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by jkot 10y ago
From what I read geekbench is basically comparing hardware acceleration for encryption. Not very useful for general purpose computing. http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=136526&curposti...
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by jkot 10y ago
Some criteria are very easy to quantify. Authors race, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability status. It reflects on quality of art and its culture. Arts Council is already using this criteria for grants and for hiring. It is only logi
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by jkot 10y ago
> Hundreds of Iranian refugees are currently residing within the country It is not very good example. Greece took 600K refugees, Hungary similar numbers, etc... Problem is that those countries do not offer any social benefits. Refugee
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by jkot 10y ago
It is one way ticket, obviously. Student loans would not be enforceable in foreign country, after personal bankruptcy.
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by jkot 10y ago
Is not it easier to move abroad? In many countries student loans are included in personal bankruptcy. And you get citizenship with passport after 5 years of residency.
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by jkot 10y ago
I am more worried about Saudi Arabia. It paid a lot of money to Pakistan.
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by jkot 10y ago
In my experience it is best to create your own remote job. You can start consulting / freelancing. Or existing job can be made remote. Employer must trust you.
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by jkot 10y ago
> Again, it's not about the education, it's about the willingness for someone to hire you and pay you money. But this is not true. Employers are already not willing to pay university graduates 4x salary as they did a few deca
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by jkot 10y ago
http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/27/mizzou-renames-unisex-rest...
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by jkot 10y ago
But I am talking about overhead. People should not pay 10x price, while being educated by temporary postdocs. In that sense foreign universities are already disrupting US education with much lower overhead. Take a 4 year bootcamp which oper
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by jkot 10y ago
Door labels in brail are useless. Just close your eyes and try it yourself. And even with brail it should cost under $40 Blind (or otherwise disabled) people should have an assistant to help them around. Some MOOCs are already brail reader
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by jkot 10y ago
One university decided to change signs on toilets. Single label costs $400, it has to be in brail and match various regulations. I think education is ripe for disruption. We will see rise of bootcamps and online education. Also university i
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by jkot 10y ago
Two engines have more spare power than four engines. Single engine on twin must still be able to fly aircraft.
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by jkot 10y ago
Four engine aircrafts are also more difficult/expensive to maintain. Most pilots prefer two engines.
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by jkot 10y ago
I work remotely for past 5 years. Nothing beats that if you have small children.
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by jkot 10y ago
Opera is surprisingly nice browser.. with adblocker
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by jkot 10y ago
My best progress in shell was by switching to Fish. Much more intuitive for programmer. Guess what this does: while true clear df sleep 1 end
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by jkot 10y ago
> Everything that has an off switch has an on switch. That is very naive. You can say that only because real and well organized attacks are very very rare. Power Grid on its own is very complex system, and it is not trivial to revive i
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by jkot 10y ago
But you are "citizen enough" to pay taxes or receive social benefits. And some non-citizens can vote in Germany. Anyway, by definition Basic Income is unconditional. Anyone who applies should get it.
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by jkot 10y ago
But that would not be really basic income (which is unconditional). There would be second class of citizens. Something like controlled rent today.
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by jkot 10y ago
How about immigration? Once Basic Income is introduced in one area, people from all over the world will start moving there. Right now SF is not even capable to host 450 homeless arriving every year. What would you do if that number of peopl
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by jkot 10y ago
> Imagine if people from Kansas and California were as genetically distinct from each other as someone from Germany is from someone from Japan. Is not this a case? People immigrated to america from many continents.
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by jkot 10y ago
I think 'balkanized' is good word to describe some health-care systems in Europe. However I think there is a basic difference in approach. Hospitals in europe are usually uber clean, everything is desinfected and there is a small
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by jkot 10y ago
> The Soviets had not built the ‘super-fighter’ the Pentagon had feared, says Smithsonian aviation curator Roger Connor, but an inflexible aircraft built to do a very particular job. There is no mention what MiG-25 was designed for. It
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by jkot 10y ago
I think most people would have very short retirement in Manhattan. They would run out of savings.
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by jkot 10y ago
I block custom fonts. Some 'designed' typography gives me zero benefits. Page takes forever to load, and entire page is refreshed once font is downloaded.
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by jkot 10y ago
Of course it is not forbidden, but is not in 'best interest of child'. It will take a bit longer if lawyer is involved and reduces your chances. Here is a czech case, women loses parental rights because she published her case. She
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by jkot 10y ago
Yeah, Czech, Slovak, Lithuanian governments all got diplomatically involved for conspiracy theory. http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-norway-accused-of-unfairly...
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by jkot 10y ago
I think we are on a different planets. I just told you parent is not even allowed to talk to a lawyer, if such thing happens and escalates.
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by jkot 10y ago
I would recommend you to research this a bit more, if you decide to have a children. Problem are not 'strict laws', but the way there are applied. One single accusation can remove your children, you have no right to even talk to a

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