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by mamon 8y ago
Even if this became the law no one with more than a half of brain would ever pay 70% tax. People earning north of $10M usually have a team of tax advisors, and a lot of options of avoiding income tax: offshore companies, charity foundations
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by mamon 8y ago
Except criminals that could beat you up on a street are not interested in your data, they just want to sell the hardware and have money for drugs. It's easier for them to just type wrong passcode 10 times and have the phone wipe its wh
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by mamon 8y ago
Or, iOS would never took off, because no one would want to write apps for it.
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by mamon 8y ago
Some jurisdictions even require it, e.g. in my country you get 26 vacations days per year, but you are expected to take at least 10 of them continouosly (which, if you add weekends typically results in 16 days without work)
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by mamon 8y ago
>> It's really hard to fault a company for not innovating when nobody else is innovating either. CES 2019 starts in few days, and rumor is that we'll see foldable smartphones there, so there are still some companies innovati
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by mamon 8y ago
But the thing is: acting rational in every situation requires a lot of mental effort, knowledge, intelligence. Not everyone is capable of this, in fact it is quite rare (because probably you need IQ > 130). Now, the workaround for people
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by mamon 8y ago
There are more subtle ways of transferring money from lobbyist to political party than just cash payments. Let's say that the lobbyist sponsor company promises to use a hotel chain owned by a party member for its bussines trips, or buy
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by mamon 8y ago
We've heard this story previously about Greece, where, it turned out to be a scam: people were not reporting deaths of their elderly relatives in order to continue receiving their monthly pension payments. Which kind of busted the myth
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by mamon 8y ago
Calling Scala "purist language" sounds riddiculous to me. It is a hybrid of object-oriented and functional styles, with tons of weird hacks like case classes for pattern matching, implicits, type inference that kind of works, but
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by mamon 8y ago
I can change my PIN through online banking site, just requires SMS password as confirmation. In fact that's how I set initial PIN when activating a new card. Never tried doing that in ATM.
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by mamon 8y ago
Laws about solar and wind energy benefit producers of the equipment at the expense of the society. Solar energy wouldn’t be price competitive with fossil fuels if it wasn’t for tax breaks and other forms of government subsidies. Why won’t
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by mamon 8y ago
I think you meant millions...
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by mamon 8y ago
When I was ordering groceries from Instacart it let me choose the action in case the item is missing, like choosing a possible replacement (e.g. different brand of milk or frozen pizza) - for each individual item. In Poland I had similar ex
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by mamon 8y ago
LinkedIn is one of two main sources of job offers for me (the other one being my personal connections).
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by mamon 8y ago
Deliberate pause sounds a bit different than a pause caused by distraction.
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by mamon 8y ago
How about some middle ground? In my country almost everyone owns their home/apartment, but they don't think about it about investment, because most people will live in the same home for most of their lives. So they don't care
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by mamon 8y ago
>> paranoia around Syrian refugees. 99% of them are not refugees, 99% of them are not Syrian, most of them have fake IDs or no ID at all Many of them are criminals or even terrorists There's nothing paranoid about trying to impos
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by mamon 8y ago
Except Warsaw metro has 1.5 line, 32 stations, compared to Paris 16 lines and 300 stations
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by mamon 8y ago
"Good socialism, just like Marx and Lenin intended" is currently being implemented by European Union :)
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by mamon 8y ago
Actually, it's more complicated than that. "Solidarność" was a big organization, with different factions. The some of the members, like Andrzej Gwiazda, Anna Walentynowicz, Kornel Morawiecki, were more right-leaning, patrioti
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by mamon 8y ago
Offtopic, but people actually had a good reason to laugh at Columbus: he made a simple error in his calculations that lead him to believe Earth is much smaller that it really is. Most of the nobles he asked for money were actually better ed
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by mamon 8y ago
Thing is: Majority of failed interviews can be probably traced back to a relatively small pool of mediocre engineers, who get rejected by dozens of companies, before they finaly land a job. And then they loose that job 3-12 months later, be
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by mamon 8y ago
Yes, simply compiling the provided code and running it against provided data set does not really count as replication. Writing your own code and creating your own dataset is the simplest way to rule out the situations where there is somethi
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by mamon 8y ago
I’ve always thought that p<0.05 is ridiculously low bar, missing at least one zero after the dot.
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by mamon 8y ago
Not indefinitely, but typicaly IRS or similar institution will require you to store all the transaction records for, say, 5 years. Which, from the purpose of hackers trying to steal your data is as good as "indefinitely".
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by mamon 8y ago
I've been to Los Angeles last weekend and have seen homeless people at the subway stations entertaining themselves with their iPhones. Now tell me: how is owning an iPhone a "status symbol"?
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by mamon 8y ago
Yes, you are misunderstanding it: the house prices are 8.4 higher than in Sep 2017, BUT, they are lower than in, say, Jun 2018. So it is not just "rate of increase has decreased", the absolute values are lower than a few months ag
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by mamon 8y ago
This matches my experience in IT: sometimes recruiters prefer to hire a girl, even if less qualified, just for sake of having a girl in the team, because it is "improving the morale" :)
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by mamon 8y ago
No, it is the way GP described it. Both transaction fees and reward programs are governed by the same entity: payment processing company. Reward programs were a trick to make people accept high transaction fees, because people fall for the
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by mamon 8y ago
And you think you'll be able to find a cheaper house? No, sorry: sellers will raise their asking price to match (or exceed) the market average. So, your choice really is between paying the same price as everybody else or not buy a hous

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