kartan

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by kartan 7y ago
> We pay all that we owe according to tax laws and local customs wherever we operate The problem is that Apple and other big corporations have lobbied all around the world to minimise the amount of taxes they pay. That they follow the la
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by kartan 7y ago
It's about the absolute right to free speech. It has been a far right tactic to attack people that condemns their speeches: https://lithub.com/when-fascists-weaponize-free-speech-absol... USA has started the political
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by kartan 7y ago
He wrote 'Fuck Arbcon' in the entry for the arbitration committee. He had other warnings. He got banned for a year. Makes sense. I do not know from were the 'freedom' argument comes from our relates to this.
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by kartan 7y ago
> the price of broiler chickens jumped by 50 percent between 2008 to 2016, despite the fact that cost of feeding the chickens went down during this period. If costs to down and price go up and there is no increase in demand there is a pr
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by kartan 7y ago
> The US wastes like $100k a year on its prisoners I think that the USA wastes $100k on private companies taking care of prisoners. To spend that money in rehabilitation will be an investment.
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by kartan 7y ago
> Are physical ads like the ones you describe really so burdensome? Yes. They are everywhere. I cannot look at a building, a road, or go to the subway without seeing a hundred advertisements. My brain will try to read automatically any t
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by kartan 7y ago
> it wants to be compensated for complying. This will not scale. Next, industries will want to be compensated to add filters to not pollute rivers. Car makers will want to be compensated for doing safe cars. Supermarkets will want to be
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by kartan 7y ago
The problem that I see with this approach is that we are privatising profits while socializing costs. Customs should be dealing with it is akin to say that taxpayers should deal with the cost of FedEx businesses whenever they use it or not.
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Yes. I have to pay the taxes. The 100 is a fine for doing it wrong and I guess pay for the extra time that they need to spend.
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by kartan 7y ago
> I bet this can be done with ML and IA instead human power. IA and ML work in bulk. But they misclassify things that a human easily can discern. Think Tesla VS Google. Google wants a self-driving car, and that is not working yet. Tesla
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by kartan 7y ago
> But "nobody died" isn't a valid excuse for mistakes on filing for taxes or legal contracts. I have had a lot of mistakes filing my taxes (Spain) when I was working as a contractor. You pay a small fine (100€ for a yearly
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by kartan 7y ago
I see people complaining about the fact that it is just employee opinion. I agree that just one employee opinion it's not important or so relevant by itself. But, for most people, a human face for a problem makes the problem easier to
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by kartan 7y ago
JavaScript is still super quirky and inconsistent though. You can't fix that without breaking backward compatibility.
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Why not use static code analyzers? You run them in compilation time and warn you of uninitialized variables. Initializing values just because seems wasteful. That's why global and static variables are already initialized in this way. F
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by kartan 7y ago
> It depends if you're in the north or the south As most work is located in the big cities (Madrid, Barcelona, etc.) that is what most people will experience. But, the South or even the countryside is quite different. I agree with y
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by kartan 7y ago
> These countries are laid back Have you worked in Italy or Spain? I'm Spanish and laid back at work is not a thing. The main reason I moved to Sweden is for is better work life balance. Never go to live where you go for vacations,
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by kartan 7y ago
> Work is always going to be frustrating I had a direct report with this problem. We talked about it and I helped him to realize that his previous situation was unhealthy. He was used to crunch, he was used to feel a hero for delivering
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by kartan 7y ago
It takes time for tech to develop. We have in our homes small simple robot toys and Roomba-like robots clean our apartments. Each step seems very little compared with our expectations. But, technology will get with time cheaper, and easier
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> They cannot use anything except an algorithm to recommend videos. I agree that with the current business model it is not possible for YouTube to sort it manually. When I was a kid, a long long time ago, it would have been impossible to
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I see just two comments right now and I see a lot of cynism. Things are better today than in the past thanks to people fighting for their and others rights. And the job is not finished. Democracy is not something that happens once each four
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> How could a democratic society founded on self-governance depend on police governance and still be free? This is something that I see radically different between the USA and Europe. Europe had more authoritative states and police enfor
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by kartan 7y ago
> have no sympathy for those in Hong Kong who have more rights and a better standard of living than they do. I always find this paradox as interesting as sad. This Lose/Win mentality evolved as a solution to small community of human
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by kartan 7y ago
Diversity in nature or technology is important. And it's worrisome that both are disappearing. "The resulting homogeneity and uniformity can offer substantial advantages in both the quantity and quality of crop harvested, but this
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by kartan 7y ago
> Niš Serbia; 43.3209° N, 21.8958° E: Rise 04:52, Set 20:12 A Coruña Spain; 43.3623° N, 8.4115° W: Rise 06:53, Set 22:14. People get surprised that in Spain the lunch hour is around 13:30 instead of 12:00. But when you take into account
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by kartan 7y ago
> Problem: The Firebase Android client library is proprietary, meaning FOSS apps can not use it. Apps that do not comply are reported to the user as "using too much battery". This is a standard on the industry. From 1999: htt
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> They also believe that adults shouldn’t be able to get themselves into money losing business deal When one person gets into a bad deal it is a bad decision. When tens or hundreds of thousands get into the same bad deal with the same co
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by kartan 7y ago
UK: " https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/surveillance-the-legal-iss... - If an employer wishes to use CCTV in the workplace, the ICO must be notified as to why they intend to use it. This is part of the registrati
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by kartan 7y ago
> I suspect that a large part of that has to do with student loans I think that this is not just a USA issue but it is also happening in all Occident. Student loans are just one of the reasons. But, it is bigger than that. e.g. UK: http
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by kartan 7y ago
> Disregarding any problems we might have with specific companies, I think ridesharing companies are a benefit to consumers. I am all for ridesharing. But Uber and Lyft, as an example, has nothing to do with that concept. It is not like
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by kartan 7y ago
> World War II. In WWII, the only country that had the means to meaningfully fund longer-term military research projects was the US This is true not only for tech but also for everything else. Being poor in the USA was better than to be

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