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by stass 8y ago
Facebook has a similar project, called Workplace which other companies can use as a private social network: https://www.facebook.com/workplace?_rdr
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US income tax became more progressive after the tax reform(wsj.com)
4 points by stass 9y ago|0 comments
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by stass 9y ago
I have not seen a single gas station in California that does not accept credit or debit cards for 10 years, let alone in the Bay Area. If they do exist, it’s most certainly a tiny minority.
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Lorde of the Flies: Why College Students Reject Reason(wsj.com)
4 points by stass 9y ago|2 comments
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by stass 9y ago
And what exactly is intolerant in Thiel's views?
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How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds(wsj.com)
2 points by stass 9y ago|0 comments
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by stass 9y ago
So we end up waiting for several month for a surgery like other developed countries?
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by stass 9y ago
Or by removing the annual cap on the number of doctors that graduate and simultaneously relaxing the regulations and paperwork, that prevent doctor from operating independently instead forcing them to join large networks like PAMF. I talke
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by stass 9y ago
It's not really pedantry, I'm not picking on the words, but the concept. Many here, especially a lot of people coming from places with a strong government, decry the fact that US government does very little and seemingly can&#x2
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by stass 9y ago
Which nations? The only country which would be even comparable to US in terms of connectivity, healthcare and education quality, UK is still lagging behind US in all these matters. Good luck trying to get decent LTE or even 3G in London,
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by stass 9y ago
It never did, in US we are self-governed, that was the whole idea.
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by stass 9y ago
Wall Street Journal is still very good as well. I wonder if the fact that their articles are not available for free is one of the reasons?
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by stass 9y ago
Which most people would not use if this service was optional and adevertised beforehand priced at the amount they pay in taxes. You can't properly price the service into your economic activity if it's forced onto you.
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by stass 9y ago
Do you think this law will prevent the government from accessing the data somehow? The way it's written it's primary goal seems to be extracting fees from successful business and not protecting user privacy. Ideally you would not
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by stass 9y ago
It is sad that EU is slowly moving back towards the over-regulated and bureaucratic regimes of the past. This will further push the EU economy down the drain and prevent people from innovating. I just hope it does not lead to jail sentenc
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by stass 9y ago
This is just a Marxist propaganda. How did wealthy become wealthy?
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by stass 9y ago
And how did you measure that?
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by stass 9y ago
They delivered an innovative business model. Not every company is a technology company.
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by stass 9y ago
They didn't access any Lyft systems. They ran Lyft software on their own devices and collected and analyzed the data Lyft provides. One can argue that they broke EULA, but it's not necessarily unethical, and I'm ready to be
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by stass 9y ago
There isn't the one and only standard for ethics. Perhaps a class would teach a certain version of ethics, but not a universally applicable one. As a somewhat relevant example, a lot of ethical norms in USSR (prosecution of successfu
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by stass 9y ago
What's unethical about this? They were doing market research. It's not much different from stalking your competitor on google and going after the users they advertise to.
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by stass 10y ago
Can't they use pidgin/gtalk? Gtalk works with bitlbee/irssi-otr.
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by stass 10y ago
Drivers != Linux drivers. Also, TI and Freescale are both good with providing official driver source code of decent quality. Even Broadcom contributed a lot of drivers upstream.
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by stass 10y ago
Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis[1] is great from both theoretical and practical standpoints. [1] http://www.mtome.com/Publications/PNLA/prolog-digital.pdf
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by stass 10y ago
I feel the original question was more in the line of "Why are US presidential election are not like elections in the many other democratic countries?" and is a huge trivialization of a complicated issue.
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by stass 10y ago
It's not obvious by any means, that's why I pointed to the reference work on that topic. There are reasons the electoral college was implemented, whether they are still valid of not is a different question entirely. Furthermore,
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by stass 10y ago
And the answer can be easily found in e.g. Federalist papers and even Wikipedia.
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by stass 10y ago
> Thus neither Go or Rust was an option at the time. Don’t tell me it should have been written in OCaml, Haskell, Java, ADA, whatever. All of those memory safe languages were either unfit for such a low level software or far too confiden
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by stass 10y ago
It's not really a property of a functional or strongly typed language. Trees are trivial to define and iterate over in e.g. Prolog or Erlang as well. The essential thing here is the first class support for structured/abstract dat
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by stass 10y ago
And don't forget Erlang as well.

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