ignifero

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by ignifero 15y ago
Your point about Greece losing its strategic position after the collapse of the eastern block is spot on. The inability of greek governments to adapt is in part responsible for this mess. It is also true, though, that most greeks (e.g. me)
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by ignifero 15y ago
I studied physics.
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by ignifero 15y ago
You need lots of patience for such a shift, esp. with medicine; think twice about it. You sure you can't find another discipline? On the other hand, it's never too late (me i started a PhD in neuroscience at 29). I would definately not worr
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by ignifero 15y ago
Do you have money to stay a year off work? If yes, quit your job and work on something yourself (you sound like you could figure out what it is). Reclaiming those 8 most creative hours of your life can make a huge difference. Even if you do
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by ignifero 15y ago
I believe contact forms are terrible by design: websites want you to contact them only when you're desperate. Try contacting Paypal as an example. OTOH, i seriously love the feedback form on Google+.
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by ignifero 15y ago
If Greece could go out of the euro without a spillover effect, i would support it. Unfortunately, the decision is to keep greece in a zombie state, barely paying its debt for 2 more years. I don't even think there's a plan after that.
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by ignifero 15y ago
I 'm saying that the crisis would have emerged even if there was no global recession. It's a solvency crisis caused by rampant government lending for more than 15 years before 2010.
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by ignifero 15y ago
So if you want to order pizza, you ask for "Food" ? Anyway, searching for PDF might well mean you are looking for any pdf file (to test your shiny pdf reader maybe?) so its reasonable. I m surprised that there's no wikipedia result for prob
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by ignifero 15y ago
Businesses will be called to pay in either case, either through higher taxes and emergency taxation (as is now), or through a devalued currency. Besides, private debt is actually low in greece. http://www.businessinsider.com/portugal-irela
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by ignifero 15y ago
The data you point to are for 2010, when greece entered the EU/IMF mechanism and govt spending stopped. This does not have to do with the global economic recession that started in 2008. I am Greek, and know that Greek banks were very littl
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by ignifero 15y ago
That may not be true if the default is done carefully with assistance from the EU. Greece could borrow from some special institution or the EU for some years (as it does now). The exit from the euro, though, would help to restart the econom
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by ignifero 15y ago
Different economies with the same currency is a stupid idea. The problem in the eurozone is that some economies cooperate well (germany and france) , and some dont. Also, the euro has been strengthening vs the USD and GBP during the crisi
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by ignifero 15y ago
Although, since at the moment greece borrows from emergency sources, one can't be sure how representative the price is (up or down)
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by ignifero 15y ago
FYI, almost all of this new loan is going straight to bondholders, there will be very little spending. And no, it's not enough to prevent a default or some other kind of "restructuring", "reprofiling", you-name-it.
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by ignifero 15y ago
The current crisis was not a problem caused by the global economic downturn, in fact the drops in tourism were no more than 10% and shipping, well, eventhough it was hit during the recession, but shipping accounts for only 4.5% of our GDP.
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by ignifero 15y ago
It would not be wise to replace the current IP system with nothing. We need to replace it with something better, more granular, that will use technology to reward based on who uses what IP product and how. Popularity alone is not the ideal
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by ignifero 15y ago
It isn't society's responsibility to make writing profitable. Society rewards everything that benefits itself (at least the society i have agreed to live into). For example it rewards good scientific research because it makes everyo
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by ignifero 15y ago
Actually, since google strives to make a difference here, they should cater to kids as well. Teens love social networking and, if anything, google can use its knowledge of the web to provide a safer, child and teen-safe environment even mor
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by ignifero 15y ago
I am no fan of opensocial and i hope they have a simpler, rest-based api
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by ignifero 15y ago
So, to get down to business, it's reasonable to hope that google will provide an oAuth 1.0 api for your social stuff, as they do with other services. The question is: what communication channels shall G+ give to developers? Also, will googl
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by ignifero 15y ago
Unfortunately i rely on facebook for traffic. When i started, Dave Morin was in charge and things were looking good. Since then, we've only seen limitations constant changes, unenforced policies, things breaking etc etc. At this point it is
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by ignifero 15y ago
We only have one social platform today worth building on, facebook. Let's hope this will change.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Looks like their strategy was to just push the bids up, so as to force their competitors (who are competitors to each other) to bond together in a giant bid: divide and conquer. Either that, or they didn't like the Feigenbaum constant.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Facebook will probably soon cover the distance to google+, one way or another. The question is, is that enought to stop people (esp. early adopters) from using google+? The thing about facebook is it has become bloated, while google+ looks
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by ignifero 15y ago
Yes, that is technically correct. Technically, because in practice zynga is dead without facebook: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/07/zyngas-ipo-filing... Let me explain a bit more: no other social network has the combination of v
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Zynga's IPO filing shows utter dependence on Facebook(arstechnica.com)
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by ignifero 15y ago
No they're not. If they were, Zynga would have created their own portal. They did launch farmville.com for farmville. They did not launch cityville.com for cityville. That, imho, means they concede they can't make it on their own. Here's th
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by ignifero 15y ago
Because of the emotionally provocative titles they choose.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Why do we keep hearing about London-based incubators, but then all the great European companies are born elsewhere?
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by ignifero 15y ago
This means that it will end up having the size of twitter?

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