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by gutnor 13y ago
In addition of other comments about Chinese economic control. There is plenty of regulation for bartering in most countries. Like for a house, you local IRS will have something to say if you exchange your house and dodge taxes like that. Ta
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by gutnor 13y ago
More importantly - switching to bitcoin will not erase _existing_ debt. And the current rich club (governement, banks, 1%) will not simply give up their wealth, maybe a few places will swap the early bitcoin miners but that's it.
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by gutnor 13y ago
What I wonder is why nobody is pointing out that delivering less than 2kg in 30 min in a radius of 10 km can be done freely on a cheap pizza using plain old human labour. I fail to imagine at what stage Amazon drone become cheaper consideri
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by gutnor 13y ago
> Sure, bitcoin has several terrible characteristics that have been exposed over the past few weeks (volatility, tons of speculation, new users don't understand wallet security, etc.) Is there any sort of solution to that ? Seems li
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by gutnor 13y ago
Just to reply in my own words without being labelled as "having my stake in the Keynesian camp". I don't know what that means (not exactly anyway) but that does not seem like a compliment here on HN. I'm a regular IT guy
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by gutnor 13y ago
Thing is Bitcoin fails miserably as a currency TODAY(2013). It currently cannot be used as a currency because of its volatility, unlike other fiat currencies, it cannot be controlled, potentially destroying any economy based on it. ( Think
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by gutnor 13y ago
Look at countries like India or even China. Countries can survive hundreds of years with high level of poverty. The key thing is if the situation in the US will get worse faster or slower than the slow mentality shift that is required to co
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by gutnor 13y ago
Vast majority of use cases in the English-speaking world. In other countries like China, Japan, India, ... those edge cases are common enough to represent a significant portion of use cases and make X truly broken. The article is maybe a bi
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by gutnor 13y ago
GP problem is not the continuity of life on the planet, just the continuity of human life on the planet. Sure it is unlikely that humanity will be wiped out by anything else than ourself. Still life could become a lot harsher. Of course, ev
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by gutnor 13y ago
That's a problem for a currency, no ? You are in effect rewarded for no spending it, or in other word not using it as a currency. Seems like Bitcoin is instead becoming a new class of asset rather than a currency.
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by gutnor 13y ago
Tesla is a very low run product compared to even the least successful phone. Something that happens once in a million will happen on an iPhone, not on a Tesla. If / When they produce a mainstream car that will be another story. All car
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by gutnor 13y ago
The point of the article was looking at influencial people in GitHub, the ones for which an automated resume even make sense. Now indeed, you can also look at the code that even regular people are producing. The problem here is that you fil
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by gutnor 13y ago
The biggest contributor to open-source are companies like IBM. Calling IBM communist, is well weird. If you remove extremists of each movements, seeing value in common-good has nothing to do with communism or socialism or capitalism. The on
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by gutnor 13y ago
The problem here is rather that Google chose not to participate in the company buying the patents. What do you do after that. Leave the companies that didn't pay alone ? There used to be a time where companies would have been doing jus
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by gutnor 13y ago
Amazon was in a unique position to do it. MS or Apple could do it too but they have their own backyard to tend. Samsung is a hardware giant. They suck at software and can barely handle a thin customization layer on top of Android and anyway
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by gutnor 13y ago
Actually it is more "If you want more humanities majors, find some way a humanities education can be turned into money in the real world after graduation." This was this nice previous generation dream that productivity would creat
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by gutnor 13y ago
That has almost always been a problem. Even in the past when you could keep socket for 5 years, the chipset on the motherboard was limiting you upgradability to processor of the same generation.
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by gutnor 13y ago
I just noticed http://www.dscout.com/ara Maybe I'm paranoid, but it seems more a way for motorolla to leverage a community on the cheap. I really doubt the ARA will exist in a way that makes it really usable. IMO it s
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by gutnor 13y ago
That's exactly the pitch of the doctor in Gattaca. The world is harsh and unforgiving, genetic is only a tiny fraction of all the possible problems, why would you not give your kid the best chances with the things you can control ?
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by gutnor 13y ago
AnandTech tested the IRIS Pro 5200 to roughly on par with the 650M (last generation MBP), with obviously significantly better power management. For Intel, that is quite an achievement. But it is just quite a bit too short for Apple to get r
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by gutnor 13y ago
That just opens another can of worms. Now every single application you either provide or use come with an integration issue attached. I have read somewhere that was the Amazon way of doing thing but it was a costly investment. A costly tech
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by gutnor 13y ago
It is disingenuous period. Google was not a competitor 10 years ago. As the article points out, Google only started competing about 5 years ago after Microsoft had started failing in those categories. Firefox had been eroding at IE and chan
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by gutnor 13y ago
Not sure what the status is, but at some point Valve (yes the video game company) wanted to use their games to test economic theories: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a... Obviously not the r
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by gutnor 13y ago
Meh, I will guess that is the usual suspects: like XML libraries, anything JEE, ORM, ... Those are the things for which Java provide an API (sometimes a default implementation) and you chose your implementation between competing ones. The r
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by gutnor 13y ago
OK I'm missing this completely. What problem is this solving ? I can't believe they have never seen a smartphone recently, so they know what cheapo hardware is capable of pushing nowadays. Yet this exists. So what is it that is ex
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by gutnor 13y ago
If you fire them fast enough yes. Otherwise, young people expect to work for less but to rise high. Otherwise all the energy you see in the beginning is very fast disappearing. Also, not all young people actually like to be in tech. They do
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by gutnor 13y ago
All the various scandal just showed the regular people that the investment market is a professional market with lots of insider privileges. If you play, you play by rules you do not control through the proxy of institution that do not have
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by gutnor 13y ago
I would add to the list - "just do the stuff one damn time". Everything has been done. There is a better technique and better tool and reference design for everything you will ever think of. For amateur, this overload of informati
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by gutnor 13y ago
Model T vs Buggy Whip is a radical change. The closest that could apply to this case would be EBook vs Physical book. But that's not what this is about. France has a regulated market for book. When stuff happen, like a player that mana
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by gutnor 13y ago
Many cities in Belgium (Mons, Charleroi), UK (Manchester, Liverpool ), France (Lille) are like that. Major work is done in the center, with peatonal areas, cleaning up of buildings, parks, rework of public transports, ... That being said I

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