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by yholio 8y ago
Maduro and his party polled somewhere in the 20-30% range in all credible publications, and that was before the mass famine and food shortages of 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Venezuelan_presidential_e...
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There is a difference between the approval ratings of a lawfully elected leader, which include the opinions of folks who didn't even bothered to vote, and the minority support of a vile tyrant that in a free and fair election would hav
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In either case, managers would not entertain talk about a raise unless there ware actually not that many people willing to do the same work for less. So a secret negotiation allows them to hide that information from the rest of the workers
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Salary transparency already exists, just that it works one way only: the employer knows everyone's salary and they thoroughly research the salaries paid by their competitors. As a general economic principle, I can't really see any
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Things are precipitating to either a civil war or a fall for Maduro and a return to democracy. Unlike the Chavez years, the regime has lost the support of the majority of the population, but nonetheless there is a strong loyalist kernel. Ma
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I was talking about the rent part on top of the costs of those systems, nonetheless they are trivial compared to the revenues. If there was an international agreement on a single payment system with mandated interoperability, we could find
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In the long run this sounds like the kind of area that begs for regulation. If you run a subscription service you have strong market power over competing content producers who can't do the same and create their own distribution channel
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Everybody's paying for this, it doesn't matter if you hustle or if you don't, if you have a card or not. Contracts prohibit merchants to charge more than cash so they need to cover the processing fee by increasing the prices
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A key issue beyond the supply and demand of programmers is the wider technological transformation of the economy. Programmers are highly remunerated because they provide massive market value to the capital owners and they do that essentiall
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In the small business dominated world of 40 years ago trust was a fundamental economic asset. A bad seller would immediately get a bad reputation and it would be known around the community. People trusted each other because that's how
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Sure, and they purchase very expensive equipment to cover the peak bandwidth demand then spread out those capital costs in the form of a monthly bill. If you want more bandwidth, it's "free" as long as there is room available
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> The research team hope that their software could help pharmaceutical companies in the protection of their intellectual property, and to hasten research into organic chemistry. It seems what they are attempting to sell is a IP protectio
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Well, carbon taxes are the way to get there by letting the market decide what is preferable technology as opposed to some rando on an internet forum decreeing that we need nukes (not that I disagree). Poor people are actually the most price
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It's really not about ideal vs. non-ideal, it's about how to get the largest reduction in the fastest way, for the same public effort, political cost etc. CO2 in automobile fuel is already heavily taxed in EU. Fuel used for aviati
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> There are a lot of really interesting reasons why Rust is slower in some benchmarks, like lack of constexpr or int generics, which at least one C++ benchmark uses heavily. So the reason Rust is slow is because C++ has features that all
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> Farmers can’t produce milk and cheese at the low prices American consumers have grown accustomed to without some effect on water, says [an industry mouthpiece]. “The alternative here,” he says, “is a society that depends upon other cou
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My experience on Android is that it makes the actual back button on the phone to no longer respond.
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I think UK had some serious negotiating leeway for simply being the UK. EU countries really want the UK inside the Union because it makes for a better union: it's a G8 country, a nuclear power and permanent member in the Security counc
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> I have no idea why the extreme brexiteers find this idea so objectionable? Because it's a slippery slope that looks very much like ceding territory. It's not just border checks, but Northern Ireland would be effectively in th
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by yholio 8y ago
Let's clarify our terms: https://twitter.com/JamesERothwell/status/104783429588738457... EU's idea of Canada +++ is not the Brexiteers' Canada+++. EU's version just means no tariffs and some s
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There is no Canada+ on the table and there never was, it's just "Canada" without the "+": a set of trade liberalization measures that cover some physical goods and very few services. It's a bad match for Britai
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Some might say that a good outcome is one where the people can freely make their own choices and accept the consequences. The plight of the British might serve as a cautionary tale informing the decisions of some other country, that's
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The Brexit promise is something nobody can deliver on. It was a lie, you cannot force the EU to accept an unfavorable trade deal. If only for the reason that it would set an exceptionally bad precedent and everybody would want their own dea
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Great, so lasers are very directional and allow you to illuminate the exact area that you are interested in. What I don't agree with is that you can always exclude the eyes of the other drivers from that area. Roads are uneven, you hav
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The unshielded radiation dose for a round trip Mars expedition with 18 months spent on the surface is roughly equivalent to the life time dose allowed for a worker in the nuclear industry. The risks are completely negligible compared to the
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Breaking TLS so you can do deep packet inspection is like a lifeguard throwing people in the water during winter so he can save them.
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The reason why regular people live in London is that there are money to be made and they tough it out expecting better days, getting on the property ladder, retirement, the next holiday and so on. As bang for your buck, the quality of life
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London is one of the most unequal cities on the planet. You get this surreal mix of wealthy billionaires and poor migrants living hand to mouth. The upper classes protect and segregate themselves from the riff-raff through pricing. My exper
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It's not a devil's bargain, you have lost the ability to bargain. It's a common theme with parents these days. There is nothing magical about technology, it's just an application of age-old parenting principles. And ther
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Arguably, it's now cheaper in raw material terms to up-step and down step DC with high frequency transformers and buck-boost. The problems are lower efficiency than a modern, high efficiency transformer, which leads to increased dissip

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