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by inflagranti 5y ago
You mean like this: https://www.trtworld.com/life/breakthrough-nerve-stimulation...
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by inflagranti 5y ago
But he's also a middle-aged white guy, so surely that's a wash? Hope that illustrated the silliness of this line of argument.
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by inflagranti 5y ago
At least in the UK the vaccine passports are made available through the NHS App, and stored AFAIK the same way any other health information on your person is stored already. At least they show up the same way like all other healthcare appoi
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by inflagranti 5y ago
My impression was rather it's consensus that the vaccine provides more predictable immunity, which is the most important thing if you want to set policy. So recommendation in most countries I checked is to get the vaccine, even if yo
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by inflagranti 5y ago
I'm pretty sure Samsung is leader in sales, maybe second when it comes to profit though. In any case, issue with Tesla is that's it's priced to just not be the leader, but the whole car market and then some. If there are alre
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The Swiss Cost of Living Is Too Low (2020)(econlib.org)
2 points by inflagranti 6y ago|0 comments
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by inflagranti 6y ago
For how long though? In my personal experience only one out of 5 people from Western Europe are still in US after 4 years, the rest moved back home.
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by inflagranti 6y ago
Except salaries in London are not at all competitive with US especially if you factor in cost of living, unless you get into Fintech.
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by inflagranti 6y ago
How was the UK gov blocked from running trains? From what I read some lines actually did get nationalized again after how poorly Virgin & co run some of the lines. For sure privatizing them in the first place was a pure UK decision with
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by inflagranti 6y ago
> The difference is that direct democracy doesn't scale. I hear that every time Switzerland is mentioned. I've yet to see a strong argument to suggest why it wouldn't scale in this day and age. What I think doesn't
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by inflagranti 6y ago
Did I miss it or was there no mention of companies like Transferwise at all? From a laypersons perspective this seems exactly how the "private sector stepped in" to fix the problem, with a solution that's actually out there a
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by inflagranti 6y ago
That seems to me still too conservative. What about Transferwise, which actually offer easy and cheap cross-border, multi-currency transfers right now?
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by inflagranti 6y ago
And both Switzerland and Norway have a wealth tax.
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by inflagranti 6y ago
This is the commonly assumed tension but I think it's a slightly false dichotomy. The choices are not just between concentrating an obscene amount of money with individuals vs concentrating an obscene amount of money with a handful of
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by inflagranti 6y ago
This can very easily be solved by making it inflation adjusted (i.e. the value increases with inflation every year). This happens for instance with many social contributions in Switzerland and is IMHO the only reasonably way to set such val
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by inflagranti 7y ago
The word "cowardly" seems completely inappropriate here. First off, the second crash clearly was only harmless by pure chance, it could have easily killed someone - would you have written the same in such case? Secondly, how many
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by inflagranti 7y ago
I think the point of disagreement regarding the "link" is not that there is none, but that it seemed to be nothing peculiar about facial recognition. If Apple sent a security camera picture of the robber together with information
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by inflagranti 8y ago
From my understanding the Switzerland negotiated clause re Romania and other late joiners was timebound, which is why it was acceptable.
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by inflagranti 8y ago
> English speaking country, stable and predictable legal framework, cosmopolitan city. English speaking being the only real differentiator here and probably the most critical reason. However that only goes so far. And what for sure has c
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by inflagranti 8y ago
So you're happy to have no PC to access Hacker News, for sure no Smartphone, not even a "dumb" mobile phone. No YouTube, Netflix, Amazon. Yes things worked back then but I doubt many people would want to roll back all technic
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by inflagranti 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos Ironically, your single statement was actually "nonsense on all accounts" as Theranos definitely was valued multiple billions at some point.
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by inflagranti 8y ago
Wasn't Theranos multibillion valued at some point? Not trying to imply anything about Stripe being fraudulent, just evoking an extreme example of clear overvaluation to put such numbers into perspective. Stripe might also very well not
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by inflagranti 9y ago
Here's a classic German one where a group of comedians pretend to be the 'most disgusting' Finish band, singing Finish gibberish mixed in with mostly proper English and some random German words like 'Müntefering' (a
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by inflagranti 9y ago
Is this the average doctor or some specialist? The fact that some specialists can hugely profit from the system the same way the hospitals, pharma companies and insurance do, is likely port of the point of the previous comment. The importan
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by inflagranti 9y ago
Why does this get nowhere the attention than the initial piece? Is it that the mob has made up it's mind and cannot be tamed anymore at this point?
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by inflagranti 9y ago
It looks from the other side of the story ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s3ymjWo7lQJxsrf0uDEurJZ3FBe... ) you were totally right and really do not deserve those downvotes. But the mob has spoken.
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by inflagranti 9y ago
That's an extremely limited and dare I say outdated view of what constitutes a friend. One of my best friends I only see irregularly once a year at best, sometimes not for years, yet we always get on great when we see each other. That
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by inflagranti 9y ago
There are similar shady companies in Germany that try individual scams surrounding phantom bills, sometimes for phantom services, but it generally stops at that company and selling dept is not a thing. Most countries also don't have ce
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by inflagranti 9y ago
Or you delegate to people who can? Or at the very least don't change anything you don't understand!? The root cause of course is the MBA type without the technical background being put in charge of engineering teams in the first p
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by inflagranti 9y ago
I rather have to convince my bank I'm me as they have much higher security standards generally than the phone companies so less chance of someone else convincing them they are me.

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