Unosolo

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by Unosolo 10y ago
This time it is different because automation has reached the levels when it impacts most jobs profoundly and the remaining or newly created job require more skills and deeper specialisation at the same time. A woodworker whose job was autom
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by Unosolo 10y ago
The making of the robot will produce tax revenue, however will not necessarily produce the tax revenue in the same jurisdiction. Also new wealth produced by the robot is likely to be more concentrated.
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by Unosolo 10y ago
Existing tax systems burden labour more heavily, than capital. This is because capital can flee easily, but labour cannot. A dollar doesn't have a spouse, kids, parents, siblings, a social circle, it doesn't need to learn a new la
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by Unosolo 10y ago
Commonwealth and Irish citizens resident in UK could vote, whereas resident EU citizens could not. A democracy is about people whose lives will be significantly affected by a decision having a right to take part in the decision-making. Why
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by Unosolo 12y ago
On the topic of Restraint of trade ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restraint_of_trade ) clause which some companies insist on: in very few cases a company will take a former employee to court over a breach of such clause
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by Unosolo 12y ago
Agree, in Java (and any other language) the main culprit is not the complexity that can eventually be abstracted away, but the trivial noise that cannot be abstracted at all: verbose class definitions, clumsy anonymous functions prior to SE
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by Unosolo 12y ago
The essence of the argument here is that Java is a poor language as it doesn't offer simple abstraction to copy standard input into standard output; that Java is too verbose and low-level for the task. The lack of direct abstraction is
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by Unosolo 13y ago
"Purchase" doesn't quite reflect modern TOC, I believe the more exact term would be "pay a premium for a longer term license to view video content that is revokable at vendor's will; neither continued availability n
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by Unosolo 13y ago
The reasons why existing video services do not work for me and I've tried Google Play and Amazon Instant so far: - Lack of on-demand high quality (true 1080) option: Google Play is 480 and Amazon Instant is blurry on a big screen. Besi
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by Unosolo 13y ago
spindritf, not necessarily, we don't know the initial temperature of the water and on a hot day (as per the problem statement) the ice-water system will be absorbing some of the external energy. In practical world, more likely that wat
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by Unosolo 13y ago
Since water reaches its peak density at about 4 °C, the actual outcome will vary slightly depending on the initial and the final temperature of the water once the ice has melted.
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by Unosolo 13y ago
This list is a sign of a viable business if anything else. Any company needs to stay forever young by keeping its offerings in line with the demand. Companies that fail are the ones that choose to ignore the reality.
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by Unosolo 13y ago
I believe this still to be a very good advice and applies to both sexes. In family life circumstances when a household must depend only on a single source of income are abound. Families where each participating adult can provide a basic sta
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by Unosolo 13y ago
Contemporary LED lighting does seem much harsher with very sharp shadows and much less pleasant to the eye than older lights. I believe that lighting need to be assessed on it's overall merits, not just based on brightness / cost
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by Unosolo 13y ago
Understanding downside is much more crucial for continual survival than upside: what is the worse case scenario, bottom line analysis - are the heuristic tools routinely used by people the world over. A new solution to bacterial infection c
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by Unosolo 13y ago
My experience of having gone through a relationship with an abusive cheater and subsequent two-years research on the topic reading confessions and engaging with fellow men indicates that these words are written from a contemporary female pe
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by Unosolo 13y ago
I am 35 and I share this mindset about close relationships. Family is similar to a start-up in that founders should be prepared to carry each other through ups and downs pooling the risks and sharing not only profits but losses. What I lear
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by Unosolo 13y ago
A lot of modern high-paying jobs that require rare skills are all-or-nothing affairs: the choice between fewer hours & less pay and more hours & more money just isn't there. Some teams have to be small and be able to react quic
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by Unosolo 13y ago
This. He had likely abandoned his well-paying job because of burn-out caused by the long hours and lack of appreciation at home where he was treated as an ATM. I am talking from personal experience and many stories of my peers. In the moder
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by Unosolo 13y ago
Could that be a forecasting system that notifies the driver just in time for him to react about what is going to happen in a next moment?
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by Unosolo 13y ago
To me it is not clear why stealing the proprietary code could have cost CG hundreds of millions of dollars. Proprietary code that wasn't developed and tested with generic requirements in mind can rarely be economically re-used outside
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by Unosolo 13y ago
The original Vanity Fair article tries very hard to paint a picture of a stereotypical overly naive techy. Little carefully inserted details such as pain-the-back side of having to mow the lawn, all these details should be creating a pictur
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by Unosolo 13y ago
I regularly see developers going out of business because they are not charging enough. I have been doing software consulting for the past six years and I charge higher rate than anyone else I met in the niche. The ex-contractors I had a cha
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by Unosolo 13y ago
Poor GPU support (lack of drivers) is still a major deal-breaker for home and media use. As of now hardware should still be selected on the basis of available driver support and it's a major obstacle and the situation doesn't seem to have i
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by Unosolo 13y ago
> An attack of revenge, maybe against the military or police forces, would be what's expected. Sure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis Ironically Ingush and Chechen islamic terrorists are persistently referred
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by Unosolo 14y ago
Why not enforce a velocity restriction on outgoing e-mails instead and put spam filters on outgoing e-mail then bounce offending mail back to sender? Spammers are phishing for ox.ac.uk accounts because they're easy to exploit, right? Just r
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by Unosolo 14y ago
This is the case of economic stimulus through military spending in addition to hidden high-tech subsidy on taxpayer's tab. And redistribution of wealth, if you wish. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to do any amount of "crucial R&D" that
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Why BA's and PM's get higher salaries than programmers?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
2 points by Unosolo 15y ago|0 comments
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by Unosolo 15y ago
I'm an engineer and have studied several MBA courses as part of my engineering management degree. MBA courses are heavily corporation oriented and have limited value for founders of organically grown start-ups. Majority of the management te
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by Unosolo 15y ago
Talking from personal experience of having managed off-shore projects from an on-shore base the most significant challenges are: - misaligned interests - availability of information - control - security and compliance - communication As far

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