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by kartan 8y ago
"While Jeff Bezos' wealth has increased $260 million every single day this year, he continues to pay many Amazon employees wages so low that they're forced to depend on taxpayer-funded programs such as food stamps, Medicaid a
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> The lesson of the Therac-25 is not writing perfect software I will guess that the author will agree with you. The goal is a safe solution and that implies better software, better hardware, better procedures, ... anything that you can l
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Yes, you are completely right. Going Friday night back home in Stockholms tunnelbana can fully confirm this. :)
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I would like that people saw this as a reality check to another promoted narrative. "Sometimes, beer loves us back too: Studies have suggested that, when consumed in moderation, beer has many health benefits." - http://
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Countries and big corporations already have a huge presence on social media. From Russia meddling with the elections to viral videos for beans we live in a world were no body knows that you are a dog on the internet, or a paid poster for so
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> Sorry, are you saying you’d like App Store software taxed enough that sales are low and it’s not viable for Apple to make money, forcing them to allow an unregulated open market if they want a meaningful number of apps on their phones?
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> This suggests that a high revenue share of a software sale is viable in a way that a high revenue share of a truck load is not. This is a good point. But I would rather see this apps more highly taxed than to allow monopolistic empire
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> but Apple's certainly adding value. Do roads add value? Should trucks pay a 30% of their cargo retail price in road tolls? I agree with your point that Apple adds value. I just do not see that as a justification to take a 30% sha
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From the article: "M3, aboard the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, launched in 2008 by the Indian Space Research Organization, was uniquely equipped to confirm the presence of solid ice on the Moon. It collected data that not only picked
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> --why shouldn't they be forced to take on some of their own upkeep? If keeping people in prison is an economic gain for society, you are going to send people to prison whatever they deserve it or not. And that is the case in the U
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> at least lobbyists are supposed to register I read this with a tone of defeat. :( The lobbying situation is very bad, it is just corruption with extra steps. And its effects are the same one that corruption. Money gets diverted from pu
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> Usually the municipality sweeps the beach every morning. This. People don't realize how costly can be to maintain a beach in a good state. I remember getting early to the beach seeing one of this https://gfycat.com&#x2
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> and the politicians buy it even though it's very unlikely to be true. For who are this measures passed? Interesting explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
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> That doesn’t make any sense, getting rid of user reviews makes Netflix streaming less social. Netflix is not social media. Yes. You are right. If they are just looking for more engagement removing the reviews will go against that polic
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> If you had a building in an area that catered to people speaking a minority language (5%) of the population; can you target speakers of that language or do you have to spend 20x? If I understand correctly, your argument is that optimiz
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> Why do they go through so much effort to have me binge watch Netflix. "Focus Area #1: Engagement Engagement is, hands down, the #1 area that you should be concerned with on social media. It is the catalyst for improvement in all
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When I was in Japan it was strange to see how slow some trains are. You will see that sometimes they stay more time in a station and will accelerate way faster than usual. But when one train arrives it is common that there is another one ar
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> "this advertiser has done this kind of (horror) stuff using that kind of google collected data" Data collected by Facebook was used to radicalize USA population looking into their political preferences and organizing groups i
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1. It is banning non-residents. You can be a national from any other country and still buy a house if you live there. 2. Watered down by interest groups: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-economy-housin...
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> We in the US fund our defense and Germany's defense (and cover the rest of the free world too) I agree that the USA has used its military to keep a kind of pax americana. But that is not the complete story. The super expensive war
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> Because to me, it just looks like the (mostly potential/future) downsides are massively outweighed by the (mostly actual/current) upsides. Yes. That is true for most things. Eat fatty and sugar-rich food, have pleasure now pa
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> Almost everyone, including myself, thought the guy meant well but had really lost his mind. Yep. I know a guy that hang with him for a while and Stallman behaviour was already off. That was years ago. But the original idea it is still
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> “you ought to own the stuff you possess.” That is the base that Richard Stallman created for the open source movement. You should own your own hardware, and the only way of fulfilling that is to own the software that makes it run. And
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> A paper ballot system is just as terribly ineffective as electronic voting. Look at Russia. They have a paper voting system as well. If corruption is widespread at all levels of society no system will work. > I know in other poorer
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> I would not trust IRS to do my taxes but I am happy if they send me a draft and I have to just sign or make corrections That is how it works in Spain and Sweden. But, in the end, the tax office will randomly select people and check th
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I have paid taxes in Sweden and Spain. In both countries, I get a preliminary tax form with all my data. If I don't want to change anything I just need to go online. Click Accept. And pay with my credit card the difference between what
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How can be Bitcoin a refuge for investors when it went from almost 20,000 to 6,000 in less than a year? That is more than the 45% drop of the Lira. Bitcoin makes sense as a way of evading taxes when moving from Turkish Liras to some other c
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> If a bug is allowed, someone will perpetrate it sooner or later. Sacrificing correctness and safety for the speed and complicity of C is not a valid tradeoff for the industry in my opinion. It depends on what you are building. For an
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In Spain is the same. But political parties send you also a copy and an envelope. So you can bring your ballot from home. If the envelope contains more than one vote, but all are the same, it counts as one. If the envelop contains more than
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox Wikipedia got the joke: "Suppose two people, Lisa and Bart, ..."

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