alvarosm

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by alvarosm 12y ago
If they're barely profitable, if they have employees, if they have to pay a lot of taxes in their countries.. Yes 30% is a pain in the ass. It's also a disincentive to anyone who'd rather start anything where they can get 100
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by alvarosm 12y ago
Well, that's kind of a minor feature and it's understandable that they might decide not to prioritize it. But there are many serious bugs out there that are being ignored.
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by alvarosm 12y ago
This is just official confirmation that they don't care -I wonder why they did it... if you want to be silent just keep doing what you've been doing so far: ignoring the reports. Many developers know that many important bugs re
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by alvarosm 12y ago
This is very wrong. You're giving the state the power to control journalism. As for the audience deciding what's worthy, you'll get Jersey Shore quality or worse.
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by alvarosm 12y ago
And it will keep on being shifted to the middle class until it disappears. The "rich" don't have enough money to maintain a subsidized economy, the middle class does. As for the big companies, they use so-called tax loopholes
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by alvarosm 12y ago
I'm thinking more of those who make, say $200k, and are content with solving puzzles all day long without caring for much else. Those who can make a difference who don't care what difference they're making. Awakening is the o
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by alvarosm 12y ago
This is logical. Engineers sell their talent for peanuts to technology companies, who then own all their work that automates tasks, which makes unqualified workers worthless. A lot of you might bitch and moan about it (you're "soc
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by alvarosm 12y ago
Well, I think it's more important to point out that our culture has devolved into something that endorses and promotes backstabbing mobs of cowards conspiring against anyone who displays ethical behaviour. Landing on a comet isn't
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by alvarosm 12y ago
yeah, no doubt... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/20/google_hiring_proced...
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by alvarosm 12y ago
Do they call this thing e-Eesti then?
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by alvarosm 12y ago
Usually, if your country has a DTA with estonia you'll have to pay whatever your country takes for dividend distributions anyway. The DTA means you can pay 10% to Estonia and the rest to your country but in total you're still payi
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by alvarosm 12y ago
What he's been doing is illegal too anyway...
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by alvarosm 12y ago
courageous? ethical probing? lol. Obviously he just wants free publicity. Pretty stupid move overall, notifying the fbi and all... unbelievable. And his crappy web server where he brags about it all is down by now too, so much for the free
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by alvarosm 13y ago
I don't wate my time reading the news on April 1. It's pathetic.
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by alvarosm 13y ago
You're comfortable in the Matrix, good for you. Just don't evangelize please.
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by alvarosm 13y ago
sunglasses will do. Just like that...
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by alvarosm 13y ago
Well, many of us suspect a big percentage of Tor nodes are run by the NSA and it has been like that for many years. This isn't news...
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by alvarosm 14y ago
Well... half the pages are half-redacted. It's not like they're releasing much of the information that justified the classification anyway.
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by alvarosm 14y ago
It's funny how everyone has solutions for our eating up the planet. But it's never the obvious: stop having children like there's no tomorrow. If you think you have the right to have 90 children if you feel so inclined, then you'll have to
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by alvarosm 14y ago
Yeah, well, good luck convincing, say, chinese farmers not to give tons of antibiotics to their livestock. Nobody is interested reducing pharmaceuticals' revenue either. On a side note, take into account we didn't have antibiotics centuries
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by alvarosm 14y ago
Dude, risk/reward. The reward for having a pool is tons of fun, exercise, comfort... Besides you can't go to statistics for gun safety: either you handle them safely or not: you are not a xx% safe statistic.
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by alvarosm 14y ago
In the cases I was talking about, it was Google. They don't even attempt to charge the cards until a certain period of time (1 hour or so? more than the 15-minute refund period anyway) has passed, so the cancellations happen before any atte
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by alvarosm 14y ago
Read my reply to see how they're also extra-cautious about selling $1 apps...
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by alvarosm 14y ago
That's another of the many virtues of Google Checkout / Wallet... it blocks a ton of transactions based on some dubious anti-fraud checks. I guess regular sellers just move on to a better payment processor but those of us who sell on Google
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by alvarosm 14y ago
The problem is google wallet/checkout, it's a joke. Worst payment processor ever.
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by alvarosm 14y ago
Google checkout/wallet is possibly the worst product Google ever made (excluding products that were eventually killed). If you've ever used it as a seller you've probably come across multiple issues that are never solved despite many people
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by alvarosm 14y ago
They ask themselves why Apple went for Samsung's head. It's pretty obvious... they don't want an Apple vs. Google. It's much easier to win vs Samsung (a foreign company, by the way) and thus establish some valuable jurisprudence. Google was
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by alvarosm 14y ago
Ridiculous. YUV->RGB conversion + drawing a couple of things is negligibly cheap even if done in CPU. What a pathetic excuse.
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by alvarosm 14y ago
In the end it's the same or worse. You'll be drowned in taxes in the typical European country with good free healthcare.
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by alvarosm 14y ago
I'm guessing your $14 price is not the sweet spot for you. Bear in mind you can't even try to price mobile apps as if there was a free market because there isn't. It's manipulated by Apple and Google, and low prices get tremendous benefits,

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