moocha

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by moocha 18y ago
Perhaps my phrasing was somewhat unclear. What I meant is "when a network is something we're taking for granted and which is as uninteresting as the water supply" - and that's just in developed countries. As long as networks are even vaguel
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by moocha 18y ago
When networks become as reliable a partof the infrastructure as the water supply. Of course, the water supply generally comes first.
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by moocha 18y ago
Sure it can. both trade deficit and expectations of inflation play very important roles.
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by moocha 18y ago
You can also create inflation by any number of different means. One very good way is to encourage consumer spending ( not investment!) when most of what consumers are buying is manufactured in other countries then imported.
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by moocha 18y ago
Indirectly, yes, since they didn't have to pay the social security contributions affixed to salaried positions - and since those contributions are considerable (depending on the job function, to the order of 30% up to 80% of the pre-tax wag
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by moocha 18y ago
However, people are people.
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by moocha 18y ago
The level of taxation is not important per se, the only important thing is how the collected taxes are distributed and what they're used for. Low taxes have helped somewhat (mostly by indirectly expanding the tax base) but the current econo
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by moocha 18y ago
This will positively not work. I live in Romania. Starting 1999 (IIRC) and ending 2006, there has been some very similar legislation in effect. The only result was a tremendous drop in income tax (which, admittedly, had been very high) sinc
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by moocha 18y ago
> The free solutions are getting much better and can compete with VMWare. Furthermore, I would say the money is not in desktop virtualization, but rather in server virtualization. For this, does VMWare even have a product? Huh? They are
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by moocha 18y ago
Mr. Harold is missing the point here. Protocol buffers are not meant to replace XML as a "public" API transport, they are meant to replace it on backend solutions, where one entity controls both endpoints.