jiggy2011

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by jiggy2011 12y ago
A single EU VAT rate would be very harmful because no gov would be able to boost consumption by reducing VAT rate, it would also force small business to collect VAT as soon as they sell their first product.
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I think our wires are still crossed a little. Imagine that you are hiring for a programming position and have two available candidates. One has a degree from Stanford and three years experience at google, while the other has only fast food
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by jiggy2011 12y ago
I will try to address both this comment and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8680361 in one reply. I think you have misunderstood my overall argument, my claim is not that a poor person is likely to earn a higher incom
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by jiggy2011 12y ago
Very few UK politicians want to leave the EU.
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Amazon already charge VAT on items at 20% in the UK.
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The taxable income of the couple would go down only if the maid continues the same work that she did before the marriage but for free rather than getting a different job, but this is quite a specific case that is outside of the norm.
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By outwork I mean work for more hours or be willing to. If a rich person with a degree from an elite university has a higher expected per hour productivity than a poor person with no degree then the poor person can sometimes compete for the
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The problem with that is that the best jobs (such as google) are competitive. Even if two people competing for the same job only want to work 30 hours per week, they both know that they can make themselves more attractive to the employer by
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by jiggy2011 12y ago
The GGP post describes a "personal assistant to CEO" position, in a large company these positions can be very well paid. It's also easy to argue that discrimination in lower paid fields could actually be more harmful. Taking
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I'm thinking of the case where for example a female nurse encourages her daughter to become a doctor because it is a more aspirational career in the same field. OTOH a male doctor is probably not as likely to encourage his son to becom
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by jiggy2011 12y ago
Medicine had female nurses before it had female doctors, so maybe that helped?
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The article is written from a white person's perspective and doesn't delve deeply into whether discrimination is equal against all foreigners or whether it is worse for some ethnic groups over others, my comments were a direct res
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There are however generalist mechanics and others who are specialists. The same is true of doctors also.
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You should look at overall employment statistics rather than just CEOs, very few people become CEOs.
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Japan has a very large population and appears to value cultural conformity very highly, it doesn't necessarily imply racism to keep immigration low. There is no single good metric for racism because it is complicated but the average pe
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by jiggy2011 12y ago
I don't think that comparing the number of black CEOs in both countries is necessarily a good benchmark of the experiences of black people in general. This is further confounded by the fact that all ethnic minorities are a much lower %
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by jiggy2011 12y ago
I wonder why they did this? In the case of the macbooks and iMacs at least, it can be somewhat justified as a space saving measure. However the new mini is the same size as the old one and it's already quite tiny.
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by jiggy2011 12y ago
Isn't this more or less how the current system works? At least in the UK, it is allowed to nominate someone to vote on your behalf in a general election. The only difference is that candidates have to choose to stand for election under
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by jiggy2011 12y ago
At least in the case of a politician you can usually look at their voting record and see if that matches what you expected them to do.
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1. Maybe, but that could prove difficult in practice. 2. The ballot is no longer secret and subject to the problems of bribery etc.
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AFAIK electoral college delegates are selected by secret ballot so they can't directly buy votes. A similar system could be adopted in theory, but you might want to know whether you are casting 1 vote or 1000. For example what happens
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One of the biggest issues with this system would be that a rich company or individual could buy large blocks of votes on a particular issue. Another might be that a delegate could present a popular set of views in public for the purposes of
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by jiggy2011 12y ago
Most of the minecraft money comes from selling copies of the client, not from server subscriptions as in the case of WoW.
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by jiggy2011 12y ago
I don't think that follows from what I wrote. Laws (at least in theory) are supposed to be consistent. Different people's general opinions of what does and does not constitute an asshole are very inconsistent. For example, your fa
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by jiggy2011 12y ago
Nobody agrees on who's an asshole. It's more likely that in order to be successful you need to stop caring so much about whether or not you are liked by everyone.
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More likely they are quitting science because they know it's a lot of work for not very much pay and it's definitely not a sexy profession.
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by jiggy2011 12y ago
Property investment is a little different because you can usually recoup at least some of the money spent at a later date by selling the property. A building without a wood rot problem will always be worth more than one with one, especially
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The difference between programming and construction projects is that property owners have usually already invested huge amounts of money into the property, so an extra few thousand doesn't seem like a huge deal and the extra work is of
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If house prices are as bad as HN indicates I can understand how that income could put a person if not in the "working poor" then into the lower middle class.
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You need to count the array at runtime and convert to a tuple, the only way this can be done using PDO (AFAIK) is by appending the tuple to the string itself because PDO provides no tuple type.

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