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wlievens

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About wlievens

You can contact me at lievenswouter at Paul Bucheit's Awesome Invention At His Previous Employer.

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    Comment #41023384

    Markdown doesn't give you a table of contents, an index, page breaks, control over typesetting, control over table layout, captioned figures, diagramming tools, etc. The difference…

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    Comment #15930497

    Probably also true in code.

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    Comment #15930454

    That would admittedly be a much more awesome story!

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    Comment #15920203

    That sounds a lot like what these guys do: http://www.sentiance.com

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    Comment #15913339

    I love the bit that's hidden under .blur-background :-D

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    Comment #15336881

    Would cruise ships still harm the environment more than an entire world economy based on PoW cryptocurrency?

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    Comment #15154694

    Of those, only real time energy usage monitoring is really interesting, I think.

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    Comment #13403522

    That's indeed one of the reasons I'm sceptical of broad passive investing: you include many companies that are either evil or have a bullshit business model.

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    Comment #13207096

    I think the comment refers to the fact that under a lottery many others would not have the opportunity.

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    Comment #13206936

    Kindergeld in Belgium (Flanders) is about 120€. That's a little over 10% of thr minimum wage. In this Polish story it was 33%, big difference. What ratio is it where you are referr…

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    Comment #13206909

    That also sounds a lot more legally practical, I think. You could even slowly adjust welfare and taxes as you increase the UBI.

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    Comment #13206899

    You'd probaby have to change their tax regimen too. Seems completely unworkable.

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    Comment #13152154

    Stock appreciation and dividends.

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    Comment #13082439

    Meet me then. I switched over from brown to as dark as possible during me keto era four years ago and it stuck. But I'm not good with stress. Could be the hyperactive twin toddlers…

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    Comment #13082413

    Of course, as it would be a lot smaller. Or have air bubbles inside. Chocolate is made of fat and sugar. If you put in less sugar, you put in more fat for the same amount of chocol…

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    Comment #13082381

    And Factorio for that matter

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    Comment #13082376

    The entire conversation here is about cakes and pastry. No sensible 'Western' recipe tells you add spoons of sugar to a steak or a mushroom soup.

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    Comment #13050265

    Avid|Avoid makes for a pretty big difference here :-)

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    Comment #13003688

    So that would be option one.

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    Comment #12837102

    I don't quite get the behavioural analysis bits. I spend time on my phone reading the news, reddit, HN, a couple blogs, WhatsApp with friends and I also play games here and there u…

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    Comment #12836576

    In all seriousness I've often wondered if there is anything multiplicative in the semantics of the situations where people use the word "factor".

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    Comment #12836547

    The ARM acquisition had a similar premium of around 40%. If you picture buying all those shares one trade at a time though you can easily imaginr the price pressure pushing it 20 o…

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    Comment #12718171

    Are you my biographer?