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by iofj 10y ago
As someone who made the mistake in working for an international office, and caught the train out almost 10 years ago now, I agree. I escaped one set of layoffs and then kept thinking I'm next. I was next. Got fired at end of financial
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by iofj 10y ago
Curiouser and curiouser. Another luxury goods market that's reporting a significant decline. Private planes are also down a lot, real estate in Manhattan is dropping. SF real estate not dropping, but not increasing as it used to either
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by iofj 10y ago
Maybe people simply have different goals. For instance, it seems pretty obvious to me that no mass-layoffs (and thus a limit on productivity increases in that company) was a condition of the Obama administration's helping out of GM, an
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by iofj 10y ago
Doesn't that mean that there are serious limitations when it comes to 3d games or video watching on the bigger screen ?
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by iofj 10y ago
This does nothing to solve the real problem. The issue isn't (or wasn't) that we couldn't cure MRSA at all, it was a gradual evolution. In the 1960's we had 5 working drugs that would kill essentially any bacteria. And t
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by iofj 10y ago
Well, when you pass a variable around, it doesn't and cannot change. This means that different threads can't get in eachothers' way anymore, for instance, but also that you can't make a big chunk of mistakes at all. They
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by iofj 10y ago
Why would anyone use machine learning if not to create systems they don't understand ? That's the whole point of doing it. Not having to understand complex system to understand -or even predict- them is a very good thing indeed. I
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by iofj 10y ago
Look at the interest rate. Now look at inflation (not "core" inflation, the one you pay). Saving, money in bank, is not a good investment atm. Or put differently, it's at best as good as gold bars under the bed.
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by iofj 10y ago
I believe it still comes with a version of Kylix. But sadly, yes, "no linux support" is pretty accurate, mostly because it sucks badly.
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Hubble captures polar lights on jupiter(youtube.com)
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by iofj 10y ago
Sounds like it's pretty much the same as the 4 weeks of fasting into Easter, Lent, which is also based on the lunar calendar. I guess that's where ramadom comes from too, and I hear that one comes from the jewish religion, to reme
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by iofj 10y ago
The argument I was making is not about more or less targets, it is that securing one point against terrorists by creating a new point that's very weak against terrorists is somewhere between useless and stupid. That there are other tar
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by iofj 10y ago
And putting 600 people tightly packed in a queue in an enclosed space makes this better how ? As demonstrated, you can get a bomb in there and kill ~50 people. With 2 or 3 I bet you could get that number up quite a bit. Security that works
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by iofj 10y ago
So at Istanbul airport terrorists attacked the airport screening lanes at the entrance to the airport. Instead^H^H^H^H^H^H In addition to normal security screenings, Istanbul also makes people queue at the entrance, and has a security scr
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by iofj 10y ago
For one thing, it lookslike the car kept driving after the crash, hit 2 fences and a pole, then tried to get back on the road before it shut down. Sounds like pretty big screwup. https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the
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by iofj 10y ago
The left is currently identified with Hillary Clinton, for obvious reasons. The right is identified with Donald Trump, for the same reason. It's not going to be a good year for either of their images.
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by iofj 10y ago
This article has a nice breakdown: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-24/down-and-o... 2 things stand out: Younger people voted remain The richer you are, the more likely you voted remain. The wor
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by iofj 10y ago
As widely reported, Greece has no access to the financial aid for Greece. Those amounts are deposited directly to EU banks which bought Greek debt because of the ECB guarantee. No more than 5-15% ever passes through Greek hands.
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by iofj 10y ago
The thing about Black Swans is that they're easy to see, yet very, very hard to time. There is an asset bubble, for instance, at the moment (houses and a lot of other things are more expensive than justified). Gold price seems suppress
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by iofj 10y ago
The EU did to Greece what it did because it was feared that the bankruptcy of the least member of the EU would topple German banks into bankruptcy. That non-payment on 1.3% of total government debt would cause a disaster. Now the second-big
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by iofj 10y ago
I think that anyone who's seen what the EU/Eurozone/ECB/Comission/Eurogroup did to Greece knows that staying in the EU is not in their interest at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZOAroRgIbY
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by iofj 10y ago
Problem of course is that muslim countries, and plenty of muslims, are extremely intolerant of things like freedom of religion, opinion, and are in favor of things like killing gays and the like ? Tolerating intolerant ideologies is not goo
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by iofj 10y ago
(5) Extend "awful and disgusting" to anything that -however mildly- goes against your commercial interests or personal interests of anyone placed high enough in the organization. (6) Still claim you're a bastion of free speec
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by iofj 10y ago
> The poor turn out to vote at lower rates than the rich. Why should anyone care what they think? > Those without college degrees turn out to vote at lower rates than those with college degrees. Why should anyone care what they think?
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by iofj 10y ago
The thing is, loans come with risk. That's why they pay interest. Loans to a sovereign entity come with the risk that they can simply choose not to repay their debt and call it a day. Countries have in fact done that, even in large bat
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by iofj 10y ago
And for a sovereign state, bankruptcy means ... nothing. Yes they couldn't borrow for a while (judging by the Cyprus experience ... about 6 months), but they can't borrow right now either. A lot of banks would close off financial
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by iofj 10y ago
True, the illegal ones come from Turkey, Algeria, Afghanistan and Morocco (and I'm sure a dozen other countries). They do work in the construction sector.
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by iofj 10y ago
They don't even mention some real disasters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
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by iofj 10y ago
But the "basic income" proposals are completely unrealistic. The real proposals, generally referred to as "helicopter money" are about just forgiving central-bank owned government debt, then using the free cash to embark
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by iofj 10y ago
I don't think many UK citizens see big financial flows as being to their advantage. For 90%+ of them, I think that assessment is correct. Globalization has been dealt a serious blow here, and if you're pro-equality, that should be

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