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by salvadors 13y ago
The output of this code is also relevant — not just its source.
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by salvadors 13y ago
The vast majority of people in the world are capable of having fun whilst not doing either of those things. I guess you don't find sex fun either?
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by salvadors 13y ago
Is there a detailed explanation of the plan available online?
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by salvadors 13y ago
> He might even figure out how to do something he hasn't done at AMZN and that's turn a profit. You mean like the $645MM profit they made in 2008, the $902MM profit they made in 2009, the $1.15BN profit in 2010, or $631MM profi
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by salvadors 13y ago
With physical voting you need more than observers at the counting itself. One common means of electoral fraud is to introduce boxes full of pre-cast votes for your candidate into the counting process.
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by salvadors 13y ago
One of the cities it gives for Estonia is "Pjarnu", for Pärnu. But then it also thinks the capital is "Tallin", rather than Tallinn.
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by salvadors 13y ago
> What kind of reality do you live in where malicious intent to cause harm to someone or some group should not be a crime? It depends somewhat on what you class as malice. Starting a business is usually a deliberate attempt to cause harm
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by salvadors 13y ago
This is said in the most sarcastic voice imaginable, right?
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by salvadors 13y ago
> try to explain to tax authorities why you're not paying payroll taxes for servers if you're a restaurant. Instead many companies will have to increase prices. What would most likely happen is that one set of restaurants would increase
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by salvadors 13y ago
> If you're making the equivalent of $50 an hour, an hour spent agonizing over how to save $25 is a net loss for you. Only if you would have spent that hour working instead, and if you would actually earn an extra $50 (net) for working
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by salvadors 13y ago
The returns on your investments may certainly vary under lots of circumstances. But if you're able to living on under 50% of your income, then we're simply talking about how good the outcome will be — not whether it'll be good or not.
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by salvadors 13y ago
Income is only a part of the picture when it comes to poverty. Assets count too. Not having to pay rent or a mortgage because you own your house outright makes a significant difference, for example. Most people could have higher disposable
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by salvadors 13y ago
> I guess I am the only person in the world still using Winamp. Well, one of the 30 million people still using Winamp.
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by salvadors 13y ago
What about the risks of driving?
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by salvadors 13y ago
security issues?
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by salvadors 13y ago
No law can prevent all such tragedies. But failing to have prevented this one doesn't make the law stupid, or worthless. It does successfully prevent other cases. What happened with your sister is certainly horrible, but you can't generalis
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by salvadors 13y ago
You can have them forwarded to real email, which doesn't announce that it's been read.
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by salvadors 13y ago
OTOH, Latvia and Estonia have both done very well with austerity.
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by salvadors 14y ago
They may be trying to say that, but they actually said the opposite.
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by salvadors 14y ago
It means that a lot more than $66,000 worth of product and services had to be sold to pay for one simple mistake. Even Microsoft don't have 100% gross margin.
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by salvadors 14y ago
> If someone transfers $50,000 from my personal bank account to someone else's bank account, it's pretty easy for it to be undone. That depends on the timeframe. Once the money has been moved out of that new account again things start g
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by salvadors 14y ago
People should have lots of good things to say about Hitler. To completely demonise him, and turn him into something completely 'other', ignoring how hugely popular and effective he was, makes it too easy to pretend that what happened was
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by salvadors 14y ago
Under UK law, if you receive money in error, you have to have a good faith belief that the money is actually yours. To claim that you thought that the bank was deliberately choosing to give you more money than you asked for (rather than it
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by salvadors 14y ago
It did talk of "obligation for a completely transparent government" (emphasis mine).
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by salvadors 14y ago
If you asked an ATM for $50 and it gave you $100, do you think you're entitled to keep the extra $50?
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by salvadors 14y ago
>> it's every blogger's dream his / her work will once be self-sustainable. Traffic without active (social media) involvement. I do the writing, Google does its magic, the readers to the rest. Weird writing/typos aside, I find thi
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by salvadors 14y ago
Prices sometimes also change depending on which site you're visiting. Generally these are just a few pennies, but I've seen differences of more than two or three pounds between the .com and .co.uk prices for the same book, even though theor
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by salvadors 14y ago
Yes — Amazon certainly has significantly more data, but Goodreads' data is deeper, because it's not restricted to items bought from Amazon. Goodreads has a much better picture of what I read than Amazon could ever get simply from my purchas
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by salvadors 14y ago
I'm obviously just too used to the interface! I do have an issue with the fact that adding a book to your "to-read" list is the default, and gets a huge button of its own on every page, but, yes, I guess if you're not used to the concept th
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by salvadors 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that the context here isn't about providing people with a constant income, but simply taking your comments at face value: Why would that be so bad? Why is it essential for everyone to have a job?

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