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by guylhem 14y ago
Something I have been doing at home since I got my hand on the command line client - but the idea to commercialize the package is just great ! Hosting has become a commodity - but you can sell ease of use - especially if publishing a websi
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by guylhem 14y ago
I think you're missing the article point. If some social interactions bring you nothing, then you should remove them from your life ! Quoting Nassim Taleb : "If someone is a drag on me, I cut them out. If someone lifts me up, I bring them c
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by guylhem 14y ago
There are many great insights, but I wonder how appliable they are in the real life. I mean, I especially loved the answer based on the idea of "not favoring anyone", when the author was asked about what he did for the local market. But thi
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by guylhem 14y ago
A bootstrap platform for sea steader ? That's a great idea - it would be put to a good use, and be an interesting experiment in creating a community on an artifical island! Hell, anything would be better than just destroying it.
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by guylhem 14y ago
That feels so wrong. It is still floating and could be useful. Destructing it is just destruction for the sake of it. Why not at least sell it to a friendly country, who could use such power to defend itself from neighbouring enemies? I'm s
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by guylhem 14y ago
My own 2 cents- my native language being french, I found that I "understood" english much better after learning danish - especially what I previously classified as "weird" (old?) english words like ale (øle), hound (hund) etc.
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by guylhem 14y ago
Would the economy be better off without "insert the people you don't like here" Film at 11. Works with : - politicians - lawyers - liberals - libertarians - communists - the military industrial conglomerate Also work with any minority
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by guylhem 14y ago
I have a credit-card sized phone - straight from china, works like a charm. USB charge last for 3 days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERJkSrqOcEk Call me when smartphones reach that size so I can replace my N900 (because a camera is the o
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by guylhem 14y ago
Vigorous coding is just as legal as paying as little taxes as allowed by the tax code. People are paid to make sure everything done strictly follows the letter of the law, with every t crossed and every i dotted. OTOH, fraud is easy to catc
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by guylhem 14y ago
This is a sexist remark. It all depend on the content of the article. Did you take time to read the article? It's just great - full of technical details, including the reasoning behind the creation of the hack. Many times I've seen dumb thi
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by guylhem 14y ago
The title is misleading. But the idea of haptic sex toys, and the approach of the hack - especially identifying that the remote was the problem- is great. We will see if haptic sex toys become mainstream. I didn't even know they existed i
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by guylhem 14y ago
There is no reason at all - no one is "requiring" doctors to do anything at all. However, the invisible hand of the market do provides incentives for doctors willing to do that job! The reason is the difference in financial gain if for some
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by guylhem 14y ago
The article is quite incomplete. The highest price is the opportunity cost of doctors going into billing instead of doing clinical work - especially for hospitals I can say first hand that there is an extremely lucrative business-opportun
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by guylhem 14y ago
Egalitarianism is never a goal. A fair competition however is. The best will rise up - working 12 hours a day if needed. How is that a bad thing?
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by guylhem 14y ago
I agree with everything but your first phrase - a 5 years old kids can't pay for his education and can't enter in a legally binding contract. This breaks that line of thought. Is that a collectivist troll? In that event, let me warm your he
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by guylhem 14y ago
You sound very confident that immortality would be a bad thing. Maybe. We've never experienced it, so how can you be sure? See, I just changed "good" to "bad" for you, because the question the way it is phrased suggests an opinion. Person
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by guylhem 14y ago
That is very sad and concerning. In my libertarian opinion, the competition start when the participants can make an informed choice - ie when they have a basic education. Basic education, teaching everyone to read and count, provides positi
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by guylhem 14y ago
Failure is bad. Sadness is bad. Trying to paint degrees of hopelessness on people and saying the privileged shouldn't complain is wrong. You are always the privileged to someone else. Being happy is what everyone aspires to - and for many,
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by guylhem 14y ago
Alternatively, you can try to find a way "in the market". School have 3 markets : social status, grades and actual knowledge acquisition (the lesser of the 3). In my high school in the french suburbs (quite different from the US suburbia),
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by guylhem 14y ago
I tried similar things to play with the Mechanical Turk and Google Ads - especially since they give coupons like candy. In the end, it is still glorified advertising, while IMHO the core purpose of a business is revenue! Advertising is very
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by guylhem 14y ago
It may be a bold claim, but he is making a falsifiable statement. (yet IMHO he is right - things are quite messed up in Europe at the moment - in France mostly) However matching french Guyana launch site geographical advantage and infrastru
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by guylhem 14y ago
I don't want to criticize, but if getting to the first page is that important to you, I don't know, but it doesn't seems very healthy. Revenues and products are more important than bragging rights. Ok competition is good, hacking is good,
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by guylhem 14y ago
You are using the very same set of fields that all EMR will be required to use by the government? So if I understand correctly, you are basically doing what you have been told to do? Good for you - call that corporate software development,
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by guylhem 14y ago
This is a great read, but it begs the question - why did 40 or so special forces agents defeated to the dark side? Was it for money, because they felt unappreciated, because they saw too many bad things and just stopped caring (or were orde
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by guylhem 14y ago
Indeed - the enthusiasm to use body gestures should be limited to a level compatible with the audience. As the author explained, it depends on the audience culture. Suggesting a liberated use of body language to a hacker audience may result
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by guylhem 14y ago
It reminds me of the "suggestions" given to Dwight in the Office (when has to give a public presentation in S02E07), where he's given a video of Mussolini as an example of a speaker with a great body language to emulate - so he does, and it
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by guylhem 14y ago
An aol address is hipster chic. It also makes a good april fool joke - if you still have one matching your name, just send a message on Apr 1 to your geek buddies explaining you are moving from gmail.com/outlook.com/whatever to aol, and wai
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by guylhem 14y ago
As usual, laws prevent innovations to protect the incumbent (banks and credit card companies)
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by guylhem 14y ago
It is so sad and so true. Some people work just to get a place to talk, a warm meal, and a place to seat during the day (and the salary of course). They could not care less about what they are doing or why. As the author said, "they were t
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by guylhem 14y ago
Thanks for your understanding. I don't want to push any ideology or debate on this - I just see a weird trend that other people seems to notice too, and I'd like to understand what is happening, regardless of whose ideology is used to expla

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