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by markvdb 11y ago
Relik, depending on your needs, you may also want to build one yourself. We built ourselves a lasersaur.
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by markvdb 11y ago
...with their fiscal headquarters in a tax haven. Dublin? Smells of double Irish and similar fiscal constructions...
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by markvdb 11y ago
I'm not an expert, but here is my speculation. Historically, in many parts of Europe, wooden housing was cheap housing. In many places, only they rich could afford stone houses. Several cities, seeing wood as a fire risk, even until th
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by markvdb 11y ago
Not to mention that when it comes to accounting and fiscal advice, they're more tax avoidance companies than accounting companies. Take away the big four, and I wonder if $tech_multinational would dare to play things like the double Ir
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by markvdb 11y ago
I have looked at this quite closely. It looks very similar at first sight, but the process is quite different from conventional Canadian timber framing, in that it has a radical focus on simplicity and self building. On a practical level, t
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by markvdb 11y ago
Wonderfully simple construction method that should appeal to technically oriented people. I'd be grateful for pointers to more contemporary work in this regard, as the insulation value of these is getting rather problematic.
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Life in Walter Segal's self-build 'anarchist' estate(theguardian.com)
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by markvdb 11y ago
Did you just say that research about our far out economic future is not supposed to be a job of academic economists? It doesn't have to be a main research area for all of them, but it _should_ be for some. And all economists should kno
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by markvdb 11y ago
May I suggest that limitless economic growth is a debatable premise to start from? Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth . From 1972, but still worth a look.
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by markvdb 11y ago
If you had hard to dispute conditions, why not sell the debt? You immediately receive anywhere between 40 and 80% of the amount due, and it's not your problem anymore...
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by markvdb 11y ago
Dollar cost averaging lowers risk and increases returns. If you can afford it, you may also want to have a look at value averaging.
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by markvdb 11y ago
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russ...
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by markvdb 11y ago
467*10^3 immigrant visas, not 10^6!
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by markvdb 11y ago
Plus the Romansh area in Graubünden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language .
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by markvdb 11y ago
Craftsmanship.
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by markvdb 11y ago
Artificially expensive cures against rare diseases. Company blackmailing the government to pay: http://www.standaard.be/tag/medicijnen-voor-viktor (Dutch)
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by markvdb 11y ago
Especially Debian users ("iceweasel" in the user agent string!)...
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by markvdb 11y ago
In the case of Debian, it tells them you are using a specific version of iceweasel, which probably is quite deterministic in combination with the rest of the dragnet.
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by markvdb 11y ago
The Greek government has recently run a primary surplus. This means they would _not_ be in trouble if all government debt was pardoned.
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by markvdb 11y ago
Taxation is very low compared to other taxation in Belgium: http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Europe/Belgium/Tax-Pages Round trip transaction cost is sky high though. My experience is that the 21.10% estimated he
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by markvdb 11y ago
That might be true for the US, but it certainly is not for most of Europe. I guess that difference has at least something to do with differences in fiscal regime. I dare you to find me real estate with a 10% gross yield in Belgium for examp
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by markvdb 11y ago
Thank you so much for this excellent description!
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by markvdb 11y ago
It's easy to answer the first half of your question. No, cars should not park in the cycle lane. It's impossible to answer your question about where to park given the limited context of the picture.
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by markvdb 11y ago
This would be great for painting bicycle lanes onto cars parked in the cycle lane!
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by markvdb 11y ago
50000 kilowatt, for how many milliseconds? The phone in my pocket has a 500 _giga_watt battery. What a pity it's only 700mAh...
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by markvdb 11y ago
Nazi Germany used the term "gesundes Volksempfinden", not only as a part of its internal propaganda, but even as a legal principle. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesundes_Volksempfinden (Sorry, I couldn'
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by markvdb 11y ago
Not a US citizen, I just looked up "BAC DWAI": blood alcohol content, driving while alcohol impaired: http://dui.drivinglaws.org/colorado.php http://dui.drivinglaws.org/drink-table.php You were ei
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by markvdb 11y ago
Correct. You are a billionaire: https://www.google.be/search?q=1000000000+vietnamese+dong+in...
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by markvdb 11y ago
http://www.bahn.de/p/view/bahncard/ueberblick/bahncard100.sh... 4090€
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by markvdb 11y ago
I'm sorry to hear about your friend's uncle's fate. But look at the bright side of this announcement! This is not about Cuba supporting terrorism or not. It's about the US government taking the Cuban government off its l

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