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by pimmen 8y ago
In that one area alone I would agree stuff are happening, but he imposed tariffs on the EU citing WTO rules reserved for war too, and the responses has hurt local US businesses. That’s an absolutely terrible job.
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But, if they do, they have a tougher sell. They might get away with ”we’re just protecting you from certain sites we deem harmful, and we’re thorough with your best interests in mind” when they block specific sites. It requires a far more g
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by pimmen 8y ago
> You enter someone's country and you ought to obey the local laws there. There are plenty of human rights activists, reporters and publishers in China who have been imprisoned without a trial. Would you say the same thing to them?
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by pimmen 8y ago
But Italy’s GDP per capita is way behind Northern Europe, which doesn’t have a debt problem. The Nordic countries have a combined GDP of about 1.5 trillion with about half of Italy’s population.
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by pimmen 8y ago
I fear he would have a lot in common with the far-right, populist parties in present day Europe though. In the same paragraph that contains your quote, you also find this: "Where the weak could find a welcome and a refuge in celibate m
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by pimmen 8y ago
A very complicated, fascinating man. On the one hand, statistics owes a lot to this man. On the other hand, he was the man who popularized eugenics.
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The biggest problem I have with corporal punishment is the same with capital punishment; I could never live knowing a not 100% effective justice system harms or kills innocent people, and I'm supporting it by electing the leaders and p
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by pimmen 8y ago
Well, if it's an apt term maybe its spread to the United States might make the overprotecting parents reflect.
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We have the same words for it in Sweden, guess it's a Nordic thing because I've heard "curling" used in Norway too.
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Not a bad idea, but might be hard to execute. Finance is often pretty tightly regulated because you could use WhatsApp to launder money, especially when the communication is end-to-end encrypted. So it's not impossible, but it would be
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by pimmen 8y ago
A good investor gave me this little nugget; You can tell how mature a company is by how much they talk about their competitors. Startups and players who are really struggling never talk about competitors and try to steer the subject away f
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by pimmen 8y ago
No, but they had the user base, the data, the presence and the focus to do it better than the established ad companies. And now we're at the point where more than half of all digital ad revenue in some countries are pocketed by Faceboo
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by pimmen 8y ago
Crime can absolutely produce a bad feedback loop to a community, but I would love to see more research on what causes what. We can see that countries that become a lot richer and keeps wealth inequality under control has a connection with d
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by pimmen 8y ago
(This is the EU, not the US, but I'll concede that people having the right to anonymous speech is a good idea) Your right to anonymous free speech does not mean Facebook is obligated to let you express that right, only that the governm
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by pimmen 8y ago
But then they're disingenuous about how the EU works. Member countries have to unanimously agree to new member countries, the UK could just veto the ascension of Turkey indefinitely.
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by pimmen 8y ago
Wow, didn't know that the godawful Ben Affleck movie was actually based on something! I will give it a read.
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by pimmen 8y ago
A friend of mine was put into quarantine a while ago, that's what you can do in Sweden if you want to prevent people from going to the competitor. Basically, you can't work for any other employer that competes with your previous e
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by pimmen 8y ago
I have mild autism. I found a job I love where I just talk about math and computers all day. When I was a child, it was far worse though. Just like the author, all my life I’ve learned through experience how to talk and I started so many fi
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by pimmen 8y ago
I would start a business focusing on one of the things I really care about; education for special needs children and bullying. I don't believe in the whole "reinvent everything" stuff that most tech founders proclaim, I would
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by pimmen 8y ago
I've seen that culture too. I don't want to throw my colleagues under the bus but the other teams at my company that have done A/B testing to compare design choices don't perform proper controls or pre-register hypothesi
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by pimmen 8y ago
These governments could also maybe ask where the money to buy the passport comes from. Then you could check if those investments have any ties to known drug traffickers. That should certainly raise some red flags at least. Same thing with I
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by pimmen 8y ago
Among the people with the motivation to get a safe haven and the money to spend on it would be drug king pins and wealthy ISIL funders. I hope they at least perform lengthy background checks on these people.
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by pimmen 8y ago
Well, you could always hide there if you're charged with a crime, right? Even if it's white collar. Suddenly, that country is asked to extradite one of their own nationals rather than someone with a visa (and if they renew that vi
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by pimmen 8y ago
No, I'm just claiming policy makers can be influenced by corporate boardrooms. I don't really have a solution for it, and I can't really say that I know whether or not this is a big problem that needs solving, but is there le
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However their relatives can sit on boards, so a senator's spouse would be fair game. And they can use the paid board gig to make money between terms. Susan Bayh, ex senator and governor from and Indiana married to another senator, sat
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by pimmen 8y ago
Sure, if your point is that centralized government databases are inherently bad because the government could use them, I can't argue against that because you simply will not risk whatever they could do however low that risk is (if it&#
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Yes, not saying it's perfect or couldn't be used for evil, just like the FBI isn't perfect and can be used for evil. We have to weigh the options and legislate in a way that mitigates the ways it can be used for bad things. A
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by pimmen 8y ago
I'm not saying I like the Australian take on this but I do think a central database for medical records has the potential to prevent medical treatment mistakes by a couple percent. That's thousands of people saved. At that point,
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And it would be much simpler if all you had to do was give them that authorization and they could retrieve your medical records in an instant, in the correct format for them to work quickly. If they have to order your medical journal from a
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But you also have a significant risk to your life if your doctor can't get to them and orders the wrong treatment. The risk of that happening to you is actually significantly higher than dying from a lot of pretty common illnesses.

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