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by mamon 7y ago
EU isn't really subisidizing anyone - the actual flow of money is from poor towards the wealthy: https://www.politico.eu/article/what-rich-countries-get-wron...
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by mamon 7y ago
Because they are not used here since 19th century :)
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by mamon 7y ago
I recently feel like I’ve watched all the good shows on Netflix already. I sometimes browse the online rankings or Netflix home page for half an hour and then, due to lack of interesting content decide to re-watch the show I’ve already fini
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by mamon 7y ago
We reached the point where NOT being hosted on AWS is a competitive advantage :)
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by mamon 7y ago
I understood GP post more like "They are afraid of government registry, yet willingly give their sensitive data to corporations."
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by mamon 7y ago
Also, this might constitute a fellony, basically you're "hacking" Quora, using technical tricks to circumvent security measures they put in place. And no, it doesn't matter that the trick is so trivial.
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by mamon 7y ago
>> Capital gains tax generally only applies to assets that have been previously taxed as income No, it does not apply to previously taxed assets at all, only to an additional income you made from those assets. Equity grant is taxed wh
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by mamon 7y ago
I think what GP meant is that majority of people in Crimea self-identify as Russians, not Ukrainians - 68%, according to Wikipedia [1] Similar thing can be said about disputed teritorries in the east, around Donbas. Of course that's st
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by mamon 7y ago
The only company that knows what they are doing is Waymo (which actually launched self-driving taxi service in Phoenix), Tesla and others are kind of "fake it until you make it" crowd.
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by mamon 7y ago
>> Hint. Debt is used to purchase assets. This is true for corporate loans, but in case of federal budget most of the money borrowed are spent on things like healthcare, pensions, food stamps, etc. which aren't exactly profit-bri
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by mamon 7y ago
Also, when a company wants to call them, say, "Microsoft Silver Partner", they typically need at least X people with Microsoft certificates.
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by mamon 7y ago
>> Real leaks are way easier than fake leaks. Maybe for the private person. For a certain three letter agency looking to start a war with Iran it is quite easy to produce fake.
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by mamon 7y ago
One thing airlines should pay closer attention to is amount/size of carry-on luggage to better match overhead bins capacities. I've seen people bringing clearly oversized roller bag, AND big laptop bag, AND big purse, and then spe
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by mamon 7y ago
I think the research papers claiming that were already debunked: they simply did not control for age, so abistinents group was actually 7-10 years older that moderate drinkers. Or, to put a cynical spin on it: noone becomes an abstinent by
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by mamon 7y ago
In Netherlands or Belgium 8-12 oz servings of beer compensate by it having higher ABV (8-10%), so the amount you consume is actually pretty much the same as with 16oz lager or pilsner.
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by mamon 7y ago
>> I'm still left wondering- what is the reason that bankruptcy exists at all. Because society decided that people should have a way out of bad financial situation they've gotten into, quite often for reasons beyond their co
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by mamon 7y ago
>> One possible legal theory: because the algorithm was trained on a text corpus upon which the algorithm's owner has no legal claim. The same can be said about human writers: they learn to write based on thousands of "train
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by mamon 7y ago
It is possible, but it is also quite rare, and usually happens for higly paid, white collar jobs. I'm yet to meet, say, trash pickup guy that enjoys his job. EDIT: to clarify - it's not that I look down on any jobs. Trash pickup i
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by mamon 7y ago
Not to mention that majority of hashing power is owned by just few miners, most of them in China.
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by mamon 7y ago
GCP also considers it copyright infrigement if you use their AI services for something actually useful, like, for example, self-driving car software. So it is better to stay away from it, unless you only use it for fun.
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by mamon 7y ago
Old towns in southern Europe (Spain, Italy) were deliberately built so that streets become "canyons" - they are very narrow, and buildings are tightly packed. It helps make 100+ degrees temperatures in summer bearable.
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by mamon 7y ago
There isn't a market for 13-inch TVs... But mathematics support your reasoning about economies of scale: with constant, 13.3 inch diagonal, higher the aspect ratio, lower the screen area,thus less raw materials used, cheaper to produce
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by mamon 7y ago
Building online blog for the millionth time is boring and using a new framework makes it less boring - that’s the main reason there is a new cool JS framework every six months
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by mamon 7y ago
Rent control is not a solution, it is a part of the problem. To have affordable rent prices there has to be abdundance of rental apartments available, and if rents are artificially capped then those apartments will never be built in the fir
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by mamon 7y ago
„Rent control is the most effective way to destroy a city, other than bombing”. Rent control disincentivizes renovation of existing apartments and building new ones. It also encourages people to stay in apartments that are too big for them,
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by mamon 7y ago
>> There haven't been any good video game-to-motion picture ever. LOL, it isn't based on video game at all. There is a series of actual fantasy books written by Andrzej Sapkowski that serves as a basis for the show. See htt
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by mamon 7y ago
I would jokingly say that English is halfway between natural languages and programming languages. I mean: English grammar is so simple and all sentences are so well structured that processing English is order of magnitude easier than, say,
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by mamon 7y ago
>> I wonder if there's a selfless gene in humans that reduces the reproductive fitness/longevity of humans that aren't pulling their weight for the group. I think that’s where sexual selection kicks in: slackers are not
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by mamon 7y ago
It's weird that it has to be repeated so often on HN, but: Autism is not a superpower. Yes, sometimes mildly autistic people can become genius mathematicians, or whatever, but most of autistic people simply cannot function by themselve
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by mamon 7y ago
I think this restriction makes more sense in other industries, such as pharmaceuticals, where lab equipment can cost millions of dollars, so employee doing their own "side projects" on it is more real abuse of company property.

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