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You're twice as likely to found a successful startup when you're 40 than 25(work.qz.com)
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Leap Motion Project North Star – Mechanical Guide(leapmotion.github.io)
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by Jhsto 8y ago
> Unfortunately, given the high hardware requirements Maybe I am missing something obvious here, but why is that a reason for a closed ecosystem?
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by Jhsto 8y ago
> Who is going to become the YouTube of AR/VR? Hopefully nobody. Whatever infrastructure layer there will be powering AR, I hope it would be like using the Internet than an App Store. If you look at current HMD manufacturers, everyo
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by Jhsto 8y ago
I guess even with equal ownership it would be beneficial to decide who has the final say on things. "A pirate ship has to have a captain." Rather have the business die because of bad choices than the inability to make choices.
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by Jhsto 8y ago
I think it has been covered before that Facebook already has a hunch if two people seem to be interested in each other -- groups, events, messages they share, times they have visited each other profiles, and reaction counts proportional to
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by Jhsto 9y ago
In Finland people receive conditional aids, sometimes amounting so much money that there is little incentive to go to work anymore, because doing so would cut your subsidies. I guess what the government wanted to see is that given it "
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by Jhsto 9y ago
> Not even remotely true. SMLLCs are disregarded entities for tax purposes, so their transactions are taxed directly to their owners. And legally, the concept of veil-piercing applies to SMLLCs generally, and especially to undercapitaliz
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by Jhsto 9y ago
I understand where you are coming from, but let me add that this method of counting income applies to any investment income. So say you put money into an index fund, but something unexpected happens. If you need to liquidate your savings wh
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by Jhsto 9y ago
This is even worse if you are a student who receives government aids: transactions are regarded as income (whether loss or profit) by the social insurance institution. So in other words, if you buy Bitcoin for 1000 euros and sell it at 500,
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by Jhsto 9y ago
From my anecdotal experience, being out of your comfort zone is the actual highway to relationships. I used to live in a house in a foreign country to which people from my home country crashed to during their short, usually few week visits
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by Jhsto 9y ago
Interesting, I must have made the false assumption when I received the package and saw the Russian postage labels. Looking at some other eBay listings now, the connection to Gillette is apparent. Thanks for letting me know!
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by Jhsto 9y ago
I'm grinning. That does make much more sense.
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For those interested, this particular kind of design is known as retrofuturism around the Internet. Reddit has a good subreddit on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/ I personally have once had these Sputn
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by Jhsto 9y ago
Please do elaborate.
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by Jhsto 9y ago
The project is still underway, but I think decoding is more important than encoding, especially with live streams. Given a Twitch stream, for example, the encoding is only done by one peer while the decoding is done by thousands or (as of r
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by Jhsto 9y ago
There is still the option to make your own client or just buy something like Tweetbot which has no ads. But I hear you. I find Twitter unusable without 3rd party client, and I think that is affecting my experience in an indirect way as well
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Statement by FTC Regarding Reported Concerns about Facebook Privacy Practices(ftc.gov)
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by Jhsto 9y ago
Can someone explain why isn't the word 'the' considered part of the vocabulary in the blog post?
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> I've been learning math from Khan Academy for the last 200 days. I've reached calculus and I feel more and more the need for examples of how to apply the math that I'm learning to truly understand what it's useful f
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by Jhsto 9y ago
Ah, it didn't cross my mind that I would have needed to be explicit about the fact that my scheme is practically inheritance tax avoidance. Practically, while possible, leaving an inheritance in my current country of residence for anyo
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by Jhsto 9y ago
I once played with the idea of some dead man switch triggering an event where it gathers a pool of pre-designated friends from Facebook into one group chat. There would be a bot guiding through opt-in to receive dividends of my wealth into
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Local Overrides in Google Chrome(developers.google.com)
3 points by Jhsto 9y ago|0 comments
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by Jhsto 9y ago
How many pictures do you have of yourself on Facebook? I see the setting, but it states that 'this is not yet available to you'.
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Rakuten will roll its $9B loyalty program into a blockchain-based cryptocurrency(techcrunch.com)
2 points by Jhsto 9y ago|0 comments
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What I meant was that I don't follow why does Nokia rock the boat with their choices of operating systems. They already have their own software running on the likes of the renowned 3310, so why not spend the engineering time to extend
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by Jhsto 9y ago
I'm on a high horse (I'm able to afford an iPhone), but what kind of problem does this solve? To me, it looks like Nokia now has Android, their own operating system, and this to upkeep. Does anyone else remember what happened when
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by Jhsto 9y ago
AFAIK, Google Now, which is well baked into Android uses RSS feeds. It might not be that people subscribe to them manually, but I'm sure there are plenty of people who do consume content from RSS feeds through things like Google Now. I
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by Jhsto 9y ago
For some reason, it won't show my first job. Console reports this error: clean.js:53 No Volunteering clean.js:65 No Languages clean.js:111 Removing last job. 9q4fcy0u894wfpt4om65ddw5d:1332 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot r
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I think that the idea of privacy is wishful thinking if the people in these locations are allowed to have their own unvetted electronics. It would not take more than one trojan smartphone application with a social media login until you are

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