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Broadcom Is in Advanced Talks to Acquire Symantec(bloomberg.com)
2 points by blago 7y ago|1 comments
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by blago 7y ago
VPN
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by blago 7y ago
You are right on this one :-) I hope to see it next month and take some stunning photos.
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by blago 7y ago
I'm going to assume that this is an honest question. Here is the answer: https://www.google.com/search?q=china+media+%22has+since+bee...
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by blago 7y ago
I think subway stations in US are rather spartan by international standards. Whatever the reasons for the high cost, opulence is not one of them.
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by blago 7y ago
> Civil war was eighty years earlier Earlier than what, the Great Depression? The civil war resulted in > 500,000 deaths and hardly made a dent in the upward trend that was already underway. > didn’t result in complete destruction
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by blago 7y ago
I've heard this argument many times but it never rang true to me. Here is why: Every nation has gone true adversity and many had bounced off in a matter of years. The US economy has been dominating (measured by % of world GDP) since lo
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by blago 7y ago
I think the more accurate way to describe it is "(Soviet) propaganda meets (Western media) sensationalism." Not that we don't do propaganda, but I don't think it was government orchestrated and political in this case.
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by blago 7y ago
I took an architecture class back in college and the first time we met, the professor gave us a couple of programs described in plain English. One of them was basically sorting, and the other one something else. Each of us spent the rest of
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by blago 7y ago
> True Scotsman have a very low mortality rate. Haha, I like this sentence :-)
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by blago 7y ago
> As non-native to Mexico, I really am more interested in the probability "being murdered in Mexico given you're a tourist"... I think a more meaningful metric for tourists is the probability of getting murdered as a touri
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by blago 7y ago
What's the mortality rate per 100K of "good drivers" per year?
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by blago 7y ago
“Yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake,” Musk said via Twitter a few months ago. “To be precise, my mistake. Humans are underrated.”
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by blago 7y ago
Some people point out that Google's usual response to chargebacks is to retaliate and ban the account from using their services. However, I think that if enough people fought, and the chargeback rate reached some critical level, they w
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by blago 7y ago
> innovation comes from graduate students This is such a sweeping statement it's just false > everyone building out a new technology borrowed ideas freely without compensating the real innovators (of course, implementation can be
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by blago 7y ago
Define "deep innovation". Are you saying that private enterprise is only capable of "shallow innovation"? If so, do you think that the world will do just fine if we removed large financial rewards for "shallow innov
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by blago 7y ago
> The world might be a better place if everyone stole and remixed IP Until it becomes unprofitable to invest in innovation
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by blago 7y ago
I see your point
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by blago 7y ago
This looks pretty expensive compared to prices in South East Asia too. You pay between $10 - $30 for a prepared SIM with 10-15 gigs which comes down to $0.001 - $0.003 per megabyte.
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by blago 7y ago
A long time ago I received advice that if a news title ends with a question mark the most likely answer is NO. Does this still hold?
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by blago 7y ago
Grab is a hot mess - my biggest gripe is popup ads. They have the nasty habit to show you one, and block you, at the worse moment, like when you are trying to select your destination. Some ads have no "escape" button and you have
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by blago 7y ago
NASDAQ: MLNT OTCMKTS: AKAOQ Read here for more info: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-03/antibioti...
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by blago 7y ago
Antibiotic company stocks have been decimated in the last couple of years so if you feel adventurous and prepared to lose your savings, this is a great time to buy.
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Antibiotics Aren’t Profitable Enough for Big Pharma to Make More(bloomberg.com)
2 points by blago 7y ago|1 comments
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by blago 7y ago
Maybe you are right, I am not Chinese, but here is one rumor that won't go away: http://time.com/5571372/tiananmen-massacre-june-4-1989-china...
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by blago 7y ago
I grew up in a communist state and hearing the words "spread rumors" gives me the chills. We all know what it stands for. Here is a hint if you don't: http://bit.ly/2Y4V8Mi
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by blago 7y ago
We all know what "spread rumors" stands for.
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by blago 7y ago
Thank you neosat! Much appreciated.
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by blago 7y ago
My understanding is that modern concrete is stronger (rebar), ancient concrete was more durable (Pantheon, 126 AD).
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by blago 7y ago
Haha, I try to stay above things :-)

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