vilmosi

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by vilmosi 5y ago
I found real wasabi to have the opposite effect. Strong initial kick, then more of a nutty taste to it.
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by vilmosi 8y ago
> The secret to having more money is not to earn more, it's to spend less. I honestly thought it was the complete opposite? The whole "being poor is expensive" thing? That buying expensive shoes is economically better long
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by vilmosi 8y ago
I don't know, they used to say the same thing about writting.
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by vilmosi 8y ago
Sorry, I should have mentioned I'm not OP you replied to. I moved to London in early 2013, and it definitely wasn't that popular. I had my own group of coffee buddies but I was the only one drinking it. Even today only 1 in 10 c
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by vilmosi 8y ago
That's a bit harsh. I moved to London in 2013 and I remember I had to order flat white off-menu most of the time back then. Most places knew how to make it but just charged capuchino on the bill. Today it's everywhere. I was not a
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by vilmosi 8y ago
The climate also calls for AC for 3 months of the year if not more. And, compared to Europe, they actually have ACs.
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by vilmosi 8y ago
> 200 years later, with a population that's multiplied several magnitudes over - would you expect to still see a completely equal people? I wouldn't I would. South Koreans are 2-3 inches taller than North Koreans, plus a miriad
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by vilmosi 8y ago
Haha, honestly, this is so common that when someone at work wants to talk about a product and starts with a compliment, my mind immediately tries to figure out what could be wrong with it.
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by vilmosi 8y ago
It's not bad. But it doesn't matter how much tuition costs or what degrees offer pay or not. Everyone will study whatever they want, borrow at 1000% interest if necessary or 1% interest for "profitable" degrees, and then
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by vilmosi 8y ago
I think you're slightly missing the point. If student loans can be defaulted, it doesn't matter what the investor thinks or what interest you get or if you're backed up by the government or not. Even if you study [insert prof
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by vilmosi 8y ago
> Just let students default. It's not that easy. What's to stop everyone from defaulting?
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by vilmosi 8y ago
Oh, get off your high horse. I'm not sure you read the article. The whole point of a "reasonable person" is that it represents an "average person". > this person is seen to represent a composite of a relevant com
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by vilmosi 8y ago
> They could have just chosen not to compete in a market with unregulated definitions. I don't think it's about regulating words. If you promise to sell a blue dog but sell a green dog, I don't expect a regulation saying b
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by vilmosi 8y ago
It's called the "reasonable person". It's a test used for cases that are not covered by an existing law. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person?wprov=sfla...
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by vilmosi 8y ago
This reminds me of a HN comment (sorry, can't remember which) where it explained that one of the major differences between US and European law is technicality vs the spirit of the law. Where in the US you can get away with a lot becaus
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by vilmosi 8y ago
No, it's not clear, because you're talking about refugees in particular vs immigration in general. Two groups subject to very different laws and circumstances.
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by vilmosi 8y ago
> For instance in Germany the numbers vary from 75%-90% of immigrants expected to be unable to find a job within 5 years Given 12% of Germany is foreign born and the country has 3.5% unemployment, something feels off about these numbers
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by vilmosi 8y ago
To be fair, so is a Green Card.
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by vilmosi 8y ago
> Why should we pay (with our taxes) for poor kiwis who can't afford a house? Why pay taxes at all for a country you're not citizen of? /s Seriously now, it's because you live there. Their government makes the rules,
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by vilmosi 8y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if, on average, one household had two income earners, so it seems in line with the parent's point.
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by vilmosi 8y ago
> All pharmaceutical companies - including those based in Europe - derive the lion's share of their revenue from the US market, despite the US having half the population. Again, not true. And easily verifiable. Take Norvatis for exa
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by vilmosi 8y ago
> Please no, I don't trust the government at all to handle healthcare efficiently. Universal healthcare doesn't mean the government handles healthcare. > And I enjoy my insurance company through work, its the equivalent to a
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by vilmosi 8y ago
> You can't compare the US to Europe without also factoring the massive benefits European patients get from the high costs in the US Luckily for us all the major pharmaceutical companies are public and we can can see exactly where t
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by vilmosi 8y ago
> Sure there are cases where JS is incredibly useful and beneficial, but your website should be able to display the majority of content with JS disabled. That's an entirely different discussion than what the parent was discussing th
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by vilmosi 8y ago
Not prescription drugs.
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by vilmosi 8y ago
> Telling me we had tools 320k years ago but we didn't figure out agriculture until 12-14k years ago? Heh. Ssssssure I think you misunderstood the problem. It's not about "figuring out" agriculture, it's about fi
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by vilmosi 8y ago
> I don't think that's accurate. Europe is almost entirely European, Asia is almost entirely Asian, Africa is almost entirely African This has to be sarcasm, right? If not, this view is very wrong because it views diversity in
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by vilmosi 8y ago
That's still one in three humans.
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by vilmosi 8y ago
> So for that definition of “meant”, how can one say that milk formulated for bovine offspring is meant for human consumption as is? Because we literally mutated ourselves to drink the stuff? I get that a lot of people don't have th
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by vilmosi 8y ago
>>> The problem with free education is that as more people become educated, the signaling effect of education becomes diluted. That's only true if money is the only criteria for going to college. Just because it's free, i

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