bocajuniors

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by bocajuniors 15y ago
The only point of the patent system "is to encourage inventors to publicly document how their invention works so other people can use it (with licensing), instead of keeping it secret and possibly having the knowledge lost over time."
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The Trouble With Billionaires(youtube.com)
1 points by bocajuniors 15y ago|0 comments
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Do capitalism need the left?(youtu.be)
1 points by bocajuniors 15y ago|0 comments
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by bocajuniors 15y ago
Does wealth lead to less empathy or does empathy lead to less wealth? I believe the latter.
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Wealth and empathy(vancouversun.com)
2 points by bocajuniors 15y ago|2 comments
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A libertarian on the Real News(youtube.com)
1 points by bocajuniors 16y ago|0 comments
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by bocajuniors 16y ago
As long as people's basic needs are fullfilled I think it really is the relative wealth that decides their happiness.
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by bocajuniors 16y ago
If propert rights included poor people's properties nobody would have to pay 24% interest.This happened 100-300 years ago in Europe and America.According to Hernando de Soto this is what it takes to make capitalism work.If you leave out the
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by bocajuniors 16y ago
The fans of Boca Juniors are called Xeneizes, wich means genovese in genovese.Genovese is a dialect of the ligurian language...
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by bocajuniors 16y ago
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that(due to its largely african(mores) population) some southern dialects are as much arabic as portugese dialects?
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by bocajuniors 16y ago
I read somewhere that before 1960 less than 50% of italians spoke Italian.
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by bocajuniors 16y ago
You mean Gnumeric!
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by bocajuniors 17y ago
Roughly the same amount of people have died in India, from starvation, because of implementation of quite opposing ideas.
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Will Obama allow democracy in Haiti?(youtube.com)
1 points by bocajuniors 17y ago|0 comments
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by bocajuniors 17y ago
But they have some work to do on the semantics. Hockey is an event of the summer olympics:) http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?Spor...
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by bocajuniors 17y ago
I think the misreading was you misreading gtufano.He disputed the unsupported statement that income differences within a nation are mainly because of intelligence differences
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by bocajuniors 18y ago
Arresting him for entering the university area? In Sweden the police would have refused to do that.
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by bocajuniors 18y ago
Gnumeric is programmable in Python
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by bocajuniors 18y ago
No, the patent system is there to make innovations available to everyone. Only after the patent expired.
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by bocajuniors 18y ago
The main reason for the difficulties of Pakistanis to integrate into english society is that it is obvious for others that they are frpm Pakistan(or India) even if they have changed culturally. A person from the countryside of northern Swed
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by bocajuniors 18y ago
One risk is in reduction of biodiversity. Indian cottonfarmers are left with no option but buying modified seed. To grow modified plants farmers must use more pesticides.Plants are genetically modified to resist the toxic "Roundup" .
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Even worse than software patents(svt.se)
2 points by bocajuniors 18y ago|2 comments
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by bocajuniors 18y ago
1.Marian Woronin of poland ran 9.992 2.According to The Economist several groups of immigrants to America(italians, swedish, german etc) showed an iq of about 90 before integrating to society and about 100 after.Black americans seem to be s
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by bocajuniors 18y ago
Let's assume you are a male. To be popular you have to be attractive to females. To be attractive to females you have to be (strong or rich or ruthless) and (not stupid)=A and B. Definition of nerd:"Person that unconciously is labelled as s
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by bocajuniors 18y ago
1.if you got it i think i was clear enough. 2.of course because it's the oddity that is spotted. 3.now you are beeing rude.
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by bocajuniors 18y ago
of course i was right on spot. so why the downmod?
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by bocajuniors 18y ago
i think humans are experts in spotting "the to stupid to mate with". if you are clever enough chances are the average person will think you are odd enough to be labelled stupid.
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by bocajuniors 18y ago
a couple of years ago i saw an academic ranking of british universities.sheffield was the best with oxford and cambridge around 20th place. so maybe you're right that oxford is different from yale
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by bocajuniors 18y ago
it seems that one important benefit of beeing rich is that, if you are a male,it attracts females(the opposite doesn't seem to be true, maybe this could account for lower female salaries?).so, if you are a rich man, of course you will want
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by bocajuniors 18y ago
a better analogy would be: your car may be locked but other people have keys that unlocks your car.then someone proves it by unlocking the car with his key

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