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by m__ 7y ago
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by m__ 8y ago
kiwi.com allows searching for time of stay, e. g. between 2-10 days, but not providing any exact dates.
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by m__ 8y ago
It‘s a bug in the lein.bat install script. You can fix it by downloading lein.bat and applying the diff in the first comment here: https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/issues/2412
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by m__ 10y ago
Of course it's the new technology that causes this and not economists running monetary experiments, that keeps wages stagnant. (who would expect the purchasing power of money to drop when increasing the money supply!?) For the past tho
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by m__ 14y ago
This is why you test from the outside in: You first write an acceptance test where you just specify what goes in and what should come out. The error/failure messages you get when running this test drive your design and tell you which compon
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by m__ 14y ago
What a brilliant "solution": if somebody does something you are not happy with... just deport them!
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by m__ 14y ago
You couldn't by the NYT as a whole for its market cap. Companies are almost always bought at a premium, as the sellers receive some of the value that is generated by the transaction itself (actually, there is some evidence that the sellers
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by m__ 15y ago
This seems like a pretty poor strategy for the involved companies. 1) It makes other companies (not involved in the agreement) more attractive, as their salaries will be closer to the salaries offered by the companies involved in the cartel
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by m__ 15y ago
Don't be torn: there's a place for both. The affordable mass-produced stuff is great for obvious reasons, while the wasteful, pretentious hippster-alternative is cool for whomever happens to get off on this stuff. The latter is such a small
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by m__ 15y ago
As a European I don't feel this way. Unless you have a contract with a company that states you such rights, that is... If you give up information voluntarily (even if you aren't aware of it) why should it obligate anybody who collects it to
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by m__ 15y ago
> It's not about morals, it's about the law as it is right now. Depends on the discussion. I doubt anybody claims that the laws don't obligate facebook to make the data available, because they do. What people argue is that said laws ar
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by m__ 15y ago
> Facebook has bases, and operates, in Europe. Thus they MUST abide by our data laws. Why? One might argue that European laws MUST be changed. Pointing to laws is hardly a moral argument, there are tons of terrible laws and facebook mig
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by m__ 15y ago
One use case might be concerts: People already call friends so they can listen, this way they could add video too.
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by m__ 15y ago
Of course. I didn't mean to say that she/he should actually start an insurance company. I wanted to point out that there are market-incentives that might motivate someone to offer such a service without the need for a law.
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by m__ 15y ago
No. I wasn't even making an argument for mandatory car insurance. I was merely pointing out the difference to mandatory property insurance and said that this difference _might_ be the basis for a convincing argument in favor of the former.
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by m__ 15y ago
Car insurance is different, because it also covers damages you inflict on others and other people's property. I am speaking out against mandatory insurance of your own property. Yes, there will be cases where people are underinsured. But ma
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by m__ 15y ago
Why don't you start a business that offers competitive insurance packages to people who want to use airBnB (and similar products) instead of demanding a law that obviously would have a lot of unwanted side effects on people who _do_ know ab
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by m__ 15y ago
I didn't mean to imply that markets were efficient or that MZ can't have information that suggests that fb will surpass Apple in market cap or otherwise. I really just meant that historic trends don't imply future trends. Your (and maybe al
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by m__ 15y ago
It doesn't really make sense to extrapolate future stock performance from past stock performance. The market says: If you consider all publicly available information, we think that facebook will earn its shareholders the present day equival
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by m__ 15y ago
“Then he pointed to Facebook and said that it would eventually be bigger than all of the companies he had just mentioned, and that if I joined the company, I could be a part of it all.” That's how Mufasa pitched Simba.
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by m__ 15y ago
Actually, "protecting" ideas as if they were property is in direct opposition to personal rights, so this should be expected. It's weird how "intellectual property" somehow got associated with personal liberty, the free market etc., when in
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by m__ 15y ago
Exactly. It is a feature of money if it is costly to produce. The alternative is inflation (and economic instability) as soon as people start generating income by producing money for basically nothing.
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by m__ 15y ago
Maybe the number one reason is that debt forms a tax shield: Interest payments are an expense which reduces your tax base while dividend payments don't. (see the trade-off theory) Asymmetric information is another possible reason to prefer