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How Boaz Weinstein and hedge funds outsmarted JPMorgan(nytimes.com)
2 points by asto 14y ago|0 comments
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by asto 14y ago
The Oracle of Omaha doesn't bet on tech because he knows he doesn't understand it. His money has been made by only investing in businesses he fully understands. I think he would think of "free news" differently if he had a better understand
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by asto 14y ago
The criminal enterprise bit was my poor attempt at a joke :-) But really, I have a feeling 'hacker' is going to be a Che Guevara. Random people proudly wearing it without the faintest clue of what it stands for!
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Ask HN: What's with people postfixing 'hacker' to random words?
1 points by asto 14y ago|3 comments
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by asto 14y ago
It's not just Google+, by the way. All of Google's services are noticeably slower after they switched to the new look that Google's changing everything to. Bad move in my opinion. We don't care if the pages are very pretty, Google. We just
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10 biggest myths about entrepreneurship [video](iamstarting.com)
1 points by asto 14y ago|0 comments
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by asto 14y ago
Yes, exactly! Leonardo Da Vinci's contemporaries didn't believe the helicopter would work when he drew it either. Granted, the current helicopters look nothing like what he drew, but he did get the idea of it right and one tends to iron out
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by asto 14y ago
Rather than think of it as somebody trying to bring a sci-fi object to life, why not think of it as someone wanting to make space-flight a reality and realising that a sci-fi object would be a good start? I posted this article to HN mostly
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by asto 14y ago
That was an interesting discussion. It's a pity the forum rules are strict there. I'm no spaceflight/physics pro but he did have reasonable arguments.
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Building the USS Enterprise over the next 20 years(buildtheenterprise.org)
32 points by asto 14y ago|19 comments
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by asto 14y ago
What will it disrupt exactly? Example? As far as I can tell, it is merely a device that affords convenience.
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by asto 14y ago
It depends on what the users are using. I think it's extremely hard to get people on a platform to socialise* and then get them to do something else that generates revenue. With the exception of purchasing game credits etc, there's no easy
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by asto 14y ago
I believe he's talking about the current crop of startups and research that's getting funded right now.
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by asto 14y ago
Hahahahaha... Am I the only guy who finds this hilarious!? I really want to see PG's reply to this!
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by asto 14y ago
It seems my assumption of a day was more extreme than I thought! Regardless, let's take two extreme cases and compare costs/benefits: 1. You don't know anything. 2. You are a power user who knows everything. Case 1: Let's say you take the E
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by asto 14y ago
I'm saying at most . Maybe you're new to this and need to read up on what partitions are and how the Windows installation process works? Maybe you need to do some reading to arrive at the conclusion that you need to re-install Windows in t
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by asto 14y ago
If you have a brain that is properly functioning, you can do this yourself. It will at most take a day. Is it worthwhile for me to spend a day on this to save $99 dollars? Yes, it is.
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India proposes government control of Internet at UN General Assembly(thehindu.com)
2 points by asto 14y ago|1 comments
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How you can be a memory champion(ted.com)
3 points by asto 14y ago|0 comments
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by asto 14y ago
Can a moderator edit the link and change it to the ted one? http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_... Also, what is the karma threshold to edit other people's posts?
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by asto 14y ago
Works quite nicely on Chrome. Too much lag on Firefox and Opera!
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by asto 14y ago
Works on Firefox 12 (Linux) for me!
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Anonymous takes down websites of Indian Supreme Court and ruling political party(medianama.com)
2 points by asto 14y ago|0 comments
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by asto 14y ago
This is happening so often in India that it isn't even newsworthy anymore :( For those outside India who are wondering, only Airtel (private) seems to have blocked sites. I have a BSNL (state owned) broadband connection and everything still
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by asto 14y ago
I think others are stupid. Oh noes, I guess I'm the stupid one then. Jokes apart, there's a consistent pattern in how I judge intellect. The people who I consider smart get logic . Some of them do it intuitively; Some of them are familiar
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by asto 14y ago
Boomerang(v.): Return to the originator, often with negative consequences. Perhaps you meant "spiked"?
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by asto 14y ago
If I were king of the world, I wouldn't sentence Anders to death either. It's sad that he turned out a madman and did what he did but surely you can't kill people who are mentally ill for being so. There's a big difference between somebody
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by asto 14y ago
This is seems to be a one off occurence. The articles and comments on this site are the best I know of. It hasn't degenerated like slashdot did while I was an active participant there. That said, feel free to make a new one that's pure tech
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by asto 14y ago
The death penalty is required. The judiciary just needs to have conclusive proof of the crime. For example, right now, in one of India's jails lies a man named Ajmal Kasab. He is one of the terrorists involved in the 26/11 attack on Mumbai.
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by asto 14y ago
I've tried out the consumer preview as well. Can't say anything about how it performs because I tried it on VM but it had some obvious flaws that affected usability. I don't think we should judge them before the final release though. (or ma

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