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by hristov 12y ago
Great essay! It makes me feel good to know that random curiosity may prove to be a good thing somehow. Alas, I am much older than his intended audience. And as a proof of being old I would like to congratulate Paul Graham for being one of t
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by hristov 12y ago
You should read the article you linked to more carefully. Krugman does not criticize the flaunting of wealth at all. He is responding to an article from David Brooks who criticized the flaunting of wealth. Krugman's point is that David
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by hristov 12y ago
FUD is not only for operating systems anymore.
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by hristov 12y ago
I read the whole comment. It is still an off topic plug.
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by hristov 12y ago
I have to strongly disagree there. There may have been some anti-establishment satire in his writing, but that is not the main thing he wrote about. Lem was probably one of the most pure sci-fi authors out there. He was not that interested
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by hristov 12y ago
They use mostly Ubiquiti radios, antennas, routers and wifi access points. Ubiquiti Networks is quietly revolutionizing the internet around the world. They may actually turn the internet into the all-encompassing democratic communication to
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by hristov 12y ago
Hmm, sounds like the pirate Kidd played a lot of dwarf fortress in his days.
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by hristov 12y ago
The research is provided by the Brookings institution which is more public relations agency than a research institution. The only thing you can take away from this "research" is that someone paid to get this result.
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by hristov 12y ago
I guess the moral of the story is that if we want affordable food, we should eat local. It seems like half of the costs to the restaurant are associated with shipping the lobster alive.
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by hristov 12y ago
It is very curious as to why they failed if they had a working prototype. They are blaming feature creep, but I am not sure about this. If it looks like you are going to fail because of feature creep, why not just go back to the original wo
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by hristov 12y ago
Also in san francisco. Also all over eastern europe. These trolleybuses are really good in places with hills because electric engines have very nice fat torque curves. If you put an internal combustion engine bus on the hills of SF there wi
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by hristov 12y ago
First of all zero hedge is entirely the wrong place to get any information on the economy. He really does not have any idea how the economy works. For the last couple of years he has been predicting that the economy would crash and gold wou
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by hristov 13y ago
A lot of new yorkers owe their life because they did not get too early to work on 9/11. This number includes a friend of mine that was in a subway train on the way to the towers when the attack happened. Luckily the train stopped short
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by hristov 13y ago
I am not sure I would call it cheating but there definitely is an issue here, and the author dismisses it all too easily. The issue is that it seems that a lot of today's artists just do not have the skills of the artists of the past.
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by hristov 13y ago
That was a rather transparent straw man argument you came up with there. Lewis is not against electronic trading. And he is certainly not trying to bring back the pits. He is against high frequency trading, or the ability of some insiders t
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by hristov 13y ago
There is an explanation. I urge you to watch the entire video. The problem with fructose is that the liver has only a limited ability to properly process it. This if you get too much the liver processes a lot of it through the wrong pathway
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by hristov 13y ago
I don't think so. The video says that there is nothing wrong with glucose, it is the fuel of life. Fructose is the problem. More specifically, refined fructose. This by the way reflects real life. You can find populations that live on
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by hristov 13y ago
There is nothing in the US constitution that actually allows secession. Some people try to imply a right to secede from the declaration of independence or from the history of the US (i.e., the revolutionary war) but there is not actual text
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by hristov 13y ago
Every olympics or world cup is preceded by stories about how construction is far behind. And in the end, with some exceptions, most olympics and world cups work out fine. These labor abuse stories are another issue altogether and a much mor
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by hristov 13y ago
I have tried amazon instant video. People keep saying they love netflix, but netflix has a huge problem - they keep losing content all the time. So I used Amazon instant video to watch a show that i started watching on netflix and which dis
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by hristov 13y ago
Is there a way to create a trojan wallet.dat file that would identify thieves if stolen?
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by hristov 13y ago
I agree that COUP is overvalued, but I do not like this superficial stock analysis. A lot more goes into evaluating growth stocks. One has to consider the trajectory the company is going on, how likely it is it will continue on this traject
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by hristov 13y ago
It would be very difficult to rob Bill Gates or Warren Buffet and get away with it. Their money is mostly in the records of various banks, brokerage houses, corporations etc. It would be very difficult to steal that without being immediatel
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by hristov 13y ago
I do not believe him. There are just too many coincidences there. This is not a common name. What are the chances you find someone that has the math and engineering knowledge to create bitcoin and has not been busy with anything else during
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by hristov 13y ago
They are probably referring to the engines. Engines are rated in hours.
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by hristov 13y ago
Really? When studying for the SAT I saw words that I have never seen again.
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by hristov 13y ago
I wish I had had the chance to take this, I could have gotten a perfect score. Taking the SAT as an ESL student those obscure words just kill you. There is a set of words that appear nowhere in modern English other than on an SAT test.
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by hristov 13y ago
Are gender ratios really a problem in SF? I visited SF, and women there said that if one excludes gay men, the ratio of women to men in san francisco tends to be heavier on the women's side. Anyone have their own experiences?
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by hristov 13y ago
He has to be hyperbolic, he is asking for a huge favor. He is asking that bitcoin owners essentially donate coins to mt gox in order for them to clear their losses. So in essence he is asking for tens of millions of dollars (at least, maybe
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by hristov 13y ago
Don't know about that. It is really not in Mark Cuban's interest for this to be in the news. At best it makes him look gullible.

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