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forgottenpaswrd
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Free market includes the freedom to conspire for lowering wages down like includes the freedom from workers to decide where they work or even compete with those companies. Having said that, we don't live in a free market, the economy i
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forgottenpaswrd
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Am I the only one that does not see anything special about those kids? We played with sticks and stones, football, skate, bmx biking, hiking all the time in Spain. You got hurt all the time too, but mostly scratches, you understood risk and
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13y ago
You need to travel to China. Now, not 20 years ago, if you want to be rich(or do anything by the way) there you need to be a member of the communist party. And yes, it may surprise you but in communist party they discuss and study communism
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13y ago
Get IDA pro and start reversing things with some clear objective. I learned a lot having friends that knew and competing with them to remove limits on commercial software when I was a teenager. Making trial version complete and so on. Some
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"Most people are good. You're born good" I don't believe so. Do you have kids? kids care first and foremost about themselves, like adults do, but worse. I had seen 10 years old killing a dog with wooden spears just for f
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"100 years ago there was a common saying, as rich as an Argentine, like we might say as rich as an oligarch today." You can say the same today. The problem with Argentina is that while it got a GDP equal to Canada in last century,
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13y ago
Excuse me. Inductive coupling means a couple of inductances interact with each other. This is the reason it is called "coupling". And yes, this interaction means photons, depending of the frequency of the resonator of higher or l
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"No, what you really need is an understanding of wireless power transmission and non-ionizing radiation." Like you do? Do you understand non ionizing radiation? Some people are so ignorant, that they don't even know what they
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"What was considered dangerous in the past is today made possible with advanced technologies." What was considered dangerous in the past is dangerous today. It is what was not considered dangerous in the past what we know today it
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Always the same message, that is deeply flawed: That the problem today is technology, it is not. Reality is that today economy is central planned in order to protect the money from the people at the top at the expense of the one of normal p
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"The difference now is how it no longer requires a "large" government to do it." How much DARPA research spends compared to civil society?
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It is not probably a good idea surround yourself with the people you need to control. Obama spends most of his time going to eat-dinner with the same rich people that benefit from printing money. The rest of the time it is with the praetori
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Interesting idea. Romans used water for mining too. Why do effort when nature does it for you? Two problems people raise: Water pressure from 150m+ water column is too much. In the video they talk about dividing the hight slope channel into
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In my experience, as part of my family is from ex communist societies, when you distribute money, there is concentration of power. A government powerful enough to distribute all assets is super powerful, and those that control this governme
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Well, Ouya was a disaster, they should probably not include it in third place. I did not backed them, I can predict how projects will go very soon, probably because of my professional experience. I backed some very interesting problems not
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The author says it is the format what makes you an asshole. It is not. If I go with my reflex pointing to people in the beach people will get angry at me. As simple as people is there to relax, not to have to defend themselves. People is do
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"one question has been paramount for privacy advocates: How do we, as a society, balance the need for security against the rights to privacy and freedom? " I hear this fallacy question again an again. It implies that giving total
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As a founder, with due respect, why you don't do anything about it? I think they are good ideas. So how is that you expect someone else to do the work for you? As a founder I know how hard is to make an idea a reality, and my ideas had
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It is very interesting see someone like PG take the bait with anti ethical journalism. I have some friends in top positions and the first thing they learn is about this techniques. There are predators out there wanting to eat your hardly ea
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"I don't think every CEO will flee the country——they are bogged down by inertia. Some will, but when you have a family, a home, etc, it's a lot harder to do that, even if you want to." You are not talking about CEOs. You
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What happens to the wealthy when revolution comes? Can you illustrate us? I am from Spain, in 1936 we had a civil war and a million people dead. The country got devastated for decades. And the wealthy, which was much better prepared and org
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The article is full of oversimplifications like WWI was "because of Germany". Oh , yeah. Why thinking when you can blame someone else?. An article about WWs in the Economist should talk about economic data, about banks burning and
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13y ago
Oh man, so many people in the world need a better boss... Without him, they will spend most of their lives on mindless debates sucking their creative energy like a vampire blood.
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PS: For those interested, programming in OpenCL-OpenGL is way harder, painful and slower(in developer time) than in the CPU. In particular, you extract all the performance in OpenCL from knowing how to manage memory. We talk about orders of
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I agree. I believe OpenCL is the way to go. I did a very simple Sega Genesis emulator and basically what you do is control with a very slow CPU a very fast hardware that does very simple things like drawing tiles. You control the tile with
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" I try to get them to explain to me why BitCoin is a reliable store of value" I don't believe that BitCoin is a reliable store of value like the dollar is not a reliable store of value. I went to the US after a year to visit
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/95342015/360o-for-gopro-... This saves a big resolution picture with spacial info. With your computer then you see a smaller part of the image. 6200x6200 images is not too much.
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Some people just need to find something bad on everything, no matter how good it is. I had been in countries in Africa, and people there have smartphones, not the latest model, and not everyone, but the person who has shares his with other
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"Now, some people like to think that stuff like "technology always improves in time to save us" is some kind of natural law. I guess they are more into science as religion, than in science as science." That is because IT
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When you know self made millionaires you learn one thing: "Money is not wealth". Almost nobody that understands wealth holds money, money is a tool for exchanging things and its value decreases with time. They hold real state, the
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