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by thirdusername 15y ago
Singapore beats America as the highest income inequal first-world developed country by a small margin. It's got a ginni coffecient of 47.8 vs Americas 45. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
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by thirdusername 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - In ASEAN (GMT+8) - Remote mainly, but willing to travel. I'm trying to do the whole electronic nomad thing, but work has been fairly chaotic lately. If anyone thinks they are a trustworthy individual with solid paid work, I'd
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by thirdusername 15y ago
If you don't have any projects to show them, just don't talk about it unless they ask, instead talk about what you are going to build them. That has worked splendidly for me. I honestly believe that most people don't at all care what you've
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by thirdusername 15y ago
Google, Oracle and Apple are all symbols of knowledge?
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by thirdusername 15y ago
Funny you should say that.. We (my former classmate and I) built a prototype for that a year ago, but life happened and I never got around to making it into a product. If anyone entrepreneurial is interested in solving that problem (especia
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by thirdusername 15y ago
Sweden: http://ratsit.se/
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Screen estate and productivity(skeptics.stackexchange.com)
3 points by thirdusername 16y ago|0 comments
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by thirdusername 16y ago
More often than not: $0. :D I mean they are supposed to pay me in the $200-1600 range, but actually getting clients to fork up money for a completed job is difficult, to the point where I'm ready to give up and get a regular job. I don't ge
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by thirdusername 16y ago
I found an issue when I signed up in current dev version of chrome (untested in everything else): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7948781/screenshot.png
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The Evolution of Google's Rankings(slideshare.net)
1 points by thirdusername 16y ago|0 comments
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by thirdusername 16y ago
He's referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhtml I'm not sure what DHTML you are thinking of that would be server-side.
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Scrapy | An open source web scraping framework for Python(scrapy.org)
3 points by thirdusername 16y ago|0 comments
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by thirdusername 16y ago
You might be interested in reading this blog post which made adjustments to education statistics for that exact thing: http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou...
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How I Made Money Spamming Twitter with Contextual Book Suggestions(charleshooper.net)
19 points by thirdusername 16y ago|5 comments
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Internet start-ups: Another bubble?(economist.com)
4 points by thirdusername 16y ago|1 comments
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by thirdusername 16y ago
Why would bright folks in the US leave the comfort and familiarity of their home to work elsewhere in the US? Or if you think that's a false analogy then keep in mind that there are plenty of European, Kiwi, Aussie, Canadian etc. immigrants
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by thirdusername 16y ago
I've learnt two things when facing those questions myself. * Only compare yourself to the worst people getting paid to do something when figuring out if you are good enough. * You can do what you can learn.
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by thirdusername 16y ago
It's somewhat implied in Sweden that if you hire Lief Silbersky the defense lawyer, it means you did it and that you stand a good chance of getting away with it. A detailed, chronological account of the women’s alleged encounters with Assa
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by thirdusername 16y ago
Svalbard has the global seed vault and NASA is doing things there. I would assume it's largely used for research.
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Wealth, poverty and compassion: The rich are different from you and me(economist.com)
3 points by thirdusername 16y ago|0 comments
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by thirdusername 16y ago
I would reckon Apple has ceased most of the the cheap and good enough opportunities with the nano, mini and shuffle.
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by thirdusername 16y ago
Those powers were stripped along with virtually all others from the Swedish monarchy in the 1974's reform of government, and now sits with the speaker. Our royal family isn't a lot more than a well payed magnets for tabloid journalists, so
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by thirdusername 16y ago
I'm moving to Thailand or possibly the Philippines from Sweden at the end of August, to attempt to build apps aiming to be ramen profitable in a developing country and then work my way up from there. Problem: Worst case, my savings only las
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by thirdusername 16y ago
I'd want to switch from dollar into something else. An option to set the (multi-character) symbol and if it's pre- or post-fix could probably cover most cases.
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by thirdusername 16y ago
As was mentioned by several of the commenters in the article the researcher (named Olle not Ollie ) received the Swedish Sceptic Societys "Misleader of the year" prize in 2004. Allow me to translate the last two paragraphs of their motiv
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by thirdusername 16y ago
I'm sure Finland like Sweden has public transportation going virtually everywhere already. A car isn't a necessity, transportation is.
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by thirdusername 16y ago
Thus, they assign a low value to events which might happen in the future - that is, a high paying job in 5 years is less valuable than using meth now. That's two different classes of events and you are misrepresenting what was claimed by
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by thirdusername 16y ago
I'm not sure the other animals intelligent enough to develop a notion of a higher power would do so while we are around, considering our species seemingly absolute power over their lives. Where we at our leisure can completely change the fa
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by thirdusername 16y ago
Well there's that and they only need to break 1 of them, adding more types doesn't really do anything when you can refresh except to slow things down by a bit. :P
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by thirdusername 16y ago
Hug whoever put in auto-translation, from me. Thats the best idea anyone has had in a browser since extensions or possibly tabs. I <3 u.

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