Francon

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by Francon 15y ago
If HN goes dark it accomplishes nothing. If anything should be done, we should promote and post hacker news in an effort to increase awareness. Closing HN which is a source of real factual and crowd sourced news is like cutting off vaccin
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by Francon 15y ago
Nice! I like the about us page.
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by Francon 15y ago
A recent article in "scientific american mind" argues that our sub-conscious mind solves problems when we sleep or daydream. I see no reason to think that when you are scribbling some doodles, the same thing isn't happening in the back of
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by Francon 15y ago
Is this really a problem or are people just reacting to hype? It seems to me that our data has been monitored for years both online and offline. That data is used to target businesses marketing messages but its nothing new. For example, i
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by Francon 15y ago
Mind is racing with possibilities of what this could do when combined with a water balloon slingshot. Wonder how waterproof and shockproof they have made it.
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by Francon 15y ago
I thought the point of "terrorism" is to inflict change on behaviors and confidence of a population? Changing someone's way of life impacts their confidence which seems to be the end goal of terrorism. It stands to reason that in order to
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by Francon 15y ago
Historically speaking, we've never seen an economy succeed long term when the monetary system is based on a fiat (fake) currency. Sadly, this trader is telling the truth: "We bought the ticket so take the ride and profit" is the message to
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5 steps we used to get our first customers(spontaneus.posterous.com)
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by Francon 15y ago
If there arent any software patents would we see new competetion to the big giants of industry. A competetor to Google for example? (no, bing doesnt count) Seems to me that the entire reason that the internet has been so successful and in