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by kspaans 11y ago
Mainframes and thin clients maybe? "All of the computing power will be over here, and the clients will be dumb and just render stuff!"
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by kspaans 11y ago
If the tax is restricted to "high sugar soft drinks"[0] do you still think that there wouldn't be alternatives for a struggling family to purchase? 0 - https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system&#x
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by kspaans 11y ago
Out of curiosity, are you against higher taxes on alcohol? It's definitely regressive, but there is also a more definite link to harmful effects (side-stepping somewhat the issue of taxes on necessary items like food).
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by kspaans 11y ago
Well, no argument here about consumption taxes on "food" being regressive. :) Edit: adding scare quotes because coke may not be food, but bread is!
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by kspaans 11y ago
It's a specific consumption tax. It's not like they are proposing a 2% hike on income tax.
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by kspaans 11y ago
Agreed, and you could pair it with Ledger[0] as a way to keep track of the accounting. 0 - http://www.ledger-cli.org/
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by kspaans 11y ago
Do salaried programmers/developers/software/engineers in the US get overtime pay? In Canada's province of Ontario there is a specific exception in labour law saying that these kind of salaried employees are exempt from o
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by kspaans 11y ago
I commute by bike through central London (Zone 4 to Zone 1). While I try to avoid busy roads (and roads at all, when I can), I don't feel like I'd be able to listen to something while biking and still be safe. Is your bike route q
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by kspaans 11y ago
Yup. Similarly if someone is already so fed up with the toy that they are going to throw it away (rather than give it away in their local classified ads), how do you convince them to go through the effort of putting it on your service?
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by kspaans 11y ago
I've got mixed feelings about the TFSA as well. I think they are easier to understand than RRSPs and thus easier for people to use. But I have this nagging suspicion that the $10k/year would forgo too much revenue down the line. T
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by kspaans 11y ago
Has anyone been thinking about or seen analyses on the potential changes to tax treatment of stock options for start-ups in Canada under the new government? http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=86190d96-b169-..
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by kspaans 11y ago
Your smartphone already tracks everywhere you go. Similarly it's not hard for someone to watch you if you walk/bike and possibly also if you drive (license plate recognition or OnStar type tracking). How is it materially different
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by kspaans 11y ago
Rush hour and xmas season traffic gets horribad, that's going across the city though. Staying inside certain boroughs usually isn't as bad.
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by kspaans 11y ago
Try Manila. ;)
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by kspaans 11y ago
That cheapness is mainly due to non-priced-in externalities (greenhouse gas farts! water use!) and poor treatment of animals (not that I'm a PETA member or anything). EDIT: And as mentioned elsewhere: government subsidies in many count
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by kspaans 11y ago
> The other way around (living in city, working a bit out of the city), mass transit was more expensive than the car. Do you mean the monthly cost of transit pass/fares was more than monthly cost of parking + gas + insurance + car p
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by kspaans 11y ago
IMO, even simpler than that would be to stop subsidising parking: raise parking fees, eliminate free road parking, force companies to charge for parking (this part may not be feasible, special land taxes on parking lots?). Whether or not yo
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by kspaans 11y ago
Here is part 2: http://economicjustice.ca/2015/11/24/why-focus-should-be-on-... But it's just a few maps of Montreal and Toronto, so I wonder if it's a placeholder...
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by kspaans 11y ago
XIPH has a great video series about it. http://xiph.org/video/ (well that's video, but close enough)
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by kspaans 11y ago
Similar question: are meals tax-deductible for self-employed people? If not, how come meals at full-employment workplace aren't taxable?
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by kspaans 11y ago
You may want to investigate currency hedging if you have obligations in currency B while you earn currency A. If you are only saving to buy later, I recommend settling for "average" rather than playing the fool's game of tryi
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by kspaans 11y ago
It does, for you personally, if you sleep through that daylight or are stuck inside for most of it.
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by kspaans 11y ago
Power meters that record the time when energy is used rather than the "dumb" ones that just record total usage are still relatively new.
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by kspaans 11y ago
Bikeshedding about switches and layouts aside, I've always found that using a laptop directly for more than an hour or two to be unergonomic. Whenever possible I plug in a keyboard and raise the laptop so the screen is closer to my eye
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by kspaans 11y ago
You mean GNU/Linux. Where is RMS and what have you done with him!?
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by kspaans 11y ago
I've previously used a Goldtouch split keyboard. It was very comfortable because you could adjust it to any split angle and tent angle you want. It's also relatively cheap, in case the pricetag of mechanical keyboards makes you he
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by kspaans 11y ago
Also look at Untappd. Instead of "checking in" at a location a la foursquare, you check in what kind of beer you are drinking (optionally with a picture and a location). In denser areas I can occasionally find new beer without hav
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by kspaans 11y ago
It's not the exact same thing as the movie rights industry, but check out this series of posts about fiction book publishing: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-m... (particu
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by kspaans 11y ago
I borrowed one once, not long enough to get over the learning curve, but long enough to appreciate how nice it was. :D
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by kspaans 11y ago
Built my own (from a kit), the Atreus: http://atreus.technomancy.us/ I like that it's small and portable and has forced me to learn to type with all 10 fingers rather than doing rapid-fire with indexes and middles on a

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