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by dude01 9y ago
I could swear I read that the EU does not allow this kind of bidding war for tax reduction by companies, but I can't find it online. The US certainly allows it, which I think is a bad idea.
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by dude01 9y ago
In fact, I would say that it was the goal of this event -- inducing PTSD on a small part of the U.S. (the state of Hawaii).
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by dude01 9y ago
I think you're right, influencers are going to get bigger. They're kind of like a contracted-out or part-time sales team. Or another way of looking at it, they're living commercials. Eventually FB will see influences as a cha
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by dude01 9y ago
Thank you, that makes sense.
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by dude01 9y ago
Thanks for the book recommendation. Too bad the reviews of the electronic version are terrible (apparently terribly scanned/converted, not content issues).
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by dude01 9y ago
I just recently learned that Sanskrit was the first language to have its grammar formally specified. Pāṇini in the 4th century BCE wrote down the complete one. I couldn't find a good translation of it online. I suppose translating a gr
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by dude01 9y ago
Yeah I'm still using the "standard" GAE, because it's simpler and still has better features -- but old Python :-(. I'm hoping they will eventually upgrade it, but I don't work there, so who knows?
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by dude01 9y ago
Well, I like the general idea, but am not sure about their implementation. Obviously have to wait for details, like SPV vs. real-person ownership. But I wonder about their approach -- couldn't any public corporation, any time it wants,
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by dude01 9y ago
Oh yeah, good point, I was just thinking about the USA.
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by dude01 9y ago
I think there's enough blame to go around: 1) police send an entire SWAT team because of ONE anonymous phone call, even though they should know by now that people abuse that ability 2) the gamer guy who made the phone call. Kind of rem
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by dude01 9y ago
I interpret this as -- he's thinking about cashing out, but doesn't want it to look like that. So now his "morals" are kicking in. They weren't kicking in through all these whitepaper-only ICOs were they?
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by dude01 9y ago
I think this is the best explanation for complex numbers I've ever seen: https://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-intuitive-guide-to-imaginary-numbers/
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by dude01 9y ago
I don't know you, but... I have an idea for BrowserCoin.com -- a marketplace for ads where users are paid to try a product. They receive a coin payment when they use a product for a certain period of time. Don't bother decentraliz
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by dude01 9y ago
Yeah, I agree. Other red flags: he's leaving Russia with 2,000 bitcoins; Julian Assange endorsing Telegram; Telegram popular in Iran (close Russian ally); end of article says that Putin's Kremlin staff uses it. (edit: formatting
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by dude01 9y ago
I find this whole set of crypto-currency experiments fascinating. It's a grand libertarian experiment -- what happens if you create a new market, without any government regulator? It looks like you initially have chaos (makes sense), a
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by dude01 9y ago
You're right, they got the name wrong. However, I read it all, and they seemed to know their stuff. They knew about using lawsuits to move money out, and they knew about using fake insurance policies to move money back in. I don't
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by dude01 9y ago
This is such a well-written story about a startup! I mean, it has so many twists and turns - pivoting for auto-generating mobile apps, cloud, gamification, affiliate marketing. It's so good I would have said it's fiction, especial
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by dude01 9y ago
I was just explaining to my teenage son what quarks are -- he hadn't learned about them yet. So I have to upvote this. tl;dr If you decompose matter all the way down, mass doesn't just "add up the parts to the whole". No
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by dude01 9y ago
I think they want to see how much can they get away with. Let's see if we can actually get people to send us all their private porn.
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by dude01 9y ago
I see you got a response from "SQLite" elsewhere in this thread, with same thought I had -- just document the subset of SQL to be supported. I would say it's too late, but... SQL has been around for decades, and I think it wi
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by dude01 9y ago
Rules are great, and you're right that there's a rule that something cannot be a browser-standard unless it's a real standard, with real generic specs. BUT... what about making an exception to the rule? SQLite is sort of a un
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by dude01 9y ago
Wow, it's a duplicate twice! But I never saw it, and I check HN several times a day.
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by dude01 9y ago
I've never heard of a sillier idea -- I'm worried that someone is going to spread photos of me, so to prevent that, I'm going to send in photos of me. Am I missing something?
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by dude01 9y ago
Actually, it's still available in Chrome, Safari and Opera. I guess Firefox and IE still don't have it.
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by dude01 9y ago
We literally lost several years for web app advancement because of that. Reading the decision making, it seemed like overly-legalistic engineers, but I'm open to conspiracy theories that this decision enhanced mobile app store adoption
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by dude01 9y ago
Yes, pretty much what you say -- it took him a while to find another comparable job, and that had negative consequences in his personal life. It was a small company doing the firing, they definitely "took it personally". Bigger co
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by dude01 9y ago
I know someone who tried that - the company fired him, plus the company fought paying him unemployment. You gotta watch out!
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by dude01 9y ago
I hear you. Though what I try to do lately is: recognize when a partisan / wedge issue / kind of argument is being used. Then ask myself why. I think the goal of some people is to intentionally cause feelings of hopelessness, thus
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by dude01 9y ago
I agree with what you said, and I agree with what I said. :-) It's funny how technical discussions are much better here, and anything touching politics is terrible. Kind of reminds me of how you can hear good debates on sports radio, b
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by dude01 9y ago
Does everyone know that HN is big enough that organizations/corporations/governments pay people to come here to influence the discussions? No way we can have a civil discussion here on this topic because of that interference. Usin

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