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by jarek 12y ago
> Why are interns making more in salary than the H1-B's? Much of intern salary is de facto recruiting budget. It's probably the best way to identify desirable employees and get a chance to sell your company to them.
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by jarek 12y ago
The point behind the Scotland question is if UK can have some control over Scotland with Scotland remaining a country, even without being fully sovereign from the UK, why doesn't the same apply to members of other higher-level states l
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by jarek 12y ago
> Plus, the cultural, historic, linguistic similarities between Alamaba and Woyming are infinitely greater than between the UK and Croatia. A person visiting Alabama from Texas isn't a "stranger", and wouldn't be trea
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by jarek 12y ago
That just goes down the rabbit hole. What is a nation state? What is a nation? Is Scotland a country? Is Wales?
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by jarek 12y ago
> Citing immigrant population statistics is tried and proven way to cloud the issue. In the Netherlands for instance, the largest groups of immigrants are Germans. You don't really believe the immigration debate is about them, do yo
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by jarek 12y ago
Don't get me wrong, I don't think Zurich was particularly hurting for losing the CHF 12 million in the first place. It's not that much money for a jurisdiction of rather affluent 1.4 million people. That they made more is bon
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by jarek 12y ago
What is a country? I'll just keep on turning it around - why would some folks in New York, for instance, decide for people living in Alabama, or Wyoming?
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by jarek 12y ago
No, but the party whose logo is on the posters did get voted by the general Swiss population to 54 out of 200 National Council seats...
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by jarek 12y ago
> Would americans accept Canada,or Mexico having a saying in how USA should manage its finances?its agriculture? Would Californians accept Alaskans having a saying in how they should manage their agriculture? Texas/Maine/oil?
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by jarek 12y ago
The article is well written but I'll pull out probably the most important stat: of the canton’s 201 former lump sum beneficiaries, 97 left, amounting to loss of CHF 12.2 million in cantonal tax receipts (avg CHF 126k per person).
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by jarek 12y ago
That would lose scale-dependent ways to improve estimates like current traffic data from other cars, historical traffic and trip-time records, etc Also won't help with stale GPS location on the phone (which anecdotally has been happeni
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by jarek 12y ago
They might use Foursquare API for geolocating points of interest? Citymapper uses that and I assume it's for a reason (cheaper than Google?)
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by jarek 12y ago
It's not exactly a non-starter though. These days few people in the first world wear glasses or watches out of necessity, but some do wear watches or glasses for fashion.
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by jarek 12y ago
Yep, athletes, cyclists...
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by jarek 12y ago
Plenty of people wear glasses for fashion.
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by jarek 12y ago
Also might be of interest: Bunnie's hack of SD cards last year http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554 "An Arduino, with its 8-bit 16 MHz microcontroller, will set you back around $20. A microSD card with s
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by jarek 12y ago
"Weekly Hours: 40"
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by jarek 12y ago
British Columbia, where hydroelectricity is cheap and plentiful, has a two-tier structure like that. The cut-off isn't exactly 1000 kWh, of course. The logic is that the utility company plans for generating a "usual" baseline
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by jarek 12y ago
What is the point of a review site if not to have an editor and some consistency between reviews?
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by jarek 12y ago
Citymapper is fantastic in London
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by jarek 12y ago
Let's be fair, maybe the reviewer's hands grew over the 12 months between those reviews.
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by jarek 12y ago
I had quite a lot of fun defining 汉字 variable names in C#. Though definitely not something to put into production code of course...
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by jarek 12y ago
> It always amazes me how many cyclists I see riding without helmets (and anecdotally they seem to be the ones who typically ride in a less safe/defensive manner as well). Interesting, the opposite is true in my case. In London (Eng
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by jarek 12y ago
It's really frustrating to see cyclists who can't fall. I guess it comes down to lots of practice falls during childhood and infrastructure that supports safe cycling for children but...
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by jarek 12y ago
I dislike being forced to change password without notice, I need some time to come up with a secure, typeable one. Change on next login just results in me reusing an old password or adding a "2" to the current one.
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by jarek 12y ago
Alternatively, given how common "shareholder value" civil lawsuits from ambulance-chasing lawyers are, and how large the company and its fall were, if there was something to be uncovered, it would have been uncovered by now. The f
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by jarek 12y ago
I upvoted you. Very detailed back story but I'm not clear where criminal charges against anyone would arise. What am I missing? Has evidence of purposeful fraud by the board members been uncovered since Sept 2013?
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by jarek 12y ago
Pingit is Barclays' implementation of a UK-wide system called Paym. If you already have a UK bank account and a UK mobile phone number, sending money with Paym to anyone who also has those things only requires the recipient's mobi
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by jarek 12y ago
Why has there not been any criminal investigation at all, into the infiltration and acquisiton of Nokia? Who would you investigate and what crimes would you accuse them of? The closest thing I'm coming up with is blaming the director
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by jarek 12y ago
s/developed world/USA/ Signed, Paym user

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