artumi-richard

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by artumi-richard 13y ago
Aren't we all shocked by the prices of things occasionally. Don't we sometimes think a thing should be cheaper than it is, especially when it's a new thing to us.
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by artumi-richard 13y ago
And lo! pg did spake! "Only the good ideas that look like bad ideas are left. All the good ideas that look like good ideas have been done."
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by artumi-richard 14y ago
If the government has the potential of no revenue they would turn off the internet. Because they would believe, as I do, that government is good, as they do things like Schools, Roads, Defense (and in the UK HealthCare), policing, welfare
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by artumi-richard 14y ago
If bit coins are used to avoid tax, as they could easily be, and that seriously threatens a government's tax take then the government would kill bitcoin. Even if it meant shutting down the internet. If it only mildy threatens the government
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HTML5 DJ App (Google Chrome only)(mixbolt.com)
4 points by artumi-richard 14y ago|5 comments
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by artumi-richard 14y ago
The rule of thumb I was told is 1000 billed hours per year. If you want to earn £40k, and are billing by the hour, charge £40 per hour. That gives you the room to be flexible. The original article adds extra in as they have a different str
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400 t-shirts for sale from Raspberry Pi(raspberrypi.org)
2 points by artumi-richard 14y ago|0 comments
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by artumi-richard 14y ago
Because there are plenty of jobs that are mentally challenging and physically arduous that can have a positive societal effect, but come without all the jerks you get in IT. Who said I wanted to work at all...
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by artumi-richard 14y ago
When you realised that "this doesn't make sense", that was the time you should have asked "or is it me..." As for women in IT, I can see why IT would want women, but I can't see why women would want IT.
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by artumi-richard 14y ago
You have a chicken and egg problem. You don't seem to be a part of an artistic community. The minimal design of your site is not appealing to artists and the lack of stuff to look at / download is not appealing for potential subscribers. Wh
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by artumi-richard 14y ago
Is it to bypass DNS? With all the moves to control the internet around, then an encrypted peer-to-peer decentralised system that can deal with any kind of data would allow for DNS-less email / websites etc etc... Though the main point of DN