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by borism 16y ago
shouldn't they have disclosed that?
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by borism 16y ago
is it not a slight conflict of interest when former MSFT exec who just became NOK CEO makes a strategic partnership with his former company?
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by borism 16y ago
is this a joke? seriously, who are these guys (either CIA, or this post's authors) kidding? it all reminded me of all those Castro assassination attempts, each more perverse than previous, and of course all a complete failure: http://en.wi
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by borism 16y ago
"externalities" don't put the food on the table, let alone buy the table. or will the future economy be "click on this really cool web app and send its' creator a loaf of bread!"?
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by borism 16y ago
summary: intellectual property is very different from physical property and inevitably wants to escape into wider world, so called developing world in particular. that's why we find our thesis that we should be selling higher margin product
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by borism 16y ago
Somalia ceased to exist as well indeed, Somalia the political entity ceased to exist. That's why Somalia the geographical entity is in anarchy. Which nobody besides you is disputing. But fine, let's finish this pointless thread, we're not
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by borism 16y ago
'Government' does not imply any particular form, nor does it imply consent or participation of the governed I didn't claim it implies consent, but there is a pretty clear distinction between warlord or feudal lord and "the government", at
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by borism 16y ago
jesus... I'm not talking about some historical situation, I'm talking about right here and right now. AFAIR British Empire long ceased to exist. But when it existed it had quite unified law. That's why you have English law in the USA and th
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by borism 16y ago
I guess I focused in on you placing statelessness as the primary condition. Statelessness isn't the goal or an end; it's a natural consequence of building a society without hierarchy. Well, first of all I didn't place statelessness as the
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by borism 16y ago
With your definition, anarchy is mainly a function of where you draw your borders. yes, if you draw the borders arbitrarily. But it wasn't me who drew Somalia on the World Map. In what way does a warlord differ from a government? in wha
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by borism 16y ago
There is a large distinction between anarchy and the lack of a state. isn't this exactly what I said, or are you not able to distinguish between "lack of state" and "absence of state-wide law"?
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by borism 16y ago
Anarchy has many definitions. For me, the most important one is the absence of state-wide law. Whether the law is enforced by government, warlords (I don't think you can call them "government" by any stretch) or the people is secondary to t
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by borism 16y ago
Somalia isn't anarchy. even the link you provide begins with: Could anarchy be good for Somalia’s development? yet you still would argue to the contrary - that lawless warlords-dominated failed state isn't anarchy?
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by borism 16y ago
the problem with maemo/meego isn't the app ecosystem, it's the half-assed platform itself! there were all the apps that I could possibly need on my n900, it's just wasn't very enjoyable to use them. for example the built-in browser sucks on
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by borism 16y ago
a) that would make it easy for competing platform to be run on top of their own "next big thing". kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it? they could just start building android devices outright.
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by borism 16y ago
One dream exits, another dream enters. yes, engineering dream exits and and social marketing one enters...
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by borism 16y ago
could you point out the fundamental flaw, please?
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by borism 16y ago
Traditional medicine != Alternative medicine, it's the only medicine available for majority of people on Earth (about 80% of people in Asia are exposed almost exclusively to it). Chinese had their medicine when we europeans were still livin
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by borism 16y ago
there is medicine you know, we don't live in XV century? it's the thought that kills indigenous tribes, not disease.
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by borism 16y ago
There is only one class of medicine in the world, and is scientific. what is considered scientific is very often defined by culture though. I bet those tribes consider their shamans scientists, even though they won't pass our western scie
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by borism 16y ago
kids these days... a quick call from my parents and in-laws would have been enough for us...
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by borism 16y ago
do parents that just lost their baby have checking e-mail high on their agenda?
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by borism 16y ago
why are they generally so poorly done (or at least, from the perspective that most HN coders would view as poorly) because it doesn't make business sense to make them better? concept that most HN readers will probably have hard time under
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by borism 16y ago
what kind of "common sense" is that? Because I certainly lack it. will you please make one of those blog post calculating exactly how many of your (former) users have it?
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by borism 16y ago
I'm pretty sure he'd like revolution in USA, Egypt-style (except americans do have guns).
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by borism 16y ago
I totally agree with you that his comment adds 0 to the discussion, but it will be upvoted anyway because hey, it's coming from HN authority, right?
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by borism 16y ago
the problem is that it's very hard to design a true flat tax system. corporations have to make deductions, but different industries need to deduct different levels of expenses. thus you still end up with (somewhat) progressive tax system:
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by borism 16y ago
Maybe Al Jazeera should just run with being a 21st century, Internet delivered news channel. they are! I haven't seen any news network that has such high priority for having live feed on the internets. they literally have their live feed
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by borism 16y ago
Blackberry doesn't have some magical powers to connect to the internet. It's just an average GSM/3G device. Do you have evidence to suggest authorities were filtering out non-Blackberry 3G traffic?
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by borism 16y ago
most of us only have one choice... decided to cut off cox communications as well as qwest I count two choices here?

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