dreamfactored

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by dreamfactored 9y ago
> it's about nationalism than protection from monopolies Well if I was Chinese I guess I'd hope my government was making some effort to protect the national interest at least. Of course they are developing their own monopolies
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
It's a general question of national security for any country, and in the broader sense which also includes control of their economies. The Chinese have been very smart about this, other countries should look at this. I don't think
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> Finland is smaller than Los Angeles. Yes Finland is smaller than Los Angeles and yet pretty much invented mobile - that would seem to invalidate your point about scale. Scale removes agility and ability to innovate, it's the sole
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
>kind of like SF vs. Dallas Which would make the US no more homogenous than Germany at least. > There are basically no places in Europe with a critical mass of early adopters for anything in tech Finland pretty much invented the mobil
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China has demonstrated one way to do this
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
What we need is p2p social networks. Huge potential in the tech and it 'just' needs polishing. Salmon protocol for comment threads for example is way more powerful than what we use today (it publishes comments across subscriber ne
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Monopolies are bad for consumers. The Chinese government is protecting Chinese markets from global monopolies (and also acting as the world's biggest innovation VC). Other countries have been asleep at the wheel and are only just star
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Governments could take down fb (and google) if they chose to. They'll fight back but the Chinese have demonstrated that it's possible given sufficient will. With fb having recently been targeting Kremlin propaganda at voting popul
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Why is this a bad thing?
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Isn't that what 'in general' means?
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Isn't that just skinny model, fat client?
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
also add insanely high levels of gun crime and violence compared to most of the region/world (peaking around payday), and Australia levels of deadly wildlife
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"was endorsed Friday by the Cabinet"
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
The huge majority of men go there for women, food, weather, in that order. (Not sure why this is getting downmodded - I know a lot of professional expats who live there and after a few drinks they all say those are the big draws.)
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
...and hellbanned again for comments in this thread actually. HN doesn't like disturbances to the appearance of right libertarian consensus it would seem. (That's completely fine in the context of a private community with its own
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
I think Github could create a good nucleating community for federated networking. They could host a giant pod of Github users (could be the next venue following slashdot>kuro5hin>reddit>hn), and they could also create 1 click tooli