Selvik

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by Selvik 15y ago
Yeah, but you're probably the only one who's account is connected to both of those and some other places you've been at various times. Or? (I don't really know what I'm talking about.)
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by Selvik 15y ago
Me, but they have your data anyway cause of your ip. It's more so that they won't suddenly start posting my spotify playlists or whatever.
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by Selvik 15y ago
But why did people leave cities to begin with? Street crime was an important factor.
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by Selvik 15y ago
The situation is analogous to the difference between the immune system of someone with limited exposure to all the normal diseases of western civ (f.ex. theo-facists, nazis, white supremacists) and someone brought up with sterilized everyt
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by Selvik 15y ago
I think he means to say he's one of the people who believe differences in measured iq scores between ethnic groups reflect underlying genetic potential for intelligence. Some different perspectives on the issue: http://andrewsullivan.theda
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by Selvik 15y ago
He's british though, movement of college educated professionals from london to new york creates very little (if any) downward pressure on wages, working conditions etc. Movement from Bangalore to New york, on the other hand, might.
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by Selvik 15y ago
This is a great idea. Probably doesn't require any groundbreaking technology either. Dear internet, please make this. EDIT: An iphone app that let's people call and text each other as their profile name (anonymously) would probably lower th
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by Selvik 15y ago
What makes you think the bathroom practices are unrelated to communism? It's called totalitarianism for a reason...
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by Selvik 15y ago
Why are you being so unpleasant? Viewing a desire for bathroom privacy as reactionary is characteristic of the whole set of ideals related to the new soviet man . "Who needs a "1"? The voice of a "1" is thinner than a squeak. Who will hear
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by Selvik 15y ago
CAVEAT: I'm only familiar with Marx from second hand sources. I'm inclined to give Chomsky the benefit of doubt here. As a small l libertarian I can totally relate to the idea of ruling elites who falsely claim to share your ideals but are
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by Selvik 15y ago
Helianthus is right. There's something about nerd culture that makes an inflexible and dogmatic adherence to the current intellectual fads very common. Curiously, the most hilariously unpc writers I've read do or have done computer stuff to
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by Selvik 15y ago
The tone of this post is horribly condescending, I feel embarrassed for you. This is the kind of stuff I read HN to avoid.
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by Selvik 15y ago
How many average human lifespans is 1.6 billion hours?
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by Selvik 15y ago
Nope, that "we could buy sweden" stuff is just embarrassingly boorish nationalism, or a joke at the expense of boorish nationalists. Everything being equal (and it pretty much is) Norwegians will be marginally richer than swedes and danes a
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by Selvik 15y ago
I don't know how to flag posts, but if I could, I would.
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by Selvik 15y ago
You missed the point of the essay, playing cards or watching tv is compared to spending money on luxuries and doing busywork is compared to investment. The first two probably won't respectively take up ALL your time at the office or bankrup
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by Selvik 15y ago
If the big companies don't have to pay for the mess they make, that's not a free market maximum. It's the typical incestuous government/corporate elite exploitation of the masses.
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by Selvik 15y ago
I think they shouldn't (upvoted all of them for balance) the analogy is valid and ought to be obviously so. Programming is not the only industry where the best "craftsmen" often make less than the "middlemen", that's a very common pattern.
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by Selvik 15y ago
I see. The brits could probably get agreement X that allows norwegians to live in Berlin although they aren't EU citizens.
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by Selvik 15y ago
Norway's not a member of the EU but it's still part of Schengen. I bet the right to live in Paris/Berlin/Amsterdam/etc. will remain yours irrespective of what happens to UK EU membership.
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by Selvik 15y ago
Not so fast there: "On 1 November 1993, under the third Delors Commission, the Maastricht Treaty became effective, creating the European Union with its pillar system including foreign and home affairs alongside the European Community.[16][1
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by Selvik 15y ago
Why would they not steal technology? It's profitable. It's good for the PRC elite, it's good for the chinese people. The only losers --and in the space exploration game I'm not sure there are any-- are foreign IP owners or states.
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by Selvik 15y ago
You seem completely clueless. Chinese dissidents are "disappeared" for far less than what Assange has done. Tianmen protesters where slaughtered.
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by Selvik 15y ago
That's not the same thing as peaceful protests by students and professionals. Noam Chomsky (!) is on the record saying the US is a very free country. Politically, that is, by which he means the scope of permissible political action is wide
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by Selvik 15y ago
I think this is true. Additionally, as other commenters have mentioned, daily life in china is a bit of a health risk due to the crazy traffic, air pollution, poor food safety etc.
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by Selvik 15y ago
There's a de facto death penalty for being sufficiently troublesome. I'm not sure whether a do-not-try-to-start-an-independent-labor-union law is actually on the books or not.
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by Selvik 15y ago
You could feed the us population with income from capital gains and corporate taxes alone. Also, in western countries large percentages of workers are employed by the government, their organizations are competing in a political (as opposed
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by Selvik 15y ago
What kind of backgrounds do they have? CS or STEM degrees at ivy league or similar schools? Does people with liberal arts degrees and a finance MBA get those kinds of jobs? (Assuming they can program.)
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by Selvik 15y ago
Isn't a perfect math score very hard to get, something like the upper 1%ile? Do you know your IQ? I'm scandinavian and could do a traditional finance/consulting/management/accounting thing in my home country but the software industry seems
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by Selvik 15y ago
Millions of people would risk death for a chance at making 3usd an hour. People still die because they can't buy food. If westerners isolate themselves economically from the worlds poor in a misguided effort to remain morally pure, the worl

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