maigret

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by maigret 14y ago
Indeed. Scale has benefits, one can see that for big companies, which have, despite bureaucracy and politics, quite some advantages - scale, wide skills, easier access to financing, global resource access etc.
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by maigret 14y ago
Right - the process may get ugly.
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by maigret 14y ago
If the argument that scale hurts (all small western countries are very rich, but big countries complain "we're too big because we can't do that and that), then the obvious solution would be to split up. For me it seems just too easy. I thin
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by maigret 14y ago
It does. Facebook is a company operating in Europe as well.
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by maigret 14y ago
Count normal tax rate of up to 45% and value added tax of up to 20% for normal workers in many European countries. That's what many engineers do pay, and most are ok with that and would gain nothing by going to Belgium, because Belgium has
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by maigret 14y ago
Yes he is free and we are. He has the right to do so, and others have the right to criticize him for that.
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by maigret 14y ago
I wouldn't compare letting someone with "only" at least 250000 Eur/y in income anything similar to apartheid.
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by maigret 14y ago
Good point.
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by maigret 14y ago
Of course it does. Government is elected and has to the right to do whatever is constitutional and gets approved by both assemblies.
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by maigret 14y ago
You don't answer my point - which is that the high taxes helped him get rich in the first place.
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by maigret 14y ago
I'd wonder how many films Depardieu got famous for haven't benefited any tax money from public financing. And how many would have been possible at all without it.
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by maigret 14y ago
Doing software development (my role involves quite some coordination though), I am discussing all the time with people. On instant messaging, to people coming to my office, in meetings, on the phone, or around a coffee. Time communicating i
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by maigret 14y ago
Even if the GP forgot that... CEO compensation < executive compensation.
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by maigret 14y ago
Not if you count all the executives. I think the GP has a point.
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by maigret 14y ago
>Actually, the proliferation of divorces, close to 50 % It used to be so in 1980. It is not true anymore and has steadily fallen since, for numerous reasons. But this is a deep anchored belief in America. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18
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by maigret 14y ago
Usually there are two skills to have to ship a software project: - Knowing and using the basic underlying technologies (languages, but also concepts, like machine learning, databases, UI skills or so on) - Knowing the specific codebase and
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by maigret 14y ago
99 Luftballons is German, so... West European much. And South American music has been integrated in western culture for a long time already. South Korean not much.
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by maigret 14y ago
Twice median wages means that you should actually be comfortably able to take 6 months off each year. Of course I understand also why you wouldn't want to sacrifice that money for more more free time, I'm just telling this is a decision mor
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by maigret 14y ago
Peugeot has already a very simple response for that with the mu program: lease your electric car, and you get a bigger/gas-powered car when you need it. http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/jul/10/peugeot-car-club...
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by maigret 14y ago
> as opposed to recharging for 8 hours Fast charging is faster than that, you just need special power feed, but that can even be included in every home, which is not the case for a gas station. > Yes, that was my point. Look at all
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by maigret 14y ago
Cannot emphasis that enough. I would even argue the opposite: people who are now older than 30 did have the possibility to hack much nearer to the hardware of the devices, and could understand how they work. Now, because the tech is both so
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by maigret 14y ago
Still the UK has a lower GDP/capita than Germany. You've got to wonder why.
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Ask PG: Why is your website with a constrained width but not HN?
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by maigret 14y ago
Indeed. And one of the reason for the why, beside just understanding the context and getting a more complete picture, is to allow further developers to add code at the same place because it was meant like that in the original code. Great co
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by maigret 14y ago
The mainframe scheduler is fantastic. z/OS has the capability of limiting the resource usages in different dimensions, including memory use. You can give priorities to processes, which means that you can define what is business critical and
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by maigret 14y ago
"why don't they" -> Remembers me of a recent HN discussion ;) But... Actually you are not far from something. This is actually an approach from Audi: http://green.autoblog.com/2010/03/01/geneva-preview-audi-a1-... From what I read tho
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by maigret 14y ago
Agree. That is why Google has Vint Cerf working for them. It probably more than paid off.
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by maigret 14y ago
Only in the case the local law doesn't hold you responsible for not having protected your network in the first place. [Edit] This is the case in Germany. http://ratgeber-recht.welt.de/offene-wlan-hotspots-sind-zula... You may have your ow
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by maigret 14y ago
I know that European universities are subsidized a lot. I also think this is right, because it creates an incentive to study - price is low and reward is high. The graduates consumes more afterwards, and pays also more taxes. That's what yo
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by maigret 14y ago
I am European, so I really don't get that. Why don't you try to make education cheaper? Why are you taking it as granted that university must cost x 10000's dollars a year? Out here outside of UK it is mostly around 1000 Eur max a year. H

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