michas

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by michas 12y ago
You also need to take into account QUALITY of practice. 10k hours won't do much good if you don't have really good teacher, if you are not challanged enough (e.g. by not having money/time/parent's support to join co
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by michas 13y ago
After Gates Foundation I despise Bill and Melinda even more: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/07/melinda-gates-family-pla...
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by michas 13y ago
Timezones were introduced exactly to prevent the very thing that you propose: need to adjust clocks a few seconds each day. It was just too annoying.
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by michas 13y ago
Programmers can make a lot more: starting at 1500 EUR (as junior developer) up to 4 000 EUR (minority of senior developers). That's also before taxation
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by michas 13y ago
RoR doesn't "encourage" unit testing, it forces you to write thousands of meaningless unit tests which just make up for the lack of strong type system. Unit tests should test code logic, not parameter types.
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by michas 13y ago
Or because homeless people just freeze to death quickly...
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by michas 13y ago
That's because leaders of US and China are both socialists. Similarities between the two will gradually increase
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by michas 13y ago
Obama is manipulator? Compared to Putin he is just lost child. He was f*cked in his ass by Russia more times that I can count. Obama is incredibly naive, his world-view makes him vulnerable to manipulations of all kinds. Those techniques yo
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by michas 13y ago
3. Snowden probably already receives paychecks from Russia
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by michas 13y ago
Political correctness requires that main good character should be Afroamerican and main evil character should be white. If you do the opposite you (director) are considered racist
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by michas 13y ago
Russia is probably the country that recruited Snowden as it's agent, and they commanded him to reveal NSA secrets. Now Snowden is probably safe somewhere deep in Russia, and Russian authorities just lie about "no involvement in th
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by michas 13y ago
No, you can't do anything useful with money themselves. they are just junk pieces of paper. People created money as a way of remembering favours they did to each other. So basically your income reflects your worth for society (how much
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by michas 13y ago
> Money itself is something the state made, so consider taxes a charge to use it That's a nonsense. Money itself are not a goods, because they are worthless: you can eat those banknotes you have in your wallet or do anything usefull
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by michas 13y ago
Also, consider how many people would be incapable of fulfilling such role: if something cannot be done by robot it probably means it requires creativity, intelligence and other assets that are in shortage even in humans.
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by michas 13y ago
> You then confuse financial success with competence or intelligence. I stated from the beginning that I consider ruling out any possibility of stealing and cheating to be prerequisite for existence of the capitalism. Given that,the only
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by michas 13y ago
Ok, so now you're saying that "the rich shouldn't be forced to give up their assets for those who didn't earn it." and still "for BI to work, this essentially _has_ to be the case!" So basically you'r
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by michas 13y ago
> If they paid them a "fair" amount of money, how did they get so fabulously rich? But even if I allow your dubious use of fair, did they really pay them all? Did they pay for the streets that they used? Did they pay a higher p
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by michas 13y ago
They were not "supported by the community", they used other's people work to get rich but they paid each of those people fair amount of money, called "salary". that's all they owe society: paying their workers
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by michas 13y ago
When I was talking about "voting with money" i didn't mean any political vote. I just meant that if you are in capitalist market and all services are provided by private companies then you have power over that companies becau
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by michas 13y ago
And they shouldn't be forced, because it's their money after all. Just because they are richer than you that doesn't mean they owe you anything. Also, you contradict yourself by first saing that rich "never want to contr
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by michas 13y ago
> If you can point to even one single state that has successfully done so, it would be of immense help to this discussion. http://www.heritage.org/index/ will be helpfull > This way you reintroduce http:/&#
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by michas 13y ago
Question "why should my robot do heavy lifting for you?" is pointless, because it literally costs you nothing to let your robot do the job. The only reason we now have to pay for anything is because there's always someone (hu
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by michas 13y ago
It is a role of the state to prevent creating fortunes by stealing. Guarantying fair rules of making business, prevent cheating and stealing is a prerequisite for capitalist market to even exist. That's a government role to provide suc
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by michas 13y ago
I am from Poland and I've seen that Job Guarantee policy in action when our country was ruled by communists. It ends in disaster: companies are forced to hire more people than they need to do the job, employees come to their workplace
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by michas 13y ago
Income redistribution is just a fancy name for stealing. Everyone should have just as much money as he is capable of earning. There is nothing wrong in high income gap. It's existence is just an evidence that society works as expected.
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by michas 13y ago
Why socialists always try to spend other's people money? Or tell them how they should live their lives? America was once a free country...
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by michas 13y ago
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin