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by nagrom 12y ago
Your original comment was questioning why a 24% VAT is considered to be outstandingly high. It's the highest rate of VAT in the EU, and broadly speaking taxes in the EU are already higher than in nations of equivalent technological and
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by nagrom 12y ago
Same as Norway, indeed. But Norway has implemented just 5,000 pieces of EU legislation in the last 22 years, whereas the UK has, on average, implemented 3,000 pieces per year . [I'm sticking to Norway, because it is the region that I
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by nagrom 12y ago
That's said rather often, but I'm not at all certain that it's true. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100194407/out...
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by nagrom 12y ago
You're comparing income tax with sales tax. In the UK, on a salary of £40k (i.e. professional mid-career engineer), before you touch the money, the government takes about 25% for income tax and national insurance. Then, they take 20%
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by nagrom 12y ago
I note with some amusement the difference in the way that foreign income for private citizens is of interest to the IRS and yet foreign income for corporations can be left abroad and remains untaxed. One would have hoped that it may be the
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by nagrom 12y ago
Practically all ancient people believed in nature spirits, and several disconnected tribes have worshiped the sun. The majority of ancient peoples enjoyed slavery and showed overt racism, sexism and caste systems that caused unnecessary suf
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by nagrom 12y ago
Without wishing to be insensitive, in my dreams, I can occasionally fly. That is absolutely not evidence that I can fly.
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by nagrom 12y ago
They may earnestly believe in it, but they cannot provide a shred of evidence that it exists and all authority that claims that it does is inevitably found to be either a) mistaken or b) fraudulent. Very intelligent, otherwise rational peop
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by nagrom 12y ago
If you give up a confession when confronted with inadmissible evidence that should not be brought before a court, should the confession count as admissible?
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by nagrom 12y ago
There's pretty much nothing that you can do, I think. At the point where you are a graduate student, you have the least power in the academic hierarchy. You're not going to leave, because programs are generally not transferable an
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by nagrom 12y ago
I think that you missed point 1) ;-)
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by nagrom 12y ago
>The first part is true, but the mediocre scientists aren't necessarily politically-connected. I got my PhD at an international research lab. I was a research fellow in nuclear physics at a Russell Group (i.e. top-16) university in
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by nagrom 12y ago
I agree that STEM makes you more employable. But how many of those jobs are in science ? There's a lot of engineers, accountants, actuaries, teachers, etc. out there who got a degree in physics, maths or biology.
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by nagrom 12y ago
Hm. I'm not convinced - there are plenty of professional programmers (who make maybe $60k, which is a good salary) working at Java shops who do 8am-5pm and think a monad is an itinerant who lives in the desert. There are loads of profe
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by nagrom 12y ago
Tangential to the article, I have two hypotheses: 1) There is not a shortage of scientists. There's loads of kids going to graduate school to become servants for mediocre, yet politically-connected scientists. Then, once they have spen
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by nagrom 12y ago
"publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content" Well that's terrifying given that my phone uploads every picture I take to Google's services.
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The Greatest Story Reddit Ever Told(kernelmag.dailydot.com)
321 points by nagrom 12y ago|29 comments
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by nagrom 12y ago
You clearly state in your original post that your 6 million and 3 million figures are in terms of deaths in the UK. The GP was pointing out that you were wrong: they are worldwide figures, and not UK-only figures. A little less stridency in
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So Where Did All the Women Coders Go?(ministryoftruth.me.uk)
48 points by nagrom 12y ago|22 comments
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by nagrom 12y ago
That last paragraph is fascinating! How did you react to their request to pay cash? How did you count the money to ensure that it was all there - did you sit there and do it when they arrived, or employ someone or did you visit the bank tog
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by nagrom 12y ago
More than half of all seizures are below $9000 - the amount of money you may use to buy a second-hand car. The amount of money that you may be using to pay for a group holiday. Hell, I brought a couple of thousand dollars in cash with me to
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by nagrom 12y ago
We don't, generally, forbid things that are merely suspicious. You should be considered innocent unless proven guilty. This is a basic pre-requisite for a fair and open justice system. What the Washington Post is talking about here is
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by nagrom 12y ago
You don't do anything strange in the bathroom right? So I'd like to have a camera fitted facing the pan. It's not like you do anything the rest of us don't, and there has been a problem of people illegally flushing refus
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by nagrom 12y ago
A PhD in math does, however, require a motivated and interested supervisor. A supervisor who can tach you how to write papers, how to get them published, to tell you where you are wasting your time and to help you over the humps that may ot
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by nagrom 12y ago
No. The German word for key is schlüßel. The English word key is derived from the French word clé, meaning key.
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by nagrom 12y ago
Well, maybe. But when you picture in your mind's eye the weight of a soft drink can, do you do it as an empty can or as a full one? I generally think of cans as full, not as empty. It's just a qualitative comparison dressed up as
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by nagrom 12y ago
Here's what I would do: I'd give them a revokable licence to use the Ikea trademark as long as only Ikea products were used on the site. That way I would expect to be able to defend the generic trademark argument. I'd get r
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by nagrom 12y ago
"Tigers, leopards and jaguars" are illustrated by a picture of a cheetah.
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by nagrom 12y ago
But the scientist generally wins less than a programmer who has a moderately good year making a website to help people find other people who would like to walk their dog.
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by nagrom 12y ago
I got a PhD in particle physics 6 years ago. I did my first postdoc and enjoyed it - I got to travel, and work on relatively interesting things occasionally. Every year since then it's got worse, to the point where I've given up o

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