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by drucken 14y ago
Why is it taking the US so long to figure out that patents on business methods, abstractions and software are a disaster waiting to happen? Even parts of their own justice system are starting to understand the consequences. Is it that hard
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by drucken 14y ago
Just zip it.
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Simple scam reaps fraudsters millions(channel4.com)
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by drucken 14y ago
How is this a "project"? This sounds like crowdfunding on-going business costs.
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by drucken 14y ago
Thanks very much for those. Probably the two most interesting industrial/work-related blog posts I have ever read!
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by drucken 14y ago
Interestingly, Amazon bypasses the problem by just using the serial number as part of the name: "Apple iPad MD328LL/A (16GB, Wi-Fi, White) NEWEST MODEL by Apple" So, regardless of intent, people will find a way to use precise labels, especi
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by drucken 14y ago
This article keeps rearing its head every 6 months/year, even on HN ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1886895 ). It will be a very long time before mining the seabed for rare earth minerals will be anywhere near as economically viable (
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by drucken 14y ago
People have a natural expectation that information used in one place is not re-used in another without being explicitly given. This is especially the case for online-offline interactions. What next? - give Amazon or another vendor your cred
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by drucken 14y ago
Every single human I have ever met has a profound reaction to seeing photos of both their past life and those of others. The further the distance in time and the closer the relationship, the deeper the reaction in general too. In addition,
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by drucken 14y ago
There is a reason many people still use Firefox 3.x and it not's just for legacy or development reasons. I cannot stress smacktoward's astute post enough.
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Matlab is truly the RAD tool of choice for numerical programming and has a solid grip in universities combined with enterprise-level support. I do not think Octave ever tried to replicate its workflow (which is not general programmer centri
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by drucken 14y ago
You cannot win with "IP" wars. The US started it, the Chinese will finish it. The difference between the two is that China has not put all its economic eggs in the IP basket and their versions of cutting edge Western industries are only jus
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by drucken 14y ago
While this Phillippines SMS mobile payment service looks superficially similar and 7 years older, it is much more tightly linked to existing financial infrastructure, including bank accounts (optional) and cards (required). Kenya's M-Pesa o
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by drucken 14y ago
I think the author is overlooking the likelihood this is deliberate behaviour for various touch UX and lock-in reasons. Though, I am impressed by the combination of vitriolic text and cool, crystal-clear and calm bug explanation in the vide
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by drucken 14y ago
This is actually a very old idea, but seemingly still quite new to many American companies and US MBA programmes. Several non-Anglo American corporate cultures and capitalist systems have always worked like this or done so for a long time.
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by drucken 14y ago
The US has a relatively low corporate tax rate compared to other developed countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_around_the_world#List The capacity to bypass taxes or headline rates is not being compared. In addition, if any
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by drucken 14y ago
I would suggest actual misconceptions are that: 1. Fungability : companies have similar tax flexibility as individuals and are therefore comparable. 2. Consumption equivalence : that income from capital gains or "personal tax breaks for t
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by drucken 14y ago
Strange. I had zero trouble saving the blog to disk with Firefox on a Windows PC. - it works with both an old generation of Firefox (3.x) and a post 3.x version. - it correctly opens with the code, in both FF versions as well as IE. - NoScr
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by drucken 14y ago
So, the UK intelligence services are openly admitting to being able to decrypt TLS/SSL connections, which by the way also include AES?
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by drucken 14y ago
Actually, that was the whole point. They were not allowed to due to their separate service agreements/privacy policies. Then, early in Q1 2012, presumably as part of the whole G+ ecosystem push, they unified/changed their Privacy Policy ter
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by drucken 14y ago
gave up eating fish in favour of grains He did not say that at all. He said that there was the well-documented introduction of a new (convenient and scalable) source of sustainable food, grains. But now the people there are no longer surv
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by drucken 14y ago
The author clearly means Nvidia losing face with respect to China. This concept of "losing face" may seem like just a small word or minor loss of reputation to Westerners, but in a sense is more important in China (and to varying extent a
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by drucken 14y ago
Wish he had stated which UK bank since most of the ones I am aware of use 2-factor authentication using a card reader device. They even seem to use an identical card reader!
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by drucken 14y ago
Useful link, thanks. However, I am not convinced the schools are entirely contradictory, even with their strong claims. For example, - Accelerating Change school: this is mainly a (historical) trajectory claim based on positive feedback loo
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by drucken 14y ago
Try actually reading the article. It is more balanced and informative than the title suggests. I feel awkward even having to suggest to an HN'er this...
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It's funny you should mention Japan. If you have ever actually visited it, I cannot think of any large culture that could be more different from Anglo and especially North American culture...
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Seems to have been originally reported from here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hun...
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The irony is that codding [British English] means a practical joke or trick on someone. :)
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by drucken 14y ago
That's like saying there's virtually no crime in rural parts of China or Outer Mongolia or New Zealand sheep farming communities... Also, your urban/population density points would apply to China. Neither are relevant to the topic and nor i
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PBX cracking alive and well in the UK(channel4.com)
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