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by skylan_q 12y ago
I'll have to agree to this. Electricity is electricity, water is water, natural gas is natural gas. But Internet traffic isn't a homogenous substance.
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While it's true that some artists just feel entitled to a paycheck, there are other reasons to support paying for content. I have no problems with anyone willing to part with their money for content. I do it myself from time to time.
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With just a little imagination: 80% tax on broadband to fund advertising of gov't propaganda on the web, to crack down on un-pc opinion and to help verify your personal identity for every action on the web that you take.
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... constant challenge for any creative type is making a living. Well perhaps if that's the case what you do is not valuable to anyone. People have trouble coming to terms with the fact that they don't necessarily deserve to ear
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saving money because we're all keynesians now, saving is now evil.
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Practice common habits from people who carry good health into old age. The science of nutrition is more confusing and contradicting than ever.
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Tell them it will speed up their computer.
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I really like this video. He goes over the difference between clinical and observational studies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1RXvBveht0
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- The Swiss firms exporting products might get hit, since their products are now more expensive to foreigners (that was the original point of pegging the CHF to the EUR in the first place - so they could export more). - The Swiss firms im
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Does your Canadian USD account have access to the US domestic payments system, so you could make deposits into it over ACH with a routing number and account number? Don't quote me on it, but I think deposits can be made to it through
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by skylan_q 12y ago
To accept USD Stripe only requires a bank account denominated in US funds. I can confirm this is the case. We're a Canadian company and we have a USD account within our RBC business account. A week after getting a charge processed th
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Downvotes, but no rebuttal. Thanks for sharing your enlightenment.
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This is probably relevant to the topic: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1375082 If they can get a 22,000% return on lobbying for tax breaks, how much of a return can they get for lobbying on labor ac
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There is nothing in this article to contradict what PG said He wasn't trying to contradict him on that point, from what I can see. What he's saying is that he can't trust the process of relocating workers into the US to get
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Workers can't dictate working conditions in general until unemployment is close to or effectively 0. As long as there are unemployed, there people to hire at bottom dollar.
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I see requiring visas for employees in the first place as the "exemption from supply and demand (of labor)". National boundaries, timezones, cultures, local governance issues, political issues, etc... still exist. The globalist
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1) This can't be discovered through an interview, nevermind an immigration process. It would just be increasing the entire pool of people who might qualify as "top talent" or "average" programmers. The author raised
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H-1B visa demand is not high because companies are striving for excellence. The visas are being used to preserve the existing labor market (salary levels) rather than paying higher salaries as dictated by supply and demand. Paul’s suggesti
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I'd take this all with a grain of salt. Reading this from RMS is like taking financial advice from Michael Jordan or medical advice from Albert Einstein. This is Russel Brand level thinking.
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Greater adoption gives it more "moneyness", which in turn means we measure things against it more and more. As adoption picks up and it acts more as a medium of exchange, the value of it normalizes not only against other currencie
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The erratic price could also hurt the economy, if Bitcoin was widely adopted. The price wouldn't be as erratic, as it would be normalized against all the goods in the economy. Just as gold was when it was money.
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Fiat currency has a value story; the states monopoly of violence provides it with the ability to collect tax from economic activity where that monopoly holds true. Tax revenues are a future income stream that has value; hence the underpinn
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Because westerners tend to be easily programmable via media broadcasting. Somehow, Russia is evil even though the west has launched a war on a method, continues to kill hundreds of thousands of people and tries to conquer or co-opt countrie
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I don't get why this was downvoted. Blocking trade is a way to ruin people's lives. If goods don't cross borders, soldiers will.
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You don't go to jail for practicing programming or computer science if you aren't "accredited" by the ACM. Try practicing medicine without a medical license.
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More diversity (in neighborhoods, in workplaces, in schools) would certainly help Maybe instead of forcing segregation, or forcing integration, freedom of association could be tried?
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I was reading the article with Zuck in place of Pavel. I don't think any westerner would be courageous enough to do what Pavel did. But this falls into the narrative that "Russia bad, America good". How do you think the Russi
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oblig: But if you can't copyright APIs no one will make them!
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The aim isn't a good education, it's a 100% graduation rate.
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This is relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kantorovich Although not dealing so much with big data, it was still a "socialist" attempt at mathematical optimization being applied in society.

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