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by cubano 11y ago
Yes well I did take liberties and perform a remix.
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by cubano 11y ago
Well don't forget the idea of direct democracy where we leverage modern IT and allow the people to vote directly on issues, eliminating the need for representatives whom are, of course, often corrupted by monied interests. Many movemen
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by cubano 11y ago
i guess no one here saw Swordfish...
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by cubano 11y ago
Geez...I'd be happy if those were the types I most often worked on. I'm still stuck with clients who think web design and conversion-based II are still living in 2008, with 980px box layouts and hideous bg-images.
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by cubano 11y ago
And while getting a blowjob from Halle Berry?
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by cubano 11y ago
A big problem with this mindset, I believe, is the unintended-consequence issue. No one really knows how things are going to eventually turn out. History is utterly littered with the debris of feel-good movements and ideas that, once implem
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by cubano 11y ago
While it made me laugh, isn't snark like this often buried here on HN? Just wondering.
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by cubano 11y ago
Maduro is an idiot, and his crony socialism is destroying a once-great and proud country. None of these stop-gap measures are going to save things down there, and while Maduro and his fellow party leaders will ride off into the sunset as bi
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by cubano 11y ago
I've been on so many sides of this issue it really almost sounds like bullshit. You see, I was addicted to heroin, and basically homeless, for three years living in Vegas after my mom passed and I divorced. My beautiful co-junkie girlf
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by cubano 11y ago
Sure they could, if they wanted. Otherwise, they could start locking people up. They do that all the time for not complying with edicts. For those of you whom have never experienced it, even 48 hours in jail is a truly miserable and ugly ex
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by cubano 11y ago
Am i missing something but aren't safeboxs and vehicles already made "unlockable by design"? I am positive banks can open those things, and vehicles are inherently "openable", so I do not quite get the point here.
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by cubano 11y ago
The public doesn't want to be informed. They want the illusion of safety that the 3-letter agencies provide.
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by cubano 11y ago
Sure...we would just print more money and pay them back. QE programs have been propping up Wall Street for years now, and it would be just more of the same.
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by cubano 11y ago
$550bil dollar companies do not allow themselves to "go bust and burn." Way too many powerful and wealthy people are interested and invested.
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by cubano 11y ago
Sure ok...but here is a reality check. The vast majority of people in the US agree that, when it comes to the illusion of keeping them safe, that Apple should bend over and give up the info. Now, I personally do not agree with this st
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by cubano 11y ago
That is an excellent point, and of course you are correct.
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by cubano 11y ago
In the end, they will have no choice but to comply. Do people think this a game? Apple doesn't run things, the federal government does, and will, in the end, use it's full power to get what it desires.
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by cubano 11y ago
This seems pretty objective, to me at least. [1] "The latest data from PitchBook show that VC investing in U.S. companies dipped to $9.3 billion in the first quarter of 2016, down from $17.6 billion in the fourth quarter. "There&#
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by cubano 11y ago
I've been involved in this debate, professionally, for some 28 years now, and while I don't claim to have any deep or unique insights into it, I would like to state that I find almost amazing that it still rages at pretty much the
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by cubano 11y ago
In lieu of actual achievement and hard work, ass-kissing such as this is what political connection selects for, so it is hardly surprising to me that these emails are littered with such "sycophantic drivel."
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by cubano 11y ago
You wouldn't be the first person to be on the losing side of a bet against the technical and capitalistic abilities of American business.
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by cubano 11y ago
Is it just me or is Joel's insightful article really depressing?
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by cubano 11y ago
That is only one side of the equation. Due to rapid technological advances in shale oil extraction (ie fracking), North American companies have radically changed the daily global supply of oil, which of course puts downward price pressure o
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by cubano 11y ago
Self-reporting surveys are of questionable value in general, and especially now, when everyone understands that pretty much everything you ever do and say in public becomes part of your Google persona. My point? It is at least possible tha
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by cubano 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dtqzn6WuHk it's been virtualized and mobilized and everything by now, but kids have been entranced by this since I was a kid and something about the rhymes and the the drawings just wor
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by cubano 11y ago
I am the very proud father of a 14yo girl whom I have turned into an teenaged IT guru over the years. She learned to read at age 3 using the very well done "Cat In The Hat" desktop program, and since then I have turned her on to e
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by cubano 11y ago
> People who refuse to install the Amazon app are also very unlikely to visit the Amazon store. Just get your books elsewhere. Exactly...that's what my original post said I was going to do, so we agree. I don't really understan
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by cubano 11y ago
According to the article, there are no prices posted in the store and the only way to get them is to install the app, so apparently yes you WILL install the app if you actually want to buy something. And just in case you are not aware of th
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by cubano 11y ago
Knowing the terrible privacy- and tracking-issue history as related to the Amazon app, I would never install it for any reason, much less just to check prices. In fact, after reading this, it makes me wonder if the real purpose behind these
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Is the party over?(cnbc.com)
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