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by iofj 11y ago
Thanks for the links, but if that's the quality of their voice synthesis ... it's not going to work.
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by iofj 11y ago
Well sure, but equities certainly don't seem to have gotten the message.
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by iofj 11y ago
Heh, given the current quality of phone support, one wonders why they aren't replaced by scripts + voice recognition + voice synthesis. I'm pretty sure I can write a basic AI program that can beat comcast tech support agents at th
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by iofj 11y ago
It was certainly meant to be a reply to "why would you attribute an increase to the leader" and meant mostly to amplify the point. I haven't even said the worst of my analysis. If I make an NPV calculation assuming the 5-year
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by iofj 11y ago
One thing's for sure. Drops in sales aren't being attributed to Ms. Rometty. Massive, prolonged drops. Worse than for her predecessor. September 2012 IBM stock 205.5 September 2013 IBM stock 192.75 September 2014 IBM stock 190 Sep
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by iofj 11y ago
> And shipping overall is down. Problem is demand-side. Really ? All economic indicators (manufacturing index, employment, ...) seem to indicate otherwise. If problem is indeed demand side, wouldn't you see a serious crash right abo
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by iofj 11y ago
It appears it's a new way to do code generation. So any adding of new architectures is dead in the water until this is resolved. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/zz-gWGXFZ...
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by iofj 11y ago
The receipts are between the middleman and either party, not between the participants in the transaction directly. So even if seller and buyer are in Greece, freelancer.com (warning: don't use them) is in Australia. Receipts won't
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by iofj 11y ago
Doesn't that just result in 90% of decent and up programmers illegally making €1k - €2k on freelancer.com or alike ? Then when it's enough to finance trip + 6 months emigrate to US or, well, anywhere but Greece ?
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by iofj 11y ago
There are many features that a P2P network would enable for this sort of hardware that would require large central infrastructure if done any other way. Probably, it's either something like this or paying a subscription fee for these d
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by iofj 11y ago
Something like that, yes. Nice article.
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by iofj 11y ago
Given that this mostly indicates that cars are just a better product than public transit for the individual, one might hope that this would be interpreted as a challenge : can we make public transport as good as having a car ? I wonder if p
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by iofj 11y ago
Given how AT&T acts now one can only imagine how they'd act with control of the money supply.
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by iofj 11y ago
When it comes to actual attacks, there are more engineers. When it comes to merely joining the ideology itself, however, there are few engineers. 'We realised immediately that this was an invasion, but we couldn't fully proces
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by iofj 11y ago
There's an indication of how (the worst among) muslims would react to Christian terrorists : if you read the press in muslim countries that's exactly what you'll find, Christian terrorists (and Jewish ones). In the same way t
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by iofj 11y ago
Whilst there are occasional examples where debt actually makes debt free or even negative value for the creditor, the examples are few and far between. Generally, you will read about such examples in the normal, non-financial press. That&#x
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by iofj 11y ago
It is truly baffling how many online retailers screw up search on their sites. I very often search "site:amazon.com <what I want>" just to avoid having to deal with site searches. Sometimes I think that just putting things l
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by iofj 11y ago
Not really. Think about it. Only to remove restrictions from a license do you need permission from the existing developers. To introduce extra restrictions you don't need anyone's permission. If Linus chooses to accept a single pa
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by iofj 11y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11053415 TLDR: anyone that is either poor and afraid of communism or is driven by social acceptance (ie. nearly everyone) would be strongly tempted to join the nazis. Anyone poor w
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by iofj 11y ago
True, but clearly there's people preferring a mobile home.
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by iofj 11y ago
The problem is that during the shale boom and immediately after, technological progress has been such that a lot of the shale infrastructure is not necessary to maintain output for, say, another 10 years or so. Rigs have gone down by 60-70%
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by iofj 11y ago
> When was the last time you bought something made in Saudi Arabia? Given just how much ownership they have in American companies, I imagine it would have been quite recently. Probably your mortgage is partly Saudi as well. Of course thi
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by iofj 11y ago
This is already the case. Wiretapping orders in Europe can come from a large number of organisations, including any police force, interpol, a few UN departments, some branches of the EU itself, ... there is no judicial review. The wiretap o
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by iofj 11y ago
Unfortunately there's 2 things that make this more complex and far more expensive. 1) any pricing that did this would have to replace ctr * ad_pricing(keyword, site) * (1 + VAT) + admin_cost(for keeping track of a billion customers) +
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by iofj 11y ago
Since most workers in San Francisco don't work in tech, that's not true. At least not if you want to live in San Francisco. The choice is a tent or a 2 hour commute, which may cost to much given service worker's pay. The only
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by iofj 11y ago
But in the 1950s this was solved by doing something new : get everyone and their dog a car. This got us to the 1980s or even the 1990s and is still employing large amounts of people, though not as large as before. After that we're gett
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by iofj 11y ago
Since I know that's actually true, why are there so few hosters actually doing that ? I mean, I get that there's no money in it for Oracle, so it's certainly not a priority for them, but still, it should work.
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by iofj 11y ago
> The first thing to know about Nest’s culture is that it’s a family. They expect loyalty, trust > Building and shipping hardware products requires an orchestra, not a band. > Building a phenomenal, time-tested brand requires extr
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by iofj 11y ago
That's starting already: http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/article60760061.html Man can you imagine getting a letter like this when you're 75 ? What are these people to do ?
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by iofj 11y ago
This is a court case. What is under this discussion is not what is reasonable, but what is the law and how it applies to this case. That seems to come down to whether or not is is considered an "undue burden" on Apple to break sec

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