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by galactus 13y ago
in that case, it can be argued that the soviet union was not real Communism either.
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by galactus 13y ago
I wrote an implementation of this in common lisp when they published it: http://dev.crazyrobot.net/2011/07/12/pixelart-to-vector/
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by galactus 13y ago
it is not enough to have a free public service, tho. I have no idea about the Uk, but Canada also has free public healthcare yet it is so quite worse than the french system that it feels like they are not in the same league, imho.
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by galactus 13y ago
If you were paying taxes or employees like overstock does you'd have to convert to fiat, wouldnt you?
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Google announces deeper integration between gmail and Google+(gmailblog.blogspot.ca)
1 points by galactus 13y ago|1 comments
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by galactus 13y ago
It's fun to see bitcoiners get mad about it.
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by galactus 13y ago
Doesnt the bitcoin network need mining to work? As far as I understand it, mining needs to be done forever, even if its impossible to collect new coins.
128.
by galactus 13y ago
More than anything else, there is just too much speculation. Much much more than adoption of bitcoin as a currency.
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The plot against France(nytimes.com)
140 points by galactus 13y ago|80 comments
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by galactus 13y ago
I think the author is overestimating the weight of bitcoin's network. It would only take a really major player to back any of the altcoins to kill bitcoin
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The entrepreneur whiz kid myth(money.cnn.com)
3 points by galactus 13y ago|0 comments
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by galactus 13y ago
I'm not saying "we should" punish any company that kills a product, I'm saying that a track of killing products for strategic reasons is one of the factors any rational consumer usually considers before spending time in
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by galactus 13y ago
When a startup closes a service, I'm pretty sure most people in HN will be equally cautious about investing their time in any new product the same startup might launch.
134.
by galactus 13y ago
What do we win by promoting these caricatures?
135.
by galactus 13y ago
Actually you typically apply for citizenship after you become a permanent resident, and it takes less effort (from the candidate, at least). But in any case, it is the same service that is in charge of both citizenship and permanent residen
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by galactus 13y ago
The canadian "citizen and immigration" service is seriously understaffed (thanks, Mr. Harper!). Some consequences of this: * It currently takes more than two years in average to process a citizenship request. * The CIC stopped ac
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by galactus 13y ago
You make it sound as if it was a perfectly normal tone to use... Do you talk like that to, say, your parents?
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by galactus 13y ago
identi.co I have no idea what to do with it ;)
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by galactus 13y ago
Many users would have seen that as another instance of google trying to shove google+ down their thoats.
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Noam Chomsky on Google Glass: Orwellian(youtube.com)
2 points by galactus 13y ago|0 comments
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by galactus 13y ago
> The long game is being fully wired. By the time poor > areas become economically important enough to be > advertised to, they will have traditional telecoms > servicing them. ... And by that time, they will all be users of t
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by galactus 13y ago
The difference between Google Glass and smartphones is that with Google Glass it is much more difficult to know if someone is recording you.
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by galactus 13y ago
Stalin's Gulag was full of "traitors".
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by galactus 13y ago
In what sense is Github closed-source? (edit: The FSF makes the distinction between propietary software and Software as a Service: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-se... )
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by galactus 13y ago
I personally find thousands of people trying to defend a public park much more democratic than business lobby groups with unlimited resources influencing the policy makers.
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by galactus 13y ago
A formula for creativity would basically be the equivalent of a formula for "success". They belong in the motivational literature shelf.
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by galactus 13y ago
I liked this part: "Startups have been systematized, mythologized, culturally and socially de-risked; reduced down to formulas and recipes. Yet, there is no enduring formula for creativity and rebellion."
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The Great Google Goat Rodeo(mwunsch.tumblr.com)
7 points by galactus 13y ago|0 comments
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by galactus 14y ago
it sounds a lot like my own country, Colombia, particularly the part about priviledged people considering themselves middle class.
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by galactus 14y ago
I think the point is that when trips are too short they are not really adding anything to your "cultural understanding". I see it like reading the wikipedia page for 193 different programming languages Vs. actually learning how to program i

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