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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Here is my experiment: ask any Israeli company you have the pleasure of performing due diligence on to send you the patent numbers of the patents they claim they have. (Any patent number, forget localised patent claims). More than a decade
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Read the git source code.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
That lots of people are morons.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
The other 86% spend about four hours in traffic. Source: lived there.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
In our defence, our customers are a compete joke in terms of the price they are prepared to pay for quality sfotware. See MCAS programmers at $9/h.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Yes. It goes all the way down. That is what makes it very, very hard to fix.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Perhaps - just possibly maybe perhaps - he was suggesting its is his superior tool and technology that allowed his team to do this. Do you think you took the most generous possible interpretation possible?
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
And thank goodness for that!
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
The IPCCH has adressed every point you could imagine and then some. See ipcch.ch
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Wont you be kind enough to tell us which of the thousands of peer reviewed papers on the IPCCH website (ipcch.ch) website your data disputes. Taliban
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
> in a way that is profitable to the people most efficiently and effectively providing that service? There is one of your assumptions. It is more likey be captured by connected rentiers who exclude the more efficient. IMO
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
So what? My guess is the now-incredibly-rich rentiers (with guaranteed income) will start lobbying the government for concessions (e.g. restriction on new housing, tax-breaks) that further distort the very inequality UBI is trying to solve.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
> the rich will pay more in new taxes than they'll get back from UBI. Except the fortunate rich who own the housing that the UBI beneficiaries will pay for. I can see UBI making a few people very, very, wealthy.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
> They should offer the poor, an affordable medical care, a shelter, and just simply hand them the money. Surely, when news get to other poor people in the USA you will jet be rewarded with a new, probably larger, batch of urban poor? My
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
And how, pray tell, do the incentives of a British oil company in another part of the world automagically imply the guilt of an African mining company in SL? Or is guilt by association the new thing these days? Show me where De Beers is not
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
BP and Facebook aren't paying their share of taxes in the USA, do you think De Beers is going to do so in Sierra Leone? Do you have any evidence that thy aren't? Or do you just make things up?
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Take note that the ludicrously cheap prices only apply if its end-to-end Hauwei: i.e. If you plug pne piece of Hauwei kit into another. If you add non-Hauwei kit, you not only have to buy the more expensive gear but you also have to buy a m
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
As is having one country doing the lion’s share of advanced software. No?
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Well, in the UK no less than PM Blair personally interfered to get to SFO to drop the in investigation into BAE bribery on the Eurofighter Typhoon project in Saudi Arabia. Something about 5,000 jobs, ₤6 billion, and - of course - upset Saud
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
i.e. the tax payer's responsibility?
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
There are codified laws that specificities ally exempt Arab Israelis from. National service.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
I can speak for anyone else, but for me its becuase double standards are infinitely worse than what-aboutery.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
As did the USA, see the 2018 CLOUD Act.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
And being a small country in gigantic bloc in a world of superpower real-politik is worth more than soverignty
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
touché
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
I remind readers that the Novichok assasins were identified via CCTV sureillance monitored by Government authorities.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
So what's their plan when the plastic gets to them? 1. refuse it (China did) 2. process it (pyrolysis → diesel ?) 3. clean it and resell it (clothing, furniture) 4. do nothing, let it wash into their environment. Shame. As I showed, th
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Or vulnerable minorities who make nice scapegoats. See Indonesia, Malaysia, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, etc… Surely you could have figured this one out?
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
> because these countries have large numbers of people in poverty… Its probably going to be a surprise to you then to learn that Kigali, Rwanda is absolutely spotless. Somehow they manage to come together every month to clean the city an
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Is it a fact that they didn't foresee political parties? After all, the Whigs were founded in the UK in 1678.

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