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by alexro 15y ago
Yeah, all is good http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_wars
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by alexro 15y ago
To every good thing there is a bad effect. The effect of helping third nations to get in debt is hate. This hate accumulates and the result will be similar to the bubble exodus. This the modus operandi of capitalism - whoever holds the bag
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by alexro 15y ago
There are two sides of reality: the poor and the rich. This fantasy makes the richer side feel better about the poor. Don't go asking the other way around.
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by alexro 15y ago
No amount voting down can change the fact that economics is another form of war nowadays. The North American empire thrives at the moment, as the Romans did some time ago. But who wins the global world is yet to be seen.
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by alexro 15y ago
Like everything in capitalism, third world improvements is just an investment. The debt is due already for some nations and soon the next batch will follow the "debt settlement". Look around yourself in your country. Are people good enough
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by alexro 15y ago
We hopefully find it rather soon. The modern form of investment bankers capitalism is not what should be considered the best of our ability as society.
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by alexro 15y ago
Don't be so optimistic. The globalization project hasn't ended yet. Who will control the world is to be seen. And whether the nations will be left with the wealth they had acquired is as clear as the Libyan's future at the moment.
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by alexro 15y ago
I like reading PG's essays but this one is a nonsense to me. What we (people) don't like about the rich is not their ability to make money, but their ability to corrupt the gvmt and screw the poor. All in the sake of more money.
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by alexro 15y ago
This is definitely a change in the startup scene. If successful, other incubator will start copying it, making the whole experience better for founders. Good stuff.
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by alexro 15y ago
It's a bit of a stretch to say they solved it. I'm not on FB and so FB to me don't matter. On the other hand, I'm part of an Active Directory of my company, so AD solves this problem for me at work. But none of them guarantee that the email
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by alexro 15y ago
I got it. You're from MySpace, not even from reddit
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by alexro 15y ago
From what I gather skimming through the paper, you should be more concerned comparing HyperDex to Riak, than to Cassandra or MongoDb. The potential use cases seem to be quite different for the last mentioned.
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by alexro 15y ago
Not even HTML/CSS?
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by alexro 15y ago
Maybe. On the other hand, which risks we estimate properly? What if humans are incapable of properly estimating risks, especially related to themselves? It all comes down to the ability to predict future, and we are really bad at it.
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by alexro 15y ago
In every serious development the db architecture gets selected on the use cases specific to the business, so without describing which use cases HyperDex addresses there will be no real interest for it, name it 2.0 or "on steroids".
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by alexro 15y ago
History has proved that any ethic is ineffective by itself and needs to be supported with brute, unethical to others, force
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by alexro 15y ago
We would be able to reason if we had the other historic outcome for the comparison. But since we don't, we go with the "winners don't get judged". So, as usual, the whole debate will be solved with brute force and whoever wins will get the
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by alexro 15y ago
Missing out the RDF data model
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by alexro 15y ago
To the program participants: are these 40000 USD meaningful for doing a startup there? Is it like living on noodles or better/worse?
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by alexro 15y ago
Your comment makes a lot of sense, much more than many comments above you. I can only add that managers at BigCo want to cover their ass first and only then do the job. And how you gonna cover your ass when you 'try before you buy'?
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by alexro 15y ago
Why focus on client vs. webserver communication layer? Think about using websockets between your app and database api. REST wouldn't do there, but websockets opens up new opportunities for dynamic languages.
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by alexro 15y ago
AFAIK, Ghostery doesn't prevent the tracking scripts from running, it just checks for known bugs
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by alexro 15y ago
Governments get sick when they hear 'freedom' in any form, especially if they cannot shut it up at will. So be prepared to more fighting over the years, as the stake - the amount of free Internet users - grows every year.
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by alexro 15y ago
Can anybody share any "Aha!" moments coming from crunching big data? It would be interesting and useful to know how you went from theory to actual validation, especially if the result couldn't have been obtained any other way. Thanks
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by alexro 15y ago
You can sell on ebay before you bought anything!
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by alexro 15y ago
If I'm passionate about stuff that won't bring money for sure and there is an idea that I hate but feel it could be profitable, which way shall I choose to build a startup in your opinion? It's easy to pick up to be passionate when doing a
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by alexro 15y ago
Didn't they know her family situation and how many children she has before looking up the facebook?
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by alexro 15y ago
It looks like either we adapt a new habit of protesting against such threats, or 'they' make us to change our habits in the way 'they' see it.
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by alexro 15y ago
I know many people who recommend it
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by alexro 15y ago
amazon?

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