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by ccozan 10y ago
That was Zuerich. They told me, there is no such thing a service contract between an individual and a company. I must be either hired or I need to have my own company. I am not inventing this, simply repeating what the companies said, and t
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by ccozan 10y ago
Last time I tried to get a gig in Switzerland as a freelancer, they told me there is no such thing as a freelancer there, every one must be hired. State mandates that. However, the tax is so low, that is doesn't really matter. On the o
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by ccozan 10y ago
The whole article is about the workers/developer from _outside_ EU. Any EU citizen wouldn't need anything, just go there, get the job, register with the authorities and find some housing.
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by ccozan 10y ago
Venus - like Mars too, is missing an essential element for terraforming: water. On both planets this is long lost, and the constituent elements, espcially hydrogen, is gone from the surface. Unless there is a way to massively mine the rocks
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by ccozan 10y ago
What are you talking there? Qwerty is indeed not that old as the musical notation but it is ~150 years old, and it was invented for the typing machines in order to avoid jams, so it does have some history and evolution [0] [0] https:/
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Titan's Dunes(nasa.gov)
1 points by ccozan 10y ago|0 comments
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by ccozan 10y ago
I cannot give this comment enough points so that is the top one. But this is actually the single concern I have: conservative VC. It is sooo bad, you guys in US cannot even imagine. If, let's say, 5-6 years ago you could get away with
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Carbon nanotube transistors outperform silicon(news.wisc.edu)
135 points by ccozan 10y ago|42 comments
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by ccozan 10y ago
I have a Moto X 2016 and it has a cool feature: simply lift the phone to the ear, as you would talk, and it starts the mic+recognition. Then I just talk my question as I would have a conversation with a human and I get the answer spoken int
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by ccozan 10y ago
But we don't "see" imdividual photons. The cell reacts to a chemical reaction/ absorbtion in the photopigment, thus dependent of the energy of the photon, which is directly related to the frequency of the wave duality of
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by ccozan 10y ago
Exactly my train of thoughts. I cringe when a recruiter wants to know which language I program in and he/she does not get it immediatelly when I reply "any that you like" or "what ever the customer wants". Keyword b
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by ccozan 10y ago
In reverse, in Europe measuring pipes ( or tools for them) diameter in inches is quite normal and ubiquitous. In oil business a lot of stuff is also measured in imperial units. Let's not forget the monitor screen sizes. You can only ge
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by ccozan 10y ago
I still have the Atrix 4G and the Moto Lapdock. Amazing tech, ahead of the time. With the current smartphones, with multiple cores and 3-4Gb RAM, this would have worked like a charm. Webtop was nice, but lacked the processing power. This th
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by ccozan 10y ago
Quote "...it does not have any American or Turkish aircraft equipped to deliver them. " What kind of aircraft would be that?
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by ccozan 10y ago
Well, I am honestly waiting for WarcraftGo. I'd love to instance that local shopping mall :).
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by ccozan 10y ago
:o) Tesla is not using radars?! I am driving an '14 Audi A6 and I can tell you, the radars + software on it are the most advanced I ever saw. They even catch a small cat when was trying to cross the street. The car actioned a emergency
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by ccozan 10y ago
Care to elaborate on that? I find the Sony players deliver what they promise, especially the NW-A20 series.
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by ccozan 10y ago
Amazing, how the subconscious works. Of course, I re-read that not long ago!
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by ccozan 10y ago
Feels like living in the future. We could have right now a RoboDog, with some machine guns on it and let them patrol and secure a perimeter. Fire at anything it moves. I hope they solve the issue with the banana peel :), though.
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by ccozan 10y ago
Look, a normal, mental healthy person can get a gun almost everywhere in the world. He/She is checked, screened and if the reasons are not outwordly, the lethal weapon can be owned. But I don't get how can a FBI suspect, or with a
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by ccozan 10y ago
I am in Germany, didn't know about the paydirect.de. Has anyone tested them?
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by ccozan 10y ago
Is there something similar, but for contractors? I have a strange situation where suddenly, all clients want to work on site :(..
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by ccozan 10y ago
Well, the whole Hell / Heaven idea and the life after death of the christianity ? Which might be heavily influenced by older religions, like buddhism ?
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by ccozan 10y ago
You need money to provide a reliable service. You can adopt the Wikipedia style and ask for donations, or just make a company behind it, with decent people ( as opposed to a corporation, with stakeholders, etc).
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by ccozan 10y ago
You are right, but the same can be done over current Upwork; once I trust a freelancer, I can deal outside the Upwork range, using a normal contract. However, the most freelancers get short jobs and many clients, as in the original article
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by ccozan 10y ago
I would agree such a change if this would be justified transparently, like we need extra servers or we need to hire an extra guy for development of your most voted features, and so on. If such a decency level would be available, I would be
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by ccozan 10y ago
of course, 1%-3% doesn't make sense if you want to be in the control of the transaction between the freelancer and the client. But you don't have to be. The client should pay the freelancer as he see fits, in euros, pounds, bitcoi
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by ccozan 10y ago
There is not necessarily a need for 100% community effort. What is needed a simple, decent service, with reasonable rates ( from 1% to 3% from a transaction ) and keeps up with the requests. Such a service could be run by a max 5 person com
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by ccozan 10y ago
Indeed, you are right. Interesing link on this subject [1], it explains a bit more in detail the greenhouse runway process. [1] http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/physics/astrocourses/AST101/re...
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by ccozan 10y ago
But who on Earth is so fond of CO2? right, plants via photosyntesis. So why not sending green algae on Venus to harvest that CO2? When the temp drops, send something else, like trees. Quite SF, but would worth a calculation.

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