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by laut 17y ago
So called "positive rights" like that are bad. If you want broadband and don't want to pay for it, you are basically saying that your neighbors should work as slaves to provide it. In that if they don't, they are violating your right. Right
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by laut 17y ago
I made a similar rant: http://creativedeletion.com/2008/11/05/wifi-in-sydney-availa... I was in Sydney but went to the Philippines earlier than planned because I couldn't get internet access in Sydney without paying crazy amounts of money
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by laut 17y ago
Argentina is a good example of how much government can screw up a country. The anti-capitalism regime is not attractive for new investment, local or foreign, and existing capital flees the country. I live in the region and see it with my ow
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by laut 17y ago
Thanks. Not very practical if two people using want to be able to contact each other on Skype and especially if they are both using it on the iPhone. Imagine if everyone was using Skype like that. No one would be online.
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by laut 17y ago
Question: With the Skype-app on the iPhone can you be online on Skype even after you lock the screen or go to another app? If you want to online on Skype on the iPhone so that people can call or message you even when you are using SMS or do
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by laut 17y ago
Very complicated in an automatic transmission car it seems. Very simple in a manual transmission car. You just press the clutch. You could even stop and start again and drive around with a little abuse of the clutch pedal.
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by laut 17y ago
Do you know if most people in the US ever use the neutral gear in automatic transmission cars?
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by laut 17y ago
I prefer cars with a clutch. You could use the clutch pedal if the accelerator gets stuck.
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by laut 17y ago
Government does a good job wasting resources. But fun to watch peoples ingenuity getting around restrictions. In Denmark until recently car importers used to transform Land Rover Discoveries (LR3 in the US) and other cars to auto campers (a
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by laut 17y ago
You meant mix of standard and imperial units? :)
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by laut 17y ago
Bowline is used for mooring boats. One of the characteristics is that it's easy to untie.
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by laut 17y ago
"Developers can expect to see peak download speeds of up to 10 Mbps, with average download speeds of 3 to 6 Mbps. In contrast, some of today’s 3G wireless networks typically deliver download speeds of between 600 kbps – 1.4 Mbps." Funny tha
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World time is more than GMT offsets(creativedeletion.com)
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by laut 17y ago
Timezones are more than UTC offsets. If only it were that simple. The model might work in the US with about 4 timezones, where summertime changes on the same dates. But some places don't observe summertime, some change on different dates th
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by laut 17y ago
Do you mean that when you get an update, you both write to the database and perform an update in the cache? If so, you would want it to be a transaction so that the cache and database is not out of sync. Maybe a write cache, like on hard dr
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by laut 17y ago
I read in a Norwegian newspaper that a part of Oslo "Grønland", there was a guy who thought that Norwegians should follow certain muslim norms because it's a muslim neighborhood. This was in response to some people that had been assaulted i
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by laut 17y ago
Maybe it's a US thing. The roads and traffic culture isn't good for cycling there.
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by laut 17y ago
Hehe, the Chrome V8 javascript engine is from Denmark just like LEGO.
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by laut 17y ago
The difference is that Mac OS X tends to get faster with newer versions. Apparently Snow Leopard even takes up less disk space. Not the case with newer versions of Windows.
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by laut 17y ago
Good programmers are creative thinkers. "Middle men" are usually doing something of value otherwise there wouldn't be a need for them, and they wouldn't be around. It's not because of a conspiracy that programmers are needed. You could use
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by laut 17y ago
The word "startup" wasn't used by the author of the post.
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by laut 17y ago
Not just 60km/h, it was completely stopped. It was on (Danish) TV years ago.
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by laut 17y ago
A friend who used to live in Florida told me they would put water on the roof in the summer. The evaporation of the water would cool down the roof and house.
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by laut 17y ago
Private healthcare FTW. You have a better chance of surviving cancer in the US than in Denmark. http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2008/07/cancer-survival-rates.ht... US healthcare is not a pure market based system, though. The regulations make
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by laut 17y ago
Just because there are two schools of thought that disagree it doesn't mean that nobody knows. Regarding the great depression, in the wikipedia article you link to, it says that the Austrian explanation is expansion of money supply not "fal
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by laut 17y ago
No it shouldn't.
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by laut 17y ago
Is it really a no brainer? You have to pay US taxes even if you leave the country. But if you are sure you are going to live there for the rest of your life I guess that won't make any difference.
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by laut 17y ago
Isn't it ironic that the state as an enforcer of property rights is also a violator of property rights? Why do you need fiat currencies? Gold has been around as a currency for longer than fiat currencies backed by nothing.
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by laut 17y ago
A comparative advantage is not the same as an absolute advantage. Have you read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage ?
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by laut 17y ago
Protectionism is bad. It doesn't benefit an economy. It can benefit the protected industries short term as well as the people they bribe to get the protection. But overall it is bad. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage

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