RuadhanMc

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by RuadhanMc 15y ago
I think you're being a bit unfair here. He did reference himself quite a bit, but it was relevant -- he was talking from experience about the last bubble. There's a lot of talk about a bubble and he made some good points about how if we are
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
It's not that the poker sites failed to block countries where online gambling is illegal, it is that they allegedly committed bank fraud (and money laundering) by masking payments from gamblers in the US as non-gambling related items so as
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
It looks like Congress did look at changing the law in 2010, not sure what happened to this, NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/us/politics/29gamble.html Banning online gambling doesn't really make sense if you still perm
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
In this case the banning of online gambling has actually resulted in the Government receiving less revenue from tax because the online gambling sites have moved offshore. So I'm not sure in this case that the law has been used for plunder.
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
I agree that many people regard .com, .net, etc, to be country neutral -- and I personally would prefer it if they were -- but that isn't really the way they've been used for the past couple of decades. I think most people would agree that
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
Using Geo IP wouldn't have been foolproof as you've pointed out, but it would have at the very least shown an intent to comply with the laws in the US. The poker sites did not use Geo IP because they did not want to lose the revenue stream
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
Is anyone else not very outraged that these poker sites have been shut down (or at least domains seized)? They were indeed knowingly selling their services to US customers despite that being illegal. They could have used GEO IP blocking to
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
Why does any company spend money on building a browser? Microsoft provides a range of different development tools and programming languages for web development. There is the modern stuff such as ASP.NET, Silverlight, etc, but lets not forge
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
I daresay Zuckerberg disagrees with #1.
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
No problem, I added my email to my profile and emailed you.
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
Yes, fair point. The hardest part of learning Swedish for me was learning how to pronounce å ä ö and associated words. Took about 6 months of frustration, but after that it got quite a bit easier.
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
A Swedish friend of my was an au pair for 2 years with a posh family, so it is quite amusing to hear her speak.
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
Being an English speaker who has moved to Sweden and has completed the SFI course -- Swedish For Immigrants -- I can tell you it was a lot easier for the English, French, German, etc, speakers to learn Swedish than it was for the Arabic, Ch
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
They will no doubt outsource the ideas + production to more capable people. I, for one, welcome our new overlords -- so long as they don't restrict the content to the US of A. Not being from the US of A I haven't had the luxury of watching
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
I'm using Google Apps and haven't noticed any slow down. Still happy as Larry.
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
Is that 3850 euros per password?
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
"[citation needed]" is a pretty useless comment (not to mention passive aggressive and hypocritical if you then go onto make a statement which could also use a citation).
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
The thing you can probably research is inter-department communication in Government agencies in Denmark. If its anything like Sweden then Government departments behave in a mostly autonomous fashion where decisions are made based on the dep
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
How does Sumblime Text stack up against Notepad++? Does it have the functionality of these 27 plug-ins built-in?
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
Headline is somewhat misleading. This guy doesn't think that insider trading laws should exist ergo it wasn't illegal.
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
The guys on the podcast were saying that the buoy is located 2 km offshore, so not an eyesore as such, though I have not seen one yet, so can't judge. Seems to be a more reliable solution than wind or solar if it can scale and it is designe
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
Two things annoy me about Unity: 1. The menu bar at the top is now wasted space. 2. The task bar is on the side. Shortcuts to spreadsheet, worth authoring, etc, should be hidden away in the menu. Honestly how many new spreadsheets do you cr
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
What about Wave Power? It's pretty safe and has a very minimal environmental impact, almost constant output and for the most part is hidden from eye. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_power Just listened to an interesting podcast about it
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
It does seem a bit odd that a tool that is ripe for collaboration is not available to the organizations that use Google Apps. I don't need to collaborate with my friends on anything, but I need to collaborate with my colleagues daily.
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
My guess is that the people who frequent Hacker News are mostly not attached to one extreme ideology or the other. They like the creative freedom and empowerment that a capitalist society brings, but also the knowledge that if they fall on
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
A true believer in communism would also say that it is misunderstood in both theory and practice.
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
Having a healthy skepticism towards capitalism and the "free market" does not make you a socialist. I'm equally skeptical about rampant socialism. The answer is in the middle somewhere. An ideologically impure position perhaps, but a pragma
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
That's ...err.. apples and oranges. Apple got its name before there was a web, before search engines. Plus, Apple isn't a term that is used frequently when working with computers. What do apples and computers have in common? Nothing. Color
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
I'll let you know in about 100 years.
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by RuadhanMc 16y ago
It is pretty staggering that they got $41M for this. Is this is a situation where you would argue that the investors are investing in the team rather than the product? Must be a pretty bloody awesome team.

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