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Interesting discussion about tech start-ups in China (30 min video)(v.cctv.com)
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Grady Booch on The Irrelevance of Architecture(www2.computer.org)
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A short video course in behavioral economics (featuring Jeff Bezos and others)(edge.org)
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IOUSA - The "Inconvenient Truth" of the US economy (30 min documentary)(iousathemovie.com)
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How S&P screwed up(pbs.org)
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Excellent podcast on innovation with Judy Estrin (ex-CTO Cisco)(ecorner.stanford.edu)
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by felipe 18y ago
NO. I am a non-citizen volunteering to prevent fraud. You are the one here who brought this up without any real facts (besides that hit-job "research" you linked to).
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by felipe 18y ago
Oh pleeeeeeease, the Heritage Foundation???? What a surprise, blaming Latinos ("non-citizens") for everything.
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Volunteer by filming election fraud problems and posting on YouTube(videothevote.org)
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by felipe 18y ago
I am Brazilian, so I certainly empathize with your post. If I was you, I would actually try a different route: Why not teach him how to fix / troubleshoot computers first? 1) It does not require English proficiency nor a diploma 2) It's mor
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by felipe 18y ago
Exactly! "Real Artists Ship" http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Real_Artists_Ship...
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by felipe 18y ago
Actually our debt amounts to $53t (including future obligations). http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/07/americas-53-trillion-d...
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by felipe 18y ago
> We as a country have not defaulted on our debts and based on the strength of the treasury market few are betting on that scenario. I haven't read the article yet, but I just want to make one comment about this quote. Although technica
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by felipe 18y ago
I don't know about the $25t figure, but the unfunded obligations (i. e.: debt + Social Security + Medicare + etc...) amount to $59t http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt
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by felipe 18y ago
A few years ago I attended a talk by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, professor at Columbia University who was commissioned by the UN to develop a program to end worldwide poverty with sustainable, long-term initiatives -- Note this is not the standard
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by felipe 18y ago
With a single print ($100) they recovered the costs of the entire labor ($100, or 10,000 cents). This is a great metaphor of our modern production chain, isn't it? (i. e.: How production exploits cheap labor)
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by felipe 18y ago
Although a good idea, I am convinced this will NOT happen, because the last thing Paulson wants is transparency in the process. . If this act passes, Paulson will have the authority to artificially assign arbitrary value to papers that the
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by felipe 18y ago
China. As a matter of fact, I am learning Mandarin right now and I am planning to move from Silicon Valley to somewhere in China in a few years. The book "Silicon Dragon" is a fascinating read.
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by felipe 18y ago
Right! If our economy relies so much on housing to the point that it is a threat to the entire economy, then it shows that we didn't have a solid economy in the first place. We are seriously compromising the well-being of future generation
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by felipe 18y ago
I don't have data, but from my own experience (I am Brazilian, living in the US for 7 yrs) I can tell you that recycling is not very common simply because people reuse a lot of stuff rather than recycling. The concept of reuse is ingrained
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by felipe 18y ago
> Basically, the impression I'm getting is that most carriers do not want 'small fish' like us to send MMS messages on their network without approval. EXACTLY! The way we circumvented the system a few years ago (2006) was to get a plain
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by felipe 18y ago
> I think Google would like to make browsers into commodity pieces of software But isn't what Mozilla is already doing? I honestly don't see the point of putting all this effort in creating something new to support performance and stand
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by felipe 18y ago
Not sure about detecting the capabilities of the user-agent, but Aptana did a quite interesting server-side Javascript implementation: http://www.aptana.com/jaxer Interestingly enough, server-side Javascript is actually quite old. I remem
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by felipe 18y ago
It seems to me that most here actually did not watch the link to the original blog with Judy Estrin's video interview: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=301 Her point is that too much focus on short-term / "this quarter" type of mentalit
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by felipe 18y ago
True, but in all those industries public money was heavily used to remove risk from the market, by either buying unproven technology (electricity, railroads) or by creating a "protected" (i. e.: regulated) space for private companies to ope
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by felipe 18y ago
When I watch 2001, I somehow feel like our generation failed the previous one. People at that time thought "well, we went to the moon, so 30 years from now we should be going beyond Jupiter!", and here we are praising Twitter and Google's l
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by felipe 18y ago
I understand your argument, but at the same time I believe that in order to bring the "big stuff" to reality that truly impacts people lives, it requires heavy high-risk investment that only few organizations can absorb (normally government
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Should all kids learn Algebra? (Dr. Schank's Educational Outrage column)(engines4ed.org)
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by felipe 18y ago
That's a big lesson for small-scale mobile-based start-ups: Whatever you do in this space, you must start with a sustainable business model. In my previous start-up we ignored that fact, and we failed. Unfortunately, the mobile space is not
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by felipe 18y ago
I was quite impressed with Zimbra Desktop, it is really worth a try. The only reason I am not using it today is because I figured it would be a pain to migrate my current calendar, to-dos and address book to it, but Zimbra is the one I'd be

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