PricelessValue

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by PricelessValue 9y ago
If you aren't paying for it, then you are the product. Even still, apple is still collecting data on you. If their business ever suffers, they can still sell your data. Apple still owns your data even if they aren't currently sell
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by PricelessValue 9y ago
What if they were israelis? China, russia, britain and israel run the largest espionage rings in the US. If the FBI called out israel, I bet the media would call it racist.
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by PricelessValue 9y ago
Of course we do and of course they do. What's interesting is why the sudden "expose" and the media blitz. It's like how we knew the russians and everyone has been taking steroids for decades, but all of a sudden there wa
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by PricelessValue 9y ago
Isn't this well known fact? It isn't a secret that the chinese, along with the israelis, russians, british, french, japanese, koreans, canadians and even the saudis have operatives in academia, government, business, etc. And of co
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by PricelessValue 9y ago
> Big cars and trucks sell immensely well in the US because of the effective subsidization of fuel, as well as anti-competitive behaviour in the light truck sector. No. Big cars and trucks sell well because we like big cars and trucks. S
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by PricelessValue 9y ago
Are they going to drop shakespeare or his works next because of the racist antisemitic language in his works? When does it end? There are offensive language in almost every work of literature? Of Mice and Men? Scarlett Letter? Catcher in th
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by PricelessValue 9y ago
I hope bittorrent doesn't decline too much. A lot of open source software offloads their downloads to torrents to save space/bandwidth/etc and lower costs.
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by PricelessValue 9y ago
Because empire is what the british or europeans do. We were born out of freeing ourselves from an evil empire. So since birth, empire had negative connotations. To say we are an empire means we are just as evil as the british empire or the
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by PricelessValue 9y ago
Why is empire in quotes? We are most definitely an empire - the largest that'll ever exist on earth. We are the only global superpower.
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by PricelessValue 9y ago
> Seems to me that American cars are not competitive (outside of America) American cars are very competitive in china. They aren't competitive in europe and japan because of laws protecting their own car industries, smaller roads an
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by PricelessValue 9y ago
That's why it is sql "lite". It's great for certain things because it's generally lightweight and manageable. But you wouldn't want a single file format on enterprise level systems where enterprise level perfor
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by PricelessValue 9y ago
So essentially string interning for Ruby?
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by PricelessValue 9y ago
> So what is the HN audience to Facebook? Our we taste makers? A demographic ahead of the product curve, predictive of Facebook's imminent decline? We certainly aren't taste makers. HN is so small that it is irrelevant. > Ar
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by PricelessValue 9y ago
Reminds me of coinbase using mongodb with silent fail and no ACID transactions a few years back. And of course the mtgox fiasco. The amount of amateurishness in the cryptocurrency ecosystem is disappointing.
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by PricelessValue 9y ago
Why do we need academics to tell us? Go ask wall street. Go work on wall street. It's not a secret. There is a reason why the most valuable commodity on wall street is information. We know insider trading happens. Just like we know pri
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by PricelessValue 9y ago
> In hindsight the last 30 years have been great for tech so maybe I just got lucky on my industry selection. A lot of tech companies went bankrupt. So you got "lucky" selecting the right tech companies and buying and selling t