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by lixtra 8y ago
I wonder if the IRS will hit the heirs with a huge gift tax? EDIT: if you sell/rent something much below value it can be considered a gift. And tax authorities regularly do so.
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by lixtra 8y ago
It may be worthwhile to note that the Euro never had support of the German people and it’s very difficult what the long term impact will be for them. My impression is that they borrow other countries money (through ECB and TARGET) to buy th
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by lixtra 8y ago
> what right have you to the fruits of my labor? You mentioned the constitution so you agree that some effort has to be made to enforce it. This effort has to be paid for by tax on your labor. Once you agree on that you only haggle if it
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by lixtra 8y ago
> They were blatantly obvious obstacles Each accident you cite happened under supervision of a human driver. Without knowledge about accidents prevented by supervisors it’s difficult to tell how much worse ai is than the average human.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Did any HN reader ever find a camera. I typically do a half-hearted scan but never found anything suspicious.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Nonetheless, plenty of EU driven rules apply in Norway. So gp’s statement could be true. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway–European_Union_relati...
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by lixtra 8y ago
So DNA-data is not HIPAA yet?
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by lixtra 8y ago
So who from the federal government is charged for their part of the crime?
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by lixtra 8y ago
> And so what? What you propose is not much different from the social security many countries levy. Typically it’s not an economic efficient way of saving. The absurdity of the forced savings proposal becomes apparent if you cannot affor
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by lixtra 8y ago
If I was doing paid work instead of reading HN I could afford several extra lattes per day. You can just have your latte and decide it is worth it.
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by lixtra 8y ago
If you’re not free to spend the money in the bank then you don’t really own it.
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by lixtra 8y ago
> China gets less than 4% of its power from nuclear, and is backing off from new construction plans as well. Do you have a source for that? Wikipedia states that China plans to increase nuclear more than 30 times by end of the century [1
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by lixtra 8y ago
> replace virtually all of that coal power with a mix of solar, wind, storage, and flexible demand In the linked document I did not find any guarantees how flexible the demand has to be in worst case. It’s easy to run on renewables when
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by lixtra 8y ago
Maybe they do lead pipe crypto analysis or make an offer you cannot refuse?
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by lixtra 8y ago
I don’t see why Catholism is emphasized so much in your answer. The concepts discussed exist independently of Catholism, have their roots before Catholism and looking at them from a religious angle confounds more than it clarifies.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Yes, but meanwhile the deferred taxes compound. The question is wether rebalancing an ETF should trigger taxes or not.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Did you try doing charity work in your community? It gives your day some structure and it might connect you to people that are willing to employ you.
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by lixtra 8y ago
This would be true for every switch on the route.
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by lixtra 8y ago
I used hands on table (free) in an internal project. I would have had the budget to pay a license but the “N developer” option[1] was too confusing. We have interns and outsourcing partners potentially touching the code, how many licenses d
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by lixtra 8y ago
A lot of people value pesticides/herbicides/fungicides because they make food affordable or available. In the past people starved due to lack of pest control [1,2]. Without modern agriculture it’s doubtful if 7 billion humans coul
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by lixtra 8y ago
Human trafficking is about criminally moving people AGAINST their will in order to exploit them.
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by lixtra 8y ago
In the article you cited it is not about helping refugees, but about the WAY they were helping refugees. Of course you can argue that the laws violated are stupid or inhumane. But in a democratic country like Greece you’ll have a hard time.
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by lixtra 8y ago
>> There’s never going to be the magic interface that unlocks coding for everyone because > The existence of eg massively customized Excel spreadsheets say otherwise. But those sheets are far from being maintained by everyone. Or w
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by lixtra 8y ago
I don’t think Zurich and Berlin can be compared without considering your personal preferences. If you need a million people around you’ll feel lonely in Zurich. If you’re into mountain hikes and skiing, Berlin is just plain boring. People a
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by lixtra 8y ago
He probably had a higher contact rate with non-vaccinated population. I don’t see a reason to mock him and wish a fast recovery.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Wasn’t this the early approach to HIV?
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by lixtra 8y ago
No, you are very much missunderstanding me. I answered a specific question of gp: > While sleeping under an interstate overpass, what is your suggested location for shitting such that it is not near where I sleep? My grandfather was deni
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by lixtra 8y ago
> On the other hand, a for-profit company deciding to offer free services to individual women, who may or may not be disadvantaged, simply because they're women, doesn't sit well with me either. Because it’s a for profit organi
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by lixtra 8y ago
Please don’t forget that it is her private money (I don’t know about tax benefits). So it’s like paying for the education of your children.
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by lixtra 8y ago
I remember my grandfather in dire need defacating into a plastic bag and dropping that to the trash. Considering that this is how dog poo is treated in many communities it may be a step forward.

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