lupin_sansei

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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
America's tech dominance is at least partly due to the ability to offer stock options without the employees having to pay tax until they vest isn't it? Other countries mostly make you pay the tad on the value of the option when yo
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
there was a short amount of time where anyone could create their own Stack Exchange site, but they ended up cancelling that scheme and carefully selected ones to be created now via Area51 https://stackoverflow.blog/2010&#x2F
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1977 UK documentary on coming job losses due to technology(youtube.com)
1 points by lupin_sansei 10y ago|0 comments
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
Often investors in Australia leave houses empty as there are different laws around capital gains taxes for investment properties (rentals) vs primary residence (which you don't have to actually live in all the time). It's often ch
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
What they call in Economics - Baptists (environmental objection to sprawl, objections to building higher rise etc) and Bootleggers (people who benefit from selling high priced houses, land tax receivers etc)
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
Exactly. High house prices are caused by a scarcity of houses. This scarcity is often due to restrictive local laws to release more land for housing and/or the permission to build up if there isn't sufficient land.
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
I wonder how much difference surfing with Adblock would make while connecting over a modem?
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
I felt like after a week in winter in Seattle and then returning to summer in Australia. Everything was so bright and colorful.
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
How about Pebble? They did start being funded by Y Combinator and angels but got most of their funding from Kickstarter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_(watch)#History
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
That would be a brilliant solution to have the fake news rebutted side by side. But I fear the gatekeepers will just block what they see as fake news.
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
Not being able to quit as you were owned by your master made one a slave. Slaves were often paid to increase motivation.
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
...Australian places work around the higher minimum wages through self service and I've been to a few places now that have touchscreen ordering (McDonalds, some yum cha places). Expect to see more of that to reduce labor costs.
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
Notice in Australia only higher end places have table service and not that great service either. That's what we miss out on in Australia. We have much more self service cafes and much less attentive service when we do get it.
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
Browser extensions that can translate the selected text into English are nice https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-transl... as you can attempt to read a foreign language website and only get
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
"The first place victims should look to find out is nomoreransom.org, a site backed by security firms and cybersecurity organizations in 22 countries. Since its launch on July 25, 2016, nomoreransom.org estimates that it has been able
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Before You Pay That Ransomware Demand…(krebsonsecurity.com)
4 points by lupin_sansei 10y ago|1 comments
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
Interesting. I didn't know you could make so much on UpWork: "John Shipp, a senior web developer in Brule, Nebraska, who charges $166.67 per hour on the platform, joined it in 2011, before it changed its name to Upwork. About 80%
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
Exactly. Pushing these ideas too hard gets your labeled as a troublemaker and uncooperative. I've learned to choose my battles very carefully.
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by lupin_sansei 10y ago
Agreed. You can enable the column browser and the library view if you want though. Check the View menu.
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
These studies are flawed as they use "median household income" but households have changed a lot since the 1950s. There's many many more single parent households than in the 1950s. If you compare individual wages instead of h
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Department of the Internet: Installation(youtube.com)
1 points by lupin_sansei 12y ago|0 comments
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
You might find the history of unlicensed spectrum interesting http://mises.org/daily/1662 TLDR: in the 1920s spectrum was treated as a homesteadable property right, which you could use to stop others interfering with y
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
I read the article. It was interesting but like so many others it puts all the blame at Reagan's feet, and brushes over the culture of extreme paranoia the Soviet leadership had at the time due to poor intelligence: "The greatest
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
You might find this interesting to balance some of that out a bit: "Think Again: Ronald Reagan - The Gipper wasn't the warhound his conservative followers would have you think." http://www.foreignpolicy.com/ar
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The why and how of space mining [infographic](miningaustralia.com.au)
2 points by lupin_sansei 12y ago|0 comments
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The race to create a real-life tricorder(edition.cnn.com)
4 points by lupin_sansei 12y ago|0 comments
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
> The methodology's way to assign numeric values to things doesn't relate to intrinsic things about the objects under study Keep reading. They explain the intrinsic things that make up the numbers they assign to the objects. Eg
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
You've just typed all that after I called you on ad hominem. Sneaky.
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
No it's an index with data that you can double check along with their methodology: http://www.heritage.org/index/book/methodology You are lazily dismissing their data and workings by attacking their character
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by lupin_sansei 12y ago
Time to learn about logical fallacies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

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