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> If I’m employed in my home country, earning money there and paying taxes, what difference does it make if I happen to sit in another country? Why does "home country" have tax pri…

You get an archer with extra mobility AND the ability to focus on hitting his target while someone else does the steering AND armor AND a bigger carrying capacity (more quivers of …

how sure are you that library genesis will remain available?

> I seriously doubt there's very much highly relevant old knowledge locked away somewhere. Interesting take on what "knowledge" means and what makes knowledge valuable. If I unders…

and where the information you are looking for is plastered with ads. yes I know adblocker, pihole, etc.

fdisk or mount?

Friend of mine worked for BMW in Germany. The 35 hour work week was strictly enforced. It's the law, it's the system, so of course that is what they are going to do.

And this is why capitalism will always win over communism :)

obviously you've never had children.

> That car is signaling an intention to merge into your lane once it is safe for them to do so. Only under the assumption that the driver was trained in the US, to follow US traffi…

or speech-to-text systems. The person might not be typing the text.

"a" vs "the". "The" supreme court, if one assumes a US-centric definition, comes with a lot of assumptions on the nature of law and the power structure of the various government br…

yes, but... if you invested 1K USD in gold and 1K USDin a SP500 index fund in 1971, both of those investments would be worth the same dollar amount today. perhaps that's an artifac…

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieva... The forgotten medieval habit of 'two sleeps'

Your view comes up every time. Basically you are claiming "Taxis sucked, so it was ok that Uber broke a lot of laws and social conventions to make the situation better". And who kn…

I'm wondering what insurance companies are going to say. I have a feeling they will be the driving force at least in the US, since they are the ones picking up the bills.

I would be willing to read a few chapters just on spec. There is real value in understanding how people used to think about a problem, and where the source ideas came from.

I see this alot. Has always struck me as very unfair.

Under US law, the debts die with the person. You are under no obligation to repay your parent's debts. Now if the debt is tied to a house (mortgage) or a car (car loan), you might …

> often forbidden from doing the thing they were trained to do for a variety of reasons you forgot to add `insurance company rules` to your list.

need to get the electricity from somewhere. Need to feed the people who work there.

https://xkcd.com/1205/ and https://xkcd.com/974/

> The argument would be that if you hire for diversity, you are no longer hiring for capability first And a counter-argument is to question the assumptions that: current hiring pra…

The world is bigger than NYC, and even New York is bigger than NYC. you are right about Uber bringing accountability, but Europe solved that through regulation. NYC could have done…