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by kartan 8y ago
> Privatised rail makes no sense anywhere in the world. It makes sense in Japan. It is a small country with a high amount of population that is very concentrated. In any other part of the world governments are the ones paying the bill f
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> Out-of-pocket medical spending jumps once the money hits people’s bank accounts. It is a bad thing that tax withholding is one of the few ways Americans can have savings. When you live check to check this can be your only option.
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> What's the point of investing the money into education if the people study in poor countries and then move to the rich countries? The point is to make people happy. That people that emigrates has an opportunity that would have nev
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While one hand was trying to balance the budget cutting in investment (education that makes people happier and more productive, healthcare that keeps people healthy, ...) the other hand has been increasing the expenses and decreasing revenu
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> The check on charter schools is that if they provide a bad education, the students will leave. It sound estrange for me. But, I think that you are right that this is the intention. Are the kids responsibility to evaluate the validity o
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https://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-is-making-its-... "Aug. 12, 2015, 12:33 Goldman Sachs is going the way of Google and Facebook. The investment bank is giving away some of its trading technology to clients
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by kartan 8y ago
I traveled from Stockholm to Malmö almost 5 years ago. I had a sit instead of a sleeping coach. It was a good experience. I got really early to Malmö without the stress of flying.
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> ...my siblings and I... Thank you. English is not my mother tongue and I easily fail that kind of constructs.
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> You'll be criticized irregardless. For me this is one of our flaws as society. When we like something we just continue with our lives. When there is something that we do not like we stop to say so. One of the best learnings I got
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My mother did not work while me and my siblings were growing. The time that we spend doing homework was not the funniest one, but it showed how important is school work to us. She will help us with our school work in the same way that she w
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> Burnout caused by chronic stress is widespread We are making employees lives miserable to reduce the need of planning for companies. Quite often management lacks the emotional maturity needed in their positions that hides normal mistak
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by kartan 8y ago
"By clicking “Agree,” you consent to Slate’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and the use of technologies such as cookies by Slate and our partners to deliver relevant advertising on our site, in emails and across the Internet, to p
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> As vehicles, they have to stop at stop signs and lights, but feel like quite an appreciable percentage do not. I guess that this is a problem of how energy conservation works. When a cyclists stops they lose all their gained energy, l
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by kartan 8y ago
> Easier said than done when you're only other option is toiling in a field. Yes. There is times that developer do not have a real option to say no. But, it is good for junior developers to understand what they are agreeing to and w
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> Still, nothing beats the old convenience of Inbox's automatically sorted emails, especially when it comes to travel. I love this feature. Now I use the Google Trips app, that is not available for Desktop, and it feels dull in comp
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by kartan 8y ago
copy/past from another comment: 42 U.S. Code § 3604. ...it shall be unlawful— (c) To make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a d
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by kartan 8y ago
> Maybe this is an excessively callous view, but isn't all of this voluntary and self-imposed? Is the expectation for the reader to pity their condition? I guess that you are down voted because you are supporting a fallacy. Your com
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> Anyone who asks you to be "dedicated" to their business or cause is looking to exploit you. When things get tough, they will not repay your dedication in-kind. If you give your time for free to a company. The company will ass
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by kartan 8y ago
> Get rich quick in case of success. This is just betting. The probability of success is extremely low. Would be as wise as betting part of your salary each week in the lottery.
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> ...are something akin to black hat hackers. There is an important difference. The people working in financial markets have lobby power to change laws and create more weaknesses. So, it will be more like if black hat hackers paid part
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by kartan 8y ago
> Is there such thing as "tech" that makes unionizing easier? e-Mail, instant messaging, etc. Any form of communication makes unionizing easier.
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> They’re taking advantage of the fact that there’s no filtering or approval process for ads, and that ads look almost indistinguishable from real results, and some ads take up the entire search result’s first page. How is not Apple leg
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by kartan 8y ago
> There are small towns, villages, (and certainly suburbs) much worse crime-wise in most western countries. So it's not just a village vs city thing. My comment was about comparing past and present, and how some times people oversti
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by kartan 8y ago
> in Japan they still have a sense of civic responsibility Tell me if I'm wrong. But, I see your "still" as if things were better in the past. In litte towns, as everybody knows everybody, the rules are different. As more
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by kartan 8y ago
I have worked in Spain and Sweden. My salary as developer has been in the range of €32K-€45K in the past 15 years in Spain. It has been around €65K in Sweden (similar to what now friends make in Spain). And it is below €100K as an architect
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> I have a hard time believing that a cover-up in Boeing was orchestrated over several years by a group of people all who didn't care about loss of life. No orchestration is needed. Managers only need to look with disdain to anyone
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"This usually means we're making an improvement to the database your account is stored on. While this process won't affect your account, you temporarily won't be able to access the site." https://www.face
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> It will cause a very big stink if one crashes in the US. And people will die and families will suffer.
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> one would think Physicists could easily debunk them if they were bogus Done: "Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder cited papers addressing some of Strumia's conclusions and provided an alternative analysis, arguing that after accoun
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by kartan 8y ago
Exactly that. From https://www.eulisa.europa.eu/Activities/Large-Scale-It-Syste... " ETIAS is a pre-travel authorisation system for visa exempt travellers." Video explaining the system: https:/&#x2

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