that, other things being equal, than the man who refuses to work for a living." [
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by hikarudo 13y ago
Income tax might not be so high, but taxes for products are very high. Electricity: about 45%, gasoline: about 50%. Import tax/PIS/Confins/ICMS are calculated one after the other, so you pay tax over tax.
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by hikarudo 14y ago
In "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", the androids are practically indistinguishable from humans in their physiology.
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by hikarudo 15y ago
"Forcing kids to learn how to code" is a sure way to make them hate coding. But I'm sure you meant "encouraged" instead of "forced".
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by hikarudo 15y ago
I haven't tried the app (I don't own an iPhone), but I suggest replacing average by median. Very high salaries can significantly bring the average up, whereas the median is more robust to outliers.