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by valar_m 13y ago
Actually, if you read the article, the author conveniently lays out the premise in the second paragraph: For its users, money has three classic functions: a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. For its government pr
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by valar_m 13y ago
The quote is a little less scary in context: "But the "mystery" of Amazon's surging valuation over recent years becomes a lot less mysterious when we stop trying to understand it by looking at financial statements that w
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by valar_m 13y ago
https://github.com/LPology/Simple-Ajax-Uploader - A Javascript plugin for cross-browser ajax file uploading. A lot of my users are still running IE7/IE8, so I've spent a great deal of time researching and tin
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by valar_m 13y ago
Cost of living is a much better way to compare salaries. They actually mentioned that: "Moreover, the cost of living in Finland is about 30% higher."
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Not reverence for educators, reverence for education.
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by valar_m 13y ago
> Immediate implication: teachers are actually paid well over there. Apparently not: "The average salary for primary education teachers with 15 years experience in Finland is about $37,500, compared to $45,225 in the United States.&
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by valar_m 13y ago
You are mistaken. He is, in actual fact, a scientist. Ridley has a DPhil degree in zoology from Oxford, and he's a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by valar_m 13y ago
Why? Did the author make an argument based on a claim of subject matter expertise?