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by ajays 14y ago
This is very cool. Kickstarter is the leading edge of a tectonic shift. Quite often with these new ideas that come out of left field, the pendulum swings the other way after a certain point. While I like Kickstarter and other such projects
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by ajays 14y ago
I do understand the language divide at least. But given a choice between unemployment and, say, working in a place where you don't speak the language, I know I'd pick work any day! At least you're picking up work skills and a second languag
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by ajays 14y ago
I'm not an Euro Zone resident, so I have to ask: what's stopping the people of Spain (especially the youth, with their 50% unemployment) from hopping over to Germany and finding work there? Isn't it the case that any member of an Euro count
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by ajays 14y ago
Something's wrong with the narrative. The author writes, "Going through my search history, I could trace the emergence of stories to the day I read about the Bustamante murder." . But she didn't use 'search' to get to that article; she just
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by ajays 14y ago
Nope. It costs close to $30K/year to imprison somebody in the US. So make that $250K/year to imprison this sorry bunch.
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by ajays 14y ago
Might be off-topic, but: the mention of E8 reminded me of a story a read a while back, about a physicist who has this theory that all atomic particles(?) could be embedded in E8 . It sounded so beautiful and I wanted to read it but can't fi
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Why are Facebook and Microsoft supporting CISPA?(lifehacker.com)
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by ajays 15y ago
May be.... but most of the money in Instagram went to the VCs; here, all of it is going to the company.
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by ajays 15y ago
Meh. I'll wait till this research is published in AAAI, IJCAI, IEEE PAMI or something of that caliber, and not "Science Daily".
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by ajays 15y ago
I think this article is written (and this question is asked) from a very American point of view. Having grown up in another culture but spent a significant part of my life in the US, I've come to the conclusion that there's a bit too much s
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by ajays 15y ago
"It turned out the nightmare scenario came to pass and lots of young, black, lower income residents from East St Louis started showing up to the mall. A strange thing happened though, instead of destroying the area, they mostly just brought
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by ajays 15y ago
For those of us too .. ahem .. cheap to cough up the dough for a meal plan and an exercise plan, are there any free options? I'd like to get back into shape again, the winter months were brutal to the waistline.
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by ajays 15y ago
To those offering advice about getting a lawyer: do you know how much a lawyer costs? A decent lawyer will charge you upwards of $300/hour. For just replying to this letter it'll run you about $100. And then if that other lawyer responds,
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by ajays 15y ago
While the Republicans gripe about "high taxes", it doesn't explain the success of the Nordic countries with their high taxes _and_ high standard of living.
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by ajays 15y ago
A good read is the book "The Mystery of Capital" by Hernando DeSoto. It doesn't address failed states, but talks about why capitalism succeeds in some countries and not in others.
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by ajays 15y ago
My thoughts exactly. My first hunch was: Pincus (CEO of Zynga) put him up to it (or called him out, "how did you ever hire this asshole?"), and Porter jumped at the chance to please his new boss.
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by ajays 15y ago
Unless Montreal has become a Toronto suburb recently, I don't think any of the options account for the Montreal --> Toronto bus ride.
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by ajays 15y ago
This needs a little more automation (maybe a tie-in with Expedia/Kayak/whatever) so that the flight can be booked and verified booked. Here's my problem (going with one of the examples quoted, flying from Buenes Aires to Toronto): one of th
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by ajays 15y ago
Anybody have a mirror? The site's dead.
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by ajays 15y ago
Other countries have been using government resources for commercial espionage for decades. It's disingenuous for Clarke to feign outrage over this. I remember in the early 90s it was revealed that the French Intelligence had bugged Business
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by ajays 15y ago
So you're saying that we have the ability to make sure that a pixel on the sensor is collecting light from the exact same spot in the sky for an extended amount of time? Taking into account (among other things) the rotation of the earth, th
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by ajays 15y ago
There's an interesting angle in there that I think people are missing. To recap: Shay seemed intent on preserving control over Connectrode, even though it wasn't making any money and going nowhere. But after getting turned down by Zynga, he
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by ajays 15y ago
I don't understand one thing: how can they keep the telescope stable and focused so accurately on one spot in the sky, without any jitter? The Earth is rotating at 360 degrees/24 hours, which is about 0.25 degrees per minute. This 17000 pix
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by ajays 15y ago
I was about to post that. Someone once joked, "a language isn't mature until it has a benchmark showing that it is faster than C".
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by ajays 15y ago
EMC seems to be slowly building up an "enterprise software" portfolio. They bought Zimbra from Yahoo, which includes "Zimbra Collaboration Suite", a groupware. Now they've acquired Pivotal, which makes (among other things) Pivotal Tracker.
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by ajays 15y ago
I've lived here long enough to see the pattern. I live in California; and in San Francisco. Every election there are additional taxes on the ballot. This year there are 3 different proposals to raise taxes by various amounts. Locally, the
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by ajays 15y ago
The second part of your sentence ("they'll start complaining . . .") is incorrect. It should be: Once mayor offices have trouble funding their campaign promises because of shit like this, they'll raise taxes, and screw the taxpayers yet ag
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by ajays 15y ago
I think there are 2 underlying problems here: 1) the patent troll; and 2) the high cost of litigation. We focus on #1 here, but not much on #2. If it was easy (cheap) to defend oneself, more people would do so. If the amount he's asking for
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by ajays 15y ago
It saddens me a little to see the " (Nobel Price in Computing) " in the headline. This is HackerNews! People here are expected to know what the Turing Award is; if they don't, they can find out for themselves.
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by ajays 15y ago
The bigger issue is that Yahoo's move here threatens the entire software industry and specifically the internet. Oh please! Get over yourself. Yahoo sued Google in 2004 for similar reasons; and the world didn't end.

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